Comments for Josh Bancroft's TinyScreenfuls.com http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com Edge Case, Community Builder, Tinkerer, and Teacher Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:34:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.comhttp://static.flickr.com/77/198088819_052aad1a7e_t.jpgComments from TinyScreenfuls.comThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Comment on How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk by Josh Bancroft http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/11/how-to-get-people-to-link-to-and-talk-about-stuff-you-write-without-being-a-jerk/#comment-93414 Josh Bancroft Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:51:33 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/?p=2618#comment-93414 Paul, I never said one shouldn't focus on the quality of their writing. Please don't put words in my mouth. I believe that focusing on putting out good, quality content will do more for your "Google juice" than any amount of SEO trickery. We seem to have different approaches to blogging, which is good. You're all about hits and Google juice and SEO and traffic and ads. That's cool. I'm more about building connections and becoming part of a community. Let's not derail the comments here by getting into a debate about which of these approaches is better. This blog is my living room, you've been invited here to comment, and I'm asking that we change the subject. Thanks for your thoughts! Paul, I never said one shouldn’t focus on the quality of their writing. Please don’t put words in my mouth. I believe that focusing on putting out good, quality content will do more for your “Google juice” than any amount of SEO trickery.

We seem to have different approaches to blogging, which is good. You’re all about hits and Google juice and SEO and traffic and ads. That’s cool. I’m more about building connections and becoming part of a community. Let’s not derail the comments here by getting into a debate about which of these approaches is better. This blog is my living room, you’ve been invited here to comment, and I’m asking that we change the subject. Thanks for your thoughts!

]]> Comment on How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk by Paul http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/11/how-to-get-people-to-link-to-and-talk-about-stuff-you-write-without-being-a-jerk/#comment-93413 Paul Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:41:52 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/?p=2618#comment-93413 Not to Go overboard on this, I've got friends who use blogger and have a ton of people who come through them. Josh is right to say it is how you develop your Community. It comes from understanding what people are looking for or wanting. I'm like Josh I'm a HUGE, VERY BIG, fan of Wordpress for the one fact that I can customize everything on my blog from Ads to SEO Optimization. Which on that case you could create even more google juice and get even more people to come to your site. I a like Josh, right now I'm getting enough a month to pay for my hosting account and my domain names. If you DO Decide to go with Wordpress and having a shared hosting account. I'd suggest GoDaddy, they can install Wordpress without much effort from your part. Now not to Minimize Joshes comment about not needing to focus on your writing. I would tend to disagree because If you right really good stuff more and more, others will come and comment and bring in even more traffic. More exposure and more chances of getting advertisers to come to your site and want to partner with you. This is experience talking, I've wrote some really good articles and two publishers came to me to put ads in my Articles didn't pay a lot but that helped pay for my hosting account. So you see, if you focus on writing you will have people come to you. Might not be today, might not be tomorrow but someone will come. Who knows someone will post a link on another site and people will flock to see what the fuss is about!! I hope this helps with your quest to become a better blogger, if you have any questions by all means ask away!! Not to Go overboard on this, I’ve got friends who use blogger and have a ton of people who come through them. Josh is right to say it is how you develop your Community. It comes from understanding what people are looking for or wanting. I’m like Josh I’m a HUGE, VERY BIG, fan of Wordpress for the one fact that I can customize everything on my blog from Ads to SEO Optimization. Which on that case you could create even more google juice and get even more people to come to your site. I a like Josh, right now I’m getting enough a month to pay for my hosting account and my domain names.

If you DO Decide to go with Wordpress and having a shared hosting account. I’d suggest GoDaddy, they can install Wordpress without much effort from your part.

Now not to Minimize Joshes comment about not needing to focus on your writing. I would tend to disagree because If you right really good stuff more and more, others will come and comment and bring in even more traffic. More exposure and more chances of getting advertisers to come to your site and want to partner with you.

This is experience talking, I’ve wrote some really good articles and two publishers came to me to put ads in my Articles didn’t pay a lot but that helped pay for my hosting account. So you see, if you focus on writing you will have people come to you. Might not be today, might not be tomorrow but someone will come. Who knows someone will post a link on another site and people will flock to see what the fuss is about!!

I hope this helps with your quest to become a better blogger, if you have any questions by all means ask away!!

]]> Comment on How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk by Josh Bancroft http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/11/how-to-get-people-to-link-to-and-talk-about-stuff-you-write-without-being-a-jerk/#comment-93410 Josh Bancroft Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:21:11 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/?p=2618#comment-93410 Jeff - not to minimize Paul's advice, but Blogger isn't a bad platform at all for getting started, and there's a LOT you can do to improve your blog and your presence online before you start spending money. Before you do anything, ask yourself why you're blogging. If you're in it to build your personal and professional reputation, connect with other people in a community, and just to share your thoughts and writing, there's no need to spend money. If you're trying to build your blog as a business, and you have a good reason to care about how many visitors you get, then it's probably worth it to buy a domain, pay for hosting, etc. Even though Blogspot blogs have a sort of reputation for having lots of fake spammy blogs, there are lots of good, legitimate blogs there. Google themselves use it for all of their "Official" blogs. Linus Torvalds, the guy who started Linux, uses Blogspot (http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/). And even if you don't want to stick with Blogger, for whatever reason, there are other free options. I, for one, am a HUGE fan of WordPress, and you can get a free hosted version of a WordPress blog at http://wordpress.com. You can even buy your own domain name and use that for your free wp.com blog. Lots of "big" bloggers use WordPress.com - including Robert Scoble (http://scobleizer.com) and the ever popular http://ICanHasCheezburger.com folks. :-) If you DO decide you want to host your own blog, don't go overboard. There are shared hosting companies where you won't have to pay more than about $10/a month. Look for one that's friendly to hosting a Wordpress blog (more info at http://wordpress.org). This is what I do, not because I want to run my blog as a business (even though I have ads, I make at most a couple bucks per day, enough to pay for hosting), but because I wanted the freedom to host lots of sites, install my own plugins and themes, and basically tinker around. It's definitely not necessary if you want to focus on what you write, and what community you want to become a part of. Hope that helps! :-) Jeff - not to minimize Paul’s advice, but Blogger isn’t a bad platform at all for getting started, and there’s a LOT you can do to improve your blog and your presence online before you start spending money.

Before you do anything, ask yourself why you’re blogging. If you’re in it to build your personal and professional reputation, connect with other people in a community, and just to share your thoughts and writing, there’s no need to spend money. If you’re trying to build your blog as a business, and you have a good reason to care about how many visitors you get, then it’s probably worth it to buy a domain, pay for hosting, etc.

Even though Blogspot blogs have a sort of reputation for having lots of fake spammy blogs, there are lots of good, legitimate blogs there. Google themselves use it for all of their “Official” blogs. Linus Torvalds, the guy who started Linux, uses Blogspot (http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/). And even if you don’t want to stick with Blogger, for whatever reason, there are other free options. I, for one, am a HUGE fan of WordPress, and you can get a free hosted version of a WordPress blog at http://wordpress.com. You can even buy your own domain name and use that for your free wp.com blog. Lots of “big” bloggers use WordPress.com - including Robert Scoble (http://scobleizer.com) and the ever popular http://ICanHasCheezburger.com folks. :-)

If you DO decide you want to host your own blog, don’t go overboard. There are shared hosting companies where you won’t have to pay more than about $10/a month. Look for one that’s friendly to hosting a Wordpress blog (more info at http://wordpress.org). This is what I do, not because I want to run my blog as a business (even though I have ads, I make at most a couple bucks per day, enough to pay for hosting), but because I wanted the freedom to host lots of sites, install my own plugins and themes, and basically tinker around. It’s definitely not necessary if you want to focus on what you write, and what community you want to become a part of.

Hope that helps! :-)

]]> Comment on How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk by Paul http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/11/how-to-get-people-to-link-to-and-talk-about-stuff-you-write-without-being-a-jerk/#comment-93407 Paul Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:46:01 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/?p=2618#comment-93407 Actually Jeff, I've found blogger didn't bring in anywhere as much as traffic as having your own domain and server. I was using blogger without a domain, and hardly ever had a hit. Then I went to my own domain and I started to get hits. I finally bought by own server and it boosted even more. I also went to Wordpress. That also seemed to bring in even more people. In other words, you won't get anywhere quick with that blogger account. You will do better with GOOGLE and other search engines to go and buy a domain, register it for 2 years more more. :) I'd also suggest getting a server at least, you can use blogger with your own server. These are all just tips from someone who had the same problems you're having now. I'm getting around 300 people a day on my blog!! http://www.tech-linkblog.com Actually Jeff,

I’ve found blogger didn’t bring in anywhere as much as traffic as having your own domain and server. I was using blogger without a domain, and hardly ever had a hit. Then I went to my own domain and I started to get hits. I finally bought by own server and it boosted even more. I also went to Wordpress. That also seemed to bring in even more people.

In other words, you won’t get anywhere quick with that blogger account. You will do better with GOOGLE and other search engines to go and buy a domain, register it for 2 years more more. :) I’d also suggest getting a server at least, you can use blogger with your own server. These are all just tips from someone who had the same problems you’re having now. I’m getting around 300 people a day on my blog!!
http://www.tech-linkblog.com

]]> Comment on How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk by Jeff Kempf http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/11/how-to-get-people-to-link-to-and-talk-about-stuff-you-write-without-being-a-jerk/#comment-93404 Jeff Kempf Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:32:58 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/?p=2618#comment-93404 That was a very helpful post. You're right, a lot of that sounds like common sense. I started a blog a few months ago on blogger, and I've been trying to find ways to get someone to visit it (it's linked to my name if anyone wants to check it out), but haven't found any success yet. I think my two main problems are my mindset about my blog (I created it to show off my writing skills and creativity for any advertising agencies that might want to hire me after I graduate so I wanted to keep it "professional") and my poor network. I also need to update it more frequently. How do you guys feel about blogger? From my brief blogging experiences, I get the feeling that blogspot blogs don't bring in the same traffic. Maybe they're viewed as less professional? Am I just being paranoid? Do you think blogger just has a higher percentage of people who blog about irrelevant personal stuff? Thanks for sharing your insight with us. Jeff Kempf That was a very helpful post. You’re right, a lot of that sounds like common sense. I started a blog a few months ago on blogger, and I’ve been trying to find ways to get someone to visit it (it’s linked to my name if anyone wants to check it out), but haven’t found any success yet. I think my two main problems are my mindset about my blog (I created it to show off my writing skills and creativity for any advertising agencies that might want to hire me after I graduate so I wanted to keep it “professional”) and my poor network. I also need to update it more frequently.
How do you guys feel about blogger? From my brief blogging experiences, I get the feeling that blogspot blogs don’t bring in the same traffic. Maybe they’re viewed as less professional? Am I just being paranoid? Do you think blogger just has a higher percentage of people who blog about irrelevant personal stuff?
Thanks for sharing your insight with us.

Jeff Kempf

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]]> Comment on How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk by Cijo in busby seo test http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/11/how-to-get-people-to-link-to-and-talk-about-stuff-you-write-without-being-a-jerk/#comment-93373 Cijo in busby seo test Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:56:55 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/?p=2618#comment-93373 Put your blog URL in your forum signatures, make regular forum postings, create your own rss feed. Make your friends read the latest interesting post of yours and let them spread out the word. Comment on similar/related blogs/niche blogs. Never be a comment spammer, make your online reputation bring in traffic. You may try out to make a slideshare or video presentation of your blog. Last but not the least update your blog on a regular basis, this will make people come back and visit your blog and you earn a lot of retaining visitors. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures, make regular forum postings, create your own rss feed. Make your friends read the latest interesting post of yours and let them spread out the word. Comment on similar/related blogs/niche blogs. Never be a comment spammer, make your online reputation bring in traffic. You may try out to make a slideshare or video presentation of your blog. Last but not the least update your blog on a regular basis, this will make people come back and visit your blog and you earn a lot of retaining visitors.

]]> Comment on How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk by kenekaplan http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/11/how-to-get-people-to-link-to-and-talk-about-stuff-you-write-without-being-a-jerk/#comment-93370 kenekaplan Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:39:59 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/?p=2618#comment-93370 Hi, Josh! This is very helpful. A good reminder like going to the dentist -- brush, floss, rinse with mouth wash. You need that network clean, strongly rooted just like we need those pearly whites! Best wishes and a big smile! Hi, Josh!

This is very helpful. A good reminder like going to the dentist — brush, floss, rinse with mouth wash. You need that network clean, strongly rooted just like we need those pearly whites! Best wishes and a big smile!

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