Comments on: How To Get More Blog Subscribers, And Why You Shouldn’t Bother http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/ Hire a Blogger Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:38:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Sierra Black http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-19808 Sierra Black Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:31:08 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-19808 oh - I posted that whole long comment and forgot to make my main point: which is that I think having small, manageable goals - like, I want X subscribers by X date - is a useful way to grow a blog (or any project). As you said, knowing what your aims are with a blog is key, and for me having benchmarks is a good way to stay sane. Will I be satisified when I reach my subscriber goal? No, I'll set a new one. But little goals keep me focused and let me know how my efforts are succeeding. oh – I posted that whole long comment and forgot to make my main point: which is that I think having small, manageable goals – like, I want X subscribers by X date – is a useful way to grow a blog (or any project). As you said, knowing what your aims are with a blog is key, and for me having benchmarks is a good way to stay sane. Will I be satisified when I reach my subscriber goal? No, I’ll set a new one. But little goals keep me focused and let me know how my efforts are succeeding.

]]> By: MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-19807 MomGrind Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:24:38 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-19807 Hi Sierra, To learn about SEO, start here: <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/article/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization" rel="nofollow">Begginers' Guide to SEO</a> Good luck! Hi Sierra,

To learn about SEO, start here:

Begginers’ Guide to SEO

Good luck!

]]> By: Sierra Black http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-19805 Sierra Black Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:42:42 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-19805 hey - I just followed a link back to this older post from your new one on what you learned in your first two years blogging. Like you, <a href="http://childwild.com" rel="nofollow">my personal blog</a> has been a great way to showcase my work, and it's won me professional gigs at other sites in my niche(s). The thing I struggle with most on <a href="http://childwild.com" rel="nofollow">ChildWild</a> is direction. I know the most successful blogs have a "laser-like" focus, and I'm just not a laser-like focus kind of person. I have a set of overlapping interests - sustainability, parenting, personal finance, and education. I try to ask myself: will my audience be interested in this tangent? I'm interested in a lot of things - sex, history, literature, cycling - that I almost never post about because they're just not germane to my topic. But posts about money or education or current events that I have a personal slant on, or want to write about from a parenting angle, often do show up. I'm just now - like, this week - starting to look at what I can do beyond "writing well" to attract more readers and advertisers to my blog - ie: to make real money with it. Apparently there's this "SEO" thing? I guess I should look into that more. Any tips on where to start would be greatly appreciated. hey – I just followed a link back to this older post from your new one on what you learned in your first two years blogging.

Like you, my personal blog has been a great way to showcase my work, and it’s won me professional gigs at other sites in my niche(s). The thing I struggle with most on ChildWild is direction. I know the most successful blogs have a “laser-like” focus, and I’m just not a laser-like focus kind of person. I have a set of overlapping interests – sustainability, parenting, personal finance, and education. I try to ask myself: will my audience be interested in this tangent? I’m interested in a lot of things – sex, history, literature, cycling – that I almost never post about because they’re just not germane to my topic. But posts about money or education or current events that I have a personal slant on, or want to write about from a parenting angle, often do show up.

I’m just now – like, this week – starting to look at what I can do beyond “writing well” to attract more readers and advertisers to my blog – ie: to make real money with it. Apparently there’s this “SEO” thing? I guess I should look into that more. Any tips on where to start would be greatly appreciated.

]]> By: Bunny got Blog http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7766 Bunny got Blog Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:35:36 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7766 I can relate. This is a very good post and I am sincerely grateful you shared your thoughts with us. I can relate. This is a very good post and I am sincerely grateful you shared your thoughts with us.

]]> By: MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7271 MomGrind Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:40:21 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7271 @ Cricket: I think if you blog purely as business, then the numbers are obviously very important. For the rest of us, it's a combination, so the numbers are not everything. @ leslie: If you enjoy it as view it as fun rather than as a chore (kind of like a scrapbook that's fun at the start but then you're just stressed about not keeping it current), then of course it's a good idea. @ Diana: Thank you. :) @ Cricket: I think if you blog purely as business, then the numbers are obviously very important. For the rest of us, it’s a combination, so the numbers are not everything.

@ leslie: If you enjoy it as view it as fun rather than as a chore (kind of like a scrapbook that’s fun at the start but then you’re just stressed about not keeping it current), then of course it’s a good idea.

@ Diana: Thank you. :)

]]> By: Diana Rupert http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7165 Diana Rupert Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:53:12 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7165 Great post! adding images is really a big help. And being patience is one factor to success. I can say that you always write useful and helpful tips that is why you there are lots of people have interest to enter your site. And I'm surely one of them. Keep up the good work! Thank you :) Great post! adding images is really a big help. And being patience is one factor to success. I can say that you always write useful and helpful tips that is why you there are lots of people have interest to enter your site. And I’m surely one of them. Keep up the good work!
Thank you :)

]]> By: leslie http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7160 leslie Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:46:43 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7160 hi! thanks for visiting my blog...browsing through yours gave me a lot of ideas and information. keep up the good work. being a parent, i guess it's just hard not to talk about your kids, so i decided to put up a blog about my eldest. a blog about my 2nd daughter is in the works, but since she's just a year and a half old, i guess the first years will be mainly photos. do you think that'll be a good idea? hi! thanks for visiting my blog…browsing through yours gave me a lot of ideas and information. keep up the good work.

being a parent, i guess it’s just hard not to talk about your kids, so i decided to put up a blog about my eldest. a blog about my 2nd daughter is in the works, but since she’s just a year and a half old, i guess the first years will be mainly photos. do you think that’ll be a good idea?

]]> By: Cricket http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7033 Cricket Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:39:15 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7033 Another wonderful post. I am in that world right now where I have decided that community is what I enjoy. I like to get to know my readers and vice versa. I don't like the numbers game, but I do understand to a number of bloggers that is the ultimate. I enjoy sharing a side of of my life with others that can relate to the every day grind. I find that one of my blogs might be more of a niche blog while the other is not. When I started up "A Cricket in a Garden" I had all of these hopes that it could just spill my insides. It has not happened. It will. I have gotten into a comfort level in the "A Day to Share with Tammy" ...I call this my happy place. Writing is so hard when you make changes. When you decide it is time to branch down another path to see where it might take you. You have some wonderful advice above. Find blogs that you like and get to know the writer behind them. You will eventually be part of that community that will grow. To me, that is blogging. Another wonderful post. I am in that world right now where I have decided that community is what I enjoy. I like to get to know my readers and vice versa. I don’t like the numbers game, but I do understand to a number of bloggers that is the ultimate. I enjoy sharing a side of of my life with others that can relate to the every day grind. I find that one of my blogs might be more of a niche blog while the other is not. When I started up “A Cricket in a Garden” I had all of these hopes that it could just spill my insides. It has not happened. It will. I have gotten into a comfort level in the “A Day to Share with Tammy” …I call this my happy place. Writing is so hard when you make changes. When you decide it is time to branch down another path to see where it might take you.

You have some wonderful advice above. Find blogs that you like and get to know the writer behind them. You will eventually be part of that community that will grow. To me, that is blogging.

]]> By: MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7032 MomGrind Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:35:59 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7032 @ Dr. Cason: I tend to let people find me. Sometimes I do go on a "commenting spree" and comment on 5-10 new blogs, just to let them know I'm there. But for the most part, I allow people to find me. When someone makes a comment here I go check out their blog, and if I like what I see, I join their communities as well. @ Dr. Cason: I tend to let people find me. Sometimes I do go on a “commenting spree” and comment on 5-10 new blogs, just to let them know I’m there. But for the most part, I allow people to find me. When someone makes a comment here I go check out their blog, and if I like what I see, I join their communities as well.

]]> By: Dr. Cason http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7021 Dr. Cason Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:28:45 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/11/04/how-to-promote-your-blog/#comment-7021 I agree with the photo and to personalize it and then to let it go. If that's possible. I have to say though I have a hard time reaching my niche. Your blog and then one's that frequent BWOAB are an incredibly nice and giving community that seems to come here a lot! :) BUT these incredibly nice people really aren't in my niche and I have a hard time reaching everyone! Should I go to the people who come to me or keeping running after people who doesn't follow me back?? I agree with the photo and to personalize it and then to let it go. If that’s possible.

I have to say though I have a hard time reaching my niche. Your blog and then one’s that frequent BWOAB are an incredibly nice and giving community that seems to come here a lot! :) BUT these incredibly nice people really aren’t in my niche and I have a hard time reaching everyone! Should I go to the people who come to me or keeping running after people who doesn’t follow me back??

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