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- bjmccray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't miss the photo/visual version of this post, too!
- gregbd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Great post with useful tips for newbies and great reminder for long time bloggers.
- alicam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1These are all very good points and highlight something important, if you're thinking it thru carefully... a successful blog is a BIG time commitment. What Ben is describing here is not a small deal, as I am personally discovering. But loving it, anyway :)
- cpbrown, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4you can also add spam of your site like so:
http://thegenome.deviantart.com - fixyourthinking, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Great article but I mostly do all of the things mentioned for my blog www.fixyourthinking.com. Some other tips that I use:
1) Submit to news aggregators like DIGG, MacSurfer, Slashdot
2) Have unique or personal experience pictures
3) Do not tolerate trolls within your comments- invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54.) spam digg?
i don't think so - violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Don't spam your blog!
Number 3 sucks!
Blah blah blah!
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54.) spam digg?
- magnusdopus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1From my experience on a social networking site, I would say #3 helped me the most. People who comment are people who will link to your blog. People who will read your blog. Find those commentors and buddy up with them. Blog on a I'm also trying the strategy on placing links to my blogs in the comments section of buzz-generating sites - Digg, Techcrunch, Celebrity Bloggers (eg. Leo Laporte on Vox) etc.
It's also critical to blog almost everyday. - groundctrl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1i've always loved this blog. ben is always getting good stuff out.
- jsimonson, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I've been using these techniques a lot to try to get my blog more popular.
Mine is about learning foreign languages. http://blog.jeremysimonson.com/wordpress/
I'm also thinking about making another blog with tons of categories and blogging like 5 different pages a day to try to increase search traffic.- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, that's the best way to get short term hits and long term distain....
Write quality articles and submit them by all means... There's no quick way to build a community...
The only way to build a community is by participating in one...
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, that's the best way to get short term hits and long term distain....
- civperc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2All these "how to blog better" sites state the obvious, over and over and over. If you aren't doing these things to begin with, then you're lacking common sense.
- ItsTheSun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4i dont think digg can handle anymore of these improve your blog posts. this is SPAM no more bloggers aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
- halfran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1#11 - Don't allow comments and write things that people are still compelled to respond to. They will be forced to do it on their site rather than yours.
EDIT: Well, I suppose that wouldn't do much to grow a community, but it'll get your ***** passed around more quickly. - kenvsryu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5what's a blog?
- Automatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2clay aiken has a blog?
- KillaGoat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Before too much rage comes out about this kid - he didn't submit his blog, somebody else did. I thought it was blog spam at first too until I saw his contact info..
- Frabjous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0True story about responding to comments. I think that threaded comments should come standard on Wordpress installations, the way it's done on LiveJournal: there's really a lot more rapport when you're replying to one person in particular.
It also makes it easier for readers to converse among themselves. - kevinchai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Get it on digg, like me: http://digg.com/mods/How_to_Remove_Sticker_Residue_the_Easy_Way_Just_erase_it_off
- bgreen00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good idea or bad idea to have images on your blog??? I've heard it both ways, but I usually don't post them on mine 'cause it takes away from the story, and I'm not good at photo placement.
- violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thumbnails are usually okay, it lets people know you have images to accompany a post, then from the thumbnail you can pull up a photo gallery or whatever. People hate to have content forced on them, but they want easy access to it when they decide they want it. Small images also helps load times.
- SjRaptor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I host my own security blog here> http://marcin.thelinuxdiaries.com/ and I've gotten a lot more traffic by becoming a part of the Security Bloggers Network on Feedburner> http://networks.feedburner.com/Security-Bloggers-Network .
Also, redirecting my rss/rss2/atom feed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/tssci has helped with cleaning up the presentation in various RSS readers and removing ASCII code characters that would show up in place of symbols like &, , ", etc..
In addition, posting links to other blogs in your "blogroll" will notify other blog's admin panels. I'll usually link back to other interesting blogs that link to mine.
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