This site is currently registered in 3 blog exchanges, and honestly I’m fed up with surfing through numerous blogs that I care nothing about. The whole process is tedious and slow, and frustrating at times, and I’m even on a very fast connection. These exchange are overloaded also, they are very very slow.
Why am I bitching, because I don’t have the time to continue to surf 100+ blogs a day just to drive a bunch of traffic to my site, knowing 99% of it doesn’t care about my blog, just as much as I don’t care about their blog. I’ve taken some steps to make my site more searchable, it shows up on Google, its been linked to from some other blogs, I even managed to create a fairly good list a few days ago that attracted a few comments, way more than I imagined.
So my goal is to continue writing content, which is not an easy task as you know, and just hope that my few readers continue to read, and maybe slowly I’ll bring in more readers.
I figure that others have done just fine without blog exchanges, and I reckon I can do ok too, I think I’ve achieved a few important steps, got a small following at least, got some linkage, and got some ok content, now I just need to keep at it and hopefully I will succeed.
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That’s the spirit Chris :^)
Your site is still very young. It took me a month to get any decent traffic. Just keep writing original content and commenting on similar blogs, and you’ll soon start getting search engine traffic and readers who are genuinely interested in your site.
Keep it up :v)
Thanks Yvonne, its good to see you’re reading my blog at least, so thats one reader
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I think my hardest problem will be coming up with content, I was struggling a little this morning to come up with some, of course then I posted about my ran on blog exchanges, so I guess that filled the gap a little.
This is a tech/geek blog so I guess I’ll have to come up with new thoughts on the subject.
It’s OK to write about what everyone else is writing about, as long as you add something original. There’s nothing worse then reading about the same topic on 50 different blogs, all giving the same opinion on it.
It takes practice to come up with good content every day. You’ll get used to it after a while
I’m getting there, heck, I wrote 4 posts this morning. I think its just a matter of when and where, and how tired I am, because I’ve rested over the weekend, I have a lot to write about come Monday morning.