Comments on: SEO Doesn’t Guarantee Blog Visitor Loyalty

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:40:42 +0000

I’m not shy… I actually have no idea why it doesn’t appear. I’d really like for it to, since people would (hopefully) be better able to tell that I’m not a man…

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:46:05 +0000

Heh, I was actually going to suggest that yesterday, but don’t just add it to the top of the page, but also to near the comment area.

I always thought Jordan was shy with no MBL avatar appearing.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:31:36 +0000

Maybe we can add our smiling faces to the posts, to make it more obvious.

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:23:46 +0000

It’s okay, guys. I’m done crying now, so my feelings aren’t hurt anymore

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:48:34 +0000

I’ll take it as a compliment that I hired someone that shares my style of writing.

Hopefully Jordan won’t be offended.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:19:26 +0000

You and me both. Sorry, Jordan.

By: Jason Schramm

Jason Schramm — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:54:10 +0000

I just now realized that Andy didn’t post this. I should pay more attention. As should others when commenting.

By: Piet Spitfire

Piet Spitfire — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:28:39 +0000

The only thing that guarantees loyalty is excellent content, actual, visual and focussed. Look at this example and the affiliated websites and you know what I mean http://www.gadgetfriends.net

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:12:45 +0000

Andy,

Would an RSS feed be considered “Other Blog Services?” And in that case, do you consider a blog entry to be “traffic” if I absorb the information through an RSS feed versus actually going to the site?

In theory, I’m sure all of us “visit” dozens of blogs each day through a feed. For example, I’ve read 4 MP entries this morning, but this was the only one that I actually visited the page. Your message was received, but is that in the equation?

Just curious

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:27:44 +0000

I frequently think about turning my front page into more of a squeeze page above the fold – it is interesting monitoring which traffic actually clicks through to the home page.
StumbleUpon traffic can be so untargeted – from 300 SU views to my PRWeb article, I have had 5 click-throughs to the site giving out $200 press releases for free (Andy your wife should grab one)

Most subscriptions seem to come from highly targeted links.

One good thing, I am not sure whether it is the same with RSS as email, but Feedburner is meant to notify you of unsubscriptions email… and I have never had one.

By: Jason Schramm

Jason Schramm — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:49:16 +0000

Sometimes I will find a blog from a search engine, but in those cases I am looking for specific information. I often won’t come back once I found what I need, unless they have something else to keep me around.

Contests seem to be a lot better for getting readers. I subscribed to your blog when I heard about the Zune contest, but I just kept getting more and more involved in discussions. Now it’s one of the few places I comment to, and the place I comment the most often.

By: Mark Barrera

Mark Barrera — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:59:34 +0000

I think that the majority of visitors that bookmark or subscribe to a blog are not the visitors coming from the search engines and are coming via other blog links, news stories and such.

I know that 90+% of the blogs I read were not found via the search engines. Most of them were recommended by the trusted authorities in the industry such as Andy (thanks for the link blog), Lee Odden, Danny Sullivan and others whose judgement I trust. No offense to the search engines but I think their rankings are easier to manipulate than actual people.

By: AdvertiseSpace

AdvertiseSpace — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:53:35 +0000

I would think the same would hold true for the US and for the blogisphere in general. I mean when was the last time you looked for a good blog on a search engine?

By: Shankar

Shankar — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:51:46 +0000

This is an interesting piece of research; thanks for sharing the summary. I think the broad results will hold true anywhere. There is a fair amount of referral traffic between blogs, but the percentages may vary. Interactive style and the use of audio and video must be playing a key role in why a reader visits one blog multiple times and forgets another.