I read online that one way to increase the traffic to your website is to ping. When I created this website, my entire goal was to see if I could bring it out of obscurity and read by many. Initially I set out to get 1,000 visitors in a month. We are nearing the one month mark and I have had 558 hits with 134 unique visitors. I really had no idea what to expect. Yesterday I went to pingoat and pingomatic and for the first time ever I pinged my blog. I pinged it without really knowing what pinging would do. After I used both sites to ping my blog, I read that pinging lets search engines know that you have updated your blog. I did notice that yesterday I had three extra visitors. However, I doubt that it is because I pinged my blog. I will continue to ping my blog and see if it increases traffic. When you are implementing a lot of different methods at one time, often it is difficult to tell which one is working. When you don’t have an income you want to try a lot of things hoping that one will work to increase your income. It is possible that the extra visitors came because I pinged my blog. I also notified my twitter followers that I updated my blog, so the slight increase may be due to the twittering.
July 27, 2009
July 8, 2009
Traffic Update!
I figured out how to check my website traffic, and as usual, I was surprised to find that people have found the blog. It said that I had 31 unique visitors. The page views was only about 122, which is far from my goal of getting 1,000 by the end of the month. However, I have not yet added a multimedia component on youtube or even figured out how to add a picture. Heck, if I wasn’t writing this blog, I doubt that I’d visit it. It is boring right now. Hopefully, some helpful people will give me some feedback and point me in the right direction. I’ll keep you updated.
June 27, 2009
Setting Goals and Objectives for the Blog
If I’ve learned anything from getting my Masters in Special Education, it is that you need to have goals if you definately want something accomplished. Sometimes other people are setting goals for you and you are jumping through the hoops and sometimes you set them for yourself. For example, in order to graduate everyone is assigned a counselor whose entire purpose is to ensure that you are taking the correct classes in order to graduate.
In order to succeed as a blogger, I’ve chosen to follow in the footsteps of other successful bloggers. Hey, no need to reinvent the wheel here. I’m not going into uncharted territory. The steps that I took prior to starting melindacurle.com were first to get my feet wet with a free trial blog. I used blogger.com. I just wanted to see if I could keep interested in a week. Then I took the plunge and signed up for a domain name. I toyed with the idea of something creative and cute, but decided to just keep it to my name because friends on facebook or twitter would easily recognize it as mine. Also, if my focus shifts to something other than internet marketing, I haven’t committed myself to a domain entitled Internet Marketing.
I still don’t have a lot of knowledge about technology. I realize that there is a lot for me to learn, so for one of the hours that I’m dedicating to blogging, I will spend actually learning how to blog. It took me a long time to figure out where to click to add my first post. And if you are looking at this on June 27 when I posted it, you can see I still haven’t figured out how to change their subtitle. I’m not really sure how I managed to get my title there.
Forty five minutes will be spent in the writing process. Fifteen minutes will be spent editing. I don’t like reading grammatical errors and I hate when I accidentally use them.
I plan to learn how to utilize multiple forms of social media. By the end of the month, I will post one audio of myself, one youtube video and have a weekly newsletter. Why use all those things? Because I want people to continue to visit my blog. Some people are interested in text, others want a podcast and some like free reports.