Getting Readers To Your Weblog
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What is the best way to get traffic to your weblog, blog?
I just joined wordpress and love the format more than I do blogger.
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IMO there isn’t a blogger today that isn’t asking the same question as the one you have posed. I have visited your blog so here are some ideas. However, I want everyone to note that I intend to blog on these myself therefore I request that no one “scoops me”.
(1) Make yourself up some “blogging cards” similar to business cards that have your url on them and the categories or meta tags for the subject areas you write about. You can do this on your own computer or you can have a printer do them for you.
(2) Do not hesitate to distribute them and to request that your friends take some and distribute them too.
(3) There are always interest groups, societies, not for profit and support groups for almost everything you may write about so don’t hesitate to make telephone or face to face contact with people there and distribute your cards to them.
(4) Every community has community notice boards where you can pin your blogging cards up.
(5) Locate on line forums of one kind or another, join them and list your categories of interest and your blog url in the profile you create when registering in those forums and then participate.
(6) Be sure to make contact and build relationships with staff at the health care clinics near you as well as with the other health care providers in your community like reflexologists, body workers (reiki masters and massage therapists)personal counselors, etc. with your cards.
(7) Health food stores, vegetarian restaurants, hairdressers, and exercise classes are great places to meet people who are determined to rise above their disabilities and lead real and fulfilling lives. Get to know the staff and patrons and distribute your blogging cards.
(8) Volunteer doing whatever you can for social agencies and support groups that feed the hungry and offer solace to the lonely. If you can’t get out much then you can still offer your telephone and computer services.
(9) Accept the fact that for some of us it is the chronic pain that shapes us and makes us into the person we are. We can choose to be miserable wretches agonizing in self pity and riving others away from us. Or we can choose to become eagles who soar above it all and invite others to fly high too. So determine to become a skilled “potter” and work with the clay (pain and suffering) to create your self, your blog and you life as works of art.
(10) Forgive those who look at you and think “she looks so normal – it’s probably all in her head”. Many disabilities are not visible at all and some of the more visible symptoms of some conditions only come and go.
(11) Find or create a reason to smile everyday even if you have to smile through tears – tears are cleansing and useful – they release endorphins your body needs so smile when they visit you and bring you what you need.
(12) Celebrate every small kindness and generosity that others extend to you.
(13) Use every opportunity no matter how medical, demeaning, demoralizing and dehumanizing to find the humor in it all and laugh as frequently as you cry (laughter also releases endorphins that are good for you).
(14) Forgive yourself when you fail to meet these standards after all you’re only human.
I hope this helps and thank YOU [she said smiling through tears] because I think I needed to write this blog entry today.
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Going to other people’s sites and leaving comments is one way. Or by clicking “Next Blog” at the top right of your blog. Even if you don’t leave a comment, the person will see your site on their blogstats and might visit you after. But try finding sites that are similiar to yours and ask or email them if you can be on their blogroll and vice versa. Then their visitors will visit your site. But don’t expect every site to reply back to you, as I quickly learned myself.
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Excellent advice nosysnoop. Also I think that a way to find other people blogging on the same topics as you is to click on tags at the top of this page. Then when you arrive in the tag cloud take a close look at the blue tag words, find the subjects that are your subjects and click – you’ll find more blogs on the same subjects.
You can also surf the net and find publications like copyblogger and professional blogger and others. They have articles on this subject.
Lastly if you look in my links http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com on the right hand side in the sidebar you will find a whole section of links devoted to “Blogging Advice and Tools”. You’ll find useful infomation at those links too. :D -
Adding onto number 5 there, I always include the links to my blog within the sig of my forum posts as well. This way search engines pick up on them as well. Email sig as well. :)
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a good way of upping your blog stats is probably by blogging about current issues from politics to entertainment, but it has to be well-written, sincere and profound. that’s a tall order for someone (like moi) whose frequency of posts is dictated by inspiration and mood. and blogging about yourself too much doesn’t get in the ratings – too indulgent (guilty here), unless you’re a blogger celebrity of course who makes a living blogging about his/her life.
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Timethief: (11) Find or create a reason to smile everyday even if you have to smile through tears – tears are cleansing and useful – they release endorphins your body needs so smile when they visit you and bring you what you need.
I like that!
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Thanks for the suggestions drmike and sulz I’ll be blogging about them at http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com. You’re welcome to come there and share anytime.
Addendum – This is really what I wanted to say.
Thanks drmike for the addition to number 5. Is there any chance that I could talk you into leaving it in a comment box on my blog which I am shamelessly self promoting and created for this purpose? [She said lol at herself.]I’m asking you the same thing too sulz – how about it? How about moving your astute observations off this support related forum into a spot where dialogue can take place i.e.to the blog I made for this purpose?
What you have said is very observant sulz – you excel at observation and I notice you are adventurous enough to experiment too. How else could you have made such a concise and useful report on themes to share with everyone here on the forum?
knoizki I’m truly glad you found something in this list that spoke to you personally. Actually the more personal items on this list were not easy to write down and to share publicly.
Anyway, I’m putting you on my invitation list too – please come a vist my blog. And when you do please don’t get caught in the doorway. Come right in and be sure to click the “coyote” page tab and read the welcome there. :D
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timethief: only you can give such effusive compliments and not sound like you’re kissing someone’s derriere. =P deed done.
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EOooooWwww phooey kissing butt – no *not* me and certainly no you:P.
P.S. Tx for complying. I could grow to love ya. -
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http://wordpress.com/tag is a good way to start.
Also visiting Google and typing in your subject while keeping in the search box what is there will help as well.
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Use a feed reader and subscribe to searches at Technorati, Blogdigger, Feedster, Google Blog search, Icerocket..
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You may want to start something on your blog. Like currently I have something set up wear when you leave a comment and talk in the forum you get so many points and once you reach a goal the you will be warded money. I seen other blogs get big from doing, this so I am trying. Just an idea to help you out though.
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WOAH Nelly!!! Isn’t that called “bribery” i.e. the exchange or payment of money in return for performance of a favour.
WOAH! This is not cool.I will never ever pay people to read my blog or to vote for me. And I will not recommend doing so either. [yuck :P…]
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Its actially becoming a huge thing in the sports blog world. It’s not so called bribery as more of a reward,since the people who can only take part in this is my current viewers, the people they recruit wont be apart of this. Its another form of advertising also.
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How do i get my blog on the websites of google, yahoo and other search engines. My blog is about the game of squash
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If you post an article or a picture from someone else’s blog, you could add a link back to their site as a source so they see it in their referrers and then they might click it to see who you are.
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patriotsfan
You have said:
“Its actially becoming a huge thing in the sports blog world. It’s not so called bribery as more of a reward,since the people who can only take part in this is my current viewers, the people they recruit wont be apart of this. Its another form of advertising also.”I say “a rose by any other name is still a rose”. And any system of increasing blog traffic (clicks, stats, comments) based on bribery and patronage reflects a lack of ethics and integrity.
Saying it’s not called bribery because it’s called a so-called reward doesn’t change a ding dong thing. It’s bribery – plain and simple.
Saying it’s okay because I won’t be rewarding newcomers but only current viewers doesn’t change a ding dong thing. It’s a patronage bribe – plain and simple.
Saying it’s okay because it’s a form of advertising doesn’t change a ding dong thing about the core issue. At the core you are recommending that bloggers set up a bribery system based on patronage to achieve higher level of comments, clicks and stats. It’s unethical and lacking in integrity – plain and simple.
Saying it’s okay in the sport world so it’s okay in blogging! You have got to be kidding! Do you really want me to go there?
In less than 5 minutes I could make a quick list of all kinds of examples of shameful, illegal, immoral, unethical and unsportsmanlike behaviours from the sports world that would gag a herd of manatees … so let’s not go there because you wouldn’t have a peg leg to stand on.
How about analogies? Would this kind of of behavior in the political and/or religious arena provoke any outcry of “foul” from you or an “okay”?
Are political patronage posts as rewards” okay?
Are free lunch rewards in return for religious bapitismal conversions aka “bobbing for Jesus”, okay?
If they aren’t then you would be faced with the double standard of hypocrisy.
I believe bloggers considering having a system of bribery based on past patronage in return for increasing blog traffic click, stats and comments should examine the core reasons they have for blogging.
While doing that “inner work” they may be able to straighten out a great deal more that troubles them inside.
And “yes” I am definitely blogging on this subject, right after I finish puking. :P…
P.S. This is not to say I don’t like “you”. It is to say I don’t like your recommendation.
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