5 things I learned that improved my blog this month

Although this month was short, I’ve somehow been able to generate more unique visitors this month than January.  I’ve been reading tips and tricks on different methods to improve my stats however with my actual actions I’ve been able to truly understand what I’ve learned.  Out of all the things that I’ve learned here are the top 5 that I feel are truly valuable:

• Stay consistent with the updates

I have been looking at my web stats and I find that when I update on back-to-back days, even if it’s one post a day, the traffic will either stay the same or slightly increase.  The moment that I miss just one day I would see the stats drop.  So by updating at least once a day I can keep the momentum going.

• Interact with the visitors

Whenever someone decides to leave a comment on my post I try to immediately respond and somehow there seems to be more traffic to the comments section than my actual posts.  It’s as if the visitors are interested
in the comments prior to reading the actual post itself.

• Create Original and Appealing Content

At one point I would just pull all kinds of articles from other sites without really adding anything of my own in there.  It seemed rather dull and I was giving off the sense that I was just a biter with no originality.  The moment I started to create my own content they would generate more page views than the ones that weren’t mine.  I guess no one really wants to read the same trash on another site.  Shoot, I really wouldn’t waste my time on those neither.

• Leverage Social Media to increase traffic

I’m a strong believer that Social Media is by far the fastest way to generate a buzz about my web presence in the shortest amount of time.  For instance, by writing an original post and posting it on my news feed/twitter feed, it just jolts the stats.

• Motivate yourself

This one has to be the hardest one because of so many different obstacles that just landed in my way.  From writers block, to lack of quality content (that hasn’t been overexposed already) to no time or even just no energy.  I’ve played around with my schedule to find a happy medium to see when I get most of my original ideas from but I’m still experimenting.  I do enjoy waking up early (say 5:15am early) to browse the web and see if there’s anything interesting to blog about.

I am enjoying this blogging stuff and have even started another blog on the side called SeduceDontSell.com.  I’m going to stick to blogging for a while longer to see where it takes me.

What have you learned that’s improved your blogging skills?  Please share them here as I would love to get some more tips.

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