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Steve Pavlina is a wonderful life coach. His blog covers everything imaginable from lucid dreaming, to goal setting and priority management. One article which caught my eye related to his views on building traffic for blogs and websites. His views are refreshing and truthful. Read the article here: How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog) This article was published in early 2006 but still holds true today and will continue to be relevant for years to come. Steve Pavlina on Blogging Video
As a blogger or webmaster or whatever you want to call it these days, I am literally flooded by people who make grand claims of having the perfect system to drive traffic to websites and blogs. These people also promise that using a special secret system, that I can start making literally thousands of dollars a month within days of buying their programs. This is Garbage with a capital G. If you want to be successful online, it is my opinion that you must provide a service to your customers and readers. Something they will not find anywhere else. This is what Steve Pavlina explains in his article. Write for the fun of it, create content that you would want to read. Stop trying to sell so hard to people that just want to be informed. Don't get me wrong, we're all in the business of making money, but we are also on a mission of assisting and helping our readers. Our readers aren't stupid. They know the difference between a sales pitch and a truthful and helpful piece of information. Follow the guidlines outlined in Steve's blog post and you will find that first and foremost, you will find enjoyment and gratification in building up your web presence while helping other people. The money will follow naturally if that is what you want. In short, Steve preaches the "Don't bite the hand that feeds you" blogging rule. Provide helpful and original information to your readers and they will come back to your site over and over again.
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