A few days ago I put up a post asking you would you rather have traffic or a community. I also aksed on Twitter and got some great repsonses from a ton of great people.

Here are their responses:


@WebsiteBegin: Community always leads to traffic

@nhangen: Community of passionate readers

@robbsutton: Both...but loyal readers are more valuable than fly by night traffic that never returns

@kbloemendaal: Depends on the site, mostly community though

@JohnAguiar: Depends on what your goal is with your blog

@henrijunttila: Who says I can't have both

@NotAProBlog: It depends on the business model. Since I dont monetize by way of ad impressions, I'll take the community of readers

@moon_hussain: That's not fair...I want both! I think building a community first though could lead to traffic later as well ;)

@robrammuny: Community of readers

@ManVsDebt: 80% community, 20% traffic. ;-)

@byderekj: A community of readers that generates and grows your traffic

Thanks for all your responses! Hopefully it helped you out, (even a little).

Thank you for reading.

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