From Nate Whitehill comes this short and informative article on the five types of blog posts that generate traffic and why.

Discusses the How To, the Roundup, the Controversy, the Hot Topic, and the Motivational post.

Have you posted one or more of these five recently?
If so, please reply with a direct link (permalink) to the blog post itself (not the main blog page) and a note on which of the five categories it fits; plus feel free to share any info on how you saw your blog traffic impacted by the post.

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Tess,

Thanks for posting this article. I just started writing blogs and this helps me a lot.

Hi there! I tried to click on the link and my Anti-virus shut it down!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!!

I write most of the blog entries for a real estate agent client. Sometimes I hit and sometimes I miss. Lately, we've been tapped for material but two blogs I wrote fairly recently generated some nice traffic.

I posted this blog on how to take good real estate photographs here , and it generated traffic we were glad to see.

I also did another 'how to' post about staging a home for a specific market here. We posted this on another blog and it did quite well. I wrote this from my own point-of-view.

What I really like is when people comment and give me feedback, negative and positive. That oftens helps to generate the next blog entry!

So the The How-To Post works best for me and I love the research.

Jan

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Although on my machine this didn't seem to be my anti-virus software, IE did day it couldn't open the site and I got an operation aborted...which is an error message I don't think I've seen before.

Too bad because it looks like it probably had really good info from those earlier posts.

Pam

I also got an error and operation aborted message when I tried to open from Tess' link. However, when I copied the web address out of the properties and dropped it into a new tab it opened fine.

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Robin's Desktop Virtual Administrative Services
My Blog

Thanks Tess, for posting this. I am just about to start writing blogs and this would be very useful.