How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself

Hey Tim–Great video, loaded with useful ideas–and I’m planning to use all of them 😉

You display incredible humility for a man who’s accomplished so much so early in life.

Tim, many thanks for posting this. It has some of the most practical information I’ve heard over the years.

Thanks so much for the fantastic video/post. First video where I paused it early on and immediately opened my blog admin to start making changes. Will have to watch it again for all the changes. I think it’s digg, but it would be super if you could plop a few links of names or things mentioned in longer post under the video in the written post. Would also be super great if you could list the plugins you use on WP, you mentioned during the video that they were maybe listed somewhere on the site … didn’t find them. Searching through, testing and deciding on WP plugins is extremely time consuming and not fun!

Thanks again for all that you do and more importantly all that you share. It’s priceless and very much appreciated to get valuable, trustworthy & quality info web or otherwise.

Tim, thanks for the great video and commentary – it’s refreshing input to take and try to apply to the decidedly “not fun” environments necessary in some corporate and government environments – yet where a reasonable degree of levity and more personable dialogue is only more helpful.

Hey Tim,

Thanks for posting this – I watched with a pen and notepad!

I signed up for CrazyEgg.com on your recommendation and have to say I’m very impressed with the results. It really is a valuable tool for the price.

I did have one question for you – do you find that your traffic stats on CrazyEgg don’t match the stats that your other trackers list? I’ve noticed that my CrazyEgg traffic stats are well below my wordpress and AwStats reporting programs.

Oh, and I just wanted to thank you for your book – reading it last year gave me the courage to quit a job I hated and make a life a love. Thanks so much!

– Nacie Carson

Tim,

I’m a young blogger who just started his own site about a month ago and have been on a personal learning spree, this is by far one of the most useful videos I’ve seen yet. I read 4 Hour Work Week over Christmas and am excited to read your new book on fitness when it’s released! Keep those Random episodes with Kevin Rose coming, they are great.

All the best,

Danny

Hey Tim,

Great tips!

Your speaking was good too. It can be improved though.

You kept apologizing and knocking yourself about your speaking.

I didn’t notice your mistakes until you pointed them out.

Also, it distracted me from your content. Stop it!

That is all. Thanks again for the juicy material.

Cool presentation, thanks for sharing!

You asked why people do anything. I think we do everything to find out who we are.

Wow, thanks for the enjoyable presentation – it was one of those rare occasions where I found myself so absorbed by the video that I nearly clapped at the end! haha

You have triggered a lot of ideas in my head, and inspired me to go ahead and try them out.

Thankyou!

Fantastic video, Tim! Thanks for posting this.

As a self styled “Slow Blogger” I have to admit finding it difficult to marry the slow ethos (which, btw is very much NOT about being lazy or slothful) with the current expectation and advice that bloggers should be regular and immediate to be successful. This talk was a god send to me! Not only did blow apart the current myths about what you need to do to have a successful blog, but gives excellent advice on how to build an successful blog without killing yourself trying to post every day! Great post Tim, I say lets all become Slow Bloggers, Vive LA Slow Revolution!

Very interesting lecture, thanks 🙂 I’m visiting your site for the first time but have heard of your book because quite a few of my successful guy friends are fans. Keep up the good work!

Great video. My physics teacher first turned me on to your site and i was immediately hooked. The way you life is amazing. I just want to give you props. Your video was extremely informative especially since I’m experimenting with blogging but I have a question about what you said in the beginning. You said that there was quicker ways to make money than blogging. I was just curious about what they were. I’m headed to college on a scholarship, might be playing baseball, but could use some extra income.

Just love this video! Excellent Tim. Learned a lot – in particular liked the stuff you explained about StumbleUpon.

– Mike Michalowicz

I appreciate the focus in “The 4-Hour Work Week” on setting immediate deadlines. Having always been a natural procrastinator, ie:artist type, I thrive only when I have a deadline that is broadcasted to the world. Since watching the video on blogging, Timothy has convinced me, as well as others I see, that my business would benefit from an ongoing dialogue with an audience that has the same goals.

Instead of just writing for the blog though, I thought I would combine the dreamlining with the blogging without killing yourself idea. So here is my idea with an immediate deadline broadcasted to the world. Write a book in three days (what a fun challenge, but it will probably feel like I’m killing myself) and then use excerpts for the blog to help promote the book. Does that sound silly? I conducted online research on the process and am excited to take the plunge.

Regarding the outsourced matchmaking mayhem, I think that Timothy should have used his obsession for testing to find the perfect girl. Here’s the scenerio: set up a special blog or website with various topics that Timothy is interested in. Add other topics that would give a clear indication, if clicked on, that the prospects should shop elsewhere. Send an invitational link to the prospects, and then analyze the data. Voila!

Blog on.

I just want to say thank you tim for really opening my eyes on how to get more out of my life and realizing that there is a lot to life that sometimes we deny ourselves. Has anyone ever felt that you deny yourself of things you truly want with weird rules or obstacles that are created by yourself???

Tim,

Thanks for sharing these great tips! It was perfect timing for me to. We’ve just updated our site from an in-person consulting approach to an online approach to be able to help more people – of course, this was inspired in part by your book too. So, we’re in the process of implementing the suggestions on the site. Su.pr is great too. Plus, I’ve recommended your blog and book so many times on our site, I thought I should say thanks on yours.

Thanks again & enjoy China.

– Patrick

Stumbleupon is how I found this blog!

Thanks, TIm! Great content. I learned more usable tips from this 50min video than I have from much more time consuming methods of research. Your blog is a personal favorite. Thanks for continuously living up to your brand standards!

Great stuff, this will come in handy with my new blog.

In terms of the blogging engine, how do you compare WordPress and Blogger? Clearly you’ve chosen the former, but why?

Tim! O inspiring, kind/fun and useful fellow human!

Got ideas for Town Hall meetings?

It occurs to me, listening to your observations on your “living room” approach to comments, that “if I wouldn’t tolerate it in my home, I won’t tolerate it on my blog” philosophy applies to the current health reform town hall “meetings”. Newscasters frame these as orchestrated by the insurance lobby. Maybe so, and I say, this is just plain rude behavior. Where does our idea of democracy excuse civility? Do you think a way could be found to establish some living room core ethical agreements between participants at the outset of each meeting, i.e. Three Principles of the 21st Century Town Hall Meeting so that we could actually have national conversations in which we learn from each other? If so, suggest on blog, the big O?

Excellent as usual – Thanks for the info!

Cheers,

Brenda

You are awesome. Your videos are superb, you have so taken this blog up a hundred notches since I first started reading it, and every bit of advice you give works. Thanks, Sarah

Hey Tim this cracked me up with this:

“I know what you’re trying to do, even with the nofollows, please, I know..:

I just thought to myself, I hope those suckers aren’t as savvy as you are. Dude you are real, don’t change.

Peace man. I have the hard cover and autio book.

Thanks for “The Magic of Thinking Big”

As a little side note… StumbleUpon is EVIL!! It will suck you in and hold you captive for ages.

Definitely set a timer if you plan to use this site, especially if you are the type to get lost in whatever it is you’re looking at, and follow links all across the web, like I do. (Hey, how do you think I found this site? Which led me to StumbleUpon, I might add!)

If nothing else, this site has at least made me conscious of when I’m wasting time, even if I can’t always stop! 😉

Is the effect the same if I use a dropdown menu for my categories and rename it, Topics? Of course, I would need to change the “select category” to “select topic”. Just wondering if the dropdown menu would get the same response?

Steven

Great post Tim – lots of awesome information for me to incorporate into my own blogs. I’d also be interested in how you use Social Media to promote your blog. If you ever decide to outline your strategies on that, I’d be grateful.

All the best and keep the great content coming,

Cheers, Niro

Thank you. I said I’d give this guy 3 minutes and then stop watching the video… then I watched the whole thing while taking notes. It is very generous of you to share these tips, which I will implement tomorrow.

Tim – although we have not met I consider you a mentor of mine and I appreciate everything you have done and are doing for this world. Awareness and consciousness is what this world needs. My new blog/site will greatly benefit from your wisdom – to positive change and an even better tomorrow.

Hi Tim,

Thanks so much for the post!Enlightening as always. I think everything your teaching is so great, especially for this new generation of entrepreneurs and dream realizers. I’m just entering into the blogging world, and want to thank you for helping me and so many others avoid a bunch of unnecessary heart ache.

By the way, is it cool for us to put our website address in the website field when commenting?

Also, I hope its okay if I use your disclaimer for the blog I’m creating. (giving credit to the source of course) email me a let me know if it’s not cool.

Much Love & Gratitude,

Katie