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How Do You Overcome Obscurity When No One Is Reading Your Content?

by Commissioner
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Okay you have spent weeks in writing great content for 1 or more of your blogs but nobody is reading it, you check your Google Analytics and see that there are few very visitors who read your blog post. I have being pouring my heart into carefully writing each post.

I have at least 5 twitter accounts with over 200 followers on each of them, 2 Facebook fan pages, and I have been posting my blog posts on each of these platforms, pinging it, social bookmarking it etc, but still very few viewers. I'm sure i'm not the only one experiencing the frustration of this.

So when no-one is reading your posts, and you continually submit it to the dozens of social media sties you can think of, what do you do then?

I know all the do's and don'ts behind SEO and religiously obey Google's Webmaster's guidelines but what the heck am I doing wrong if I am consistently obeying these rules and plowing through the noise just to have my content read? I feel worn out at this stage of the game.

So how do you guys keep up with all the SEO you need to do to promote your business, blog or website, especially if you work a 9-5 job?

I know a lot of you outsource your work and that's great but what about people who can't afford to constantly outsource their work to experts, what hope have they in regard to staying in the game no matter what?

I hear a lot great internet marketers and so-called guru's give the most amazing advice and motivation to never ever give up and keeping hanging in there. Trust me I don't intend on giving up. I am doing all kinds of internet marketing, not just on affiliate websites but with my business also.

I hardest part is keeping motivated when the going gets tough it feels like a walk in the dark with no street lights. So how do you overcome obscurity if you spending more time blogging and doing SEO almost 7 days a week?

Okay enough of my whining...Your thoughts!
#content #obscurity #overcome #reading
  • Profile picture of the author StuartDavidson
    I have found great success just using social marketing. Pinging content around can only do a little. Interact and engage with people and present your content to them if appropriate and when the time calls.

    Use software to "listen" to the social platforms and save yourself the time trolling too. I wrote a post on how I relaunched my blog with all stats/strategies here: How To Relaunch A Blog: First Week Of Social Marketing

    I'm writing another for my whole first month of relaunch next week - there is already some pretty interesting take-away's from it which I'm planning to include.
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    • Profile picture of the author brentb
      I just started a blog 2 weeks ago. I am totally slapped in the serps currently and i usually get my blogs to rank really fast because i have a pr8 .gov site i always backlink on. But my content is killer, I have like a 40% returning visitor rate. Did a little facebooking, random internet link posting. On track to do 40k page views the first 30 days and $100 in ad revenue.

      I would suggest doing traffic trading with others in your niche, its working really well for me since my SE traffic is almost 0.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    1) See why no one is reading the content

    2) Analyze sales

    3) If the sales are good but my content (articles, blog, email newsletter, etc) still isn't getting read much.... i dont care. The sales are there.

    4) Take a look at what email in your autoresponder is generating the most unsubscribers, and delete it or change it's content.

    5) Much more but i think you get the point.
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    I used to write short blog posts in the past, and only a few people were reading them. When I understood that most people like long blog posts, everything changed.

    Perhaps it would be better for you to focus your attention on only one blog.

    You should publish long articles with detailed information (around 1000 – 3000 words) at your best blog instead of writing short articles for many blogs, and getting nowhere.

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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    You have to enjoy what you do.

    :]

    Some of my blog posts get 100+ shares and a ton of comments.

    Some of my blog posts get like 5 shares and NO comments.

    I don't give a damn.

    I'll continue to write, regardless of who reads.

    That's how you get it done.

    :]
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  • Profile picture of the author beasty513
    Engaging the visitors is the most important thing you could do.

    Get them looking forward to visiting your website.


    You be surprised at how many people don't actually

    interact with their traffic.


    Don't be a another carbon-copy....
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    • Profile picture of the author Commissioner
      How do I enage visitors that come to my site if I can't even see them? I find it really time consuming to go on social media sites try to find people to talk to. I suppose I just want people reading my content instead of wasting time trying to build a relationship with someone is isn't really interested in what you do or what your website is all about. I find everyone on social media sites are trying to get attention so how do you guys interact with people on Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Pinterest and get them interested in your products, services and whatever else your website has to offer?

      I do love what I do but sometimes I'm afraid to write a blog post because I feel it won't be interesting or engaging enough for readers. It's just from knowing that there is far better content on the internet much related to what I intend to write about. So therefore why bother writing content if there are no readers? I guess I just have to keep writing whether I like it or not to get at least 50 visitors a day would be a great motivator to keep writing.
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      • Profile picture of the author H.Miller
        Originally Posted by Commissioner View Post

        How do I enage visitors that come to my site if I can't even see them? I find it really time consuming to go on social media sites try to find people to talk to. I suppose I just want people reading my content instead of wasting time trying to build a relationship with someone is isn't really interested in what you do or what your website is all about. I find everyone on social media sites are trying to get attention so how do you guys interact with people on Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Pinterest and get them interested in your products, services and whatever else your website has to offer?

        I do love what I do but sometimes I'm afraid to write a blog post because I feel it won't be interesting or engaging enough for readers. It's just from knowing that there is far better content on the internet much related to what I intend to write about. So therefore why bother writing content if there are no readers? I guess I just have to keep writing whether I like it or not to get at least 50 visitors a day would be a great motivator to keep writing.
        Well this may be the problem. You have to build relationships. Social media is about interaction and engagement. There has to be some sort of conversation going on. Its not enough to just post a bunch of content on them. Ask questions, have a contest or have some sort of poll. The more you engage your followers the better your results will be.

        And why do you have so many twitter accounts? Are they all for different blogs?
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
    Traffic is the key to all blogs.

    You can have the best content on a blog on the web, but it’s nothing when people don’t see it.

    Paid Traffic sends targeted traffic and paying customers to websites.

    SEO, FaceBook, etc. are very competitive methods of generating traffic and is a second choice of generating traffic.

    Jeffery 100% :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author dewayneboyd
      Originally Posted by Jeffery View Post

      Traffic is the key to all blogs.

      You can have the best content on a blog on the web, but it's nothing when people don't see it.

      Paid Traffic sends targeted traffic and paying customers to websites.

      SEO, FaceBook, etc. are very competitive methods of generating traffic and is a second choice of generating traffic.

      Jeffery 100% :-)
      At least give a proper disclaimer if you are going to give this advice. First of all, a blog is different than a sales letter. Blogs are ideal for getting free search engine traffic. You really don't want to use paid traffic for a blog because they aren't set up properly to close sales.

      Second, even if you are using a sales letter to sell a product, it is going to be extremely difficult to find a way to get a NET PROFIT. And that better be one smoking hot sales letter at the prices you pay for quality traffic. Paid advertising is best for offline businesses that get repeat customers or at least a business with the potential of earning thousands off of your best customers. If you are only selling a $12 product or whatever and don't have an effective upsell system in place, you are just lighting money on fire in most cases.
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      • Profile picture of the author savidge4
        I do not use Social Media in any shape or form. I don't have a FB account, I don't Twit, I have never put a video on YouTube, I don't even have an "account" on YouTube.

        My question is this... aren't these platforms DESIGNED to seek and find like minded people? If you are writing about "Dieting' cant you go in a search and find those with "Dieting" in their profile?

        Seriously I might be wrong... probably am. Just seems to me from the outside lookiing in, that is what these portals are designed to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author John J M
    I agree with much of what has been said. It's when you start actually having conversations with people on social media sites or comments on your blogs that you'll see an uptick. People need to feel engaged with not only the content, but with you.

    A place to start that process is through video. If you have a video above the fold on your site and on Youtube, you can start helping people see you as a real person that would be helpful in xyz.

    Good job so far. Your strategy is a long-term one, sometimes longer-term than you would like. At this point, I'd encourage you to keep going, but consider other income streams that might help you get a little paid traffic to fill in for now until you get more organic readers.
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  • Profile picture of the author JRJWrites
    Social media marketing helped me to go from 0 to 100+ views per day in less than a week.

    True, that's not all that much, but considering my blog is only a couple weeks old, and it's ranking 800,000 in Alexa...
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  • Profile picture of the author dewayneboyd
    Originally Posted by Commissioner View Post

    Okay you have spent weeks in writing great content for 1 or more of your blogs but nobody is reading it, you check your Google Analytics and see that there are few very visitors who read your blog post. I have being pouring my heart into carefully writing each post.

    I have at least 5 twitter accounts with over 200 followers on each of them, 2 Facebook fan pages, and I have been posting my blog posts on each of these platforms, pinging it, social bookmarking it etc, but still very few viewers. I'm sure i'm not the only one experiencing the frustration of this.

    So when no-one is reading your posts, and you continually submit it to the dozens of social media sties you can think of, what do you do then?

    I know all the do's and don'ts behind SEO and religiously obey Google's Webmaster's guidelines but what the heck am I doing wrong if I am consistently obeying these rules and plowing through the noise just to have my content read? I feel worn out at this stage of the game.

    So how do you guys keep up with all the SEO you need to do to promote your business, blog or website, especially if you work a 9-5 job?

    I know a lot of you outsource your work and that's great but what about people who can't afford to constantly outsource their work to experts, what hope have they in regard to staying in the game no matter what?

    I hear a lot great internet marketers and so-called guru's give the most amazing advice and motivation to never ever give up and keeping hanging in there. Trust me I don't intend on giving up. I am doing all kinds of internet marketing, not just on affiliate websites but with my business also.

    I hardest part is keeping motivated when the going gets tough it feels like a walk in the dark with no street lights. So how do you overcome obscurity if you spending more time blogging and doing SEO almost 7 days a week?

    Okay enough of my whining...Your thoughts!
    Pick a niche with a minimum of 10,000 long-tail keyword phrases that aren't too competitive. Write an article on every keyword phrase no matter how long it takes. Don't whine and complain about the hard work. That's business. It's still better than a job in the long run as long as you get the traffic and know how to monetize it.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    1. I know who my readers are and write interesting stuff that people want to read.

    2. I NEVER even think of SEO. If you write comprehensive articles/posts, then SEO takes care of itself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Slin
    Just keep writing.

    Find your audience on social sites and share there as well.

    Oh and feel free to organize your website, I've found that the better I organize my sites the better rankings google gives me.
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  • Profile picture of the author dewayneboyd
    Originally Posted by Commissioner View Post

    Okay you have spent weeks in writing great content for 1 or more of your blogs but nobody is reading it, you check your Google Analytics and see that there are few very visitors who read your blog post. I have being pouring my heart into carefully writing each post.

    I have at least 5 twitter accounts with over 200 followers on each of them, 2 Facebook fan pages, and I have been posting my blog posts on each of these platforms, pinging it, social bookmarking it etc, but still very few viewers. I'm sure i'm not the only one experiencing the frustration of this.

    So when no-one is reading your posts, and you continually submit it to the dozens of social media sties you can think of, what do you do then?

    I know all the do's and don'ts behind SEO and religiously obey Google's Webmaster's guidelines but what the heck am I doing wrong if I am consistently obeying these rules and plowing through the noise just to have my content read? I feel worn out at this stage of the game.

    So how do you guys keep up with all the SEO you need to do to promote your business, blog or website, especially if you work a 9-5 job?

    I know a lot of you outsource your work and that's great but what about people who can't afford to constantly outsource their work to experts, what hope have they in regard to staying in the game no matter what?

    I hear a lot great internet marketers and so-called guru's give the most amazing advice and motivation to never ever give up and keeping hanging in there. Trust me I don't intend on giving up. I am doing all kinds of internet marketing, not just on affiliate websites but with my business also.

    I hardest part is keeping motivated when the going gets tough it feels like a walk in the dark with no street lights. So how do you overcome obscurity if you spending more time blogging and doing SEO almost 7 days a week?

    Okay enough of my whining...Your thoughts!
    You seem to be overestimating this idea of great content. You want to have good content, but content is not magic no matter how good it is. It's really a numbers game. The more content you write, the more traffic you are going to get.

    Not understanding the numbers game is probably the #1 mistake that most Internet marketers make. They buy into the hype that you just need a few pages of sizzling content, and you will be successful. This is rarely true. If you are a content marketer, you need to forget the lottery mentality of writing a few articles and hoping your stuff goes viral.

    Take luck out of the equation. Create enough content and you will be successful unless you have picked the wrong niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author drr
    There's been a huge proliferation of websites over the years. As the cost to acquire domains/hosting (etc) has come down, more and more people have set up sites. More sites, all vying for the same number of eyes means those who are unable to dominate top spots in the major search/social engines need to pay particular attention to the following:

    1. USP. What's your kink? What distinguishes your content from the other 10,000+ sites in the niche? We all work hard on our content, but that does not actually mean our sites are seen as A++ by visitors. If they aren't sticking around, it's probably not good enough.

    2. Conversion. Get an opt in list and bribe as many visitors onto it as possible. In my own member site, I offer 50 products for free just for getting people onto the mailing list. What can you do to get more people on your own list? It's important, because it gives you the opportunity to interact with your traffic/visitors and show them you're a real person.

    3. Figure out traffic sources aside from SEO. Independent site owners are competing against TEAMS of SEO experts. Do you really fancy your chances of taking them on? I don't. That's why smaller site owners need to figure out how to tap into alternative methods of attracting traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Fletcher
    Write stuff people WANT to read.

    Be funny.

    Be controversial.

    Be intelligent.

    Be dumb.

    Be edgy.

    Be different.

    Paint a vivid picture and smack your reader upside-the-head with it. Reach into their head, grab their eyeballs and hold on to them until they've read every last word.
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