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Today, for the first time in several weeks, the biggest single visitor number of SEO 2.0 was not StumbleUpon or any other referrer, it was the “No referring link” crowd as Statcounter calls it. It was rather a small group of only slightly above 100 but this post is dedicated to you! Hail the returning visitor, hail the subscriber, hail you who type in seo2.0.onreact.com into your browser’s address bar. You’re my heroes!
I was targeting the casual reader or rather stumbler and neglected you, my most ardent supporters. I know who you are! I mean people like Wallace of CSS Juice or Michael of Better Blogging, renown online publishers and bloggers themselves who regularly drop by, comment and even link to me.
After I abandoned the StumbleUpon toolbar, or even earlier while I was seemingly banned by StumbleUpon for a day or two I realized that I am too dependent on the StumbleUpon traffic which is great when it’s there, but you can’t substitute your most devoted readers with the StumbleUpon crowd that will swarm your blog and leave as fast as it came.
When I read a fabulous post about by Dosh Dosh called How to Get Repeat Visitors for Your Website I realized that I made some major mistakes until now with SEO 2.0. You can’t rely on the first time visitor like the average SEO does.
Blogging without a community of faithful and active readers is impossible.
So now “the times they are ‘a’ changing”, I will create more value for those who deserve it. You, you and you.
In fact I want to be faithful myself now instead of stumbling and blog hopping. I changed my reading habits. That’s why I looked for suitable RSS readers and finally found the one that suits me best and my manifold interests. Netvibes. I subscribed and will subscribe to all of you great bloggers I mentioned before.
Also, I want you, yes you, you who you did not yet subscribe to SEO 2.0 - I want you to subscribe right now!
What do you want? Tell me. I can write about just anything.
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Well, I like your humour and lack of bullshit…also you seem happy to actually talk about your opinion and not be “soft”. So that is what I want.
And why wouldn’t people subscribe to a blog by a guy with a dodgy Mexican hat and porno mustache? :)
Tasteful, Quality stuff.
How ironic is it that I arrived at this post via Stumble……
Andrew: Thank you for the shameless flattering, but I have a whole category full of bullshit!
http://seo2.0.onreact.com/category/bullshit
Chris: I fact it’s not really a contradiction, I kind of exxagerated to make it more evident. Of course I visit my favorite bloggers via different media.
Sometimes I visit the same blog 3 times and more per day, once via StumbleUpon, once Sphin, once Netvibes…
“I want you to subscribe right now!”
All right, subscribing right now. ;)
“What do you want? Tell me. I can write about just anything.”
Well, you could write about little orange widgets, or an essay on why the sky is blue, or a series of articles on the meaning of life… oh, and don’t forget to post your favourite ice-cream recipes! A post about little green men from Mars would be welcome as well. :-P
Nah, I like your posts as they are, so just keep on sharing useful tips. :)
Damn, otherwise I would have written what the meaning of life is…
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