03.18.08
Blogging Around
Blogging is huge right now! Well, has been for some time and getting bigger everyday. You can’t seem to go anywhere online without finding a blog about something. This is great! Most blogs are informative in nature, presenting you with the latest and greatest news, products, techniques, and how-to’s on any subject imaginable. There are blogs that you can find where personal updates are shared. There are even people who sell their wares from their blogs. However you set your blog voice to be, you’ll probably feel better if you get it noticed, generate a following, and get comments to your blog posts.
You can search for blog topics in a variety of places. You can even join groups of bloggers to catch up on the latest happenings in your niche or area of interst. I want to share a few of the places I keep in touch with the Blog/Web World here. If you know about these sites already, great! If I miss something, you can let me know. If you don’t, maybe you’ll be inspired to join and expand your networking a bit more. I am new to a lot of this and do not pretend to be an expert, but feel that sharing the knowledge I do have is worth quite a bit.
www.bloglines.com A free site where, when you sign up, you get your own blog. You will have the option to save it as private, where only you can view it’s contents, or public, where we can all find it and follow it if we choose. You also can build a list of your favorite blogs based on different categories. I found all of my favorite niche blogs here. The best part is, they are all in one spot! They continue to be updated as the blogger updates their posts. You can add a button to your current blog, if you have one, and others can add you by clicking on that button. No more going from site to site to site, which can take a huge amount of time. One feature I like here is that I can clip/save a blog post here for future reference. The option will be found at the end of every post. Click on it and save it to your clippings folder or blog about it right away. You can view my blog roll here. I have not made my blog on bloglines public yet. Once I get it all figured out, maybe. But you can find this one and my other one on there.
www.del.icio.us.com Free to join. Here you can compile your favorite blogs as well and view them, save them, tag them and read them at your leisure. I have spent a little bit of time here, probably not as much as I should, so not too much of an expert on this site. But if I come accross a blog I like and they have a Delicious button, I click it and it’s saved. Almost along the same lines as above. Here you can follow other people with similar interests as you and they can follow you if they like what you save. Networking for blogs…You can view me here.
www.technorati.com Get your blog posted or submitted here, and get more traffic. I did not submit my blog here, one of you so kindly did. THANK YOU!
www.mixx.com The Mixx, I like. Free to join as well. You set up your user profile and can add tags that you want based on your interests. You can also add your own content, pictures, and site to ”the mixx”, don’t forget to add the relevant tags. This site will show you blogs, pictures, and sites based on those tags and you can vote up or down about the content you read or view and make comments. (This is not the part I care for or about, just a “fun thing” they offer). You can view other peoples profiles and follow them and they you. But the part I like is that I do not have to feel bad or beat myself up if I do not get there everyday to check what’s new. They email me as new posts are submitted to my categories, I see which category it is with only the title showing and I can choose if it is something I need or want to read (this is where great titles come in!). If I choose to read it I am taken directly to the Mixx site, where I can see who voted and how, their comments~if I choose and one more click and I am on that blog reading away. Fast, easy and not a time waster. You can find me here.
I certainly hope this provided some new information for you. How do you promote your blog? What blog networking do you do?
