Building Blog Momentum

After starting receive some visitors to my blog, I knew that I needed to take advanatge of the opportunity that had presented itself. I knew that if I played my cards right, I could leverage the small visitor base to generate more links and thus more visitors. I knew that there was a very good chance that some vistors to the blog also has their own blogs. If this were true, there was a chance that they might link to my blog in future. The challenge, of course, was to write some blog entries that they might find interesting -- and I needed to do it while I still had their attention.

So I started posting new entries, trying very hard to post one new entry each (it wasn't easy). In the weeks that followed, momentum started to build. I gain some additional links from other blogs, and visitors gradually increased.

By this time, I started to receive some visitors from the search engines as well. Of course, I optimized the Movable Type templates for SEO before launching the blog. And that, combined with the links I was getting, was starting to produce some decent rankings for a handful of minor, yet relevant search phrases. This helped build the momentum even further. As more people (and more bloggers) learned about Web Dawn, more bloggers would link to the site, which would lead to even more vistors. A pattern begain to emerge.