Most new bloggers are wondering, where to get traffic and where does the traffic come from. Many people give tips what to do, but they never tell you how much traffic can you expect. Here are my recordings of how much traffic I get and how traffic has developed for my sites.
New Blogs Traffic
As a new blogger, most of your traffic comes as a result of your own activity. The most biggest sources of traffic are social media sites and blog comments. The traffic from search engines will be pretty limited in the beginning months. I takes from 6months to a year to really start getting a lot of traffic from search engines.
Traffic from blog comments
Traffic that you will get from blog comments is around 2-3hits. From some bigger sites, I have been able to get 10hits, but it does not happen very often. By commenting you can get some hits, but not a lot.
Traffic from Social Media
The biggest source of social media traffic nowadays is Twitter. When you tweet your posts there and you have a fair amount of followers, you will get visitors. By tweeting your older posts again and again, you can get from 10-100 hits per post. Also the amount of retweets that your postings get will make a really big difference. If you write good posts, then you will also get a lot of retweets.
Older Blogs Traffic (1 to 2 years old )
If your blog has been up for one to two years and you have been actively updating, you will start to see changes in your traffic. The most notable difference is that you have started to get more traffic from search engines. I would say that at this point your traffic is around 50% from search engines.
Really Old Blogs Traffic (5 to 10 years old )
Now that the blog is cadillac. The amount of search engine traffic has grown even more. At this point traffic from SEs is over 80%. The social media sites can not compete, because you have so much content. Twitter and social media is focused on new content, where as search engines value older content.
Conclusion
The traffic of your blog will evolve a lot during your blogging years. In the beginning stages it is really important to be active. There is no other way to get traffic, because SEs do not like new content.
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Clever post, I think the most important point to note here is that it takes a while for your traffic to come from search engines, until then social media is your friend!
Great site brother
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You nailed it, my friend. Thanks for coming back to comment
Hmm… SEs don’t like new content? I don’t agree with that. Maybe that post rank cannot compete with others. Else it will be on the 1st page.
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Hi Jayce!
New content is not valued as high in comparison to older articles. There are many things that affect this, like age of the back links amd age of your domain. Of course the competition matters like you point out.
Thanks for commenting and welcome back again
Hmm… From my observation. The new post will on top rank for few days due to freshness (depend on keywords too). Then, taking over by good old posts.
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Great work! For me the best source is social media! but i think from comments we can get more loyal readers!
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I agree with you. By commenting you can get a lot more loyal readers and interaction than you can with just social media, like twitter. A good read on the subject is Getting loyal readers with interaction
Reason for this is probably that, you link to your new posts on your main page when they are new. After that you only provide them a limited amount of link juice.