How to Get Blog Traffic – the Sea Gull Way
Posted on Aug 23, 2009 in Articles
Whoever invented the saying “birdbrained” definitely didn’t have the right experience with birds, because a trip to the beach today showed a few gulls who demonstrated just how easy it can be to rapidly grow traffic.
And the good new is, it works perfectly for starting blogs as well.
Now, there have been a lot of methods written about getting blog traffic, but most of them are really vague in terms of an actual approach to getting the traffic to start. Here’s an analogy that makes it all easier.
As a sea gull demonstrates, it’s easy to attract visitors. You just need to give them what they want.
Choose Good Bait
Naturally, sea gulls have specific likes and dislikes, so feeding them salad wouldn’t be as effective as fish or even crackers.
The same works for good readers. If you want people to come and stay on your blog, providing content that they’re naturally attracted to is the number one method to getting loyal readers.
This is where it’s important to choose your niche and what you need. Look here: Capturing Your Target Audience
Go to Them
Now, if I started spraying bread all over my front sidewalk miles away from the beach, it’d be pretty unlikely that I’d get a whole lot of sea gulls.
Your blog isn’t going to get people to find it by itself. Advertising, guest posting, commenting, and social media are all popular avenues (and well covered in other articles) to getting blog popularity.
You need to get yourself in a position where people have access routes to your blog and then make yourself known. After all that’s done, you can hook them with your content and information.
Start Small
The first visitor you get may not be the one you want, as a matter of fact, you might not get anything at all. Equally, the first subscriber or loyal visitor you get to your blog may not be the one that comments every post or advertises your blog to millions online, but they are the first.
But once that one visitor does come (and eats the bait), there are naturally others attracted to the scene. It’s a bandwagon mentality, and it applies to seagulls, and especially blogs.
Nobody wants to read a blog that’s desolate and empty, so you need to get things started somewhere.
So think starting a blog up is tough? If you follow the right steps and apply the right logic, it’s easy to get people to want to visit your blog. For more information and future posts, subscribe to the RSS feed!
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