Blog class #4
Topic for this class was ‘building an audience.’ I explained the importance of getting other people to link to you, beginning with finding people with the same interests as yours, commenting on their blogs, getting them to visit your blog. As part of this I reviewed the process of creating links and commenting on other blogs. Also explained the use of categories and tags, all of which are used to help other people with similar interests to find you. I showed some blogs that might be of interest, in particular Ronni Bennett’s Time Goes By, one of the most interesting blogs expressing the point of view of older people, and with her lists of elder blogs, one of the best networking sites.
I’m doing a lot of repeating and tidying up, and will probably do the same during the next class, our last. I’m trying to find that magical place between the basics of creating a blog and the sophisticated knowledge needed to develop a large audience. My students (and maybe I, myself) are not ready for that, but I’d like them to be on their way. I’d also like to make them comfortable enough with the computer to find the path for themselves. Not easy.
Two of the blogs we created in the class are list in the sidebar, here. I’m trying to get the others to send me their URL’s.
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Ruth, sounds like you’re doing a great job. That was good advice. My readership began to grow after I submitted a few of my better essays to Ronni for publication on her elderblogger stories (or whatever she calls them). I’m also listed in Blogburst and have some of my stuff picked up for the online journals of Chicago Sun Times and Reuters and once by Nielsens. I don’t know if that’s anything to write home about or not, but it sure made me feel good that they chose some of my work.
This sounds good so far.
I added a site meter to my blogger blog this week to see what was really happening. I thought only about four people were reading my mish mash….and the truth is I have only three repeaters. The first day I had 45 folks stop in, and the third 35. Few leave notes.
At my more social blogging site on Open Diary as Day Tripper, I get about 200 folks stopping in, but there too only about 20 leave notes. You cannot judge your reader traffic by the number of notes you get.
All of which leaves me pondering if I want to go back to blogging in that happy vacuum I was in before. Blogging, in retrospect, is a natural extension of my journaling….which was always open for all my friends to peruse. Only a few ever did. I find only one or two of my oldest and best friends willing to read my blogs today. An interesting fact when they want me interested in their lives.
On that note, I’m off to the Zoo. You have a great day.
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