Comments on: How To Build An Audience For Your Blog

By: J P Brennan

J P Brennan — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:09:25 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I am new to the world of blogs and I have an enormously important message to get out. Those of you interested, I have a lot more information to share and the White House is very unhappy about my tattling:

http://nuclearsuitcase.blogspot.com/

By: Shan

Shan — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:31:43 +0000

I’m going to be shameless: “Hi, nice blog!”. Yes I’m shallow and have no self-respect. *pleadingly* Link me! Link me! LOL! But seriously, good stuff. Have you linked on my blog – I can’t remember if I informed you earlier – think I did. Anyways hope you don’t mind?

By: Raz

Raz — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:58:49 +0000

One got to ask, why blog? I mean, if blogging is for money, then it make sense to get as many readership as possible. But if you blog for your own – like a journal, an outlet for your own thoughts, to keep in touch friends etc. – why would you want to build an audience? I mean… I am sure you get my drift.

Oh yeah, I can soooo relate to the fact how blogging can affect your job. My initially-blogging-project-turned-fansite was a pain to deal with when I got to know my boss keep track of it (I didn’t skive, honestly!), but now I have found one of my staff blogs too… well, it’s a different feel, I guess

No matter which audience you are trying to reach, make sure you blog post is relevant to them. That’s the bottom line.

By: Jonathan Poon

Jonathan Poon — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:29:31 +0000

Blogger’s RSS feed isn’t that consistent. Using a feedburner feed on a blogger blog would make it easier for RSS readers to consume the feeds.

My question is, what frame of mind should one have with a public blog? Getting max readership? Presenting a true self online? Common channel of communication? It all depends.

By: E@L

E@L — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:43:33 +0000

I was going to say “Hey, nice blog!” but AcidFlask beat me to it!

E@L

By: Weblog

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By: Daryl

Daryl — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:00:40 +0000

Those who worry about having an RSS feed: Blogger automatically creates an Atom feed for most blogs, which most RSS readers will read. Or something like that.

There’s also the Inverse Law of Blogging Effort: your most popular post is often the one you spent the least time on. The most read post on my site is one in which I casually said I wouldn’t buy an iPod because I didn’t like the font. Took me 2 minutes to write, max. Led to thousands of hits. Bizarre, really, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s had this happen to him.

By: J Schnorng

J Schnorng — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:39:04 +0000

Wah, thanks to this post, I’ve put a lot of extra super fancy things on my blog which I had no idea existed. Now, it’s time for me to sit against my electronic tree and wait for electronic rabbits.

Naturally, given the fact that I’m an absolutely crap writer, I’m going to have to learn to “be interesting”. One day, though, I can feel it “in my fingers and toes”, I will be a super cool, popular blogger like all you other dudes.

AWESOME.

By: zhi yang

zhi yang — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:16:40 +0000

mb: I also ~~cheapo like you~~ use netnewswire lite. I use my iBook all the time, so actually rarely need to use bloglines unless in school. :p

You every time synchronize manually not troublesome meh?

By: mb

mb — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:37:05 +0000

zhiyang: I use the netnewswire lite version. Works fine for me. Syncing with Bloglines not important for me, probably because I carry my Powerbook home and to work.

I only use Bloglines to read when I am not with my Powerbook. I also have the discipline of adding the same feed to both my Netnewswire and Bloglines, so in terms of subscribed feeds, they are the same. But yeah, the posts read and unread do not sync this way.

Faith: how do you think I have been reading your blog? I’ve had it on my RSS readers from very early on.

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Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:30:16 +0000

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By: ChainerXP

ChainerXP — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:14:05 +0000

This is real profound.

By: alexis

alexis — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:43:37 +0000

RSS feed? *shudders and runs away*

By: Agagooga

Agagooga — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:44:53 +0000

Aiyah. Bo chap lah. Just anyhow whack also can :)

By: AcidFlask

AcidFlask — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:00:46 +0000

Hi, nice blog :)

I’m surprised that you left out the most obvious point of all: to write for the right audience. Being popular necessarily means attracting the mainstream audience, which means writing about stuff that they would care about and/or would understand.

Oh, and by the way, I can’t even begin to express how much reading Singaporean blogs makes me homesick…

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minishorts.net :: back to basics » Add on to what I thought still think — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:33:00 +0000

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By: anna

anna — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:27:34 +0000

I’m probably an older and bigger dinosaur. I didn’t know what RSS feed is….and didn’t bother to find out ;). Bloglines also too cheem for me. And I can’t really follow all the above techy wisdom without reading the passage twice!!!

I agree with Ah 9 that it’s more personal to go to someone’s site to read. Maybe I’m a more visual person.

By: minishorts

minishorts — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:22:39 +0000

i so agree.

By: suspiciousbastard

suspiciousbastard — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:21:56 +0000

Wow. I got more comments than I usually do at my blog.

Caleb: Well, if that something is s*x, I wouldn’t mind.

Ivan: Hey, you can always try out new stuff. How about changing to a bi when that happens?

9: Hey, use your charm to get that alpha female into bed too. That would rock.

By: faith

faith — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:50:37 +0000

OMGosh! I got an education today.

Goodness gracious me, I didn’t even know I had an RSS feed until someone here mentioned Bloglines and then I finally figured out what RSS feeds were!

*this blog-tech-n00b bows to all blog-tech-demi-gods and is very much embarassed to admit but these tech-demi-gods (with exception of mb) are probably yonks younger than her — gawd, I’m turning into a dinosaur!*

By: bubblemunche

bubblemunche — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:35:58 +0000

Wah lau, I don’t know whether if I should be happy or sad that I’m still virgin shite man… Muahahha!

By: 9

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:28:54 +0000

u want a million hits…should link to Zhiyang…

he’s the numero uno in the search engines for Singapore porn.

http://limzhiyang.blogspot.com/2005/03/i-really-shouldnt-be-proud-of-this.html

By: 妖怪

妖怪 — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:16:11 +0000

calm one – dude, if only it were that simple. unfortunately, common sense isn’t all that common, neither is good taste… which poses the age-old philosophical question: if someone boring doesn’t blog and no one reads his blog, is that person still considered boring?

alt – I totally agree with you with the implanted mp3s. Especially when they are waay too loud or just BAD music.

By: zhi yang

zhi yang — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:11:58 +0000

mb: you use netnewswire lite or paid version? I am considering to get the paid version then it have the ability to sync with bloglines. cause i don’t use bloglines now very often cause it’s simply too troublesome to read from my newsreader then go see bloglines, all read before…

By: calm one

calm one — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:59:08 +0000

here’s the most important rule for me:
don’t touch that publish button if the post is boring.
every other rule can be safely ignored.

By: Idle Days » Blog Archive » Blog Trafficking 101

Idle Days » Blog Archive » Blog Trafficking 101 — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:52:52 +0000

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By: alt

alt — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:39:48 +0000

I am shamelessly doing self promotion here. But simply because I like to share my life, and not just for getting attention like SOME PEOPLE DO. Heh heh.
I agree with knightofpentacles that those little scroll boxes are irritating!!!
Ditto for blogs with teenee weedle text that mumbles to themselves.
I also find blogs with implanted mp3s extremely intruding.
Maybe I am just whiney but. YES! I wanna listen to a song of choice. Not because I’ve just surfed in from somewhere.
Oh well.

By: disko

disko — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:17:38 +0000

hey yo!

i was really kidding when i talked about being famous from just linking to your blog (why haven’t i had millions of hits yet?!). it was odd to see my blog linked from someone i didn’t actually know – my audience unfortunately are restricted to ppl i know, or their acquaintances. cool to be linked from a blog i read, kinda like warren ellis if you know wadimean. even more flattered now right? haha

on bloglines, i gave up after 2 days, i think i still prefer scrolling gizmodo and such with their familiar interfaces, recognising from pictures and layout what i’ve read and not. newsfire (for mac) has a pretty interface though (sucker for that).

and besides, im a she, not a he.

By: Lancerlord

Lancerlord — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:09:59 +0000

Ah 9: http://www.bloglines.com. Sign up first, then you can start subscribing to sites.

By: Mandrake

Mandrake — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:51:13 +0000

mb I only hate it when the reader at work doesn’t sync with the one at home.. so which one doesn’t know which one has been read.