Are We Turning Readers Away?
Posted on January 21, 2008
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Probably the biggest worry for any blogger would be to see his blog being mainly comment free. It is disheartening after all that hard work to see our blog devoid of any comment love by fellow bloggers and nobody likes to feel abandoned.
But what can we actually do to attract more comments and why don’t we get them in the first place?
I sometimes wondered why certain blog posts attracted a stream of comments and others simply didn’t? Did I suddenly fail to make contact with my readers?
I’m afraid the answer in those cases would be: Yes
Many factors play into the flow of writing a blog post that reads fluently enough and animates our readers to give their point of view at the end.
Sometimes regardless of what we do, there is simply no action and this could also be down to not having sufficient traffic. But what if we do have traffic and still nothing happens?
Here is what I found helps me to get better conversions:
- If I write posts that are informative and helpful I normally get tons of comments
- I also noticed that when I write from a more personal perspective my readers are much more responsive to me and are likely to comment more frequently.
- Interaction with my readers has always been a must for me. This means I pretty much answer every comment I receive. (Admittedly I do miss some for whatever reasons).
- Asking questions always helps. Most people do like to talk about themselves if given the chance and they will hop onto your comment thread if you ask them open ended questions.
- Easy navigation: if the blog is too cluttered or the posts are not attractive to the eye then nobody will stay long enough to even bother commenting.
Alternatively we might turn readers away from commenting:
- By not replying to your readers comments
- Being rude to them
- Being too authoritative (bossy)
- Closing the post with a command without inviting our readers to comment.
- Distracting them with plenty of ads
- Blog is slow/not attractive/hard to navigate
Are you happy with your comment numbers? Do you get enough comments on your blog or would you rather have more? What do you think we can do to have you comment more often on this blog? Please do let us know, your opinion matters to us.
Monika
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The Rush For Local Niches
Posted on January 19, 2008
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At present we just about all scramble to get our individual local niches off the ground. Being able to serve our local neighbourhood is not only a great way to snatch our very own piece of earth real estate on the world wide web, but it will also make us the talk of the town before we know it.
Another advantage of going local is the fact that we already know so many people and places, so it makes perfect sense to blog about it. Even our friend Grizzly has found some fishes to entertain in the Canadian woods. So if he can do it, forget your excuse and start niche blogging.
In the last 3 days I’ve been very busy getting my own local niche blog off the ground, besides everything else I do. I also know for a fact that Terry will be working his butt of over the weekend as he takes ownership of his new domain today! We probably won’t see him stick his head through the door for a couple of days now.
Can’t blame the guy since he is on a mission.
We all are and have already built a great support network of fellow niche bloggers. But it isn’t too late yet for you. If you truly want to make a difference in your online marketing efforts this year, then I believe a local niche blog is a must in your arsenal of weapons.
Keep your eyes posted, as there will be more to come.
Monika
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Posted on January 17, 2008
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Ok, finally I have managed to steal some time out of my rather busy days and deal with this blog. I do apologize to you our readers and also to our guest bloggers since I have been very slack posting here and even making an appearance.
Without boring you with excuses lets just say a few things had to be sorted elsewhere. So thank you for staying with us. It is surprising to see that our subscriptions have gone up during this period which is great.
Terry and I decided a while back to change this blogs theme and all though we looked at CopyBlogger and Keyword Sniper I decided today that the second theme actually looked better than CopyBlogger. It is simply a cleaner look and I’m very happy with the transformation.
There will be some possible re-arrangements in the next week or so to tweak a little more, but I think overall this is a very nice on the eye look. No more clutter and easy to navigate.
However, if you are trying to use the RSS button right now, it doesn’t work since I’m having trouble with the code. Maybe Terry will be able to sort this out, so please just keep checking back.
Monika
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Posted on January 9, 2008
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January is traditionally a quiet blogging month when it comes to the make money business and online that’s not too different from the real world, especially here at Blogging Web 2.0. What makes things slower is the fact that everyone is still recovering from the excesses of the Christmas period so its no wonder there are not too many posts being put up in the blogging circles that I frequent.
However, this blogging place has slowed down for different reasons. Monika and myself have been busier than ever despite the commercial make money farce that is Christmas (yes, I am a scrooge bah, humbug). We’ve both had our blogging world turned upside down since bumping into Vic Franqui and his make money blog, Blogger Unleashed and we’ve both found ourselves catapulted into an alternative mindset of online business and make money practices that have literally squeezed our time to the limit.
Does that mean we’re not going to be posting in here so often?
I suppose it does, although the natural progression of this site would have seen that happen anyway – moving from the initial frenetic posting in order to fill the site with original content to get onto the SERPs ladder to a gradual blogging slowdown to less frequent but still high quality posts for our readers.
The invitation to guest blog on this site is still very much extended to all bloggers. But don’t be looking at the green bar and thinking, “Oh, its only a PR2 its not worth it for the backlink…” because that mode of thinking will trap you in a never ending cage of never progressing yourself to make money from blogging.
You see, this blog will increase in PR periodically and before too long those savvy bloggers who posted here with a back-link to their site will see the value of that backlink grow in importance as this site grows and will carry more SEO juice because of its antiquity.
So by waiting until we hit our next PR hike (which, believe me WILL happen), you lose the age of the backlink that grew naturally with the site. Still feel clever?
Well, you still have a chance to get in before we move up a few PR notches – if you want to promote your own blogging site to make money, that is. If not, that’s your choice.
Monika and myself will be changing the look of Blogging Web 2.0 soon to enhance its professional feel as well as further improve its on-site SEO and start to really make money from it, so watch this space…
Terry Didcott
Blogging Web 2.0
Blogging Web 2.0 Stats December 2007
Posted on January 2, 2008
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What a year we’ve had last year finishing off with some major excitement in December. Blogging Web 2.0 has grown even more, despite some major posting gaps last month. We’ve been rather lazy here with only 14 posts last month. But with Christmas, holidays and end of year many people do take it more easy and their focus is elsewhere.
Nowhere can this been seen more clearly than in a feed reader. There are hardly new posts every day which is actually nice since it does give everybody room to breathe. In terms of our competition, we don’t really have a clear winner since both Trent and Carla managed to write 1 post during the month.
So to make things more interesting I will use the $30 towards this month’s competition for the most written posts for $60 total prize.
I’m planning to do some changes here on the blog (thinking template, layout, etc.) but am not too sure exactly when and how. I want to discuss things with Terry first and take it from there.
We’ve had 309 unique visitors per day to this blog which is actually very good considering the age of the domain. With new years resolutions and all we are hoping to increase this figure even more.
In terms of income, things are slightly on the increase.
Google Adsense: $ 11.54
I’m actually going to change advertising on this blog tremendously. I am taking adsense off for starters since it is the wrong niche and could only potentially hurt me. Second I’m looking at other revenue streams and am happy to say that on the 1st of January we made a $30 clickbank sale. But this won’t count just yet.
For the moment this blog will operate as usual and if you by any chance feel like contributing as a guest blogger, then please contact us.
Monika Mundell
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Posted on December 29, 2007
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First of all, thanks Terry for keeping up the forth here while I was busy partying away through Christmas. Actually I wish I was partying, but except for the actual Xmas day I was online pretty much all the time. I failed to blog during this time because I was de-cluttering my business including laptop, desktop, mind and other things. But Terry wished you all a happy Christmas from all of us and he talked about blogging them together.
I want to talk about clutter and how it can upset our blogging day. In the last couple of month I noticed a disturbing trend in my mind where I struggled to keep up with all my assignments, both self imposed and paid. There was an ever increasing amount of information that kept bombarding my mind to be read and heard, but the dealing with became a little ridiculous.
It wasn’t for lack of time management, but for information overload. I tried to absorb too much and deal with too many things and on the bottom line this sent me close to mental collapse. (Well, not really but this is what it could do if left un treated).
I realized that I simply couldn’t keep up with the pace I had self inflicted upon me and something had to give to allow for smoother performance. The biggest issue for me was to keep up with reading all the new blog posts (skimming), visiting the more interesting ones and comment. I spent around 3 hours a day in the end to do this as well as promoter other people’s stuff through social media.
This is simply crazy! I cannot keep doing this with a growing writing business and my intentions to grow other income streams if I already run out of time. Therefore this activity had to give big time and these days I limit myself to read and comment on only those blogs that actually give me value for my time spent there.
If I don’t learn something new that I can implement, then I won’t bother reading the blog any longer. Interestingly enough I keep floating back to the same blogs over and over again since they do give me value and therefore I can justify what I do.
My priorities were to organize myself better and since shifting my focus on this more Zen style approach it has made a huge difference.
Sometimes when we feel overloaded and overworked, it really does pay to stop and take a good look at why! This little “break” has given me insight into where I need to cut back and where I need to get more active.
I’m in the process of de-cluttering my business and my life and it feels like a fresh breath of air.
Monika Mundell
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Posted on December 27, 2007
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Its nice when you can write a piece that ties up the previous two posts perfectly. I’m talking about Monika’s and my latest posts about blogs, here at Blogging Web 2.0.
Specifically its about acquiring expired domains to avoid the sandbox problem and getting a ready made platform to really kick things off with. Add to that the flexibility of free Blogger blogs where you can delve headlong right into a happening niche and develop a ton of traffic almost overnight.
Well, put those two ideas together and you have a recipe for a dynamite entrance onto the niche blogging stage if you use good judgement and trip over a little good luck along the way.
The luck will come from finding an expired domain with some decent age and page rank - with solid traceable backlinks and not de-indexed as can happen. The good judgement will come from chosing the right niche to launch your free Blogger blogs into.
Then you use one to really boost the other.
I mean use the heavily PR laden domain to link to your free blogs to add weight to them in the SERPs. Better if you can find a few good domains in the same niche with PR and then you’re laughing all the way to the bank! You’ll have a veritable army of blogs to smother the competition out of the niche that you want to dominate with your high PR Generals bringing up the rear of an army of free blogging Infantry to take the SERPs by storm!
Now doen’t that sound like something you should be doing to make some money?
Terry Didcott
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