Whats the average traffic for a new blog?

[DrK]

My first blog, the last couple of days I've gotten mid 20s and it's about a month old. Realize now all of the mistakes I've made and now I am starting to get more traffic.

Haven't had a lot of time to put into it but it's going up with some article marketing.

[raider23]

I am in the early stages of blogging and I am learning a lot from this Forum
Stick with it, you will soon get traffic

[kumarsaran]

how about doing a mutual link sharing .. linkreferal

[raider23]

Sure, what blogs do you have

[InternetPopular]

It really is all about sticking with it, putting up good content, and becoming a better blogger. Our current blog was a hobby for a year and a half and it's not actually getting it's official launch until February 2.

In that time me and a friend of mine worked on our styles and just learned what people like to read about. I took on a job at a gaming blog that gets about 15,000 hits a day about 6 months ago and it taught me a ton about becoming a good blogger, editor, and most importantly, how to deal with the people that decide to talk s**t about your writing. It happens, it's the Internet, and you just have to deal with it.

Hitwise, start small and build an audience. There are a ton of people out there that bookmark every site they find interesting and if you can give those people enough content to keep coming back you could have a reader for the rest of your blog's life.

Edit: Oh and utilize Facebook, Stumbleupon, and whatever else drives traffic. It helps to have someone with a ton of friends on facebook to just throw your URL in their status for a day. I have a friend with over 2000 friends on facebook (popular guy lol) and we tested it out and ended the day with over a 1000 hits just from facebook.

[Michelle McKinley]

great tips, thanks for all the info

[Msmarmitelover]

I don't really want to promote my blog on facebook as it's under another name. It's quite personal and hard hitting.
I hardly ever have visits from friends or relatives.
I get about 100 a day going up to 600 every so often. I've been doing it a year. I've worked hard on my blog, just for the pleasure of expressing myself, my writing and my photos, just to put my point of view out there.
I live quite an unusual life in some ways and therefore I suppose I am niche.
My blog is perhaps a mommy blog but with a massive difference.
In fact it could be called a bad mommy blog in that I am certainly no Mrs Walton.
I write about bringing up my teenager who is often rude. I also write about astrology, the occult, politics, anarchy, food, BDSM, travel, music, film, transgender, samba, talks, dating, education, demonstrations...loads of stuff.
I dont use adsense. I can't be bothered. There's so much advertising in the world I really don't want to add to it. I think it's sort of rude.
I must say how surprised I am that mommy bloggers, the apple pie types that post up loads of pix of their vile offspring, get such big followings. I guess people are far more slushy and sentimental than I imagine.

[mg1313]

I got 1300 visitors in the first month, over 4000 the second, over 7000 the third...and so on...
Depends on your content and how aggressive your marketing is...

[InternetPopular]

Originally Posted by mg1313

I got 1300 visitors in the first month, over 4000 the second, over 7000 the third...and so on...
Depends on your content and how aggressive your marketing is...

This right here.

It takes a very good balance of providing content people care about and marketing. The only thing is that there is very fine line between marketing and plain out whoring yourself to the masses. Take it easy on sending emails to everyone you know to check every post you've done. Market the really good articles and the hits on the others will trickle down from those ones.

[PinkSplash67]

My numbers have been steadily increading. Have you signed up with Sitemeter? I like it because they send you weekly traffic reports.