Search Engine Traffic for Blogs

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Steven of Vandelay Website Design, another Top Commentator for August, has a really awesome post about increasing your blog’s Search Engine traffic. This post is Monday’s post for a five-day series of posts about growing your blog, and Vandelay Website Design Logo offers up some solid advice about increasing traffic to your blog.

Steven starts out his post by listing some of his blog’s impressive traffic stats for the past few months. He then lists four methods for increasing traffic to your blog. Each of these sections are packed with some great blog marketing information and resources such as the Bloggers D-list which is a list of blogs that do not use the No Follow tag.
If Stevens post is an indication of the quality information that can be found in this series, I recommend reading it and the other posts in this series on Growing Your Blog as well.

Great job Steven, keep the great posts coming!

Written by Pixelhead on September 10th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Steven Snell
#1. September 10th, 2007, at 10:43 PM.

Thanks for the link, and even more importantly, thanks for the great recommendation. I think the others involved in the project will have some great tips for growing your blog so be sure to check them out too.

Pixelhead
#2. September 10th, 2007, at 11:27 PM.

I’ll be sure to check them out Steven.

Health Clubs & Gyms by Aaron
#3. September 11th, 2007, at 5:51 AM.

I’m a regular reader of the Vandelay blog- Steven’s stuff always impresses me, and the blog as a whole is a resource that I plan to refer to regularly as soon as I get my own blog going. I agree with your recommendation wholeheartedly!

swollenpickles
#4. September 11th, 2007, at 11:13 AM.

Whenever I see or hear Vandelay, I think of Seinfeld! :p

Pixelhead
#5. September 11th, 2007, at 4:22 PM.

@Aaron, glad you seconded my opinion. Let me know if I can help with your blog when you get it going.

@swollenpickles(love your name) Yea I do too. I wonder if that was their intent or if Vandelay Website Designs was around way before that Seinfeld episode. Either way, it works out well for them as it does result in great name recognition.

fruityoaty
#6. September 11th, 2007, at 5:37 PM.

Thanks for the links. I’ll definitely check ‘em out.

Mary
#7. September 11th, 2007, at 6:00 PM.

Thanks for the tips!

Pixelhead
#8. September 11th, 2007, at 6:04 PM.

@FruityOaty- I just checked out the Tuesday post for the series, and BloggingTipps has makes an awesome point in his post.I will be checking the rest of them out as well.

@Mary – Glad to help you out, let me know if I can be of further assistance.

Slevi
#9. September 11th, 2007, at 8:22 PM.

Great link, read the first page so far and starting on the rest. Some nice and interesting info there .

Steven Snell
#10. September 11th, 2007, at 10:20 PM.

Aaron,
Thanks for the recommendation!

Adam,
The Seinfeld episode came before my name. I’m a big fan so I decided to use the name. It’s funny to me when people recognize, which obviously a lot of people do. I also recommend that everyone checks out Kevin’s article linked in the previous comment.

dX-Xel
#11. September 13th, 2007, at 5:30 AM.

yea..I agree..the D-list was really great…I really like it!

GnomeyNewt
#12. September 13th, 2007, at 3:21 PM.

I have been enjoying the series a lot and Steven is very impressive with his writing! He guest blog earlier this week on my blog and it has brought in a lot of traffic. I’m really looking forward to John’s post tomorrow at sitefever.com! He is a great Internet Marketer so I’m sure we will get a lot of gems from him.

Pixelhead
#13. September 13th, 2007, at 3:36 PM.

@GnomeyNewt – I’ll make sure I get over to Sitefever.com tomorrow since it is so highly recommended.

Condom Man
#14. September 13th, 2007, at 11:35 PM.

Steve, your name rocks. There was a Seinfeld episode early on in season one I think called “the revenge” where george worked at a real estate firm run by this obnoxious boss. My friend later named his company Rick Barr Properties after the name of the company in the episode, and more than one person has chosen that company to represent them because they love his sense of humor.

Steven Snell
#15. September 14th, 2007, at 9:34 PM.

That’s funny. Is that the boss that George tried to poison after he got fired?

Ventrilo Servers
#16. September 17th, 2007, at 5:20 PM.

Welcome to the list, you should see a traffic increase now that you’re on that list.

PopcornNinja
#17. September 18th, 2007, at 7:43 PM.

Thanks for the heads up, I’m going to go check it out!

Pixelhead
#18. September 18th, 2007, at 9:29 PM.

It was a great event, with lots of great posts by all 5 blogs, and tons of comments from other bloggers.

Mahesh Mohan
#19. October 4th, 2007, at 9:33 PM.

If you use no follow tag then.. whats the benefit for you???

Pixelhead
#20. October 5th, 2007, at 12:28 PM.

Mahesh, I believe that the “No Follow” tag came about as a result of people trying to get links for SEO. The “No Follow” tag tells the Search Engine Spiders to not follow the link, thereby nullifying the juice of any No Follow links. Wikipedia now uses No Follow tags on all of its outbound links, which it stared using to reduce the amount of spam entries.

Jalaj
#21. February 5th, 2008, at 7:30 AM.

good article and the D-list for Do Foloow

Mike Brazil
#22. February 26th, 2008, at 5:34 PM.

Thanks for the tips!
I found that updating my blog regularly kept traffic levels increasing.
I also manged to find a story which was hot news and not yet published on a lot of sites. This got my traffic from 300 to 5000+ in a day! Shame it’s a piece of news and will soon decrease in popularity. We’ll see what happens.

Jon Richards
#23. April 17th, 2008, at 6:08 PM.

Thanks for the heads up, I’m going to go check it out!
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#24. August 7th, 2008, at 11:05 PM.

Best for traffic is to social bookmark it even if it is just to your blog. You will get page rank up and a little traffic from stumble and such. Try it out I’m sure you will like it.

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