Lots of ideas have been said and written from SEO and Blog gurus on getting good links and traffic to your blog. All concluded that content is still the king and from that point of view, many bloggers have the misconception that as long as they write and keep writing, filling up their blogs with lots and lots of content they will be on the way to stardom. What they missed to read is before the words content, there is another word called relevant. It should be read together as relevant content.
Relevant content means content that has something to do with your blogs niche and relevant content is a word that can only be related to these blogs. The relevance of relevant contents is only apparent if you want lots of blog traffic from search engines. Traffics from Search Engines can make or break a blog. Some niche blogs depend entirely on blog traffic from Search Engines, getting a few thousands hits from the 3 major Search Engines alone.
The fact that they are able to attract so much Search traffic is because they have thousands of relevant articles for the Search Engine’s spiders to crawl. The topics on their niche is so wide and varied that there is something to satisfy someone at sometime. The Search Engines works 24/7 for people looking for information all over the world. Just imagine billions of Internet users searching for information online 24 hours a day. If your blog manages to bait just 0.001% of that population you will be well on your way.
Having said that, what about personal blogs that don’t have a relevant niche? Does that mean they will be left to rot never to see the light of the day? I really don’t have an answer to that, yet there are so many personal rant blogs that does extremely well. Where and how do their readers come? Admittedly, search traffics plays a minimum role for personal blogs but do bear in mind, readers of personal blogs are readers who can relate to the blogger rants and jokes and very often they are loyal readers who has become friends over a period of time. Some who has the charisma becomes cult like figures with loyal fans lapping up even his lamest jokes.
What gives? I hope some experts could do some research to find out why personal blogs with no special niches can be so successful. If there is a secret formula, i sure would like to know. I too have a personal blog that is not doing too well with it’s daily visitors.
Personal blogs have one thing going for them. The way we write. Anyone can tell you what happened in their day, not everyone can tell you a story out of it.
I write a personal blog and for it, I command a fair bit of presence. I know many other personal bloggers and they command even more presence but it’s not hard to see why because of the way they write and invoke emotions from their readers.
When you write, they will come. Then again, when you write with a passion regardless of what it is, they will stay. That has always been the rule and it’s not going to change.
I see. Must write good entry. I suppost my nick is ‘hor ny ang moh’ so got to write up more ‘hor ny’ stuff. Have a nice day.