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Blogging advice for israelly cool!

Aussie Dave at Israelly Cool! is soliciting ...

suggestions that it is. Here's his problem:

For the past year or so, traffic to this blog has been relatively stable, the average daily unique visitors varying between 600-1000 a day.

Given my objectives with this blog, I want to go to the next level. That means breaking the 1000 daily average unique vistors barrier on a consistent basis.

This is where you come in. What kind of posts would you like to see more of? What do you think I can improve to increase the readership?

I e-mailed him a response that he viewed rather favorably and suggested that I make it public. So with his encouargement (and some editing) here goes:

1) Bring on co-bloggers. I'm getting the feeling more and more that bloggers reach a plateau. (Mine is 100-200 hits a day. So my giving you advice seems a little silly - something along the lines of my giving Warren Buffett investing advice.) One possibility is that because there are so many blogs, people find the few blogs they like and stick with them. So if you take on another blogger or two you make your blog more of a "one-stop." Meryl Yourish recently took on a couple of bloggers and she's in your range.
2) Claim that you're the long lost brother of Glenn Reynolds. Maybe the family connection will help.
3) Become obnoxious and let the insults flow.
4) SerAndEz most days does a link roundup. I know that this sort of thing is time consuming and is more of editorial related blogging than creative. (Please don't read this as an insult. It requires a specific skill; that's all I'm saying. I do linkfests too and they're not easy.) But bloggers are a vain sort of people and there's no greater compliment than when another links to us and show our appreciation by linking to the one who links to us. In addition he cultivates relationships with bloggers because he is a genuinely nice guy. In less than a year he's up to 250-350 hits a day. (SerAndEz comments below that figure has now increased to 450-500. All the more reason to follow his model.)
5) Participate in carnivals. Your stuff would be good for Carnival of the Satire, Carnival of the Insanities, Mediocre Media and, of course, Haveil Havalim. This should get you exposure that you might not otherwise get and maybe some of the folks who see you through these carnivals will stick.
6) Promise $10 a page view. I know that would bring me back at lest 10 times a day.

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Posted by SoccerDad at May 22, 2006 10:16 AM