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Hello all.  New here and just wanted to introduce myself.
I`m Bryan and I run a website called One Mans Goal. 

It`s a personal site with a direction towards helping beginning bloggers. The blog also caters to my goal.  My goal is an ambitious one.  Within one year I am trying to teach people (including myself) via my website, how to make it as a blogger.  What works, what doesn`t, etc.

My question is this...  I can`t seem to deliver a steady stream of traffic to the site.  It`s relatively new still.  But the content is good (avg. visit of 7 minutes), the layout looks good, and it is updated daily.

Can anyone check it out and tell me what the problem might be?

365 Days - One Goal - Can I Do It?

I think you need a realistic view of generating traffic.

Most blogs take 6-12 months to generate a steady stream of traffic.

I think your design works, which is step 1. My only issue is that I don`t know when your first post was ... you have no archives! And if I want to read through your content to decide if subscribing is worth it, I have to click through a few posts at a time. That is ... a huge time suck. Most people would not have the patience.

How long has your site been up, anyway?

I subscribed not for your content, but just because I was interested enough to see where you were going with your "goal". As for the content, what do you have to offer me that more successful bloggers do not already offer?

Sometimes you lose focus a bit in your posts. Don`t. You say the blog is not about blogging, it`s about your goal - but your goal is blogging. So then what? Don`t confuse me, man!

You miss the point of my blog completely.  I`ll explain, but first let me say... there is an archive!

The goal of the blog is for people to follow along with my goal.  Along with my goal of becoming a more profitable blogger, I want to create a system along the way that can be easily replicated.  Which is why I have the informative posts for beginners.  I`m not John Chow or Darren Rowse... I don`t claim to be.  Someone needs to put together some quality articles for the beginner.  And that`s what I`m doing.

Would you prefer just to update you every single day about how much traffic I received or how much adsense revenue I`ve made?  No!

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Brian,

Your blog is cosmetically eye appealing.  I don`t know if your traffic has increased from what ide generator suggested with the social marketing, but I definitly agrre with him.  I have a page on my site with over 120 different social sites for you to use. 

I also noticed on one of your posts you had over 24 comments.  Dude, that`s awesome!  Do you know how hard it is to get comments?  I like your 10k contest.  How long has it been since you started it?  Great idea!

Some other things that have increased traffic for me is using the moist popular widget on my side bar.  It tells readers how many times an article has been viewed.  Another widget that comes with it is a top commenter`s widget.  This is the same thing except the top commentors get their name and link to their site.

Start a feed train or get involved in some viral posts.  I have three different ones on my site and it has increased the one way links to my site.  Just copy the ones on my site and post them.  When you post them you should inform your readers that this is a great way to increase one way links with out having to beg for them.

The whole concept of your site is a good one.  Because everyone starts off as a beginner.  When beginners arrive at the John Chows and Dean Hunts of the world.  They explain things in a format that`s not clear to beginners.  They go from A to B to F.  You on the other hand should make sure that you go from A to B, C, D, E, F. 

I hope this helps!

Best of luck!

P.S. I am going to add you to my contact in MyBlogLog.


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