Comments on: What Do You Most Want to Learn About Blogging? [POLL]

By: Raag Vamdatt

Raag Vamdatt — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:49:49 +0000

I write about personal finance and financial planning, primarily targetted at an Indian audience. There are not many websites in my niche, and I want to increase my readership. I feel that the quality of what I write is quite good, but any tips on how to increase the number of quality site visitors is always helpful!

(I personally prefer more people visiting my site rather than reading the content through RSS)

Also, if I can earn some bucks on the side, why not? :-)

By: OldSailor

OldSailor — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:44:38 +0000

The purpose of a blog is to increase readership. Iam interested to know more about this.

By: cb

cb — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:11:41 +0000

Really tough choice to make! I went for ‘writing quality content’ in the end because I’m still at the very beginning and feel that in some ways, getting those basics right is still the most important thing for me (and this blog has been a great help and inspiration so far!). How to blog posts are also really interesting and useful and are probably the posts that I’ve read most so far.. I suppose I might be coming from a different angle from most as I’m coming from the ‘writing for fun’ angle rather than looking to make a career or even any money out of it and more to provide interesting content for people in the same professional field!

By: Genesis

Genesis — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:32:10 +0000

I vote for Increasing readership, though all are useful. However, having enough readers makes income possible. :)

By: Sketchee

Sketchee — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:32:07 +0000

It’s very difficult to get the content to the people who might be interested in it. If there is an audience out there for me, I want to find it

By: David

David — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:02:40 +0000

Without any doubt, increasing readers & subscribers. In my opinion, this is the most difficult part. When you have the readers, the rest come much easier.

By: The Masked Millionaire

The Masked Millionaire — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:53:23 +0000

My main interest is gaining subscribers. Without subscribers then the advertising question is really moot.

Live From Las Vegas
The Masked Millionaire

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:51:44 +0000

I am very interested in building a blog network. I think my domain name would be a great fit for that and that was my original idea. I just don’t know how to go about building it. I would love to to hear more on that subject.

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:10:19 +0000

My priorities are as follows:

Increasing Readership/ Subscribers, Growing Advertising Revenue, Growing Affiliate Revenue, Writing Quality Content, Blog Design, Search Engine Optimization, Expanding a Blog into a Network.

By: I Need MoreTape!

I Need MoreTape! — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:02:17 +0000

Increasing readership gets my vote and everything else is a distant second. However, writing quality content is important and I’m very interested in learning to incorporate audio and video into the content.

By: Adam King Studio

Adam King Studio — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:55:25 +0000

Growing Affiliate Revenue, to me, seems to be a source of income that has more “staying” power than from ads. Becoming an affiliate with the right companies can communicate to an audience that you are taken seriously by these certain companies so they in turn should take you seriously as well. Thanks for the great content and wisdom, Darren. You help so many of us in so many ways!!

By: Muscle Post

Muscle Post — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:30:56 +0000

Definitely looking for some unique advice on increasing readership/subscribers to a site. There is a lot of generic information out there on this, but I’d like to hear some of the strategies you used in your early days of blogging.

Thanks!

By: suresh

suresh — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:35:27 +0000

Would like to add one more point to the above nine.
Learning SEO techniques,developing quality back links is also my point of learning.

By: MR

MR — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:56:54 +0000

You can have nice designed blog. Advertisement placed properly. Good SEO tactics. But at the end of the day if you don’t have a lot of readers or subscribers, you’re not going to make that much profit. I think increasing the number of readers and subscribers is the most important.

By: AirDiogo

AirDiogo — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:45:57 +0000

I would like to read and learn more on how to writting better quality contents because i believe that is the best way to get more readers. So any tips on that issue are also welcome.

Thanks

By: Farfield

Farfield — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:51:15 +0000

I think writing quality content is the most important, and that’s where it all starts. If you can’t write quality content you can probably forget about most of the other things. So that’s why I chose that one!

By: BlueDrifter

BlueDrifter — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:44:22 +0000

I voted for twice: Blog Design, Blog Tools and Platforms

Since I know there are lots of people, lack of programing skills, want to start to blog to speak to the world. ~Q~

You told us much about bloging. And now, please tell us where shall we start.

I love to read ur blog everyday!

^_^

By: Myo Kyaw Htun

Myo Kyaw Htun — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:34:21 +0000

First, I want to learn #3 Increasing Readership/Subscribers and then learn #1Growing Advertising Revenue. That makes sense

By: Joe Fischler, xoppla

Joe Fischler, xoppla — Mon, 05 May 2008 07:50:11 +0000

“Increasing my own sales” would also be an interesting point. More and more, blogs are used to promote products, like I do with pet products. Directly combined with a webshop this offers great opportunities. Unfortinately, there is no really good webshop solution for Wordpress up to now.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:42:06 +0000

I voted for increasing readership as that is where I am at with my blog now. I’d also like to learn more about writing quality content, or how to improve my writing, and increasing ad revenue.
Thanks Darren!