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As a rule, doing as pro bloggers do brings you professional blogging results.
Deviating from their strategies can establish a full time blogging career but it seems to be a good idea to follow their lead, for the most part.
Pay close attention to most blog commenting and sharing threads.
Do threads consist only of professional, experienced, successful bloggers?
Never.
Consider this to be a warning sign.
Notice this red flag.
If pros do not scamper to threads for participating, logic dictates that engaging through threads is not the way to go pro.
Observe most threads. Amateur bloggers – often beginners and struggling veterans – join threads for an exposure boost. Most desire blog traffic. Some want greater blogging profits. Almost all thread members experience lack; being an active thread participant seems like a good idea to address, face and solve the “lack” problem…….right?
Wrong.
Why Commenting and Sharing Threads Do Not Work
Typically, struggling bloggers join threads to drive blog traffic and/or blog comments.
What happens when you actively join and engage through such a thread?
Struggling bloggers become your blog traffic only because each seems forced to visit your blog in order for them to get blog traffic.
Do you understand why this type of traffic does not return, buy your stuff and hire you? Do you see why this type of traffic doesn’t grow your referral business?
Is this highly-targeted, quality blog traffic? Do these bloggers originate from your niche? Do these bloggers visit your blog because each deeply desires your content as a solution to their problems? Do these bloggers arrive organically?
Of course, the answer to each prior questions proves to be a resounding: “No”.
Non-targeted, forced, inorganic blog traffic is worthless.
Low quality or no quality traffic does not:
- return to your blog
- evolve into a loyal community
- buy your products
- hire you for your services
- increase your referral business
Why?
Bloggers who visit your blog through threads only visit to get traffic from you.
Ouch.
Painful….but true.
As we know, embracing the blogging truth frees you to succeed.
What About Outliers?
In rare cases, commenting and sharing thread traffic actually buys your stuff or hires you for a tiny blogging income boost.
Never make the mistake of believing that one becomes a full time blogger based on outlier traffic and sales.
For every single random visitor who stumbles upon your blog through a forced share thread, you will waste weeks and months driving vanity traffic that registers as big numbers but provides virtually no quality engagement.
Guys; every blogger who visits your blog from threads mainly wants a blog visit from you. Does that sound like a strong blogging qualifier in traffic terms? Do these appear to be quality readers? Do you believe that most customers and clients originate from a pool of bloggers who visit based on being held at blogging gun point?
If bloggers visit your blog mainly – or only – to get traffic out of you, rest assured that you will struggle horribly to build a blogging business and loyal community based on this terribly low quality traffic source.
If your traffic wants traffic out of you and nothing else, you are in big-time blogging trouble.
If you want to become a successful blogger, put blog sharing and commenting threads in the rear view mirror.
No one carves out a quality blogging career based on a low quality, non-targeted blog traffic source.
Quality traffic forms the foundation for a quality blogging career.
I set aside a little under an hour to broadcast this video to discuss how to drive high quality blog traffic:
7 Helpful Ways to Drive High Quality Blog Traffic – Video Guide
Reviewing each strategy puts you on the quality blog traffic straight and narrow.
Resist any temptation to hop on a sharing and commenting thread if traffic seems slow. Do not abandon what works to begin doing what does not work.
Blog Intelligently
Blog logically to blog intelligently.
Who buys your stuff? Readers who deeply desire your stuff.
Who deeply desires your stuff? Readers who actively seek out, search for and query your niche-specific blogging advice on:
- YouTube
- Quora
- various other channels 100% within your blogging niche
First, someone needs to want your blog content as a solution. Their wanting comes up as querying a phrase on Google, following a Twitter hashtag, asking questions on niche specific Facebook and LinkedIn Groups and actively seeking specific advice in highly targeted spots within your blogging niche.
Draw this high quality traffic to your blog by publishing detailed, targeted, long-form blog posts that solve their problems. Market that content in highly targeted spots to place their ideal solutions right before their very eyes.
Slowly but surely, this high quality traffic:
- visits your blog
- becomes a loyal blogging community
- becomes customers
- becomes clients
- grows referral business
because you let go a low quality traffic source to mine a high quality traffic source.
Bloggers Earn High Quality Traffic
Bloggers work intelligently, patiently and generously to earn high quality blog traffic steadily.
Aspiring pros build a rock solid blogging foundation by publishing targeted, long form blog posts patiently for quite a while.
Something for nothing does not exist in the blogging world, even if less genuine bloggers claim otherwise.
However, if you plan to be around, why not spend that time working to achieve accelerating success versus struggling, failing and quitting?
Everything depends on your blogging mindset. That’s why it’s critical to get clear on who you want to visit your blog before engaging in a particular blogging strategy for driving blog traffic.
Future pros know their ideal reader specifically. For example, a smart beginner blogger in the blogging tips niche knows their ideal reader inside-out. This avatar is a blogger hungry for blogging tips. Writing and publishing blogging tips related content, sharing the content in spots frequented by bloggers who want blogging tips, adding the #bloggingtips hashtag and engaging bloggers thirsting for blogging tips guarantees a steady flow of blogging tips searching bloggers craving for thorough blogging advice.
Notice how this blogger never spends a split second engaging on sharing and commenting threads. Why would they? Those bloggers originate from many different niches. You have no idea if they want blogging tips or not. Thread bloggers visit your blog only to get traffic from you; they have no interest in your blog posts, products and services.
Why would you want people with no interest in your blog, products and services to visit your blog?
Conclusion
Change your strategy.
Target one ideal reader.
Create and connect with that reader in mind at all times.
Lay the foundation for a professional blogging career.
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