Happy Birthday Edublogger
15 02 2009
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Waters’ blog. On Mrs.Waters’ blog she wrote a post about how Edublogs got started and to celebrate Edublogs’ 1st birthday she is giving away 12 one year sponsorships. I’m writing a post on how to expand your blog’s audience.
1. Comment on lots of other post. Commenting will most likely get people that read that post to come to your blog.
2. Make interesting blog posts. The reason you want to make good blog posts is because if your blog posts are interesting then people will tell their friends to read your blog.
3. Link to other people’s blogs. If you link to other blogs then they will get a ping back and they most likely will visit your blog.
4. Tag your posts. If you tag your posts then if someone search for that then they would find your blog post. For example, I tagged my post birthday and if someone searched birthday then they would find my blog post.
5.Put images into your posts. If you just leave you posts to a chunk of text then no one will read it.
Image by:starfire
Hi Hayden, thanks for entering the Edubloggers First Birthday celebration. Great tips about increasing your blogging audience.
Regarding tagging – interesting topic and it is a huge topic. Search engines like Google, Google Blog Search and technorati also look for the search term within the body of the post. So if you use it in the post it will also be found. Also where practical you should use variations of the search term to make your post more searchable. For example some thing simple as a mobile phone, we call them mobile phones in Australia whereas most countries call them cell phones. So if you use the terms cell phone and mobile phone it makes your post more findable.
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How’d you find out about Edublogs birthday? Did your teacher tell you?
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Hi Hayden! You are so right that one of the ways to grow your blogging audience it to leave great, thought provoking comments to other bloggers’ posts. You are doing a wonderful job and your suggestions will really help other bloggers develop a large following and expand their own skills when reflecting. I love your description of tags and how Mrs. Waters elaborated about adding more tags that are specific to each blog post. Keep up the great work!
Kim Caise
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Hi Hayden,
Thanks for your advice. I am teaching grade one in Montreal, QC and want more visitors on my blog. I am realizing how much I need to read other blogs and make comments. You are doing a great job. Congratulations.
My blog is http://teacher102.edublogs.org/
Hello Hayden
My Name is Sophia and i am from Vic in Aus.
You have a great blog.
I really agree with your tips and i hope your blog gets very popular.
from Sophia
hi hayden,
my name is riley,
i was just reading your blog and it was ausome and the header is wicked.
from riley
Hey Hayden.. great blog. Also those are great tips for new bloggers entering the blogging world, and they are even good for all time bloggers. I’m pretty sure cover all those topics.. lol. Anyway talk to you later.
-Olivia-
WOW THAT IS GOOD I REALY LIKE IT
I feel bad after reading some of these tips from your blog and others. I visit, and so do my students, tons of other blogs and never leave comments. I guess I should start doing that, then maybe more people will leave comments on mine.
http://www.mraustinsblog.com
hi heyden!!!
My name ia Tara and I’m from Ontario. I’m in grade seven and I really like your blog. I ussually don’t get too many visitors to my blog, so now maybe I can get more! Thanks for the advice!!! : )
If you want, you can visit my blog at, http://tara110gs.edublogs.org/ Bye !!!!!!
,Tara