I was averaging 45-50 hits a day until the last two days. I decided to try a little experiment after hitting upon this sort of by accident. It seems to work pretty well. If you don’t believe me, then look at these blog stats:
What I did was simple. I started looking around my desktop at the programs I use all the time: namely Scrivener and Mindnode. These two programs are essential to me for writing novels. I absolutely love them and know my way around them pretty well.
(By the way, if you are a novelist, then get these programs now. They are wonderful and I don’t know what I’d do without them).
These two programs also have Twitter accounts: @ScrivenerApp and @Mindnode. When I discover some new thing I can do with either of these programs, I post a “how-to” article complete with screenshots. I then go on Twitter and tell these two accounts about it. Scrivener has over 11,000 followers and Mindnode has 1,500. They then retweeted my blog post about the use of their products. This causes instant traffic on my blog. The above screenshot was taken around 2:00pm. By 10:00pm I had over 400 hits.
I’m not going to say that this is a magic formula, but it seemed to work the past two days. I will be tweeting to any company I mention from now on. It can’t hurt, and it’s free publicity for those companies.
What products do you use all the time? If you use them, shout about it on your blog and write a few “how-to” articles. Search for them on Twitter. Maybe they have a Twitter account. It couldn’t hurt.
Writing Is Hard Work 
Thanks for the information. This is worth a try. We haven’t thought of this before, but it sounds logical.
Again, thanks alot!
Romford Salem Baptist Church
Hi, Roger thanks for that info, i get some traffic from twitter, but now I’m enjoying a lot more traffic
Are there any free versions of these programs?
Mindnode has a free version, but Scrivener is still $49 which is cheap considering all the great tools it gives to writers of long texts.
Thanks for the info. My WIP is a novella so the Mindnode, free version, is all that’s need at this time. BTW- Great Blog!
Go you! 🙂
I get about 80 hits a day, and find when I post to FaceBook an entry it goes up to about 150. I’m not sure I could cope with much more traffic though lol
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Thanks for the heads-up. The main issue facing writers today is being found in the online community – looks like a good strategy to help tip the balance!
Matthew Wright
http://mjwrightnz,wordpress.com
http://www.matthewwright.net
You are the man! Thank you. This is something I’ll look into.