# Getting more traffic to a blog? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [July 19, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025 "2004-07-19T04:34:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Digigamer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digigamer/32/276_2.png) [@Digigamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digigamer)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/1 "2004-07-19T04:34:25Z")
I, like many fellow Kirupians run a weblog. And I am having the infamous problem of not attracting many visitors to [my site](http://www.thinkingdigitally.com). Pretty much the only people who read my blog reqularly are close friends. So I’m asking how do you get more visitors to a blog? What do you guys do to get more visitors? Is it the same as any other website? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/2 "2004-07-19T04:38:55Z")
I am also having trouble getting listed on google. My site is listed on nearly every other popular search engine but despite all my efforts google will not list it. I remember back when I first started google indexed my site but then it suddenly stopped and won’t list it again. The googlebot hits my page over a hundred times a month yet I am still not listed. Any ideas as to why this is? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/3 "2004-07-19T04:55:45Z")
blogs are usually boring IMO, i mean who really cares what you do every day, i usually read them once and never go back…but maybe thats just me… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/4 "2004-07-19T04:58:13Z")
i agree with mac… i mean who cares about problems of someone you don’t or barely know? there’s a reason it’s only you’re close friends… the only other people i would expect are those 60 year old men that pretend to be 20 year old women… who want to learn about your life… but seriously… i don’t think i could ever read a blog done by my best friends regularily, nevermind some stranger on the web. just MO though… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/5 "2004-07-19T04:59:32Z")
1. you either have to be really funny and entertaining, ex: [1976design.com/blog/](http://1976design.com/blog/) or 2. you have to be helpful in some way, like css stuff, ex: [stopdesign.com](http://stopdesign.com) btw, read both regularly ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/6 "2004-07-19T05:11:08Z")
If I wanted to post about my day or my problems I would have started a live journal or a xanga. If you read my blog you would notice that I very rarely talk about everything I did that day. If I do talk about my day 99% of the time I will pick something I did that day that will be the topic of my entry and the entry will be on my thoughts, feelings, or whatever of that expirence. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/7 "2004-07-19T05:23:39Z")
To get more traffic you have to write about more interesting stuff. I think that is the main thing for blogs. It would be hard to come up in search engines somewhere that someone might find your site. Best way to get traffic is to make it interesting and that is what sparks the growth. P.S. This sentence is really kind of funny without proper punctuation: _“Today after we went out to eat my sister wanted to stop buy CompUSA to buy a cooking program so that she could store all her recipes digitally”_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/8 "2004-07-19T05:35:30Z")
> [@EthanM](#): > > P.S. This sentence is really kind of funny without proper punctuation: > _“Today after we went out to eat my sister wanted to stop buy CompUSA to buy a cooking program so that she could store all her recipes digitally”_ omg that sentence is terrible isn’t it. Thanks for pointing that out Ethan. It should be fixed now. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/9 "2004-07-19T05:39:32Z")
I don’t think you need the comma after today, but the sentence was pretty bad if you read it the way I did first. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 5:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/10 "2004-07-19T05:41:21Z")
I guess I added my own punctuation 'cause I did not get that at all… try and be funny ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/11 "2004-07-19T05:46:57Z")
Not sure what you just said BP, but without the comma is read… Today after we went out to eat my sister… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/12 "2004-07-19T05:50:11Z")
I meant for the blog to be funny, and I read it like you went to eat with your sister, so I did add my own punctuation when reading it :P, that’s great, I like ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/13 "2004-07-19T05:55:24Z")
hahaha, dirty minds…i like it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-more-traffic-to-a-blog/58025/14 "2004-07-19T06:29:58Z")
> [@Digigamer](#): > > I, like many fellow Kirupians run a weblog. And I am having the infamous problem of not attracting many visitors to [my site](http://www.thinkingdigitally.com/). Pretty much the only people who read my blog reqularly are close friends. So I’m asking how do you get more visitors to a blog? What do you guys do to get more visitors? Is it the same as any other website? hrmm…join [xanga.com](http://xanga.com)? :lol: