Online Business Freedom

After a couple of months of using Robert Phillips’ excellent blog carnival posting service, and submitting articles for a little over a month, I’ve seemed to have reached a bit of a plateau in my Alexa ranking.

As you can see if you scroll down to the bottom of my sidebar, I’ve hit 487,912 on Alexa.

Not bad for only 2 traffic generating strategies. (Well, I actually do post comments on other people’s blogs, and every week, give my best posts a “thumbs up” on StumbleUpon)

But certainly nowhere near where some of the other bloggers in our blogosphere are at. And certainly nowhere near where I want to be.

Granted, I’m not basing my results soley on Alexa, but as I indicated in an earlier post, it’s a pretty good tool to track your traffic.

For the past couple of months, I would, like clockwork, watch my Alexa ranking plummet, almost every few days - until suddenly, at this point, it has leveled off.

Not exactly sure why.

So, while I will continue to grow my external ezine publisher list and continue to submit articles, and while my blog posts will continue to be submitted to blog carnivals, I realize that it’s time to start layering in a third strategy to diversify my traffic generation.

So onto creating an Article Directory.

I’ll keep you posted on how I go about this. But if anyone has suggestions, I’d appreciate them.

But this is a deliberate exercise in layering in strategies one at a time, and seeing their individual benefit. I’m going to be around for a long time, so getting to a 100,000 ranking as quickly as possible isn’t the highest priority on my list.

Blogging regularly and providing helpful content is.

I hear that James Brausch’s Munius is a pretty good program. And Richard Lee’s free traffic report points to Article Dashboard as a good gratis option.

I’ll have an update soon.

-James D. Lee

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