Daily product hacking tips and tricks

Introduction

It pass a year from my blog publication, I think is interesting to share with you the information about the visits I received and the web trafic grow in these time. Last I let you know an analisys with the goal of take some actions that bring me more web trafic to my site.

The main goal of this site, as I mention in the mision section, is to share information, experiences and make this space an interaction test in the blogosphere, generate web trafic and later I want to subscribe to an ads system that make money for me.

Statistics

Here I show you some data about web trafic and visits along the past year, these are tools that the web hosting bring to me:

• Diferent Visitors along the 2007

The graphic shows that the trafic doubles from month 5 to 9. This was the period where more post and interesting ones were published, the last one was the web 3.0 in the month 9.

Since that month there weren't more post until the last february in 2008.

• Diferent visitors in 2008

In this graphic we note the web trafic recovery, It must be the increment in articles post.

• Visits by country February/2008

This graphic is very important because show me that the english content has more web trafic that spanish content. My intention from the begining of this project was to build a multi-language site (Spanish/English) so I can reach more people, It's clear that It was the right decision, more work but It's worth doing!.

• Top 10 phrases in search engines

Here is important to measure How the users come to my site? What content they want?. With this information I can write more specific post, more articles that my public want!. The type of content that people like more are: Time management and technorati.com (blogging).

Conclusions

From the previous analisys I can deduce the following:

• The visitors want that the content changes frecuently, they want new content!. More new content more visits!

• The english content brings a lot of web trafic, I have to make more and more. This is the main strategy.

• The content that people want is related with: time management, blogging, information society, web evolution. I will write more articles about that soon.

• If I want to accelerate the visits I have to make more publicity for the blog, I have to make It know more, I have to interact more with "internet people", make my social network grow. I have to detect where are the people of my niche.

I hope this article will be interesting for you, I will keep posting about the evolution of my visits in my blog and the new tools I will introduce soon.

See you!.

Rule #1. Write an article on "how to explode blog traffic !!!"
Rule #2. Read on

To be very frank there are quite a bit of so called tried and tested ways to increase you blog traffic, but these merely focus on increasing hits on your blog, but do not focus on the main reason why you want more traffic viz. to read what you write and keep coming back for more.

Sites such as Blogexplosion.com do deliver on their hits, but sadly most of these hits stay for a maximum of 30 secs only, after which they click on the next blog to increase their traffic.
That brings us back to the topic, What can really be done? Is there a way out? How do i make myself heard above the din?

Well, here are some tips for starters.

1. Write. Write stuff. Write stuff people like to read.Most often blogs end up being abused by people who think the world is waiting to know what happens to them every second (I don't deny them this right...they have it!), however the same thing can be presented in a way that forces the reader to continue reading. Simple check! read as though you didn't write it. Funny? worth posting? go ahead post.

2. Make friends.I don't mean going around shaking hands with people and expect a sudden spurt in your traffic, instead post reciprocal links on your blog. Yes people do read others links and if you are there, people will visit your blog. Its an easy way to piggyback on some good blogs.

3. Articles!!!!Take some of your posts, tweak them a bit, add a snazzy caption and Presto! you have your own article ready. Now take that article and post it all around you (on the net please....i don't expect people to walk around with faces stuck with paper muffling away....thish is smy aaarticle!). There are quite a list of websites that do this.

4. Check your Site title and description ( I think this should have come in second in order....lets just forget the order for now)Get a cool title something that makes people go, "oooohh thats hhhhhhooooootttttttt" (if not that much atleast.......a "i think this might be interesting"). And remember to give a matching description (the funnier the better). This will also help you get better results on search engines.

5. Submit to Blog Search engines.Most people search for blogs not on the major search engines, but on blog search engines. So make sure your blog has been submitted to these engines. The more the merrier. Search on google for blog search engines and submit your blog to all of these.

6. PHOTOS ROCK!!!!Face it, most people do search blogs to see something interesting and what best but a photo to give them a 24million color view of something. Yes photos rock, and they do bring in traffic. It kinda gives a coolness to your site. Its like wearing colors while everyone else is in uniform. Most blogging providers support photoblogging, but if you need a place to host photos photobucket.com is a place as good as any.

7. Get original ! Showing others content may bring people to your site, but it would not make them stay. all they would say is . ...."another smartass trying to keep his blog updated by somebody else's work". So keep the blog original with what you would like to say.

8. Publicize!!!I am not talking about banner exchanges ( not only do give free advertising on your site, you also have to put up with ugly graphics that can be out of place on your beautiful site.) Think up creative ways. Get a bumper sticker on your car, your boss's car, your company delivery truck...the works. Another easier option, get it on your company's email signature or atleast on yours.

9. Evangelize!!! No i am not a religious nut and i'm not expecting you to be one. Write stuff that would make people go on and talk about you without you threatening them or paying them. And refer to "the blog" in common discussions, parties etc.... wherever you find people.

10. Ok so you got so far.......on more important thing.Don't expect to find any of the above on my blog, the only reason being, i don't need to explode my blog traffic !!!!