Comments on: The WordPress dashboard… another secret source of blog traffic

By: joaquin

joaquin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:50:40 +0000

nice blogroll. will try some links

By: republicans suck

republicans suck — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:31:11 +0000

I agree with andy!

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Speedlinking - 19 September 2007 | MegaBlogg Free Blog Host — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:10:27 +0000

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By: Donncha O Caoimh

Donncha O Caoimh — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:57:57 +0000

Lorelle’s right. The link in the dashboard does bring some traffic but depending on the subject of the post the number of visitors can be anywhere between a trickle and a deluge. My last post about not advertising to friends got a lot of traffic however. I think it struck a chord with people, but I received more traffic from stumbleupon and other blogs linking to it than the Dashboard.

By: Carthik

Carthik — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:15:15 +0000

>It has been almost 2 years since I had a blog on WP.com, I wonder if I will ever get my subdomain reinstated

Andy, it’s been just a little bit over 2 years (a month or a little more) since wordpress.com saw the light of the day.

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:13:19 +0000

My numbers for WordPress Bits are different from Lorelle's.Here is a fresh example. Yesterday the tip #6 was posted. Stats page shows that there were 1,421 visitors from WordPress Dashboard. There were another 325 Dashboard visitors today.These numbers are not exceptional. This is pretty much what I see every time I post something. WordPress Dashboard is by far the biggest source of traffic to WordPress Bits.These amount of visitors is enough to push WordPress Bits up to Blog of The Day lists, where it picks up a bit more traffic.

By: dp

dp — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:18:06 +0000

I am just getting started with really no content on my site. I appreciate getting this info, especially for the near future!

Tnx, DP, I am about my FATHER’s Business!
Making A Difference And Helping Other People Reach Their Goals!

By: How to Get Traffic from the Wordpress Dashboard

How to Get Traffic from the Wordpress Dashboard — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:53:55 +0000

[...] You might have noticed some links that appear at the bottom of every WordPress dashboard. “If You Blog About WordPress, Get Linked From the Posts that Link Off the WordPress Dashboard” – The WordPress dashboard is secret source of blog traffic. [...]

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:10:44 +0000

Probably Lorelle or Engtech would probably be able to divulge the traffic benefits of that, though Lorelle doesn’t look at stats

I have written about WP.com linking structures a little in the past.

It has been almost 2 years since I had a blog on WP.com, I wonder if I will ever get my subdomain reinstated

By: Alister Cameron

Alister Cameron — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:21 +0000

@Wendy – Great question, and the answer is no… they are not on the WordPress.com dashboards.

However… all is not lost for WordPress.com users…

While I am no expert on it, I have read in places that one of the really cool features of WordPress.com is that any blog that is part of that system is automatically indexed, categorized and featured on the dashboards of all WordPress.com blogs. Those “in the know” tell me that this can be “exploited” as a great source of traffic in its own right.

At the least a new post of yours will feature for a short while under “Latest Posts”, but it’s the “Top Posts”, “Top Blogs” and “Fastest Growing Blogs” sections that are worth looking at closely for the referral traffic they can provide.

It’s a whole other question that I’d love to hear WordPress.com users talk about… most obviously those who have top blogs there… Scoble?!

-Alister