I know when I first started my blog I had no idea what I was doing. I really enjoyed visiting humor sites because they relaxed me when I was stressed. There’s nothing like a good laugh to make you feel better. So, I decided to create a humor blog about the strange messes people get themselves into, and that has slowly evolved into the Odd Planet that you see before you today.
I’ve only been blogging for a little over a year now, so I’m still new enough to remember those first few months when I was trying to find this sites direction. I’m also still new enough to blogging that I can stand to learn a few more things.
SR asked me to look over an article on their blog entitled “27+1 Tips for Building and Maintaining a Blog Audience“. I was happy to accept their offer as I think this is a great article that all bloggers - new or very experienced - should read.
The article starts out with the fundamentals of blogging which is of course deciding upon a topic for your blog. Sure there are a lot of general blogs out there - some started for purely personal reasons, but if you want to attract an audience for your blog you might do well picking a niche and making your site original.
The article goes over all of the basics in easy to understand terms. There’s information about the various blogging platforms, domain names, and then it gets into the nitty gritty of building your audience. There are so many great tips in this post that if I went over them all my post would be as long as theirs. If you are interested in building your audience I strongly recommend that you read this article. You couldn’t possibly come away from it and think that you didn’t learn at least one thing if not 10 or 20!
The only thing that I think they might have discussed more had to do with comments. The article talks about the importance of allowing visitors to comment on your article. You can get feedback that way, and as you write your new posts you can write while keeping in mind what your audience has told you in previous comments. You can learn what they like, and what they respond to.
What they missed out on saying is that you should also reply to your comments. Not in new posts necessarily, but right in a posts comment section or by email. Stay in touch with your blog visitors, let them know that you enjoyed their comments. When you interact with your site visitors this often helps to encourage them to return.
Do Follow Bloggers
This is a list of blogs that have removed the tags from the comment area on their blogs. By removing this tag, or using the Do Follow Wordpress plugin to remove the no follow tag, these bloggers are helping you make the links that you leave on their blogs when you leave a comment for them count towards backlinks for your site.
If you have removed the no follow tags from your sites comment area please join the Do Follow list!
My wife Tricia writes for a blog network called 451press. She’s been writing a blog called Watching House, and she earns a bit of money off the advertisements on her site.
451press just announced that they have openings for several more writers. They’d like to hire new writers for several new and existing blogs. It’s an easy job - just write posts regularly on the site and 451press does most everything else for you. The blog topics range from Arts, internet, crafts, life and current events.
If you are interested in seeing what blogs and blog topics are available scoot on over to Tricia’s site to see the list of 451press blogs that need writers, then visit the 451press site and apply for the job.
Best of luck to you!
One of the blogging companies that I do a fair amount of work for is holding it’s first ever blogging conference in just a few months. PostieCon 07 is touted as being the largest gathering of bloggers from around the world.
PostieCon is using the theme “You’re a Rock Star” for this event because it believes that bloggers and Internet personalities are an important part of this information age, and that any blogger, big or small, could become a “rock star” in the world of bloggers.
The conference has been developed in order to educate bloggers on how to build site traffic and readership. You can’t gain noterity in the world of blogging if no one knows you’re out there.
Some of the worlds biggest bloggers will be speaking at the convention and by attending you can use the information that they give you to become a better blogger. Bloggers voices are being heard around the world. We influence the media and new trends. By learning from the top bloggers you can use their knowledge, experience and perspective to rise to the top and make your own blogging voice heard as well.
The events start on Thursday May 31 with a pre-conference “Hello my name is … ” meet and greet in the city of Orlando Florida. The next two days, June 1st through June 2nd will be filled with speeches from top bloggers, meal breaks and social events where you can meet fellow bloggers. The PostieCon event will end with a dinner and the Bloggers Choice Awards on the evening of Saturday June 2nd.
Spaces are filling fast so register to attend now. Plus, if you register between now and May 18th you can take advantage of their discount price and “Backstage Pass”, but after the 18th of May the price will go up by $50. Book your space for the largest gathering of bloggers ever right now.
