Comments on: Grow your blog through networking http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/ Join the Conversation Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:54:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Easton Ellsworth http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-570 Easton Ellsworth Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:51:19 +0000 http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-570 Great thread here, Sara. Something that's helped me grow my blog and the Know More Media network is to try to make friends with smart, well-connected people in the blog publishing niche. It's mutually beneficial because we can trade expertise and help each other succeed. But the most important thing is to put human beings first and make them feel loved and cared about - sounds hokey, maybe, but it's true. People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Great thread here, Sara. Something that’s helped me grow my blog and the Know More Media network is to try to make friends with smart, well-connected people in the blog publishing niche. It’s mutually beneficial because we can trade expertise and help each other succeed. But the most important thing is to put human beings first and make them feel loved and cared about - sounds hokey, maybe, but it’s true. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

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keep it up…

]]> By: Sara http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-392 Sara Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:26:25 +0000 http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-392 @mark - who you know is definitely a part of it, but you also have to have the goods to back you up! @Rashy - That's pretty cool! @sbpoet - Thanks for your comment. I guess I am referencing my own experience as I have had success getting readers from multiple niches rather than just a specific one. @mark - who you know is definitely a part of it, but you also have to have the goods to back you up!

@Rashy - That’s pretty cool!

@sbpoet - Thanks for your comment. I guess I am referencing my own experience as I have had success getting readers from multiple niches rather than just a specific one.

]]> By: sbpoet http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-385 sbpoet Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:36:47 +0000 http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-385 "General interest bloggers have it a little bit easier because they don’t need to target any particular niche and can see a reward quicker than more niche bloggers." Wow -- I've always thought exactly the opposite; that niche bloggers at least have a target audience, a natural pool of readers, whereas we general interest bloggers are sort of -- general. I get lots of readers, especially from search engines, for the cat posts -- they aren't into poetry. Some of my poetry readers think I'm being frivolous to post about cats. Some hate the quizzes; some love them. So I just do what I want to (mostly) -- but finding congenial readers is certainly the challenge. “General interest bloggers have it a little bit easier because they don’t need to target any particular niche and can see a reward quicker than more niche bloggers.”

Wow — I’ve always thought exactly the opposite; that niche bloggers at least have a target audience, a natural pool of readers, whereas we general interest bloggers are sort of — general.

I get lots of readers, especially from search engines, for the cat posts — they aren’t into poetry. Some of my poetry readers think I’m being frivolous to post about cats. Some hate the quizzes; some love them.

So I just do what I want to (mostly) — but finding congenial readers is certainly the challenge.

]]> By: Rashy http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-375 Rashy Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:24:30 +0000 http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-375 The part about leaving comments is very much true. I left a comment on the blog of Google's resident nurse/doctor person (I can't remember the URL to it now) and she came and visited my blog. She didn't leave any comments or anything, but I thought it was cool that I got somebody from inside Google to come. The same story goes with Kobra from KobrasCorner (.org|.com|.net or something like that), and he stumbled an article on my blog. That led to some nice traffic. The part about leaving comments is very much true. I left a comment on the blog of Google’s resident nurse/doctor person (I can’t remember the URL to it now) and she came and visited my blog. She didn’t leave any comments or anything, but I thought it was cool that I got somebody from inside Google to come. The same story goes with Kobra from KobrasCorner (.org|.com|.net or something like that), and he stumbled an article on my blog. That led to some nice traffic.

]]> By: mark http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-360 mark Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:53:38 +0000 http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-360 Great post sara. It's not what you know, it's who you know. So get out there and network people! Great post sara. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. So get out there and network people!

]]> By: Colin Temple http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-358 Colin Temple Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:49:09 +0000 http://www.theblogexperiment.com/blog/2007/09/11/grow-your-blog-through-networking/#comment-358 For the most part, these methods are the only way I get any traffic to my blogs at the moment. They're still fairly new so I'm working out the kinks, but as I do, interacting with other blogs and bloggers are my main traffic points. For the most part, these methods are the only way I get any traffic to my blogs at the moment. They’re still fairly new so I’m working out the kinks, but as I do, interacting with other blogs and bloggers are my main traffic points.

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