The History of Blogs Reveals Little Known High Traffic Secret

Blogs, or web logs, as they were referred to in the early days were always a medium where people linked to each other extensively and regularly. The idea has always been to have a conversation of sorts with persons of similar interests. This is achieved by linking to each other and monitoring both posts and reactions and comments to them. In effect this wrested control from forum moderators.

Then commerce inevitably came in and made everything different. Still, those early blog days reveal the basic secret behind the phenomenal rise of blogs from nowhere. In other words, blogs were created to link to each other easily and effortlessly. In this way, traffic was almost guaranteed. If anything, it rapidly grew as others with similar interests discovered one of the other blogs in the group. However, as blogs have become more numerous, widespread and commercially oriented, somehow this strength and early secret seems to have been diminished. The result is that vast majorities of bloggers are scrambling for traffic and do not quite understand how to get it. All sorts of traffic generating tools and sites specifically targeted at blogs have emerged.

Yet there are blogs that have gained enormous traffic by simply linking to a single popular and relevant other blog. Others have done it by linking to just a handful of relevant blogs.

In many ways, successful blogging is very similar to swimming. If you resist and fight the current, chances are high you will drown. The trick is to relax and allow the current to carry you as you check your bearings. Most bloggers would not even consider the idea of linking to competitors, yet the history of blogs clearly points in that as the direction to success. It is a simple and yet effortless way of generating lots of growing traffic for your blog right from inception.

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