A New Form of Blogging: Flash Blogging! Today's Subject: Blog Traffic

I've decided to experiment something new: flash blogging! I don't mean just short blog posts. You can have a picture with a short caption and off you go - I might do that on occasion but I have a different plan. I want to take you along with me every day on a discovery trip...

That's what flash blogging is for me: establishing a close link to reality, walking with the world step-by-step... Not a blog hop, not a way to show off my virtuosity at inventing things from a prompt (see article below): that's fine but it's not what I'm interested in. On a blog, I don't want to invent (that's for my fiction books). Here I want to talk about the reality as I see it...

 So I'll share with you what I think is interesting each day.

 And today, I'm worried about my blog traffic. It seems I'm not alone, many people are suffering from a huge drop in traffic. In my case, it's paradoxical: my Alexa world ranking (and US ranking) is UP and my traffic is DOWN. Go figure!

 If you want to diagnose what's wrong with your traffic, I've got just the article for you (see below, under related posts).

If you're a blogger like me, relax. Enjoy writing, pick something you want to talk about and talk about it.That's my recipe to solve blog traffic.

What's yours? Any problems with your blog traffic? If so, what have you done about it, please share! 



Related Posts:

30 Days of Flash Blogging: click here 

How to diagnose a sudden drop in your blog traffic, click here

 How to boost your blog traffic: click here

Comments

Jack Durish said…
My website/weblog traffic dropped precipitously when I stopped posting every day. That seemed logical. What surprised me is that StumbleUpon stopped generating much traffic. That perplexed me until I learned that they modified their plan to favor websites/weblogs that used their paid service. Sad
July 21, 2013 at 11:14 PM
Claude Forthomme said…
That's interesting, Jack, and it seems to echo my experience: come to think of it, there was a precipitous drop when I stopped posting twice a week though the drop did not manifest itself immediately, it seemed to take 2 or 3 weeks so I didn't attribute the drop to that, but maybe I should have.

I have to say that StumbleUpon never drove any traffic towards my blog at all. Triberr used to but even that is working less. And for some reason Zemanta has disappeared from my blog, I've tried re-uploading it but failed everytime, I don't know why. The whole blog experience is beginning to feel like a new world is happening out there and everything I knew about it no longer (fully) applies...Hence, my attempt at "blog flashing"!
July 22, 2013 at 8:31 AM
Stephen Woodfin said…
Claude, every day something new and unexpected comes along. The whole thing is to shuck and jive with it, embrace it, and do what you need to do.
I like your idea. Good luck.

Regards,

Stephen Woodfin
July 25, 2013 at 3:58 AM
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