I gave a workshop the other day.

Report: Blog workshop held on how to get more traffic and what you can do with it.

At one point during the workshop I touched on the 20 characteristics of a successful blogger.

On that list, near the top, was the word – Passion.

I jumped up and down, told the story of Jeremiah the prophet and how he could not not preach because whenever he decided he wouldn’t continue, the message of God burned like fire in his bones.  See Jeremiah 20:9.

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I have been asked not a few times – “What are the reasons/benefits a blogger would want to be a part of a blog network as opposed to going it alone?”

Here are a few -

1. Blogging alongside folk who have ‘been there done that’ can save a LOT of time and energy for the individual blogger who otherwise would have to learn things all over again, to reinvent the wheel so to speak.

2.  Which sounds better – I get a couple hundred/thousand unique visitors a day/month or I am part of a blog network that gets 50,000-75,000 unique visitors/day or 1.5-2 million page views a month?

3. Being a part of a blog network gives the blogger instant visibility. No begging to be included in another blogroll…you will already be there. Read the rest of this entry »

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I recently held a blog workshop for the Central California Writers Club, South Bay Branch.

The title of the workshop was Blogging for Publishing and Promoting Your Writing .

The basic idea was for me to teach the group how to bring traffic to their blogs (if they had one) so that their blog could serve as a platform to market their books (again, if they have one). Or if they are writing a book, how they might create and maintain a blog alongside so that when the book was complete they would have regular readers who might be interested in the tome. I think I did the job.

The usual crowd for a CWC South Bay workshop was 20-30 folk. We had 55 register and 13 more sign in at the door.  The attendance was more than double the usual workshop crowd. Not only do I know something, but it seems I know something folk really want to know as well. Read the rest of this entry »

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I can hear some people laughing.

They are the ones who get 100+K page views to their blog everyday. I don’t. I was a rinky dink blogger who wrote about non-main stream topics, Japan, the PanAsian region and the Business of Education, lessons learned and such.

I hit a huge milestone…for me, that is.

My three blogs combined for 124,130 page views in one day. RisingSunOfNihon received 99,154 of those views.

I thought to share here how that came to be and how others might do the same.

Let me preface the steps by saying it wasn’t easy and it didn’t happen quickly.

How to:

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I know what it takes to get 1,000,000 unique visitors. I know because I remember reaching my 1,000,000th visitor. It happened at 8:17:55am (PST) when some dude from

Location

Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : Wisconsin City : Milwaukee Lat/Long : 43.0522, -87.965 (Map)

dropped by to take a look at the post  93 million people with the same last name on my blog at PanAsianBiz.

What does it take to get 1,000,000 unique visitors?

1. Write a lot. I wrote a combined 4,318 posts and some 850,000 words (abt 200 words/post).  That’s just barely one+ visit per word that I wrote. Thank goodness they turned the pages.  Page views = 1.59 million.

2. Write often. I posted 10-20 posts every day…every every day. Less you think I don’t have a life…I have been on extended cruises with NO INTERNET , attended week long swim competitions several times in different parts of the country, and, and…so on. The solution, I know how to use a scheduler and I use it quite a bit. My posts come out every day. ( I think I said that.)

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