{"id":632,"date":"2006-06-05T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/blog-traffic-can-be-yours-if-you-use-these-56-tips-from-seth-godin\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:25:48","slug":"blog-traffic-can-be-yours-if-you-use-these-56-tips-from-seth-godin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/blog-traffic-can-be-yours-if-you-use-these-56-tips-from-seth-godin\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog traffic can be yours if you use these 56 tips from Seth Godin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin&#8217;s excellent list of <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2006\/06\/how_to_get_traf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;How to Get Traffic for Your Blog&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0includes lots of things I was taught to do when I worked as a\u00a0newspaper reporter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use lists<\/li>\n<li>Break news<\/li>\n<li>Include polls, meters and other eye candy.<\/li>\n<li>Point to useful but little-known resources.<\/li>\n<li>Write about a never-ending parade of topics so you don&#8217;t bore your readers. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be boring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And on and on.\u00a0Godin&#8217;s list includes two recommendations that contradict each other. Number 27 says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Number \u00a034 says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t include comments. People will cross-post themselves.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He\u00a0doesn&#8217;t allow comments, by the way, and <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2006\/06\/why_i_dont_have.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains<\/a> why: he doesn&#8217;t want want to write in anticipation of the commenters, and he doesn&#8217;t want to discipline himself to ignore\u00a0comments. Rather, he&#8217;d be inclined to respond to every one of them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I love the comments function and allow comments here. Comments, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin&#8217;s excellent list of &#8220;How to Get Traffic for Your Blog&#8221;\u00a0includes lots of things I was taught to do when I worked as a\u00a0newspaper reporter: Use lists Break news Include polls, meters and other eye candy. Point to useful but little-known resources. Write about a never-ending parade of topics so you don&#8217;t bore your\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/blog-traffic-can-be-yours-if-you-use-these-56-tips-from-seth-godin\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":603,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2,622],"class_list":{"0":"post-632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-building-traffic","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40621,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/40621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}