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by teppefall 6578 days ago
Yeah, big spikes in traffic often equals more customers. But not always. If you screw up the demographic data in an advertising campaign you just get clicking monkeys who likes to install spyware.

People like my software, but are probably bored to tears by my web presence. And therefore I get very few comments on my blog. I was hoping for more info so I can tune my software. Maybe I have to build in some social stuff into the main website ?

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Do you have forums?

A blog is just not useful to the vast majority of your users (or, even if it is, they are not investing the time to read it). Our product website gets, as I mentioned, 40k visitors per month...our blog gets about 2000. Our forums are very active, because they provide a mechanism for people to get help and talk about their problems and goals. People love to talk...but it sounds like you're wanting them to only talk to you (because commenting on a blog feels like talking to one person--talking to a forum feels like talking to the world), when what they really want is a range of experiences.