Whats a good way of promoting your blog
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I created mine over a week ago and ive only had 22 views. What would you recommend doing to “get it out there?”
Dave
http://davedurdans.wordpress.com
[Link edited – drmike]
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1 – Learn how to make a URL link for your blog. Note how I changed yours. You can’t use the ‘www’ and ‘davedurdans’ bits together. 30% of the net and most search engines can’t follow such links. Kind of like shooting yourself in the foot.
2 – Search. We discuss this every day around here. Every time we point folks to a write up I did here
3 – Write. You have a total of 1 post in a week. Gotta admit that that doesn’t encourage folks to come back to your blog.
Hope this helps,
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If you visit other forums use an image in your signature to make them aware of content. So you could have an image uploaded to photobucket that…let’s say shows your top 10 most popular posts…and you can go and edit the image and it will make the change to all the forums you visit. I was using the idea before for something else other then my blog your post reminded me of it I should go implement that now….
Also make quality posting that someone will read I waited about a month just writing up tutorials in pages so I didn’t appear on any search (I did this on purpose wanted to make sure I had good quality tuts first). I only started posting things as posts instead of pages today and yesterday and the number of visits has been steadily increasing.
Take note of what the most commonly used tags that are in the tag surfer here in wordpress and make sure you use those words (Only when the content applies obviously).
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Tens and twenties? Why so cheap, Dr. Mike? Fifties assure continuous readership: why, for a hundred I’ll have a window permanently open to your blog.
Also, as I’ve said before, flamewars are awesome for hits.
But Dr Mike is right, if you want them to keep coming back, you’ve got to put out for them. Blog more: I did eight posts yesterday, which is overdoing it, I admit, but I got quite a lot of hits.
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“I created mine over a week ago and ive only had 22 views.”
A week is a very short time. Building readership takes time.
If you read blogs and leave comments, people will sometimes click on your name to see who you are, then look at your blog. If they like your blog, they might return. It’s a process. It takes time.
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yup, i’ve been blogging over a year and i’m only averaging about 50+ views a day from regular readers, though there are occasional spikes.
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I don’t know what I did for mine to realy advertise, but we averige a few hunderd views a day.
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@laura613
Sheesh … how can I give you a hit girlfriend when you have no blog content *lol*? Where’s that Beta Blogger importer *lol*?
And what’s that ad-free blog owl doing in your sidebar? Don’t you know that wordpress runs adsense advertising on all our blogs here? If you wish you can confirm this advertising restriction on bloggers but not on wordpress, and the only exceptions to it by reading the FAQs blog search box response and by reading this thread from the official wordpress.com blog -
dave: you might want to blog more if you want hits. your last post is jan 10 which is 10 long days ago, and in the blogosphere if you don’t blog more than 3 days you’re not a regular blogger.
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I’ll second that. It’s those who bloggers who post every day or two on a regular basis who attract faithful readers.
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aargghghh! if I see that “slow down you move too fast” and get another double entry one more time I’ll go ballistic!
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I’d like to suggest that the blogger use the forum search box as this has been discussed and discussed and discussed so many times before that there are lots of threads in the search box that basically all say the same things over and over and over again. :)
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Just for reference, that article I wrote and linked to up above is considered under copyright. When someone copies it into their own blog, I usually get back a ping with the link. Copying it is considered a nono by me. :(
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Yes, but the folks copied and pasted it word for word. Lots of folks have linked to it and copied bits to use in their own posts and responded to them or expanded on the ideas. That I don’t mind. Copying is frowned upon.
I don’t release my creative written works under Creative Commons or GPL.
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TT, my blog is, and always has been, http://www.wmtc.ca. When WP lets me import my posts and comments, it will be here, with the same URL.
“And what’s that ad-free blog owl doing in your sidebar?”
The ad-free owl is a statement about my blog, and about corporate ads in the blogosphere in general. Most wmtc readers (about 300-350 per day) don’t use WordPress. So I think the owl is still relevant. :)
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@laurak613
Don’t get me wrong: I love the concept and I love owls too. And we share the same point of view. However, our reality is that there are adsense ads running on our blogs right now and although we can’t see them when we are signed into wordpress, our readers can.
The alternatives presented thus far are:
(1) Paying for the feature of having an ad-free blog;
(2) Leaving the support we have here at wordpress.org and hiring a webhost and paying the host to download a wordpress.org blog.Obviously, many of us lack either the skills to make the wordpress.org choice or lack the funds to do so, or lack both. That’s indeed why many of us are here at wordpress.com.
The dialogue regarding the same found at this link may interest you http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=6937&replies=32
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