I'm reading the same thing again and again. People are asking how to drive more traffic to their blogs.
But they're asking like this:
suggest me ,how i increase web trafic....... amd to impove my blog ranking on search engime ?
I'll answer this once and for all - for everyone:
If you do not know how to write, you will NEVER have a blog worth reading.
Learning how to write is STEP ONE.
LEARN HOW TO WRITE.
I agree. As a minimum your blog needs correct spelling and grammar. Next comes the content. Ask yourself, does the world really need another fashion blog?
Ermm I don't really understand why you've made the comment about another fashion blog and how that even got linked into this thread, it doesn't have anything to do with the subject?
"Ermm I don't really understand why you've made the comment about another fashion blog and how that even got linked into this thread"
Fashion blogs is an over saturated subject, also fashion bloggers are basically selling products for companies often with out being paid for it. They are like splogs where the author gets no piece of the pie.
I think it's fair comment.
@Digital - You're generalizing, that's not good! If you said SOME then that's fine, but you're saying all fashion bloggers are like that, and you're wrong. I'm not like that at all, people who have followed me knows that products are being purchased out of my own pocket, my reviews are honest and unbiased.
And you totally missed my point dude, Jetpacker dragged fashion blogging into this when actually the original poster didn't even mention anything about us. So no, I find that-that is unfair!
@DressedInTh
By publicizing a product you are helping to sell it, this is not a generalization. I don't know if you've noticed but there is a whole industry built up on publicizing and advertising.
Whether you are paid for publicizing or "advertising" the product makes no difference. You're blog advertises and promotes a commercial product.
This is what you're doing, if you did not realize it you probably need a rethink.
On a separate note I think fashion blogs are boring, if you are trying to persuade me otherwise you are very likely wasting your time.
I completely agree with you, I mean, English isn't my first language too, but I take the time to sit and think what I want to write. Sometimes I'll even google definitions ~ it makes me wonder if people don't read what they've written just to "hear" what is sounds like?
I've written five full-sized books, and I do the same thing. All great writers are constantly trying to find better words, and they double-check the words they're not sure about.
How to get more traffic is a boring subject because you always get the same replies. What gets me is if you have half a brain why you wouldn't google it. That way you can ask more specific questions about various strategies. If you can't manage to find information on the web on how to get more traffic I fear there is no hope for you.
The reason for the Great Big Piles of Blog-Shit in my opinion is because everyone seems so focused on sell sell sell traffic traffic followers blah blah blah.
Even well written shit is still shit, but yes being able to write is an important first step for most bloggers. Writing is not what people come to my blog for so it is not the be all and end all. Search engines don't give a crap about good grammar.
Nice to see someone speaking their mind but it will just get buried in:
How do I make money
How do I get traffic
How do I get followers
Comment exchange
Why haven't you followed/commented/voted/friended back!!???!?
If you can't laugh at it you will end up crying. ;)
Agree with Digital Desperado,
To add some more, I guess that your passion in writing will bring traffic to your site, Once you figure out what you want to write, what you want to do and you enjoyed doing it for sure it will come unto you.
At the end of the day, I've realised that there are bloggers who are only interested in getting traffic, high stats and nothing else, but there are also bloggers who try their best to get people to read their posts seriously and don't focus everything on numbers.
Digital Desperado has a valid point.
LOL.....I clicked on this because Rumpunch Drunk commented. Glad I did......My greatest discovery has been that bloggers can decide to count their own activity as traffic. Ah well, to each his own. I hope I survive the 'shit hole' as I am terrible at chasing traffic and so I don't even bother :-S
Well, I do agree, A good content is critical.
But lets face it, A newbie , who writes a wonderful first post, will not get enough visibility as the post deserves. So all the 'how do i increase web traffic or improve my blog PR' is justifiable!
And being a person who works on SEO, I can say that there is definitely a lot more than good content!
Everyone makes mistakes with the spellings, Lets please not crucify them for that!
In the end, I still thing good writing can't be truly learned....
That being said, there is a HUGE flood in the market of people who write exclusively about getting traffic, which is odd. What I've learned through it all, is to just sit back, and write quality stuff, over and over again, and then go out and be sociable on the internet, and then the readers will come, and when they come, see you have quality stuff, they will come back.
What I do wish, is that people wouldn't just pop on and say, "How do I increase traffic?" when there is plenty of resources to look up on how to do just a thing.
I think you can definitely improve your writing skills with practice like lots of things. Also by reading other peoples blogs you can get ideas on writing styles.
I think I've got better at writing, my spelling and grammar still suck, but I can sometimes get a laugh.
On the SEO side of things I've massively improved but that's a more mechanical side of writing blog posts, still it definitely works I just have to watch that I don't sound too much like a robot or that I've got keyword tourettes. Congrats on the hundredth post by the way, I'm still stuck on 93.
Deepak -
Yes. Everyone makes mistakes. But that's not what is running through these awful blogs like a disease.
If it's okay for a writer to have no writing skills, it should also be okay for athletes with no athletic ability, actors that can't act, doctor's with no medical training, and drivers that can't drive. Where does it end?
Well before a half-wit blogger tries to 'drive traffic' to an unoriginal blog that's loaded with over-used concepts and NO original thoughts, they need to know how to do the ONE thing they are doing... writing.
If you can't write, you are not a writer. So don't drive traffic to your 'big pile of blog-shit' because you're wasting everyone's time.
Writing isn't about getting noticed. Writing is about creating something that's worth noticing.
And creation is not the same as bastardized plagiarism.
I disagree. Not all bloggers need to learn how to write, much less speak the English language. Take for instance, a chinese blogger, Tiger Lim (www.tigerlim.com) writes his blog in his own style. Though his English isn't perfect but he survived and actually got famous (locally, i.e. Brunei) because of his unique style of communicating with the local readers.
Its got humor, its got the way he speaks like he would be in person, its got interesting news and its broken-english. Either enjoy it or you don't, he won't care but he'll blog because he knows that people like the way he does it.
Hi Abdul! Learn how to write doesn't necessarily means only Grammar and spelling you need to take care of.
It includes the knowledge of proper indention, where to use Comma, Semicolon; when to put a full stop. How and when you need to use Capital Latter, how many dots you should be using, where you need hyphen, space and bounce of things like that.
Also, it doesn't tell this only applicable to English. Every language that has written form, there are best practices people need to learn to put words in a meaningful way.
Any writer who try to reach audience knows it's a tough job to communicate well with the readers. That comes with practices in writing and you SHOULD properly format the writing.
"suggest me ,how i increase web trafic....... amd to impove my blog ranking on search engime ? "
Without even reading, just by looking at above- how many mistakes you can notice?
No doubt they dispute the very basic thing of communication- And in Blogging first and foremost matter is how the Blogger communicate with its visitors! Who are not able to do it- where's the value of getting traffic?
