Alright, you’ve done your research and you’ve decided to start a blog – either for corporate use, or personal. Both ways, you want to drive traffic (aka visitors, for the uninitiated) to your site. Watch this short 3 min clip that explains one of the first things you must do to get going.
Ruhani Rabin, Senior Developer at Integricity and Alex Lam, The Backpackr having a chat
Summary:
- Generate content – related to your purpose
- Socialize with other bloggers (virtual socializing is fine)
- Leave pertinent comments on blogs that are similar to your own
- Ask questions to garner a response
I am starting a series on blogging and how to take your blog to higher heights – it entails all aspects from building it, right up to driving it to popularity. All posts are prefixed by the level of expertise needed to understand and implement the recommendations.
Here lie my thoughts: that of an entrepreneur, media-junkie, gadget-junkie, photographer, videographer, once-PC-user-but-now-Mac-user and husband.
Have you thought of finding a way for your readers to be able to mingle and chat with each other on your blog? Perhaps through threaded conversations?
That’s something I am trying to explore myself. <3 my readers.
RSSed, bookmarked. Officially stalking your blog now! Need to make mine popular as well, any tip helps!
Cheng Leng: I’ll try to find out if there is a plugin that allows that.
Jon: Great to have you follow the posts on this blog. Do share with me ideas on what else I can do on this blog on my Facebook page
Cheng Leng, a plugin that is available for free that deals with threaded comments is available at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-thread-comment/
Beware, it can get really confusing once readers start replying to a comment many layers deep. Especially if they are not familiar with threaded comments / forums.
This is going to be my resource as I find my way round blogging haha!