Comments on: Develop a Plan to Boost Your Blog’s Profile and Readership Online [Day 29 31DBBB]

By: Mikes Sumondong

Mikes Sumondong — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:02:46 +0000

Thanks a lot for the great tips! I spend a considerable time in BlogCatalog. I remember the first time that other people noticed me was when I started a discussion about who I am and what I do and what my blog is all about. I maintain a Christian Blog and because of that I started a discussion saying I’m a Certified Christian Blogge. without me knowing, more than a hundred have already replied and discussed in that discussion. It in fact became one of the most commented discussion for a time in that site giving a front page view in BC. So from time to tim, I start discussions that are catchy for peopl to start noticing me. I also send some broadcast with simple blogging tips (not really related to my niche) to my friends to help them out in their blogs. This way I give VALUE to the site. I think that’s what’s really important being valuable to any sit, blog we spend time in.

Lately also, I’ve changed my comments to my complete name to be more personable and “knowable”. I also make sure that I reply to every comment left in my site, this way I build a 360 communication with my readers.

But I got corrected with what you said. a lot of times I just waste my time spent on other blogs. when sometimes my tendency is to just blog hop and drop.

thanks again for the tips! I hope that this comment has given value as well!

By: myblog

myblog — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:16:50 +0000

Great post Darren. Lately I’ve been spending about 7 hours a day promoting my blog and building up profiles in forums and on other blogs. It definitely helps out a LOT!

By: Ann Sachs

Ann Sachs — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:47:57 +0000

Where was Day 28?!

By: maxOz

maxOz — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:37:50 +0000

Great Series Darren, particularly love this post,

cheers Michele (maxOz)

By: tiffany jewelery

tiffany jewelery — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:42:25 +0000

thanks for your thoughtful tips, they do help me a lot

By: Miguel | Simply Blog

Miguel | Simply Blog — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:16:48 +0000

Darren,

Appreciate this thorough walk through. All of us struggle to find that balance you touched on at the end of your post. As a student, classes and other study make it difficult to produce while consuming and aimlessly participating on Twitter and Facebook only continues to become easier. :)

As I read this post, I took notes of the steps and certain points that stuck out to me.

Here’s my tip: Instead of reading and moving on, which we’re all good at doing, record important questions and thoughts (including your plan) in a notebook/binder, so the next time you’re lost or lack zeal necessary to produce without being overwhelmed, you have something to turn to which may help to give you that spark.

Once you know your plan, work your plan. Cheers!

-Mig

By: Dr. David Hale

Dr. David Hale — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:13:38 +0000

Great stuff. You never cease to amaze me with the content you provide. Love the action plan steps.

Keep it coming!

Dr Dave Hale
The Internet Marketing Professor
http:www/drdavehaleonline.com

By: Molly

Molly — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:23:26 +0000

Darren,
Like Cathy above I have diverse blogs (one on music: currently advice but I’m migrating it to gig links only, one on cleaning since I clean apartments in ‘real life’ and one on online research assistance. All but the first are in the near future). I’m trying to come up with a ’social plan’ (Where do I promote which blog, how often, what time of day, etc.)
So far this is what I’ve come up with: Stumble Upon, LinkedIn, Ecadamy and Xing for the RA work, including promoting my website, because I already have a small presence in each while learning CSS, website development, SEO, etc… and they’re more for the geeky and/or professionally oriented.
My MySpace ID for the music gig blog (toss in a few band specific sites I already belong to as well, like ReVerb), especially since I have a different ‘brand face’ on MySpace as well as a yahoo ID that I can’t change as my MySpace url.
The cleaning blog is still very much up in the air as to promotion, but I’m already a member of EZine, eHow, etc.. so I imagine I’ll promote through those sites as it’s a natural fit.
Twitter and Facebook are catchalls right now, but I’d like to concentrate just one aspect of my online ID to each as they can get noisy/distracting if I’m not careful about what I post. FriendFeed is going to be hardest to redesign my presence on as I’m pretty much addicted and am like a free range chicken on there, picking up bits and pieces of everyone’s conversations/links/subscriptions that hit my interest at the time.
Thanks so much for the series (though I’m saving it for later after everything’s set up). Got your links in a special folder on my desktop and on DVD backup. In the meantime I’m lurking and reading.
Molly

By: Unionhawk

Unionhawk — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:03:13 +0000

Oh, my God… how did you know how I spend my afternoons?!?

By: Cathy {{Mommy Needs Motivation}}

Cathy {{Mommy Needs Motivation}} — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:44:06 +0000

I find myself split between 3 different niches, with 3 different blogs. One of the blogs I love and definitely needs some PR work - my Mommy Blog; another blog does well all on its own - gluten free foodie blog (this is the niche-market on its own pulling in more readers by a less saturated market than mommy blogs) and my wordpress modification blog - which is between the two. Question - how do you combine identities? Or do you? There are pros and con's to keeping them separate and combining them. I've been thinking about this for months now - the more popular one blog gets, the more difficult it will be to 'change' or combine my online identity. These were good questions - I love the 'bigger picture' type of posts, very well thought through! Thank you for spending the time on this one! Cathy Strawberries Are Gluten Free Desperately Seeking WordPress

By: mepc

mepc — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:52:41 +0000

It can be difficult to find blogs/posts to leave comments on that are relevant to your own business and blog – because they’re often your competition.
I’m generally trying to write a collection of good content and hoping that will generate links, however long that might take I don’t know.

By: Sam sall

Sam sall — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:27:03 +0000

Hi EVERYONE
i have very limitted time as i start on my blog after i come home from my regular job. Spending most of my evening on trying to build a presence for my blog,. Most of the time i loose the sense of time using the social bookmarking and other blogs it could take me 90 min browsing and commenting on other blogs, 30 min on working on my own, dig 10 min ,twitter 3 min,stumble upon 5 min
As for forums amost less thatn 15 min most of them in probloger forum and that for scanning the post quickly.

I’v been invited as a guest writer in 2 blogs

Darren thank for opening my eyes , i really need to spend more time in social bookmarking and forum and i need to visit the sitethat my reader are gathering.
i ll work on that from now on
thank you

By: Momofsixteen

Momofsixteen — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:38:09 +0000

This is a very important consideration for those of us who try to run a household while blogging. How much time do we give to cleaning as opposed to reading and posting? I like to try an even trade: 15 minutes of housekeeping wins me the guilt-free reward of doing 15 minutes of reading and posting!

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:00:21 +0000

It’s the old “If a tree falls in a forest…” conundrum. I’m blogging three times a week, people are emailing and Facebooking me to tell me how much they love the recipes and enjoy the posts, but my numbers remain stagnant. My issue is that I write for newspapers and magazines for a living, so doing this blog for free was a bit of a leap in the first place (meaning, not being paid), and while I am enjoying it, I’m not really willing to put in much more time in to getting more people to my site. The funny thing is, my biggest view spikes happen when the ‘traditional’ media, a national newspaper in Canada, prints my blog address at the bottom of my weekly food column.
So, sure I’d love it if more people were reading my blog, but I guess I’m a lazy fatalist, and an optimist to boot: I’m just assuming that one day my blog will suddenly go viral and boom — I’ll be on easy street. I guess what I’m asking is…isn’t there an easier way for lazy bloggers?

By: elizof

elizof — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:48:27 +0000

I can definitely relate to this post because for a while there, I was a serial social media sites troll. I enjoyed the process of joining, connecting and interacting until it all became … well, too much! I enjoy twitter, linkedin and a few others and have found that a good chunk of my traffic has come from those sites but there is more work for me to do.
I recently took a week off social network sites to focus on other demands on my time and on creating more content for my blog. I recognize that while these sites help me expose my blogs to a varied audience, I need to put energy into developing content for my blog and reviewing what next steps to take.
This has been an excellent journey and I have learned a lot… Thanks again Darren!

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:39:15 +0000

Haven’t even been to Digg yet – must get myself there. I’ve been to stumble upon, but not sure If I’m even doing things correctly there or not.

It is probably just like a business. The more you are out there, updating your blog, delivering great quality – you’ll be found and those that find you will stay with you.

I’ve really enjoy learning how to build a better blog. Darren you have made a huge difference. I’m so glad I participated.

By: Playstead

Playstead — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:43:53 +0000

I’m curious as to what works for others on this board. I haven’t had much success with Digg or Stumble Upon, but some with Twitter and Facebook. To me, this is the worst part of blogging.

http://fullcontactfatherhood.com

By: delicater flower

delicater flower — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:06:57 +0000

This is a great assignment. I do go out and read other blogs but not with any plna in how I do that. so, I will analyze my wanderings and try to be more intentional. I frequently comment but only if it’s something I can honestly find a response to. People have brought up issues about commenting and it’s sincerity, etc… Yesterday I got a comment on a blog which I posted though I didn’t really want to.. it exemplifies the points made here: “Hi, nice post. I have been thinking about this topic,so thanks for posting. I will definitely be subscribing to your blog.”

The blog was about voodoo! Humorously, of course. I really think the comment was strictly to get business for their blog. though maybe it is a budding voodoo goddess. I’m not really judging and I did post it.
So I agree visiting other blogs can present challenges and I hope that at any time I comment it seems a ltitle more relevant and heartfelt…
And if the above person is here on this forum I would kindly suggest a little more creativity.
I’d love to hear what others do about comments that are off the mark.. the vauge ones that you don’t feel quite right about? I tend to post almost anything one comments, unless it’s extreme.

By: Ari Lestariono

Ari Lestariono — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:52:25 +0000

Nice post mate.I know now where had I got wrong on my directions.Yes I believe making real connection to our readers is most likely to have real visitors and if our blog perform well, he will tell his friends, and it can go around like a snow ball.I think viral is really what we are looking for not just for the sake being presence at other sites which is time consuming.
Sorry… forgot to say great post – can’t wait to read your next one!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:38:36 +0000

I Think you have made lot of good Ideas. Here in Germany, all the possibilities but not so large as to you, but we work on it.