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Hello all.
It feels kinda weird even asking a question about Wordpress blogging in the TL blog but it's something that I've been curious about.
I've been running an EDM blog for a few months now. I think the appearance is really nifty, the features are nice. I'm sitting at around ~80-100 views/day at the moment.
I've googled on all sorts of topics regarding how to get your blog really going in terms of page views, and I've implemented a bunch of plugins that optimize the SEO so the site is better indexed and searched by the powerhouse search engines we all know.
It'd be pretty sweet if anyone that has experience in this area could enlighten me with tips and tricks, or just the plain facts. How long did it take for your site to really get sizeable traffic on the daily? Others have blogged that you need around ~1,000 views/day before you can start advertising profitably. I just wanted to hear from anyone on TL that has first hand experience with this kinda thing.
Money is not the biggest issue for me. I blog because I love the music and I passionately enjoy sharing it. In case anyone is curious, my blog site is http://electrobangerz.com.
I was considering buying some premium plugins that better optimize the chances for incoming traffic, but they are fairly expensive and I don't know if it would be a worthwhile investment until I can further understand how all of this works.
Cheers! 
 
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United States15275 Posts
I am considering setting up a blog, so consider this a two-person question. :D
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Yeah lol glad we're on the same boat. Hopefully someone can help us stay afloat :D
What I've noticed though is that it's hard to blog successfully without also using a lot of the other social-networking options out there.
So in my case, I would at some point need to regularly use a youtube channel and twitter. It could seriously end up being a full time job, which I definitely don't have the time for. But if it ever does get to that point, building up a trustworthy team wouldn't be a bad idea either :p
What kinda blog you thinking of making cosmic?
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United States15275 Posts
I wanted to write about SC2, specifically about individual playstyles and tournament storylines. Right now I'm finishing up a large article on StarTale_Life that should be finished right before the finals.
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I used to run a website dedicated to WH40K miniatures, getting almost 1k viewers per post I put up.
At first, I was getting maybe 10 views a day. Then, I began to make connections with the main forum (the teamliquid of WH40K, I can't even remember the name of it. Had a black background?) and once I asked permission from a dude who designed papercraft terrain to share his work on my website, his work gained thousands of hits, and my old posts with only a few hits each, suddenly started going up too.
I never got "successful" and I never even made a penny, but to get the same amount of exposure that I got, the secret is connections and advertising. Connect with other content creators, make partnerships to share each others viewers:
If I earn 2 viewers per day, and my partner earns 2 viewers per day, we can partner together and try to share one of the viewers that we have, giving us 3 viewers a day. Get it?
Once you get to designing your posts, you have to be smart about how many links you use, where they link, bleh, just look up guides on how to design your post. It's quite easy as long as you keep the tips in mind.
To repeat, I never made a penny, and only had like 20 posts, so I am giving you advice from very little experience.
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You might want to PM SirJolt.
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I've generated over a million hits blogging and had a google PageRank 5 website.
Gonna echo Thaniri mostly. Basic knowledge of how the Google algorithm works is important (ie don't go linking porn/hack/spam sites) but it's not everything. Google can sniff that you're using SEO techniques and penalize you.
Google is pretty good guessing how popular you are so your job is to get popular online and get inbound links from other popular people. Having great content is a must, obviously, popular sites don't want to link trashy websites. Getting connections/relevance in your niche is priority #1.
My other point is that Search Engine traffic is only 40% of the pie for most websites. Rest is more organic traffic resulting from your popularity or getting featured somewhere else.
Things that are pretty reliable is blog aggregators for your niche. These websites have varying degrees of exclusivity (from public to exclusive elites) and they automatically feature every post you make on their front page. That way it alerts people who are already interested in the subject to come visit your new post.
http://9rules.com/
http://technorati.com/
those were pretty good when I was blogging more seriously.
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On October 14 2012 13:21 Temerarious Trout wrote:
You might want to PM SirJolt.
lol
SirJolt is more a tumblr kind of guy.
Here's his latest project: http://necromanswers.com/
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the Dagon Knight4002 Posts
On October 14 2012 21:11 Atom Cannister wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2012 13:21 Temerarious Trout wrote:
You might want to PM SirJolt. lol SirJolt is more a tumblr kind of guy. Here's his latest project: http://necromanswers.com/
It was very graceful of you to take issue with the platform on which I blog, when it would have been an equally fair point to have said,
lol
SirJolt does not run a successful blog.
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On October 15 2012 06:49 SirJolt wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2012 21:11 Atom Cannister wrote:On October 14 2012 13:21 Temerarious Trout wrote:
You might want to PM SirJolt. lol SirJolt is more a tumblr kind of guy. Here's his latest project: http://necromanswers.com/ It was very graceful of you to take issue with the platform on which I blog, when it would have been an equally fair point to have said,
You just cover a niche market. Ever since Arch-Mage Hannibal Traven banned it from the guild and started to excommunicate anyone who openly practices it...
Blog is nevertheless top-notch.
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I had a wordpress blog (cyclone999.wordpress.com) that was pretty much a blog for Club Penguin. Back then, if you searched up "Club Penguin Cheats" I was on the second page, sometimes first. The blog is dead now, but there's still the 560,000 hits if I recall correctly. It's been a while since I've checked xD (I was a famous penguin, I'd log into a server and someone would be like "OMG ITS YOUUU" and then be my 'bodyguard' (aka stalker))
As with getting sizable traffic, I really have no idea though. The only thing that got me views and interest was just "Club Penguin Cheats? WOO!" 
Good luck with your blog!
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I'd also check out Substack or Beehiiv as a platform.
EDIT: Oh wait, the question was completely different. What I'd do is, I'd repost my blog in as many places as possible. Some stuff that I'd do is:
1- Repost on Medium: Well, Medium has a very large audience for the topics that I would write about, if I started writing at all. Medium has a lot of audience for:
- Software development
- Startups
- Productivity
- Marketing
- Product management
- Woke stuff
I don't know whether EDM has any Medium audience or not, but if yes, what I'd do is:
- Post an article on my blog.
- Wait until Google indexes the article, which might take a couple of weeks.
- Post the same article on Medium, linking to my original article on my own blog.
2- Open social media pages for my blog and post about the subject. Needless to say, I'd also link back to my blog. My niches have their audiences in Youtube, Linkedin, Tiktok, Instagram and Twitter.
3- Do collabs with people. This should be easier in EDM in comparison to App Development or e-commerce.
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