Friday, June 8, 2012

Increasing site traffic

     Hmm, mine tends to a lot flatter at the moment, but I were generating something like several hundred hits a day at some point previously in the past and probably close to the one thousand hits per day threshold, before I did a bit of self sabotage to my site, and caused traffic fallout removing a lot of previous posts.  At presents I am slowly increasing trending at the site as posts are actively increasing. 

The things that I could tell increasing site traffic:

1.  While generic things can sell in terms of hits.  If you are competing with the opinions of others and aren't so distinct in your messaging, you'd probably need some compensating hooks, like an existing social network built to aid in traffic generation.

2.   Whether people truly like the opinions at your site or not...granted you'd see at my site absolutely no followers, but you still may generate traffic, even if people aren't so interested in commenting.  Commenting in any event, I would think outside of certain social networks may be far and few between.  Case in point:  certain Youtube videos could have 30,000 + hits easily in a few months or years, and maybe just a handful of comments posted based upon the level of moderation provided.

3.  Finding something original to post can be a matter of reaching an audience where there are gaps in data and information on a particular 'search engine' query.  If you happen to see few decent comments or relevant posts on a topic that you feel you might have some expertise in sharing information regarding, you may be more likely to get higher ranks if  your data and information has strong relevance alongside being useful in the context of a given search query.  There's nothing crazy or 'wacko' about this logic, correct?

4.  While it may help already having social networks established in getting a new site up and running in terms of promotion.  It may not be everything.  I generate site traffic worldwide.  Albeit predominantly from the North America, followed by Russia, followed by India, followed by countries in Europe, followed by South American countries.  I don't formally have direct links or established communications with any that read my posts, and generally I'd rather keep, instead of soliciting obviously (albeit except with respect to mentions in this post) those interested in information, site traffic usage private generally speaking.

5.  I have found more strongly outside of social media postings which are generally ranked poorer in my opinion in so far as expressing anything of resource use, that my data/resource related posts tend to rank the highest in site hits.  While occasionally some odd comment about movies, books, and what not generated some interesting site traffic hits, the highest ranking hits are those topically related to: programming information, especially where again gaps of information exist in so far relevant data furnished through search engine queries, but there could be differences in the type of resource information provided and where traffic tends to go with respect to the type of information being sought.  It may be harder for me to talk, for instance, at my blog site about specifics of a biological organism where others might be generally attracted to destination sites like Wikipedia, but in terms of example data/resource information that goes beyond the scope of what Wikipedia might host in so far as relevant data and information, blog sites could fill some destination gap continuities?

  Its hard to gauge site traffic relative to content at sites that are more casual in terms of webmaster tools.  This would include google+, and facebook from what I could tell.  Albeit, supposedly friends network lists should be an implicit indicator, this isn't always true in so far as generating site interests.  While promotional links maybe of aid through social network sites, not sure how well this ranks in generating new traffic relative to existing traffic channels.  This would all depend I imagine on the relation of relevance to social networking site search queries.  Otherwise, unless you've made a big list of friends through a given social network site you might have stagnant site traffic growth for added traffic on redirects?

 In terms of fluidity and dynamics of site structures.  Artists might like the blog for any number of reasons, for example, site customization, and I've seen occasionally links to MySpace (despite the general negativity surrounding this once Facebook like site) especially where artists might like some form of content and presentation controls that hadn't existed at other social networking sites, but some are will perhaps to settle with the idea that as long as the 'site' hadn't provided too much visual obstruction to the presentation of any particular media, its also no surprise seeing any number of artists that do use social networking sites.   This is to say its not hard to imagine that people go where trending and opportunity are furnished, and many social networking (despite its own sense and structure of representation) tend to have their own unique style and presentations with respect to media content.  One of the more visually interesting sites again were So.cl if you were sharing with others a set of personal interests, especially easy with respect to posting in some visual sense any number of diverse sets of media in collage, granted these are of fixed form type from what I could say based upon presented format through the So.cl site. So.cl is convenient for providing a unique style here relative to other sites, but it seems outside of personal queries and posts, its yet another more refined controlled media form relative to the blog.

And then if you were wanting more literary, word intense presentations, alongside greater custom graphical media presentations outside social networking sites, the blog is probably a better choice.  Most other social networking sites tend to be less word rich, and much simpler in terms of personal expressions.

Personally I've made use of my blog in conjunction to personal interests, activities, thinking, and writing in the extended sense going beyond the other social media sites.  While I have posted sometimes at length at these other sites.  Unfortunately one may run (aside from the same being said at blog sites) saying too much may not necessarily generate new interests, unless you have already established interests that like your voice.  If you can create hooks in your writings, outside of being strictly utilitarian, in your site use, you might be more successful then others.

Worst posting here in site:  Layman's glance at gravitation.  A very small population of hits here.
 I suspect poor ranking probably in competition to similarity of topic in discussion or relevant information.  Layman talk and popularizing more complex science subject matter may not provide you an audience unless you have an established name.  If you are saying the same things that a Carl Sagan or any other popular scientist is saying, chances are you'd be lost in relevant discussion unless topically you were discussing topics that weren't as common relative to the other crowd that would be competing in so far as queried search results.  Generalities in discussion for already popular subject matter make for stiffer competition in terms of successful ranking, I'd guess.

You may not need be a destination site for readers to generate traffic, or at least you could be somewhat ala carte oriented in presentation where reader's generally find something useful or interesting to search by when crossing paths with your site.  The disadvantage to ala carte presentation is that your interests and thinking, especially outside of general interests of topics, may not always attract enough the attention of a reader.  Thus if you were by example discussing Quantum mechanics which one reader had thorough knowledge of, and then in the next post managed to be discussing in depth, beyond lay terms, an engineering related topic you might not generally hold destination traffic other then occasional sense.  Either way you might see traffic but mostly these could be on the basis of queried searches that were specifically topical to a particular post.

My blogs tend to be a think pad for me, and added public storage...alongside cloud stuff here, so personally I am not necessarily concerned with attracting readership necessarily nor depend upon it in terms of monetization.  Thus if need to answer some questions related to general interests that I might already have which Google hadn't readily solved for me so conveniently, I could at least scan my own personal database of storage for answers to these questions.

Finally as to the other crowd half that were at times fairly juvenile in any number of responses, like not really having too much to say other then something that should seem somewhat clever but not really, or persistently responding without so much opinion otherwise other then to be clearly personally insulting and having used any sort of personal language at that, mostly those sites I'd imagine are a: why bother?  Usually sites like this that are well established like this sure enough may have their venues and enough social interchange keeping them afloat for any length of time but I'd laugh if originality were suggested.  Sure trivial destinations could seem okay for awhile, but really its not my cup of tea.  I'd suggest anyways that blog and market sites are probably over saturated with any number of sites or personal forum poster's that litter any number of posts that would generally be quite boring if it weren't something of the language, however obnoxious that were supposedly to illicit a response.  I read an editorial that best described this:  If you are writing about your bodies physiological responses and making this availed in the public sense, its not really original, everyone defecates, everyone gets sick from time to time, everyone gets sad or angry, and what not.  Its another matter if you explain yourself and you differentiate yourself relative to others as to motivations here, and not merely for the sake of attracting reaction.  This is to say, while there are some sites that are generally successfully popular selling the trivial and superficial interests, most probably fall outside the successful category.  If it weren't for some other hook points that would keep an audience interested in a particular site.  Trying to sell the same stuff that others are selling in competition isn't great in my opinion, especially when there isn't much to be added in terms of diversity of opinion that were interesting.  I know you probably see people over at Ms complaining that whatever site interests generated here were inordinately unfair as to search engine biases (where maybe some of this at times were the relation between intellectual property rights and open source industries), and 'fallout boy' isn't selling as well as they used to...granted there's Rhianna...

   Laughing, yeah, taking interest in technology means you need to be tech's demographic?

Yeah apparently at other social networking site's there seems to be so much advice coming with respect to the idea of one's motivation.  Fairly amusing for that side of culture that reads so much more in glossary ways.

Over the years I've tired of serving the blog in the same ways which means taking up some other constructive efforts here.  Generally I avoid so much political comment here while you might on occasion see a flippant comment here or two.  Unless you have something worthwhile to say that weren't in league to any number of the same tit for tat lame insults that have been used so tirelessly in the past, political blogs generally are lame.  Again as in above the same rule as always applies, maybe some ex cia agent runs a site that happens to have any number of his own sets of opinions, but at least you hope the site is informative as opposed to just another cheerleader saying the same things.  I've seen decent local political blogs that neither attempt so much taking up any niche of blog posts that cover topically things like National politics that so much of media attention seems governed at with respect to politics in general, and if you are decent and have the no how, more power to you, you may have a good starting point for a local niche and possibly attracting some readership outside your local area of coverage.  As to national blogs a personal endeavor with lackluster social connections is probably not great.   Writing at length about the opinions and reporting of others all the time, if you don't have original source material to present on your own, is just added time in someone's reading schedule.  I'd make a prediction that there have been for sometime plenty of editorials predominating likely at times over the readership of regular news and this could be trending at some point in the future downward.  It used to be that late night comedians got in on the act (Comedy central) of taking up this lampoon of a media market niche...which ended up in one funny comment from popular comedian commentator: you know its sad when a regular media outlet, constantly talks about you talking about them, and then we are talking about a site generally attracting more traffic then myself, and having really at least in so far as the selection of materials  little to say at times on politics otherwise.  In other words, while being selective and maybe self absorbed in your writings is okay, if you aren't original, its probably going to be sad news for your blog site if you don't have lots of money to back up your social media outlet, and in this given age of much being availed in so far as information online, while it seems neat re posting stuff and having little to say...I know I've been guilty as charged....chances are everyone probably has something neat to post.  Preach to choir, political funnies...hmm, sort of lame really in my opinion, especially being spoon fed this through out the day and given little else in reading.

Then there's the crafts/pop art crowd, its okay stuff out there, not a place that I would find myself dwelling for any length of time, no offense.  Blogs of these sort need not be popular and generally I couldn't criticize for being any better with respect to artistic abilities.  Generally speaking some post rather lamely something to the effect: you have no business posting on line, get lost and what not, and don't accept mediocrity.  Only more self evident here that Snooki has a role to play in society's culture.  Sure one can rail counter culturally against so much of this society, but really just one voice amongst many.  I'd have to compliment craft sites which seem ever bit as self absorbed in their scrap booking work whose relevance were probably extended more likely to close family members and friends more likely.  If you are perfectly happy and content with your blog site, there's probably no need to read further into this post about generating site traffic.  You could probably laugh at those running a post on mediocrity and art, accept no substitutes, and buy ever bit into their market form and culture likewise.  If its interior design and Electrolux, its not worth the thousand dollars spent for the shoddy engineering of a glossy looking machine that were probably for such households that spend little time actually using such machine.  If you think of higher dollar popular arts, or things which seem so much less mediocre in mind: isn't this so much perception?  Aren't we sold on a bill of goods at times?  Does paying for me mean that something is really better in the aesthetic and utilitarian sense?  And then often times, one wonders whether there isn't something of lobby that exists at these sites reflecting inherent self promoting culture.


There's the family blog which is outside of close friends and family members will probably be limited for most.  I've visited some with personal biographies, interests, and happenings.  Honestly though, if family appears like my own in many respect, I'd relate but generally most sites that I have run across are more limited with respect to their activity.  I read excellent publication surrounding personal circumstances having happened and the subsequent aftermath of events therein.  Seemed that the blog ended well, sparing the reader of any number of trivial events that should merely serving in other circumstances as writing for its own sake.  Maybe it is that we are so conditioned by way of fiction to the notion that the interesting biographies have some story to tell, something of parable, or anything regarding a dynamic exchange between one's environment and personal circumstances.  Some are simply informative with respect to the generalities of a given family.  Having mentioned in context any number of personal happenings and events but not necessarily designed or oriented in the sense of facilitating a story.  These need not always be the case, but the audiences reading may in some cases be limited.  Graduations, marriages, and births that say little more will probably limit the scope of any number of reader's attention.  Lots of family's have births, marriages, and graduations.  Having any number of personal experiences that express some diversity relative to these more common experiences may likely attract greater readership attention.  At least I personally know that I find myself more likely to read writings relating to personal biographies which provide the reader a sense of the character that is being written about.  One need not provide too much information, or you could try your hand at fiction...however poor or not so poor you were.  You might be successful and maybe not, but then maybe its an excellent side project to try writing some personal biography, or fiction otherwise.  I've recently tried short story fiction because it seems a lot easier, and even if I am not so good, it provides opportunity to change prospectively writing styles.  Anyways, even if you aren't so good, who cares the days right?  Its not like you have to be an expert, or good to take a creative writing class or attempt writing and the more attempts could mean better success, or it could mean something like my past attempts at the viola, sort of off key and really not so good, but does it matter?  Probably not.


As to site traffic after a day.  Any number of hits drawn the first day, tend to be common like other posts, indicating something of a destination audience with traffic tapering off in time.  There have been exceptions to this rule with some of my posts which have generated over longer spans of time site traffic...usually again I would suspect because of existing in a niche amongst other much poorer ranked relevantly furnished data.  Microsoft can complain all they want, but if they think that for instance site traffic weren't generated because of correlative relevance here, they'd be sadly mistaken.

Chances are you may not likely have a rock star oriented site.  If you looking for millions of hits a day, likely it helps being established.  There may be an appreciable site audience common entertainment: humor, popular music, and then movie media.  One could offer aside from much formulation and structure provided, that unless your site weren't entertainment oriented, resources sites unless rich in diversity are probably going to be more selective in terms of appreciable audiences.  I've sort of made my site into a sort of personal hobbies and interests sort of place.  This isn't to say that there isn't an audience that connects out there with some of my interests, but as individual alone I may be limited in terms of those connecting with the things that I am doing, and if this is what you are aiming for, so much the better success to you.  At least you hadn't generally need to cater so much in the subtractive sense to personal interests for the sake of general entertainment, or  in other words just because your site isn't arena rock, doesn't mean that its not worthy.  Maybe you like being eccentric, obscure, arcane, less commonly thought of...or could care less one way or the other, and then some potential audience may find you in time...at least for some artist this weren't found in their own lifetimes.  Thus far I've generated over thirty thousand hits, if it gives an idea between the relation of subject matter and site traffic.  There are people that may find the things you say relevant and interesting.  The world is a diverse place.  The simplest rule that I have found.  If you can't find an answer to a question with your search engine, and you know the answer, post something about it.  You may find yourself getting ranked better then you might suspect, and you've not only helped yourself but others in posting.

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