What kind of blogs are getting traffic now?

Is your blog getting any traffic at all? What are you doing about it?

With hundreds of thousands of blogs competing for our attention it is becoming difficult to stand out and be noticed.

Blog Traffic Beyond the Basics

Most of the tips and tricks taught such as bookmarking in social bookmarking sites, or submitting articles etc. do not yield as much benefit as they did before because everyone is doing it and it is likely you are invisible in the crowd.

Leading internet marketers who are on top of the food chain have started their own social bookmarking sites or blog networking sites. They get traffic to their sites by drawing other bloggers who are craving for traffic.

John Reese’s Blog Rush is one such network. I go and sign up with my blog and whether I get traffic or not, Blog Rush has got me to visit them. And I will visit them repeatedly to add my blog, to check my statistics and to know where I stand.

But I like Blog Rush for their sincerity and promptness in evaluating the quality of blogs they accept. Some of my blogs with less unique content were rejected and my blogs with original content were approved. The evaluation was prompt, the communication was precise and professional and motivating to submit quality blogs.

Other tactics such as creating 50 squidoo pages, hub pages or whatever, bookmarking them in all the social networking sites, pinging RSS services with each and every bit of info about us is going to increase the trash of virtual world. So much duplicate content flooding the virtual world will let us all drown and perish eventually.

At some point we will have to think of recycling the garbage and making Space friendly sites - sites that automatically degrade themselves and disappear in space…

Since we are able to see where the future is going why not take steps to avoid being buried under space dump?

If you are on top of the food ladder, create networks that wean out trash rather than suggest techniques that increase the speed of garbage creation.

If you are at the bottom of the food chain, it will benefit you to create one quality site, bookmark it in social networking sites, join quality networks such as Blog Rush and put all your energy to add quality to your blog rather than waste it on 100 sites.

I am talking from experience. I started with one good site and it is still getting me good returns in Google AdSense and other programs. I have traffic, regular repeated visitors and personal satisfaction. I started 100 other sites after that thinking that I was multiplying my income 100 times and miserably failed.

Had I spent all my energy on this one site, further developing and improving it I might have increased its earning potential and be very proud of my achievement. Instead the sales letter trick calculations of $1 per site means $100 for 100 sites caught me and I let my energy be dissipated into 100 useless avenues. I hardly had time to work on that one site which was getting me good returns.

For the same reason I like the Maven Matrix Manifesto of Rich Schefren. You focus establishing yourself as a Maven in your industry and you will automatically get traffic, followers and good returns.

Between the predators

If I move up the food chain and start a social networking site myself, I would suggest it to all my subscribers to bookmark their sites on networking sites. I no longer resort to bookmarking, I don’t need it anymore because I can earn through the networking site I have created and by teaching the value of bookmarking to others.

Rich Schefren and Jay Abraham’s report is different in the sense it is not a leader seeking followers, or one on top of the food chain gathering food by suggesting others follow what they themselves have given up. It is a process of leaders creating more leaders at the risk of increasing their own population at the top of the food chain.

Of course they have moved one step up and they are making money by coaching mavenhood to others. But their competence, sincerity and over deliverance of whatever they take up adds value to their program and many will focus their energy on this one thing rather than waste it in hundred avenues.

Mind Power that is beyond your physical actions has tremendous energy to draw to yourself whatever you desire. But the requirement is focussed attention and constant action in a specific direction.

Set a goal for yourself.

Prepare a blue print.

Shut out all distractions.

Focus your energy on that one goal.

Take precautions to avoid temptations (the most devious sales letter should not be able to work on you and convince you to buy something else..)

Persist in your efforts to achieve your goal.

If you need to change your goal for whatever reason, repeat the whole process with the new goal.

One important side effect of this process, which is more important than achieving your present goal is:

The ability to focus your energy on one goal at a time and putting in concentrated efforts.

This in itself gives such a momentum to your actions that it starts a snowball effect leading to your grand success.