What Comes Next After Blog Traffic

2007 December 3
by Costa

No matter what others say, a blogger’s biggest discouragement is not getting traffic to our blogs. Some can be real cool to say that they are not blogging for an audience so they can’t be bothered whether they have traffic or not. They are just blogging for their own pleasure, but I have to say most will lose this pleasure if they blog solely for themselves. I have said this before and I am saying it again, if it is for self pleasure, then it will be better to write in an old fashion diary.

Blogs must have an audience. Whether it is just for self satisfaction to know that there are people out there who takes note of our writings or whatever other motives, it is crucial to have people reading our blogs in order for us to find the spirit and encouragement to carry on. So bloggers do what is necessary to get their blogs noticed and some, unlike this blog, does gets noticed in a big way.

So one day after blogging for months or years you find yourself with a readership base of a few thousands. What come next? It is something that many never took into account when we started blogging. The thought of having thousands of readers one day never crossed our minds and we never dreamed that we could achieve so much. Do we still blog the way we do happily day after day? Or do we leverage the number of readers to take our blogs to a next level?

I have seen bloggers that are so pure in nature that they simply refuse to have advertisements of any kind to tarnish their blogs or monetize their blogs in any way. Yes, they keep up with ways to make their blogs grow and yes their blogs does keeps growing and growing but that’s about it. All they want is a name if the vast sphere.

Like every blogger, I too dream of the day when this blog has many thousands of readers. I too, dream that this blog will be a self sustaining blog, able to help me pay for my mortgages. That remains a distant dream but hopefully, not an impossible dream. What would you do if you have thousands of readers reading your blog everyday?

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2007 December 3

I’ll move on to build another blog, that’s my hobby. Lol.

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2007 December 3

Honest, if I have a few thousand visitors a day, I will not do anything differently than what I am now doing. :-)

I will of course feel happy. But that’s it. I don’t get few thousand of hits aday but I’m still happy now. So, no complains here.

Blogging is just one part of my life. Not the most important part I might add.. :-P

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2007 December 4

I too, dream of this day. But as with everything else in this world, nothing comes easy. Blogging is almost like a full time job! Its crazy how much time it takes to create a successful blog.

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2007 December 4

Traffic depends mainly on your content if you have greater content you will have a wide audience and much traffic!

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2007 December 12

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