Fact: blog traffic DECREASES during holidays. Fact: your readers will come less often to read your articles. Fact: you won’t be able to post frequently, since you might actually have better things to do. And still, these days are important for your blog too. Even if traffic does decrease, this doesn’t mean you have zero visitors. Even if your readers are also busy celebrating, it doesn’t mean all of them are or that they can’t visit your blog at least once every 3-4 days. Now what do we do? Leave the blog hanging or continue posting in a more relaxed, … Continue reading →

I know Entrecard for quite a long time. Back then, the system was slightly different, less crappy content sites and more good blogs. I do know some great people since then and getting more active on this blog allowed me to visit their sites again and reconnect. Entrecard has changed, it’s bigger, more blogs, harder to find those writers who are committed more to providing addictive content than just fill the site with 30 banners and rewrite some articles to pass copyscape. While trying to get to a list of some decent blogs to read, I am started using Entrecard … Continue reading →

I know how you all hate Entrecard related posts, so I won’t chime in with yet another useless one to tell you how cool it is and how much traffic I am getting from it. I will though talk about HOW to make sure that traffic is less crappy as it should be in such a program. If you want repeated QUALITY visitors and many comments, then just don’t go to Entrecard. Just like StumbleUpon, Digg and other schemes like these, Entrecard is a good way to get visitors, but the bounce rate is HORRIBLY HIGH. Yes, Entrecard traffic is … Continue reading →

In my country there are more blogs and sites that use Digg and other similar networks to promote their articles. In some cases there were some excellent traffic spikes that made them enter the high traffic sites group for few days. The sad thing is that most of the time the traffic ends up and then you go back to the small visits number with no serious improvements compared to the statistics before the event. In these cases the traffic boosts do nothing. Still one can make up for this problem and try to get as much as possible from … Continue reading →