www.fruitychicken.com

[Nectarine]

What would be the best way to increase my traffic? i got at avarage 10 "page views" a day. Thats not really what i was hoping for. I update as often as i can. and use dif. plugins at WP but im open for any help i could get. and tips. Working on finding a new theme for my site but i would like your opinion on that also..

-kim

[Niki]

I would write guest blog posts on good performing blogs, so you can reach a well established audience.

[Nectarine]

how exactly does that work ? im pretty new in the blog game

[ChrisN]

The key to building traffic is to keep posting, several times (at least 1 per day) until you have around 100 posts. By the, you should have a decent viewer amount and hopefully it will continue from there. The problem with most good blogs is they die off at the beginning because they can't seem to take the 'no traffic straight away' idea.

Patience is the key, keep posting and people will find you eventually

[AfteraDream]

Visit Blogging advice that's different - Skelliewag. awesome site about blogging.

definitely guest post at other blogs about foods, go to forums about foods and be helpful there. Go to Yahoo Answers and answers some questions about food and recipes there, leave links to your site there ...

[Nectarine]

Im not unpatient, i just wonder why i went from 400 views a month to 20 lol :P thats a good idea about the yahoo answers and such. Im trying to contact other food blogs to "share" ideas and intrests Any good design/adsense tips ?

-kim

[AfteraDream]

Originally Posted by Nectarine

Im not unpatient, i just wonder why i went from 400 views a month to 20 lol :P thats a good idea about the yahoo answers and such. Im trying to contact other food blogs to "share" ideas and intrests Any good design/adsense tips ?

-kim

Well if your page views went down than it must mean you've stopped doing something that worked. Analyze what you've done differently in this unsuccessful month...

[Mist]

I think first you should optimize your blog to rank for a keyword. Your blog title doesn't has revelant one. Maybe you might change it to something like "dessert recipe" , "easy recipe" , "recipe idea" ,etc..

Why would you do this ? If you rank high on one of these keyword above you would get consistent traffic from search engine without further promotion.

Anyway , there is a problem . your blog seems to be a general recipe blog, not so specific one and the keywords above are quite difficult to rank high as there are so many competittion. You may need to use keyword that is more specific but that means the content have to be adjusted too.

Submit your blog to social bookmark site. Below are examples.
All News, Videos, & Images
Delicious
StumbleUpon: Personalized Recommendations to Help You Discover the Best of the Web
Home | Propeller

There are many many more social bookmark site. The benefits you get from submit your blog to these site are 1.You get traffic from people that browse them 2.When you submit you gain backlink and backlink helps increase your ranking in search engine.

You might create videos about your blog and then post on Youtube. This is a good source of traffic and having your link on Youtube increase your ranking dramatically. This is because Youtube has high PR (Page Rank) and get a a special loves from Google.

** Not to confuse PR with ranking in search engine. PR is basically point given to the site that Google sees it is relevant. There are PR 1 - 9 with 9 being the highest and vice versa. Of course Youtube has a PR of 9.

Lastly, create content on web2.0. Web2.0 is basically website that user can write content on . Examples are Blogger,Wordpress,Wetpaint,Wikispaces, Tumblr, Quizilla, Bukisa and list goes on... well, there literally hundreds of them. You create article on these sites and then link to your blog. This will kick your blog sky high in seach engine.

well, that'll for now. I hope this post helps you.

Ace

[Nectarine]

those were so relly good tips indeed! the only thing is that my html knowledge is very limited hehe. WHAT is a title? the thing that shows up on the top when searchin etc?

[Mist]

Originally Posted by Nectarine

those were so relly good tips indeed! the only thing is that my html knowledge is very limited hehe. WHAT is a title? the thing that shows up on the top when searchin etc?

Yes, you are right ,"Fruity Chicken's Food World" this is your title

For the HTML knowledge, It isn't really required if you use Wordpress

[RT Wolf]

Originally Posted by Nectarine

Im not unpatient, i just wonder why i went from 400 views a month to 20 lol :P thats a good idea about the yahoo answers and such. Im trying to contact other food blogs to "share" ideas and intrests Any good design/adsense tips ?

-kim

How do you track vistors? that may give you a clue on why it went down. Google Analytics?

[Nectarine]

I actually use google adsense for pageviews. Tried alot of other but i cant seem to get them to work. Anyone intrested in making a header? that way i could use a plain theme hehe im having some FF problems with the current one. i THINK its when i stopped making videos and just went pictures.

[RT Wolf]

How about you use google analytics. You can get a lot more information including sources, so you'll know if perhaps one of your big sources of traffic dried up.

WordPress › Google Analytics for WordPress « WordPress Plugins

[Nectarine]

now i got it installed try visiting

[Nectarine]

Got any good ideas about themes? i want a nice little food theme or plain one. but then i need a good header wish i was a designer webpage person :P

[Nectarine]

And like mist said i may need to change my title. any good ideas? i was thinking of Marvelous Recipies or Good recipies or something :P

[Nectarine]

pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

get this on top of my WP

[ChrisN]

try reloading your template and see if it works...

have you modified the CSS or other scripts in the template lately?

[Nectarine]

No i havent. not that i know of he h but i will change theme soon i just cant pick a easy one without my own header. hm