21 Ways to Write Posts that will Grow Traffic to Your Green Blog
ProBlogger Darren Rowse offers “21 Ways to Write Posts that Are Guaranteed to Grow Your Blog.” I thought I’d try his recommendations to see how it impacted traffic to my green marketing blog. With each of his categories is one of my posts on environmental and eco-friendly campaigns (This offers an archive as well as an experiment). I will put this content to the test, as well as a number of other tips he offers at problogger.net, to build traffic. And I’ll report back to let you know which tips garner the most readers.
Have you tried these different tactics, and if so, which work the best for you?
1. Write something useful
“40 Tips for a Better Life: Can You Add to the List?”
2. Write something unique
“Homeless Squirrel Chatters About Environment, then Disappears”
3. Write something newsworthy
“‘Green’ is Out! Word Canceled for ’09″
4. Write something first
“How Tom’s of Maine can Flex it’s Leadership Through Social Media”
5. Write something that makes those who read it smarter
“How to Tap Online Social Media for FREE Green Video Distribution”
6. Write something controversial
7. Write something insightful
8. Write something that taps into a fear people have
“A Floating Island of Garbage Twice the Size of Texas”
9. Write something that helps people achieve
“How To Create Brilliant, Sustainable Creative with Limited Resources”
10. Write something that elicits a response
“Can You Save 365 Days Worth of Trash?”
11. Write something that gives a sense of belonging
“Youth Making Noise About Water Conservation”
12. Write something passionately
“Green Social Media Isn’t Just About Being Online”
13. Write something that interprets or translates news for people
“New Green Campaign Highlights Harsh Reality of Burning Coal”
14. Write something inspirational
“Obama has Given us the Blueprint for how to Activate Sustainable Green Causes Online and Off”
15. Write something that tells a story
“What I Learned Peddling a Bike”
16. Write something that solves a problem
“What Retailers can Learn from Goodwill about Green Retailing”
17. Write something that gets a laugh
“Going Out of Business has Never Been Funny…or Funnier”
18. Write something that saves people time or money
“50 Simple Green Ways to Save the Earth”
19. Write something opinionated
“Four Reasons why Twitter is not Elephant Crap”
20. Write something that is a resource
“100 Twitter Tools for Green Marketers”
21. Write something about something cool
“Artist Creates Recycling Message from a Dump”
What do you do that guarantees traffic to your blog? Please share by commenting below.
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For 18 years, Park Howell has been the owner and chief storyteller of Park&Co, an advertising agency in Phoenix, AZ that exists to build movements that matter.
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January 28, 2009 at 8:43 am
Park,
Great post on growing your green blog. I find that speaking and cross-promoting my blog with other vehicles really grows the list of subscribers to my blog. Twitter is fairly new to me as well so I have yet to see how this will work. My hunch is it should work well as well. I do agree with you that postings to twitter should be relevant and interesting as opposed to “just what you are doing.”
January 28, 2009 at 9:08 am
Thanks for your comment, Colette. The blogosphere is still such a wild frontier. We’re all learning as we go.
January 28, 2009 at 12:15 pm
#22 Write something that will get you 21 pingbacks on your own blog posts
http://parkhowell.com/?p=1616
Thanks for sharing, all great stuff. Pleasure to have found your blog!
January 28, 2009 at 12:56 pm
You’re right, Peter, it was pretty effective at that! Thanks for the comment.
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April 7, 2009 at 10:32 am
Good ideas, and excellent examples–thanks, Park. Now to see if I can adapt this to “21 ways to tweet to grow your follows & your blog.”
April 7, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Thanks George, I’m glad you found it useful.
January 4, 2013 at 4:56 pm
Great list, thanks. I look forward to reading through all of your examples to find out how we are implementing these ideas on ValleyCrestTakesOn.com or how we need to get started!
I’ve been in a blogging slump lately, so I’m really excited about putting some of these ideas into action.