Promoting a Blog
One thing I’ve learned since I began working on my own blog is that while blogs are fun and entertaining to keep, they don’t necessarily hit the ground running for everyone. My blog gets what I would consider to be a medium amount of traffic… some days I get only 5-10 unique visitors, while other days I get closer to a hundred. It really seems to be dependent on whether or not I have blogged on something that is currently in the news. When I do that, I seem to get some traffic for a little while but it shortly trickles into nothing.
Since I would like to get a little more traffic to my blog, I have spent some time looking around for tips. With blogging being as popular as it is today, it was not a problem to find some good sites with quality information on everything from releasing a new blog to boosting an old one. Mine is sort of new, so I’ve followed the advice for new blogs.
Right off the bat I noticed that my blog is lacking in a couple departments that more experienced bloggers believe are very important. For example, my about us page is.. well.. lacking. I also do not know much about RSS, but I think that since I am using WordPress as my blog software I should have that all taken care of for me. Other good tips were to include things like a Digg or Delicious button at the end of your posts so that it’s easy for your readers to actually promote your site to other potential visitors through bigger sites . One final good point that I have definitely been neglecting is that it is generally a good idea to visit other blogs similar to yours and leave comments so that you get the word out about not only your blog, but yourself as an individual.