Rhody Trader

Part of what I’m doing with this new blog of mine is performing a little experiment. During the month of March my Essentials site drew nearly 4,000 visitors and over 12,000 page views. That traffic is something that was slowly built over a couple of years. It most definitely didn’t just appear. I’d like to credit good content to it, but I also know that developing some connections among other bloggers and websites helped to push things along as well. I’m curious to see how quickly I can get RhodyTrader.com up to a comparable level of traffic an readership as Essentials.

This site starts from scratch. I did work to build content over the month of March, but I did nothing to even suggest to the wide world that it exists. Today, April 1st, was the first time I started doing that. I’m going to use every above-board trick I can think of (and any I learn about in the future) to publicize RhodyTrader.com to see how quickly I can ramp things up. As a sort of journal, I’ll be keeping track of everything I do. Maybe my fellow bloggers will find some of it useful – and will make suggestions from their own experience.

Here’s what I’ve done today.

1. Put up a post announcing the new blog on my Essentials site.
2. Emailed my mailing list
3. Added this site to my LInkedIn profile.
4. Added this site to MyBlogLog.
5. Added this site to Technorati
6. Set up Google Analytics (actually, that was last night)
7. Added the RSS to TwitterFeed so it would show up on my Twitter.
8. Turned on the publicity features through FeedBurner.
9. Added the RSS to Facebook.
10. Posted a notice and link on my MySpace blog.

I think that’s enough for today. I’ll do some more stuff tomorrow. Today’s traffic for this blog, according to MyBlogLog, is higher than for Essentials. I’m positive that’s mostly from the mailing I did to my list, though.

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