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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Blogging about Blogging

So what can be done to make a blog popular? Don't worry, I'm not talking about this blog. As you know, I'm working a lot on Clarifying Health at work. It gets more traffic than this blog since it's actually a part of a real website and the traffic is growing. But it's time to grow faster.

I realize that patience is a virtue with stuff like this, but that doesn't mean I should just sit back and watch. With that in mind, I'm going to go over a few things I'm trying to stir up interest. Hit me up in the comments if you have any other good ideas.

Writing great posts - There are tricks to help with this stuff, but you can't cut too many corners. In the end, content is king. Part of getting great content means convincing other people (with more expertise) to write posts.
Writing guest posts for other blogs - Links from other blogs bring in traffic and increase the PageRank of our site. The best way to get links is to write guest posts specifically for the audience of other blogs.
Commenting on other blogs - This obviously doesn't increase recognition as much as guest posts, but it's just a smaller version of the same basic idea.
Twitter - Yes, Twitter is stupid, but it's also a really good way to connect with lots of people that are otherwise inaccessible. It is kind of thrilling when random people respond positively to every stupid little thought that I have.
Targeting specific searches - It's not kosher to specifically try to overload pages with keywords for Google, but there's nothing wrong with deciding what kind of traffic you want and writing posts that might be relevant to the results of those Google searches.
Stimulating conversation - Comments make a blog look credible but no one wants to be the first one to start commenting. It's the authors job to try to evoke responses from the readers.

The key here is coming up with posts that people want to read. Without that, nothing else matters.

Anyway, time to practice that last step. Any ideas on what else I should try?

Posted by Tyler King

Tags: Marketing, SEO, Blogging

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