Trying Too Hard

Have you ever had something you wanted so bad you would seriously do just about anything to get?  But the more you try to get that 'thing' the further it gets from you.  Well sometimes that happen with blogging.  Sometimes from what I've noticed is a blogger gets so hung up on the carrot that they forget how to get to the carrot.  A lot of bloggers will get so tied up in getting traffic to their blog they actually forget about blogging.  My rule of thumb is spending more that 15 minutes per day actively trying to generate traffic to my blogs is the maximum amount of time I'm willing to invest.  I do a fair amount of passive traffic generation via backlinks and I find that is a lot more effective that doing the click method.  I also find that continuously adding new content helps me get a lot more traffic than the click networks.  My theory when it comes to blogs is to quit trying so hard to generate traffic.  Keep the content coming and the rest will fall into place.

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