Comments on: 7 Ways to Make Your Blog Stickier

By: Kris @ make money

Kris @ make money — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:54:11 +0000

I guess this is why they call you the pro blogger:) You know I started a few blogs and post for fun one about internet marketing and one about online business. What I find really interesting is my readership goes up after each post which means if I don’t post on a regular basis it begins to drop. Anyway I loved the post.

By: loved it

loved it — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:05:51 +0000

thank you soo much that was so useful… good job… :)

By: Ways to make money online

Ways to make money online — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:13:42 +0000

Great job on this post. I have beeb using some of these for years, and they do work .

Get more traffic, make more money.

By: Jenny Lynn

Jenny Lynn — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:00:33 +0000

Hello All,
Thanks for all the wonderful tips. Newbie here… giving this blogging setup stuff a shot. Yikes!
Does anyone know how to plugin the “subcribe/rss” section as it appears on Darren’s site? Clean, easy, understandable. Where do I get the code for it?
Grateful! jenny

By: Franca Richard

Franca Richard — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:03:30 +0000

Really useful 7 tips, I have implented them and they are working fine!

By: gofree

gofree — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:31:47 +0000

Very useful indeed esp. how to to choose a unique template!

By: Giftcardblogger

Giftcardblogger — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:38:22 +0000

Great tips. I am actually planning on launching a forum soon to create a sense of community on my blog

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:24:53 +0000

Thx for the tip on Blogger site feed settings!

Was already set to full, which means i am smart. Or more likely that is the default setting! hah!

thanks again!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:22:51 +0000

Thanks for the follow-up tip! I must be smart since my Blogger Site Feed was already set to Full (ha ha – i bet that is the default setting and i had no clue !!!)

thanks again!

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:31:27 +0000

@kevin: To set your feeds to full in Blogger, go to your blog’s settings, choose the Site Feed link, and change the dropdown marked “Allow Blog Feeds” to Full. Hit the Save Settings button and you’re done.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:00:57 +0000

Plug in list is quite useful, the no of feeds should also be more than the default 10.

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:43:57 +0000

Dumb-person question: How do I know or control the diff between a ful or partial feed if i am using Blogger and Feedburner? Don’t remember seeing any “options” when i set up the feed for people to subscribe to.

thx

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:46:24 +0000

@Work from Home Guru: Can you keep a secret? I started-out with partial feeds, but by the time I hit the 25-subscriber mark (it seems like it was years ago…), I had a few readers complain. I decided to change to full feeds, and my subscriber count doubled. The best blogging lessons are the ones you learn yourself.

By: moser

moser — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:16:04 +0000

Great article. Going to try it out.

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By: Work from Home Guru

Work from Home Guru — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:06:57 +0000

As many people have turned towards blogs as a means for making money online, these tips are very important. The advice on publishing full feeds rings very true. When I first started out and was gaining popularity, I had a lot of readers complain about the partial feeds, so I changed it and instantly there was a huge jump in subscribers. I also believe that it is of utmost importance to build your blog into a community. There is so much you can add to build value, like news, free downloads, games, social networking, forums and so on that make you appear to be an authority site by sheer size alone. Thanks for the tips.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:04:56 +0000

@SearcH EngineS WEB: I wasn’t saying that you should keep the images in your posts to a minimum. Use as many as you need there. But you should keep the images in your blog’s template to a minimum. If you have an image-heavy template, you’re blog’s performance will take a hit.

@Michael Martin: I agree that it is hard to cut functionality for minor speed improvements, but you’re right, it does add up. Also, server performance is another big factor. You can have a bare-minimum template for your blog, but you won’t get the same performance from a 1and1 shared hosting plan as you would from one of Media Temple’s plans, or from a dedicated server. Sad, but true. (You, Michael, are well aware of this though).

@Troy (and everyone else talking about full feeds): Yes, full feeds are important. Provide them so people can read your content without wasting their time. People will still comment if they have something to say, and if you’re blog is sticky enough, they may stay for awhile before going back to their feeds (or visit “manually” later for other reasons). Summarized feeds aren’t the solution to plagiarism. (There really isn’t a solution. Summarized feeds just make things a little harder, at your readers’ expense). Also, as Chetan commented, by linking posts from your archives in your newer posts, you can get them to come to your blog in yet another way (and steer them to more content they may find interesting).

@thatcoolbroad: No, I don’t think that, by asking questions to your readers, you undermine your “expert” status. (Neither does Darren, judging by some of his posts…) You’re asking for your readers’ opinions, or their own expertise. You’re interacting with them, and letting them have your say. You’ll seem like more of an expert, because you have the guts to say “I don’t know everything, and my opinion isn’t the only one that matters.”

By: TheBloggerTips

TheBloggerTips — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:47:24 +0000

Thanks for the tips but for “Launch a forum” – This might attract a lots of spammers. I have recently disable the forum due to more spams.

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:43:11 +0000

Can some one tell me why I want hundreds of readers. Do they spend money? Mine don’t – they read. On the other hand thousands of search visitors come and go quickly and spend money or click ads… just a thought assuming some of you are online trying to make a buck.

By: Tech Blog

Tech Blog — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:58:47 +0000

This post is simply useful for us as a good resources.And I agreed about giving Full Feed RSS.

By: suresh

suresh — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:11:19 +0000

All advices are wonderful.

I shall appreciate the nice relevant images attached with each post.

Keep the good work going on and let it be used by every blogger.