How to save your blog
Dave Pollard's great How to save the world blog has received some much-deserved traffic lately, by writing about... blogs. Oh well, we are an introspective lot. His description of how to "break out" and attract traffic to a new blog should perhaps add a new point: write about how blogs attract traffic. I'll take that tip.
I particularly like his flow chart describing the blogging process (read, comment, write, feedback, you get it).
I just have to take issue with one thing, though: Dave insists you should promote your blog "sparingly. selectively." I will add: shamelessly! Unless you blog to keep a personal diary and inform a few personal friends about your life (nothing wrong with that, I hasten to add) you want lots of people to read your blog.
And, false modesty aside, you do think you write a good blog, or you would not bother doing it. At least it contains stuff you are interested in, and never think there are not millions out there pretty much sharing your interests. So how can people find out about your blog? You need to promote it! Start with the assumption that a lot of people will want to read your blog, if only they find it first. You are doing them all a favour by advertising it shamelessly.
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