SKIRTED ROUNDTABLE - WEEK SIX:
This week's blogging topic takes up where last week's topic left off: how to grow an audience. We just had soooo much to say on this subject, we needed more than 15 minutes! On this podcast, listen as Linda, Megan and Joni share their concrete tips on how to get more readers and increase the traffic on your blog.
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NOTE: This week's Design Topic is "Designing for the Sexes" - how to deal with male clients, especially when the wife and husband are not in agreement! This podcast should be online by Thursday. AND look for our first guest host joining the Skirted Roundtable in the next few weeks. We think you are really going to enjoy our first guest!!
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Style Redux - thanks for devoting so much time to listening to our ramblings! And the DC Bloggers group is a great idea!
btw - I must get some kind of award for most tortured turn of phrase to date on SRT: "Non other blogger readers"... haha
Hugs, LP
Another great topic would be how to get your readers to comment -I have real problems with that. I've tried everything from giveaways to asking questions in the posts. I think about 1% of my readers will comment! It drives me nuts seeing my numbers on statcounter and then having no clue who they are or what they think (which is why I started to blog in the first place!).
:-) Thanks sooo much for the kind words for Between Naps on the Porch and Tablescape Thursday! Can't wait for the next installment...such great topics each week! :-)
Susan
This subject is so interesting, not only it touches every blogger but also because I am a new blogger and still find new ways to find an audience.
I feel so often only bloggers read my blog, but I know others do too. I regularly invite people I know, former clients, friends and people I think might be interested and let them in on some subject, or send a link to a post they might like and I get a lot of response and some readers this way.
But I feel to be responsive to other blogs is very importend indeed! I like to find my niche and hope many will eventual follow...
Thank you for the good advise!
XX
Victoria
I agree with ArchitectDesign - I see a lot of hits on my site meter, but NO comments, and it drives me crazy. I do understand though, because I don't tend to comment on other posts - I just enjoy the photos.
I do have a question about blogging etiquette - Is it okay to use pictures from other blogs, as long as I create a link and give them credit? I have been doing it since February, and used to ask permission - but that got old quickly, since there are so many photos that I borrow!
Thanks again.
~Abby
And that's a problem with comments. They always fall short as a real conversation.
About attracting readers who don't read blogs: I urge my clients to blog about things their competitors aren't blogging. That's pretty easy because most of their competitors don't blog at all. So I might blog about my chia pet topiary garden in Atlanta. There just might be a great potential client out there Googling for it. He may never read blogs but might find the info he wants in my blog and give me a call.
Just speaking as commenter: I want the commenting process as easy as possible. I don't want a new comment window to pop up. I don't want to click to "see original post."
I don't like the captcha's (entering the letters in a box) and I don't like having to get my comments approved. Now I understand these but since I'm a good guy I don't like them.
If all blog commenting systems behaved the same, that would be one thing. But we have Typepad, Blogger, Wordpress, and others; and each have different options. Sometimes I just don't want to fool with them. Making your first few comments is intimidating. A huge number of folks will never comment. I mean, my wife will never comment. She's too busy.
You mentioned Twitter & i wonder if your twitter followers seem to be a different group from your bloggy followers?
Lisa
Regarding the topic regarding hot to get non-bloggers to read your blog, I, along with many others, found blogging via the HGTV.com, Rate My Space site. I was addicted to that site and often folks would say, "Visit my blog at ..." I would look and was impressed with what I saw. I have been blogging since the first of the year and have made many on-line friends.
Thanks for the tip about magazine blogs. Keep up the good work. I'll be back.