Very interesting indeed. Our blog makes up for a decent portion of our visitors, but the majority enter through our home page from google. Our blog viewings have been increasing though.

I run 2 blogs for my company, http://www.ebnsoftware.com/blog for SEO and Website Marketing and http://www.ebn.com.mt/blog on website design, the latest being a very recent addition.

I also write for a number of other blogs for my clients and find blogs the best source of lead generation after e-mail marketing.

Social marketing like ‘twitter‘ and ‘facebook’ are not realy business generators unless you sell/promote an event or an open day! These are more activity related results. Other business models get far more results from a good blog.

Happy Blogging to all from Malta (Europe)!

Niche blogging is for wimps – so says a website I visited recently. Well I’m a blogger and I’m no wimp. As an author my interests are broad and when I began my blog just over a year ago I knew that I didn’t want to limit myself simply to writing about my profession. True, my blogs on creative writing bring in the majority of my traffic, but my blogs on relationships, stepfamilies and bereavement do pretty well, too.

I like Twitter (better than Facebook) but I use it primarily to relate to people and secondly to promote my blog. The traffic I get via Twitter is only a fraction of my total traffic – but that may be because I do it all manually and I probably don’t Tweet often enough to be really effective.

Thanks for the article and for confirming that the writing I love doing is worth doing.

Mel Menzies, author of the novel A Painful Post Mortem

We all have bloggers we trust, and when one of them has something valuable to say everyone who is following his/her thread reacts. A social network such as http://fabulously40.com has many women bloggers, their followers are loyal because they share a lot in common and want to hear what other women have to say. It’s not the same on Facebook or Tweeter, some people have so many followers, no one is really paying attention to what anyone is saying.

I completely agree with you. To me blogs are also more static conversation whereas Twitter is more fluid. You can’t do too much SEO with Twitter or Facebook, but you can certainly do it with blogging. When people say that blogging is done, that’s when I realize I have a lot to teach them.

Yes! I was told a long time ago (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) “If you have a business, you have to have a blog. I’m not good at writing to my blog: http://adstand.blogspot.com/ but use it to promote my email advertising business http://www.TheAdStand.com

With twitter, facebook etc. you should should always converse linking! Linking to what? Your blog of course!

We still blog to get traffic to our main site, now the other side to this coin is converting the client, and thats where blogging really helps with the conversion.

Yes. It is correct. Through Blogger also, websites can get Traffic much.

I find most of my traffic comes from search engines. I always considered a blog as an easy way to add content to a site… I guess things change if you have 1000′s of followers on blogger.com etc.

Chris, you rightly said that blogs are still fetching traffic. Here in India, Hindi blogs are more popular than english blogs. Even India’s leading English newspapers talk about hindi blogging. I know this through my hindi blog (http://hindivani.blogspot.com). Several big Indian journalist are running their own hindi blog.

I sell real estate and have been blogging for 3 years now. Only recently have I seen the value of linking to other bloggers, to my IDX, or anywhere that will yield more visitors. I blog routinely about featured neighborhoods and market reports in the Charlotte, NC area. True, many of my readers may only be browsing, but it seems that my traffic has increased due to the increased exposure. One tip that I would pass along: be sure to Ping (Ping-o-matic.com) your blog when you publish a new post. Some blog hosts, like WordPress, do that automatically, but you need to do it anyway to let the search engines know that new material has been added to your site.

My blog is http://charlotterealtor.wordpress.com