Comments on My Perfume Life: 10 Top Tips for Increasing Visitors to Your Blog

Thanks, i hope it's useful for me. Since blogg...

2011-01-30T03:06:18.315-08:00

Thanks, i hope it's useful for me. Since blogging from 2 years ago my blog visitors are less than 20 visitor/day :P

Great post! I've submitted my RSS feed now. No...

2011-01-06T08:06:26.706-08:00

Great post! I've submitted my RSS feed now. Not sure quite how it works but I was interested to see I have lots of RSS subscribers that I didn't know about!

I thought Grace's point about being work friendly was very interesting. I think submitting your blog to Wikio rankings is another possible way to increase traffic. They recently introduced a beauty category. I've definitely seen traffic coming from there to my blog.

I'm going to take a look at Alexa too. I know that some people get terrible caught up in getting lots of followers through Google Friends Connect but I have noticed that lots of "followers" doesn't necessarily mean lots of traffic. I try to remind myself of this every now and again when I get stressed at the popularity of other blogs!!

Thanks for the tips,
Jane x

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2010-12-19T07:32:44.827-08:00

Hello! I thought you might find this gentleman's blog helpful to increase traffic to your site.

http://www.incomediary.com/category/blogging/

Also merely reading and commenting on related blogs (with a link to yours of course!) seems to work wonders! Good luck!

Hi Grace - good point about thinking how your blog...

2010-12-15T04:31:53.162-08:00

Hi Grace - good point about thinking how your blog appears to make it work-friendly. I hadn't considered that. Thanks for commenting!

Hi Olfactoria - you're right - it's all ab...

2010-12-15T04:30:45.327-08:00

Hi Olfactoria - you're right - it's all about meeting new people and having something in common.

Hi Michael, that's a good point. I use nearly ...

2010-12-15T04:29:10.983-08:00

Hi Michael, that's a good point. I use nearly all my own photos simply becuase I find it easier.

Hi Amelia - thanks for stopping by and commenting....

2010-12-15T04:28:14.392-08:00

Hi Amelia - thanks for stopping by and commenting.

Hi Carrie - thanks for commenting - I completely a...

2010-12-15T04:27:45.204-08:00

Hi Carrie - thanks for commenting - I completely agree that "kind words from others, or just words" keeps you going. Any kind of feedback is good.

Hey :) I don't know the minutiae of what that ...

2010-12-14T15:01:53.203-08:00

Hey :) I don't know the minutiae of what that RSS thingy does either, but I basically understand it helps you come higher up in google searches.

Engage with other blogs - I quite often have a look to see if the people who I chat with (on Twitter, through my blog comments or email) have a blog themselves.

The other tip I'd add is make your blog work-IT-system-friendly. A lot of people browse blogs at work in their lunch hour etc, and if your blog has a lot of whizzy gadgets and moving ads, it takes up bandwidth and counts as lots of pageviews in someone's internet log history. Generally try to make sure your blog doesn't take an age to load too - some blogs have added so many moving galleries etc, if their broadband isn't super fast a lot of people might just give up.

Very helpful post! I didn´t know about Alexa, so t...

2010-12-14T03:28:01.480-08:00

Very helpful post! I didn´t know about Alexa, so thank you! I am just starting out, so I cannot provide anything that you don´t already know. But I feel what really helps is getting involved in the community, bonding with like-minded people is something that always pays off, in real life just as much as on the internet.

Nice post MPL and thanks for the tips. If I can ad...

2010-12-14T02:17:53.751-08:00

Nice post MPL and thanks for the tips. If I can add just one more - if one is including photos from the net, be careful of copyright infringement, as I found out myself recently! I usually try to credit the image and am careful of which pics I choose, but one can get lazy or even innocently use a picture that one thought was free but wasn't.

Regards
Michael

Great post, MPL. Here's to even better numbers...

2010-12-13T21:32:21.339-08:00

Great post, MPL. Here's to even better numbers in 2011!

This is very helpful, thank you! Some of these thi...

2010-12-13T16:13:47.734-08:00

This is very helpful, thank you! Some of these things I am doing, some not. I recently scanned a whole bunch of my personal photos I've taken to use on my blog. I don't know if people will respond to them, but I think it pretties the place up a bit. Maybe if I implement a few changes, I can be ranked at 2.7 million one day too. :)

Seriously, though, I've got a long way to go. I know what you mean about feeling brave enough to do social media one day, but not the next. Sometimes I feel I've oversaturated, etc. What helps more than ANYTHING is encouraging and/or kind words from others, or just words, even. That little boost in confidence is sometimes what pushes out the next blog.