Comments on: Advice for New Edubloggers

By: Entrepreneur and Finance Nerd Making Money Online - WallerBlog.com

Entrepreneur and Finance Nerd Making Money Online - WallerBlog.com — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:52:29 +0000

Blogging Tips Blog Carnival – Write Content, Drive Traffic, Make Money…

Welcome to the June 23, 2008 edition of blogging tips carnival. A whopping 83 articles were submitted for this edition! With this many articles I ran out of time to review them all. This will be a self-policing edition. If there……

By: Nesher

Nesher — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:08:30 +0000

Thank you for submission you article to the6th Edition of the “Bringing more traffic to your blog” Blog Carnival. The edition was published today: http://blogging4good.blogspot.com/2008/07/bringing-more-traffic-to-your-blog-july.html

Have a good weekend!

By: Betty

Betty — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:44:43 +0000

Thanks for all of the great advice. I even learned a lot from the comments. I always find new blogs to read on the carnivals. I’m going to check out the Mr. Winkle movie and the headline advice from James Webber. Thanks again.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:16:50 +0000

I, too, have found that some of my most popular posts were those that I considered to be minor ones. On the flip side, some of my lengthy, dare I say quasi-scholarly, posts, are ones that barely get a nibble.

I enjoyed reading this post–got here from the Carnival of Education! I invite you to visit my blog as well–perhaps we can exchange links.

By: Anne Baird

Anne Baird — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:49:28 +0000

Sometimes I too wonder why I blog as most of the time it’s just for me. But then I like to think that it requires a certain amount of discipline and maybe a little or a lot of optimism. I’m reluctant to send my posts to twitter because I really don’t think that they are profound or interesting enough to warrant that kind of bravado. (me posting my own posts). But having said that what I do love about blogging and twitter in particular is the community and the collaboration and sharing that is part and parcel of this world. In my experience I have been given nothing but encouragement and support. So something must be going right.

By: James Webber

James Webber — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:54:45 +0000

I began my blog, around 7-8 weeks ago ! at a time when they were
celebrating the birthday of tthe blog if my memory serves me well *)

If you want to know how to write a headline that works. Scan through eg. http://twitter.com/bbctech

James

By: Elona Hartjes

Elona Hartjes — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:55:10 +0000

Mathew,
Congratulations for being named to the top list of edubloggers and on the success of your Mr. Winkle movie. I always look forward to reading your posts, and thought Mr. Winkle was great when I saw it. I’m not surprised by your success. it’s well deserved.

Thank you for counting me as one of your blogging friends. I too feel that the friendships that have developed over time because of blogging have been really rewarding in many ways. I must say that when I write a new post and I post it, I’m thinking “I wonder what Mathew’s thoughts on this topic are?”

I’ve been blogging for almost two years now and absolutely love it. The fellowship that has developed around blogging has become an important part of my life. Who knew what was to come after I wrote that first post.

Thanks again

By: David

David — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:57:15 +0000

Matthew,

Some very salient advice especially as noted by others that “if you write it — they won’t automatically come”.

I’d add a few more pieces of advice though I am far from a blogger — My style is less on ownership and more on conversation. So therefore I blog all over the place — on forums.

1. Use your blog url in your signature. Standard piece of advice.
2. Post on forums in your area of interest. You’d be surprised who will click your signature if you make an intelligent contribution to the community.
3. Join and RSS or multipost your blog on communities that offer such services and individual blogs – such as what I use Ning.
4. Join communities that will promote your blog and see its value. They can promote whether by a link or like I do with Larry’s blog (because I see it as so valuable) – an embed page right in the community.
5. Write articles for newspapers and journals. — these traditional areas still pay off.
6. Get a business card just for your blog! This works and is an easy way to promote , especially at conferences. Just leave the cards laying around and bingo…the next week you’ll have many more people checking you out…
7. Get some content as mentioned. Youtube / Facebook and these high volume places offer a marketing chance to bloggers.

That’s my lucky 7. Thanks for the read.

David
http://eflclassroom.ning.com

By: Bill Gx

Bill Gx — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:40:47 +0000

For a long time, I didn’t do a blog because I figured no one would read it anyway. Then I got to thinking “so what?” It’s still a great way to record ideas that I think about. If someone happens to benefit, all the better. But I have a written archive of ideas that I can always refer back to. And people do visit and comment from time to time.

Your advice contains ideas I haven’t thought of before. Thanks for the tips.

By: Terry Shay

Terry Shay — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:55:55 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I started a blog to share the things I do with technology. I love to share with people and not many fellow teachers in my current job are that excited about technology.

I admit that I almost quit blogging within the first few days! My thought was that if no one was reading it, why write it? Then, I started sending out a note on Twitter when I had a new post. I started getting some comments and that made it worthwhile for me. While I don’t have hundreds of readers, I have some faithful and kind people who cheer me on.

Thanks for giving this advice. Early on, someone on Twitter gave me the “if you write it, they will come” line…I can state for certain that is not the best advice. Once people know what you write, they will read if it interests them, but if they don’t know about it, they can’t read it.

I will also put a shout out to the shy to comment! I have learned from many bloggers that comments are the fuel for great blogs! It took me months of reading a bunch of blogs before I ever commented. I didn’t know how powerful it was! I have received excellent suggestions and topics for future blogs and wonderful feedback!