You've set up your blog, you've put up a post or two. Now what?
How do you find people to read your blog? And just as importantly, how do you find other blogs to read to help you generate traffic?
Another way to find blog is to find a retail or organizational site that is involved with the topic of your book. More and more these days, these sites will also include a blog tab somewhere on the home page. This is another place to find like-minded readers as well.
Most comment sections of blogs make the commenters fill in a registry. As part of the registry there is usually a place to read the person's bio and find their blog or website as well.
By clicking those links, you can travel to new blogs and new places to leave comments and thus find a new slew of blogs to read and virtual friends.
How do you keep track of it all?
There are different ways to monitor your blog reading. You can simply bookmark them in your browser favorites, but that can get unwieldy and it doesn't let you know when there are new posts.
Most blogs take advantage of RSS feeds.
An RSS feed (Really Simple Syndication) is something you can subscribe to on a blog. The logo looks like this most often:
This will appear either along your browser bar or where you decide your feeds should go.
One way to collect all your RSS feeds and other Web feeds is to use a reader like Google Reader.
This is an easy way to see all of the posts to all of the blogs when they are put up. You can even add blogs to this that don't have feeds by adding the URL link to the reader's memory! Also, it's free when you sign up for a free Google account.
Just remember, to drive traffic to your own blog, it helps to read and comment on others. How many times has a stranger commented on your blog, you clicked on their name, and ended up at another blog? It's a great way to navigate your interests and a wonderful way to find other people that want to share and talk about the same things you do...including your next book!
There are several ways. One is by hunting Google and blog rolls on other blogs.
Finding Blogs
Finding Blogs
Google has a drop-down menu of alternative search options. Instead of simply Googling, "spy fiction" and getting the millions of links that will come up, you can specify "blogs" and it will only show you blogs that contain your search phrase.
Another way you can look for blogs to read and comment on is by looking at blogrolls. A blogroll is a list of links on the side the author of the blog page you're on has added as favorites of theirs. As you develop your own blog, you'll want to add to your own blogroll. It is a simple way to provide other readers links to information that you yourself enjoy and it is a great way to find other blogs you may like from other people's pages.
Another way to find blog is to find a retail or organizational site that is involved with the topic of your book. More and more these days, these sites will also include a blog tab somewhere on the home page. This is another place to find like-minded readers as well.
Most comment sections of blogs make the commenters fill in a registry. As part of the registry there is usually a place to read the person's bio and find their blog or website as well.
By clicking those links, you can travel to new blogs and new places to leave comments and thus find a new slew of blogs to read and virtual friends.
How do you keep track of it all?
There are different ways to monitor your blog reading. You can simply bookmark them in your browser favorites, but that can get unwieldy and it doesn't let you know when there are new posts.
Most blogs take advantage of RSS feeds.
An RSS feed (Really Simple Syndication) is something you can subscribe to on a blog. The logo looks like this most often:
This will appear either along your browser bar or where you decide your feeds should go.
One way to collect all your RSS feeds and other Web feeds is to use a reader like Google Reader.
This is an easy way to see all of the posts to all of the blogs when they are put up. You can even add blogs to this that don't have feeds by adding the URL link to the reader's memory! Also, it's free when you sign up for a free Google account.
Just remember, to drive traffic to your own blog, it helps to read and comment on others. How many times has a stranger commented on your blog, you clicked on their name, and ended up at another blog? It's a great way to navigate your interests and a wonderful way to find other people that want to share and talk about the same things you do...including your next book!
Labels: blogging, book marketing, social networking
posted by KatG on 2/10/2009
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