Started a blog, but have questions???

me4sunny

I am blogging about personal finance and especially about budgeting, our spending habits and debt management. Personal Finance blogs are predominantly US and Canada based - I have real troubles finding fellow bloggers from UK! I would love to write for UK audience but I find it quite hard to find places to socialise my blog to UK readers!
For me it is not about money - I don't run adds, don't promote stuff, etc. It's just about finding my audience on the net to stop writing "for myself":-)

Where would you look?

my blog address is in my profile, btw

rao_2

Well one thing you could do is set up a Google Alert for certain topics that are only related to UK finance/debt management/spending/budgeting etc. There are many debt relief programs, shops, supermarkets, banks, benefits and other programs/places/whatever that are only available in the UK and not US/Canada. Then whenever someone mentions one of those things on the net via a blog, forum, website, social network, bookmarking site or whatever, Google will let you know where and you can go from there.

PennyPincher_L

earn by adding adsense.. and add tags to the blog so its indexed..

davethorp

Your adsense blocks are a little big and obtrusive in my opinion. I have small two ad sized blocks after every post with a couple of other ad network blocks elsewhere on page. Even that may be too much and I've made about £50 from ads on my site over 2 or 3 years!!

I would also seriously think about registering your own domain for the blog and hosting it youself rather than on blogspot. Doing so will give more options with the plugins including some that will post to social networking sites like Twitter

me4sunny

rao wrote: »

There are many debt relief programs, shops, supermarkets, banks, benefits and other programs/places/whatever that are only available in the UK and not US/Canada. Then whenever someone mentions one of those things on the net via a blog, forum, website, social network, bookmarking site or whatever, Google will let you know where and you can go from there.

here is an odd thing - if I am not totaly mistaken - there arn't any ersonal PF blogs in UK! If there are any blogs than they usually are run by editorial teams of a larger web site that uses blogs as a SEO tool or another outlet of their editorial content... I really struggle to find UK based bloggers in this area... But... I am certain I am not the only one blogging about personal finance and simialr topics ...

BLOGGERS! Where are you?!:-)


it's so odd!!!

rao_2

Some started blogs on the £100 to £10,000 thread you could look up and there are probably others but the no advertising rules probably prevent them from posting about it. Most would be low traffic and no SEO though so thats why they're harder to find on Google search but if you make a few Google Alerts you may stumble upon the smaller personal blogs or forum posts eventually. When you search on Google you get primarily the sites with the most traffic or best SEO etc. but if you use Google Alert whenever Google crawls any newly made website or other such thing it'll let you know if it found anything relating to your keywords. Also don't limit yourself to blogs for finding an audience. Forums, social networks, twitter, bookmarking websites, directories etc. are also key places where people interested in personal finance may get together. And as said not all are as stringent as MSE (of course they have good reason to be stringent being one of the top Google search results) on no advertising as long as it isn't what dominates the content of your posts (e.g. signatures, links on your name, 'my website' button beside posts etc.).

Good luck.