A Blog on Making Your Blog Popular

It’s that time of the week again! Once again, you can click on the thumbnail to the left to see last week’s results. Unlike last week, I was unable to get over 300 hits in one day. But, the number of visitors didn’t oscillate quite so much. So I see this as steady progress. Hopefully I don’t get burned out and stop posting/commenting/social networking. But man, this is hard work! A lot has happened since last week, and I think I’m starting to get the hang of this blogging gig. Writing posts have become easier, thinking of new ideas come faster, and finding images to complement my prose isn’t taking hours anymore! I think next up is a redesign of my webpage . . . but that is opening another can of worms that I don’t think I can handle right now.

Two weeks ago, I was lamenting to my colleague that blogging was a tough business. I was telling her how difficult it was for us new bloggers to penetrate the blogging market and get even 50 visitors a day. Since she didn’t think it would be that hard to get 50 hits a day, I challenged her to attract 50 visitors to her blog per day, for at least one week. She accepted the challenge heartily, and I immediately set up her subdomain and installed Wordpress for her. Being that she was completely new to the whole ordeal, I think she may have been overwhelmed initially. But now, she’s taking things in stride and doing a pretty good job. She’s still pretty clueless on social bookmarking and the methods used to promote her blog, but then again I think she might not care too much yet. If you have time, go check out her blog here. It gives pretty good insight on how girls think, and what they desire in a man. Enter at your own risk!

Hopefully, she gets a little more serious about blogging, and we can grow together as a blogging duo. So if possible, give her some support so that she isn’t one of those bloggers whose blogging career ends before it even gets started.

I was also thinking that I need to provide more value to my readers!! It’s just not enough to be interesting; I want to provide my readers with useful information. Thus, I’m going to take this weekend to think of some things to write that people can appreciate. By the way . . . if anyone happens to use Matlab, I have been working on the main site which has a bunch of Matlab tutorials among other things.

Ideally, I would like to provide knowledge and information here, like I do at the main site. But being that I’m relatively new to the blogging game, I don’t have as much to offer. Thus, for now, I can only share my experiences and hope that people learn from my mistakes! But like I said, I will be looking for better things to post in the future. So stay tuned!