Comments on: Advertise Your Blog: An Interview with a Mystery Blogger

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:52:06 +0000

ughh so daunting. what happened to good old perseverance? no longer enough to gain a fanbase?

By: Ryan McLean

Ryan McLean — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:58:56 +0000

Great post, I have started using stumble upon advertising to help launch my blog, but im not sure on the results as of yet, I think I will try doing it for about a month

By: VlogHog

VlogHog — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:44:23 +0000

If you want to be a pro-blogger, you must advertise.
There are millions of blogs and websites on the net with hundreds of thousand more popping up everyday.

Try free advertising by joining like minded groups on social sites like Stumble-Upon, Facebook or MySpace.

Really involve yourself in these groups and have a blog that speaks to them.

Experiment and buy ads on sites like Fark.Com, which charges about $40 dollars a week on the low end for 7 days, or Stumble Upon which charges you five cents per visitor. If you want to spend 5 dollars a day, you get to spend 5 dollars a day. (Which is about 100 visitors to your site) If you want to your total budget to be 25 dollars, Stumble Upon will only use 25 dollars.

Buying advertising is a must in today’s internet. Back in 1994 when the net started, there were only a few thousand sites to choose from and making to the top was easier. Now, you must compete with millions of blogs, websites and forums.

It can be done.

By: Technology Blog

Technology Blog — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:12:25 +0000

hi darren,
there is something to learn from this post as well like other posts on problogger!

cheers!!

By: Yulius

Yulius — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:29:17 +0000

Great interview, Darren! I think I will make posting about great interviews list. Thx to give me great idea, darren :)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:48:57 +0000

Facebook advertising seems to suck right now.

I tried to do a Facebook campaign, but was rejected and still to this day…have no idea as to why I wasn’t able to run a campaign on there. The landing page was one of my blog posts, which makes it even more confusing. It’s not like I had spam or porn or other non-friendly content up there. I run and entertainment blog and write about films, events and television. With the young audience that takes up most of Facebook’s demographic, I would think that my campaign would be accetpable.

Darren, it woujld be great if you could do a post specifically on running Facebook campaigns, or an interview or get someone to guest post on here about that. It would be very helpful.

This was a great post to read as well. Thanks for doing this interview.

By: JQK

JQK — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:35:23 +0000

I am three months into my first blog. I believe my content is worthy and capable of sustaining a respectable readership base. However, to date, I think I am my ONLY reader!

I’m just about to the point of having enough quality content to justify going after more readers–a sustainable base; I have been debating (with myself) all of the options open to me.

After reading this post, paid advertising has moved up a notch or two as a viable choice.

I will investigate, in-depth.

Thanks, “Bob” and Darrin too.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:26:37 +0000

Okay…Enough Already! (Really, I want to hear more!) :o)

Great post!!! Thanks Darren, and “Bob”.

- And I’m using advertising to jump-start all my future blogs!!!

By: Reddy

Reddy — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:07:27 +0000

Great post. Though I dint advertise, Stumble Upon seems to be very good option.

By: JoLynn Braley

JoLynn Braley — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:46:25 +0000

Thanks for the interview Darren. I haven’t used any form of paid advertising to bring in blog traffic and it’s interesting to hear how your guest used it to benefit him in the beginning.

By: Thomas Flight

Thomas Flight — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:05:42 +0000

Very true, the first 100-500 subscribers are the hardest to get, and I think advertising is a great way to build an audience.

Entrecard is a cheep for of advertising I would recommend.

And as a reply to “The Masked Millionaire”:
You do have to remember blog growth is exponential.

By: Chris Marshall | Martial Development

Chris Marshall | Martial Development — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:59:37 +0000

Why pay Yahoo and StumbleUpon a commission, when we can buy readers directly?

Read my post, earn a dollar! ;)

By: Niklas

Niklas — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:47:58 +0000

That’s a very important point I think turns most people off. The problem with starting a new blog is not that you don’t have any content, but rather that you have no one reading any of your content. I find the initial upstart is quite frustrating but never really considered advertising as an option due to expenses.

I think the story of a new blogger could possibly be summed up like this.You put up $5 for a domain and think your ready to start this thing. You get slapped with $200.00 hosting fees and although your taken back you still sign up for the 2 year plan to get the cheapest per month cost. Now your ready to see what all this Internet business is about but you fail to establish any significant user-base on your blog. Your already in debt $205+ and seeing how poorly adsense does in your first month are reluctant to spend any more money such as advertising.

Even on my site where I get decent traffic my user-base is ignorant of my ads (be it placement or their content). At this rate I’m looking to break even around the one year mark so I’m reluctant to throw more money around with false hopes.

By: The Masked Millionaire

The Masked Millionaire — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:34:23 +0000

Good Advice. Getting started is hard. I started a new blog about 2 weeks ago and have 7 people signed up on the RSS feed. At this pace it is going to take forever to have a large enough readership to do anything with.

I am going to start advertising pretty soon. I really want to make sure that I lock in my “voice” before too many people read the blog. It shouldn’t be that much longer.

The Masked Millionaire

By: David Uram

David Uram — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:15:31 +0000

Hey Darren, Great post!

You have motivated me to start my own blog and I really appreciate all the work you have done on Problogger.

Advertising is the next step in my blog and this post has helped me out

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Thx Darren

By: Tibi Puiu

Tibi Puiu — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:18:09 +0000

Advertising can truly be a great mean of promoting your blog, but it has to be used wisely, otherwise it’s just money down the drain. Stumbleupon is great as a advertising solution because it brings so much free organic traffic alongside the paid ones, but sadly doesn’t really convert well.