Building better blogs
Posted by Ben on November 12th, 2003
I came across this collection of bits and pieces while browsing over lunch today:
Part of tip 15 - “get involved in other forums” is how I get something like 80% of my traffic, looking at my logs (the rest is friends and family). Between iPod-related stuff, Wordpress (the software behind this blog) and a few others, I get a lot of inbound traffic, just from a simple link like this: Ben’s Weblog
The other important one to me is having good content (in tip #11) and design. I don’t claim that every post has deep analysis or anything - sometimes I just see a funny article and want to pass it on. I’ve had over 1000 visitors to my iPod car install article, which is a pretty good example of how having good content will attract traffic.