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Agilius · 01-03-2008, 12:39 PM

I have a blog where I post photoshop tutorials and resources. I started this blog 2 month ago and I started to write tutorials right away. Most of them were really good and got on the front pages of Pixel2life, Pslover, Good-Tutorials, Tutorialised and so on. The traffic was coming fast, I reached 800 UVs in no time but the problem was this: It only lasted for a few days (2 maybe 3 days at most). It's really hard to write good tutorials with all the competition out there so I tried the following things to promote the blog and to get more traffic.

1) Wrote more tutorials ( I won't be able to write tutorials weekly )
2) Started to write my content keeping in mind some SEO tips
3) Started link exchanges, I submitted my blog to some web directories
4) Started to be active on some design-related forums like this one, and showed my link in my sig

The problem here is that I don't get enough traffic to generate some kind of profit from my site. I stopped the tutorial submissions 1 week ago and now I have 150 UV/day, constantly, and almost all the traffic is coming from good-tutorials and pixel2life.

Do you have any suggestions? Maybe a idea about what I could write about on my blog? I am new, this is my first blog, first website ever, so any kind of information will be useful.

Thanks in advance for reading this huge post of mine and for replying.

01-03-2008, 12:39 PM	#1
Agilius Designer Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 78	Promoting a tutorial blog? How? I have a blog where I post photoshop tutorials and resources. I started this blog 2 month ago and I started to write tutorials right away. Most of them were really good and got on the front pages of Pixel2life, Pslover, Good-Tutorials, Tutorialised and so on. The traffic was coming fast, I reached 800 UVs in no time but the problem was this: It only lasted for a few days (2 maybe 3 days at most). It's really hard to write good tutorials with all the competition out there so I tried the following things to promote the blog and to get more traffic. 1) Wrote more tutorials ( I won't be able to write tutorials weekly ) 2) Started to write my content keeping in mind some SEO tips 3) Started link exchanges, I submitted my blog to some web directories 4) Started to be active on some design-related forums like this one, and showed my link in my sig The problem here is that I don't get enough traffic to generate some kind of profit from my site. I stopped the tutorial submissions 1 week ago and now I have 150 UV/day, constantly, and almost all the traffic is coming from good-tutorials and pixel2life. Do you have any suggestions? Maybe a idea about what I could write about on my blog? I am new, this is my first blog, first website ever, so any kind of information will be useful. Thanks in advance for reading this huge post of mine and for replying.