It has always worked the same way and I have watched it for more than three years. When there is more activity in the real estate market the traffic to the St. Paul Real Estate Blog increases. Traffic is growing daily and so is the volume of email and phone calls from people who want to buy or sell real estate.
The blog isn't any different than it was two months ago but the traffic is way up and 64% of it is coming in through Google.
Blogs like mine do have some regular readers, I can tell from the number of RSS feed subscriptions but the majority of the readers are like most people, they are the most interested in real estate when they are thinking about buying or selling. The rest of the time they are probably reading the blogs that I like to read like engadget, techcrunch, The Digital Photography school, the orange blog and the chocolate blog, and some others you don't need to know about.
There are other truths about traffic for local real estate blogs like mine In general the blog isn't worth a dang no matter how "great" the blogger is if it doesn't get traffic. Not all traffic is equal either. Some leads to business and some does not.