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	<title>Comments on: The 4 Ways of Building Traffic to a Blog and Why Most Bloggers Pick the Wrong Method</title>
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		<title>By: Link Degisimi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Link Degisimi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great article! As a fairly new blogger this is some valuable info, thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article! As a fairly new blogger this is some valuable info, thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Yaro</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yaro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fashionclues I think you need to lookup the term &quot;google slap&quot;. I think you are talking about AdWords PPC and landing pages.

Go through my archives (click the archives link in the navigation bar above), then under the Pay Per Click heading look for google slap articles.

Perry Marshall is also a good source of information regarding the slap.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fashionclues I think you need to lookup the term &#8220;google slap&#8221;. I think you are talking about AdWords PPC and landing pages.</p>
<p>Go through my archives (click the archives link in the navigation bar above), then under the Pay Per Click heading look for google slap articles.</p>
<p>Perry Marshall is also a good source of information regarding the slap.</p>
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		<title>By: fashionclues</title>
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		<dc:creator>fashionclues</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok.. so i read this article, and being a novice, need a bit more explanation. I have been doing rather well at adwords for the past 3-4 months, and then suddenly on Dec13th (nearly 4 months after i started using adwords), all my keyword CPCs went upto $2-20. I am very confused. The topics are updated very frequently, I have regular readers, and the topics are very relevant to the ads, but obviously I am doing something wrong. (I dont always have the keywords on my landing page, since the content changes often).

Any advice?? www.fashionclues.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok.. so i read this article, and being a novice, need a bit more explanation. I have been doing rather well at adwords for the past 3-4 months, and then suddenly on Dec13th (nearly 4 months after i started using adwords), all my keyword CPCs went upto $2-20. I am very confused. The topics are updated very frequently, I have regular readers, and the topics are very relevant to the ads, but obviously I am doing something wrong. (I dont always have the keywords on my landing page, since the content changes often).</p>
<p>Any advice?? <a href="http://www.fashionclues.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.fashionclues.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Travel Guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Travel Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yaro, Great article! Best advice is to figure out where you are one the growth curve and focus there, until ready to move forward.

The bottom line is still traffic first, then conversion. Took me a while to figure out that yes content is king, but only if someone reads it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yaro, Great article! Best advice is to figure out where you are one the growth curve and focus there, until ready to move forward.</p>
<p>The bottom line is still traffic first, then conversion. Took me a while to figure out that yes content is king, but only if someone reads it.</p>
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		<title>By: Make money by not doing anything &#124; Smart websites make money</title>
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		<dc:creator>Make money by not doing anything &#124; Smart websites make money</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to set up an engine of some sort, AdSense or a similar other system on a website with traffic. But building traffic to a website is not an easy task and most of the people searching for this easy method of making [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] to set up an engine of some sort, AdSense or a similar other system on a website with traffic. But building traffic to a website is not an easy task and most of the people searching for this easy method of making [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Smart websites make money</title>
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		<dc:creator>Smart websites make money</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good article, indeed, this method of writing interesting things in a shape that would make the biggest boom is what we should all do, unfortunately it is not that easy, isn&#039;t it? Why aren&#039;t we all novel writers?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good article, indeed, this method of writing interesting things in a shape that would make the biggest boom is what we should all do, unfortunately it is not that easy, isn&#8217;t it? Why aren&#8217;t we all novel writers?</p>
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		<title>By: First Month Blog Stats, My One Month Anniversary &#124; Caroline Middlebrook :: Livin' Online</title>
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		<dc:creator>First Month Blog Stats, My One Month Anniversary &#124; Caroline Middlebrook :: Livin' Online</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] read an article recently by Yaro Starak about traffic building for blogs and it really struck a chord with me. The point that he makes is that established bloggers can just [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Jess</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This post was so helpfull, I was thinking of new ways to improve, not just my traffic, but my blog and website as a whole and this post has got my brain buzzing with ideas.

Best soloution to writers block I&#039;v had this month.

Thank you for your insightful article.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This post was so helpfull, I was thinking of new ways to improve, not just my traffic, but my blog and website as a whole and this post has got my brain buzzing with ideas.</p>
<p>Best soloution to writers block I&#8217;v had this month.</p>
<p>Thank you for your insightful article.</p>
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		<title>By: Speedlinking - 13 September 2007 &#124; MegaBlogg Free Blog Host</title>
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		<dc:creator>Speedlinking - 13 September 2007 &#124; MegaBlogg Free Blog Host</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Yaro puts some great thought into his post - The 4 Ways of Building Traffic to a Blog and Why Most Bloggers Pick the Wrong Method. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Pam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great suggestions!  As a new blogger my first thought was about growing my readership.  Of course great content was and is a close second!  Your article has given me greater focus and I have actually been practicing some of what you suggested without even thinking of it as driving traffic such as showing up at networking events.  Thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great suggestions!  As a new blogger my first thought was about growing my readership.  Of course great content was and is a close second!  Your article has given me greater focus and I have actually been practicing some of what you suggested without even thinking of it as driving traffic such as showing up at networking events.  Thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Another Week of Great Posts &#124; How I Will Be Rich</title>
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		<dc:creator>Another Week of Great Posts &#124; How I Will Be Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Journey has 4 Ways of Building Traffic To Your Blog. Who out there is not in to getting more traffic to their blog. A great [...]</description>
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		<title>By: fashionclues</title>
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		<dc:creator>fashionclues</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice article, however, the challenge i am facing in SEO, is how do I link my website to other similar website so it shows up high in organic rankings. Any suggestions??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice article, however, the challenge i am facing in SEO, is how do I link my website to other similar website so it shows up high in organic rankings. Any suggestions??</p>
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		<title>By: BlogOxide</title>
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		<dc:creator>BlogOxide</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An in-depth analysis! I had a fair good idea about other three but wasn&#039;t sure about the best use of &#039;others&#039; traffic&#039;, now got the clue. Thanks for sharing such wise thoughts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An in-depth analysis! I had a fair good idea about other three but wasn&#8217;t sure about the best use of &#8216;others&#8217; traffic&#8217;, now got the clue. Thanks for sharing such wise thoughts.</p>
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		<title>By: Arham</title>
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		<dc:creator>Arham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Like an Always, excellent post yaro...
I like about not to mirroring your success Idol..


Arham
http://Entrepreneurid.wordpress.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like an Always, excellent post yaro&#8230;<br />
I like about not to mirroring your success Idol..</p>
<p>Arham<br />
<a href="http://Entrepreneurid.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://Entrepreneurid.wordpress.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jonathan Haynes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jonathan Haynes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I found this article very informative.  Although, a lot of it is similar to what I have heard elsewhere, you have provided some nice little tips which will be very helpful.  I especially found the explanation of the need to tap into long tail markets, in order to be successful, in traffic exchanges helpful.  I also really like the idea of taping into traffic from popular blogs such as yours.  Perhaps you might consider  sharing some of the wealth, and adding a link in your blog roll to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haynes.tv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;haynes.tv&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found this article very informative.  Although, a lot of it is similar to what I have heard elsewhere, you have provided some nice little tips which will be very helpful.  I especially found the explanation of the need to tap into long tail markets, in order to be successful, in traffic exchanges helpful.  I also really like the idea of taping into traffic from popular blogs such as yours.  Perhaps you might consider  sharing some of the wealth, and adding a link in your blog roll to <a href="http://www.haynes.tv" rel="nofollow">haynes.tv</a></p>
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		<title>By: 10 Steps to Building an Online Media Empire : Instigator Blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>10 Steps to Building an Online Media Empire : Instigator Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] a popular blog: write well, focus on content, use headlines effectively, have a great blog design, market heavily, leverage social media, build relationships. There&#8217;s more to developing a popular blog than [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] a popular blog: write well, focus on content, use headlines effectively, have a great blog design, market heavily, leverage social media, build relationships. There&#8217;s more to developing a popular blog than [...]</p>
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		<title>By: 7 Must Reads for Increasing Traffic to Your Website</title>
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		<dc:creator>7 Must Reads for Increasing Traffic to Your Website</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The 4 Ways of Building Traffic to a Blog and Why Most Bloggers Pick the Wrong Method - Entrepreneur&#8217;s Journey [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Is Content Really King? - Idiot Affilate</title>
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		<dc:creator>Is Content Really King? - Idiot Affilate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] forward the other day and let the cat out of the bag in regards to this subject.  In his post, The 4 ways of Building Traffic to a Blog and Why Most Bloggers Pick the Wrong Method, Yaro states that the concept of writing a ton of good content simply might not be enough to propel [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] forward the other day and let the cat out of the bag in regards to this subject.  In his post, The 4 ways of Building Traffic to a Blog and Why Most Bloggers Pick the Wrong Method, Yaro states that the concept of writing a ton of good content simply might not be enough to propel [...]</p>
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		<title>By: The Coding Pad</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Coding Pad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for these tips.  It&#039;s very clearly and very simply put, and definitely very thought-provoking in making me rethink my strategies.

I am glad I found your blog, I am already digging into the archives to learn more! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for these tips.  It&#8217;s very clearly and very simply put, and definitely very thought-provoking in making me rethink my strategies.</p>
<p>I am glad I found your blog, I am already digging into the archives to learn more! <img src='http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Stephan Miller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stephan Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is the most informative blog post I read today. Helps me see the big picture. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the most informative blog post I read today. Helps me see the big picture. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Fiar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fiar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yaro, I agree and disagree with your analysis of content not being king. No matter what you do to drive traffic to your blog, if people don&#039;t like what they see when they get there, the effort and money has been wasted.

That said, you need some way to drive traffic. Search engines are worthless if you don&#039;t rank, and you won&#039;t rank if people don&#039;t link to you. People won&#039;t link to you if they don&#039;t know you exist, and no one knows you exist until you &lt;i&gt;make&lt;/i&gt; them know.

So, really you&#039;re outlining methods of bringing in traffic in the first place, and in that respect I will agree that content is not king at all. It is as far as keeping readers there, and compelling others to link to you.

Out of your 4 methods, that leaves only 2 for brining in the visitors - Networking, and Buying. Which you do is dependent upon which you value more, the time spent networking, or the money spent advertising.

Personally, I enjoy the community aspect of blogging. I think it&#039;s one of the reasons for choosing blogging as opposed to some other medium. I also think that does more to forge valuable relationships, which means links &gt; increased page rank &gt; traffic.

I also like the option of buying links, because it adds to the community strategy. Diversify.

Pinyo, I think that&#039;s outstanding regardless of your niche. Way to go! give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done.

I&#039;ve been blogging far longer than that, and I still have fewer daily visitors than that, so I commend you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yaro, I agree and disagree with your analysis of content not being king. No matter what you do to drive traffic to your blog, if people don&#8217;t like what they see when they get there, the effort and money has been wasted.</p>
<p>That said, you need some way to drive traffic. Search engines are worthless if you don&#8217;t rank, and you won&#8217;t rank if people don&#8217;t link to you. People won&#8217;t link to you if they don&#8217;t know you exist, and no one knows you exist until you <i>make</i> them know.</p>
<p>So, really you&#8217;re outlining methods of bringing in traffic in the first place, and in that respect I will agree that content is not king at all. It is as far as keeping readers there, and compelling others to link to you.</p>
<p>Out of your 4 methods, that leaves only 2 for brining in the visitors &#8211; Networking, and Buying. Which you do is dependent upon which you value more, the time spent networking, or the money spent advertising.</p>
<p>Personally, I enjoy the community aspect of blogging. I think it&#8217;s one of the reasons for choosing blogging as opposed to some other medium. I also think that does more to forge valuable relationships, which means links &gt; increased page rank &gt; traffic.</p>
<p>I also like the option of buying links, because it adds to the community strategy. Diversify.</p>
<p>Pinyo, I think that&#8217;s outstanding regardless of your niche. Way to go! give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging far longer than that, and I still have fewer daily visitors than that, so I commend you.</p>
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		<title>By: Content is not king</title>
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		<dc:creator>Content is not king</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Starak, of Blog Mastermind fame, wrote a great post on the other 3 methods of traffic building. Namely, buying traffic, ranking in the SERPs, and link building (aka stealing other people&#8217;s [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Starak, of Blog Mastermind fame, wrote a great post on the other 3 methods of traffic building. Namely, buying traffic, ranking in the SERPs, and link building (aka stealing other people&#8217;s [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Jan Marie Dore</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jan Marie Dore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post! Thanks for spelling it out so clearly and keeping it simple.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post! Thanks for spelling it out so clearly and keeping it simple.</p>
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		<title>By: CatherineL</title>
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		<dc:creator>CatherineL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Yaro - six months is excellent.  You write very well, which must help a lot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Yaro &#8211; six months is excellent.  You write very well, which must help a lot.</p>
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		<title>By: Varun Pratap</title>
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		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Yaro,
Great post... It was not surprising to me as option no#4 is the one most bloggers pick. Build and they&#039;ll come.

Isn&#039;t that How most people approach building a website or a product or whatever in life (i.e Buy a weight loss book and never read it?)

From my point of view if you concentrate on 2 and 3rd ways, You can easily get starting traffic to your blogs. Search engine can get you good amount of traffic provided you are using your keywords right.

I recently started a new blog 4 days ago... Right now all of my search engine traffic is coming from Long tail keywords (3 words or more).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Yaro,<br />
Great post&#8230; It was not surprising to me as option no#4 is the one most bloggers pick. Build and they&#8217;ll come.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that How most people approach building a website or a product or whatever in life (i.e Buy a weight loss book and never read it?)</p>
<p>From my point of view if you concentrate on 2 and 3rd ways, You can easily get starting traffic to your blogs. Search engine can get you good amount of traffic provided you are using your keywords right.</p>
<p>I recently started a new blog 4 days ago&#8230; Right now all of my search engine traffic is coming from Long tail keywords (3 words or more).</p>
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		<title>By: Ciarán</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ciarán</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I completely agree that to get readership you need great content. You can use all the tricks in the book to get people to visit your site but if you don&#039;t have anything interesting to say they&#039;ll not be motivated to pay a return visit.

I also agree that you should not try to emulate your blog heroes. If you blog about the things you like then you&#039;ll eventually find that there are other people that share your particular interests no matter how peculiar they are. You need to find your own niche. Few people want to read second rate advice from a blogging nobody or something that has been copied and pasted from another site. Besides the search engines pick up on copied material and shoot your site down into the search directory abyss.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I completely agree that to get readership you need great content. You can use all the tricks in the book to get people to visit your site but if you don&#8217;t have anything interesting to say they&#8217;ll not be motivated to pay a return visit.</p>
<p>I also agree that you should not try to emulate your blog heroes. If you blog about the things you like then you&#8217;ll eventually find that there are other people that share your particular interests no matter how peculiar they are. You need to find your own niche. Few people want to read second rate advice from a blogging nobody or something that has been copied and pasted from another site. Besides the search engines pick up on copied material and shoot your site down into the search directory abyss.</p>
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		<title>By: Gram Kong</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gram Kong</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yaro,

Great, I hope to learn from some of your advice.I have been blogging for slightly over three months now.The traffic to my blog had been quite slow and the last few weeks it had slowed down.Anyway, I am not giving up but would try every method possible to bring more people to my blog.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yaro,</p>
<p>Great, I hope to learn from some of your advice.I have been blogging for slightly over three months now.The traffic to my blog had been quite slow and the last few weeks it had slowed down.Anyway, I am not giving up but would try every method possible to bring more people to my blog.</p>
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		<title>By: partydoo</title>
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		<dc:creator>partydoo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent article with interesting points for newbies like us. So we stumble on, your thoughts in mind.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent article with interesting points for newbies like us. So we stumble on, your thoughts in mind.</p>
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		<title>By: Yaro</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yaro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Catherine - I think it was about six months roughly in my case, but bear in mind for some people it takes years, others just a few weeks.

The team at freelanceswitch.com broke out within a few weeks, so there really is no rule, and as I said in this article, you can continue to proactively market with the other methods forever for ongoing results.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Catherine &#8211; I think it was about six months roughly in my case, but bear in mind for some people it takes years, others just a few weeks.</p>
<p>The team at freelanceswitch.com broke out within a few weeks, so there really is no rule, and as I said in this article, you can continue to proactively market with the other methods forever for ongoing results.</p>
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		<title>By: Susan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is very valuable information for new bloggers and those pursuing the next step in their blogging/website careers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is very valuable information for new bloggers and those pursuing the next step in their blogging/website careers.</p>
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