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Every blogger wants traffic. But have you asked yourself WHY? You don’t need hundreds of thousands of visitors a day to your blog (although it would be nice), you just want enough traffic to help you to achieve your blog’s goals. You want results.
For example, the main goal of this blog is to win attention for my blogging ebook, Blogging for Dollars. I set up the blog a couple of months before I finished the ebook. That’s the main goal of the blog - and since that’s all the goal is, I scan the stats once every couple of weeks, if I remember to do it. I don’t need a lot of traffic to this blog - it gets results, whatever the traffic.
Another example: I’ve set up other blogs for various affiliate products. These blogs don’t get a lot of traffic either, but the blogs make sales - and that’s the reason they exist. So since they make sales, I don’t sweat traffic.
“10 Minute Blog Tips: Do You Need a Big Audience?” makes some excellent points regarding traffic:
The key point is rather than putting effort into generating “trafficâ€, work out what you want visitors to do then tune your traffic to those tactics that bring specific results. You will waste less energy and achieve your goals much faster.
So if you’re a new blogger, and you’re thinking “traffic, I need traffic!” stop it. Get your eyes on the ball: you want results, not traffic. Work out what results you want, and then set about getting those results. Whether you have 50 visitors or 50,000, it’s all about results.
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