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Topic: Got some blog readers ? now how to get more?
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| pzach | Posted – 5/26/2008 12:01:04 AM | show profile | email poster Hey all, So, like all freelancers out there, I launched a blog a month ago dedicated to music. I've now been getting around 100 hits a day, but I would of course like to expand that. Does anyone have any advice about where to go to advertise for traffic? Any other forums to post in? If curious, the URL is: www.returnticketmusic.com Thanks so much! ------ ------ Great new music every day! www.returnticketmusic.com |
| Seafarer | Posted – 5/26/2008 1:46:50 AM | show profile | email poster Write Good Stuff, Comment, Link Out, Lather, Rinse, Repeat I get this question all the time, and wrote at least a partial answer for the Bulldog Solutions marketing e-newsletter - it's written with B2B blogging in mind but pretty much applies to other kinds of blogs as well: How to Build a Blog That Draws a Crowd ------ My Web site Family Travel blog NHRA drag racing on Fast Machines |
| foodlit | Posted – 5/28/2008 11:50:48 AM | show profile Are you on myspace? what about twitter? Twitter is a fantastic way to drive traffic to your blog |
| RubyRed | Posted – 5/28/2008 1:08:09 PM | show profile Twitter? Forgive my ignorance, but how can Twitter drive traffic to a blog? I mean, I can see how if I stumbled upon someone's entertaining twitter stream, I might be inclined to check out their website/blog, but that's the problem... I never look at random twitter feeds. I follow my friends and a few media type people, but they all tend to link to the same twitter feeds. It just seems like a very small circle. Am I missing something? |
| Seafarer | Posted – 5/28/2008 6:07:01 PM | show profile | email poster Twitter and blog traffic Naturally, just hollering "I have a new blog post!" on Twitter won't get you very far, but if you already have good relationships with your Twitter followers, they are often more likely to click through when you say you have a new post because they like you and your point of view, and want to see more. A number of my Twitter followers have said that they are starting to tire of drowning in RSS feeds, but they are very likely to click on a blog post link offered up by someone they follow on Twitter, because chances are good that it's a worthy read. For more insight, here's a guest post by Chris Brogan on Aussie Darren Rowse's excellent ProBlogger blog: How I Use Twitter to Promote My Blog And another from UK-based Chris Garrett: Twitter for Traffic and Talk - Who is Using Twitter and How? ------ My Web site Family Travel blog NHRA drag racing on Fast Machines |
| mfs000 | Posted – 5/28/2008 9:34:27 PM | show profile Is there any more money to be made blogging? I've wanted to start one recently after hearing about the infamous mommy bloggers who have made businesses out of it, but still not convinced it can be profitable. Also, what's the best way: sign up on something like Blogger.com or buy my own url? |
| foodlit | Posted – 5/29/2008 11:20:38 AM | show profile People who make money blogging treat it like a full time job, it's not easy, it is long hours...like anything, there's really no shortcuts to making money. For real info though, click on the link in the above post that will get you to the problogger blog where he has tons of info on how to generate money from a blog. |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 5/29/2008 2:11:57 PM | show profile It depends. Can you attract and keep a large audience that will appeal to advertisers or who you can sell products or services to directly? There are hundreds of thousands of blogs, and most don't make any money. --Is there any more money to be made blogging? I've wanted to start one recently after hearing about the infamous mommy bloggers who have made businesses out of it, but still not convinced it can be profitable.-- |
| RubyRed | Posted – 5/31/2008 11:43:54 AM | show profile Back to the twitter idea, I see how posting a link to a new blog post could be useful, but I guess what I'm wondering is how do you get people to follow your twitter stream in the first place? |
| Seafarer | Posted – 5/31/2008 8:29:03 PM | show profile | email poster >> "how do you get people to follow your twitter stream in the first place?" << Follow interesting people, then be interesting yourself. Some days I'm more interesting than others, which is pretty much true of everyone. :) Hey, start with me: I'm @SheilaS on Twitter. Feel free to poke around in the people that I'm following and follow some of them; it's just like discovering new sites in the blogrolls of blogs that you already like. Most people will follow you back if you leave a description of yourself and what you're about, have an avatar or photo and don't appear to be a psycho or a spammy person trying to sell condos, face creams or pyramid schemes. To start: @newmediajim is NBC News cameraman Jim Long, @ElisaC is Elisa Camahort Page who just spoke at the mediabistro.com Circus, @seamuscondron is Community Manager for mediabistro.com (meaning this BBS) @Scobleizer is Robert Scoble, also at the Circus, @christinelu runs a China business network, @conniereece is my colleague in teaching Web 2.0 workshops (and she's a lot of fun!) @kamichat is Kami Huyse who does a lot of social media PR, @gapingvoid is Hugh MacLeod the cartoonist, @BeckyMcCray is an expert in running small businesses in small towns, @copyblogger is Brian Clark who does a lot of copywriting, @Annaleen is Annalee Newitz who writes about sci-fi/science/tech/society, @dsilverman is the Interactive Journalism Editor for the Houston "Chronicle," @problogger is Darren Rowse who writes about making a living by blogging, @eMom is Wendy Piersall who runs Sparkplugging, a blog network about home-based businesses, @garyvee is Gary Vaynerchuk who runs a wine shop in New Jersey and does the wildly successful Internet TV show "Winelibrary.tv," @zappos is Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, @LionelatDELL is Lionel Menchaca, the chief blogger at Dell, and @stevebaker is "BusinessWeek" journalist Steve Baker. I give you this lengthy laundry list to show the variety of the people on Twitter. There's someone for everyone, and what's cool is that I've met and networked in person with many of my Twitter stream people at conferences and "tweet-ups," when we all happen to be in the same town. I found many travel writers by typing "travel writer" in the Search box and seeing who popped up. For other folks, see the Twitter Pack, a wiki set up by @chrisbrogan that groups people on Twitter by geographic area and interest. It's a wiki, so there will be errors, omissions and the occasional goofball, but it's fun to see the interests. If you're a crafter, for example, there's a list of people in the Crafts and Hobbies Twitter Pack. Most who are on Twitter also write a blog and/or have a Web site, so there's your connection back into the blogosphere and the whole blog traffic issue. ------ My Web site Family Travel blog NHRA drag racing on Fast Machines |
| seamus.mediabistro | Posted – 6/2/2008 3:43:04 PM | show profile Another Great Tool for writers/bloggers: FriendFeed Hey guys, Twitter definitely is an outlet you should be on to promote your blog or any content you're producing. Besides Twitter, Friend is becoming an essential tool as well. FriendFeed's primary purpose is to aggregate all of the services you use into one stream: your blog, twitter, and over 30 other services. People can subscribe to your feed, and can comment on anything that gets posted to your FriendFeed. Commenting takes place within FriendFeed, so it's another avenue of conversation for your content. Also, for writers, FriendFeed has a great feature called "imaginary friend." This lets you create an "imaginary friend," which is a cute name for any content from people who are not on FriendFeed. You can essentially make a universal aggreagator of content you want to follow. This is especially useful for those of you who track multiple sources on the web, weather it be other blogs, RSS feeds, Twitter feeds from others, etc. They can all flow into one feed, making things much easier. Mediabistro is experimenting with their own Friendfeed: http://www.friendfeed.com/mediabistro http://www.friendfeed.com medisbistro twitter feeds: mediabistro avantguild fishbowlny tvnewser I want to produce a workshop around getting the word out about these tools. I'm thinking of broadcasting something live on ustream one day and let users interact and ask questions. I'm open to other ideas as well. Any suggestions? Seamus community manager follow me on: twitter: seamuscondron friendfeed: seamus |
| seamus.mediabistro | Posted – 6/2/2008 4:26:14 PM | show profile | email poster Let's Experiment Hey guys, I completely agree with you about the state of the forums. Rest assured we So, it's time for an experiment. We want you to be able to voice your opinions, If you have not heard of FriendFeed, you will. FriendFeed allows you to import As far as weeding out the baddies, FreindFeed leaves all the controls at your This room complements Mediabistro.com's primary FreindFeed, which aggreagates Let's get started (note: you need to sign up for a FreindFeed account. Click here to go to MB Click here to subscribe I'm eager to hear any other thoughts and suggestions you have have for types Regards, Seamus P.S. You can also follow Mediabistro |
| seamus.mediabistro | Posted – 6/3/2008 12:54:55 PM | show profile | email poster Woopra: Real Time Blog Analytics Checkout this post from Mashable about Woopra, a real-time blog analytics tool. Looks very promising. http://mashable.com/2008/06/02/woopra-waiting/ |
