started a blog

Ilona

glamrochick wrote: »

i don't see how people would find me since its a blog about my life, will be what i do at university as I'm a media student, and love for 70s music and comedies, can i put tags on my blog so people searching 1970's for example would maybe stumble across it?

When I first started I emailed friends, and people I know, to tell them I had a blog, and put the link in the email so they could look at it if they wanted to. A few did. Then I started reading other peoples blogs and made comments on them. Every time you do this it leaves your footprint there, and other people can click on that and be taken to your blog. A few people found my blog that way.

It snowballs, bloggy people read each others blogs, sometimes they follow them, or some only read them. I have written 1121 posts, most with photographs, yesterday I had 1327 page views, and last month I had 37,207 page views. I could monetise my blog but I choose not to. It's a blog about my life, my interests, and living within my means on a pension.

If you are wanting to set up a blog purely for money making purposes, you still have to entice people to it by writing interesting articles. Then when you have built up your followers you can introduce advertising, but it takes a long time. If you start a blog and just fill it with adverts for people to click on, no one will bother looking at it.
Ilona

Emuchops

""It snowballs, bloggy people read each others blogs, sometimes they follow them, or some only read them. I have written 1121 posts, most with photographs, yesterday I had 1327 page views, and last month I had 37,207 page views. I could monetise my blog but I choose not to. It's a blog about my life, my interests, and living within my means on a pension.""

Bloody Hell Ilona-those are very impressive stats.
I'll get me coat....

Ilona

Thank you Emuchops. It started as a hobby and is still a hobby. The point I am trying to get over to the OP is that it takes a lot of work to get to this position, it wont happen overnight, no matter how many adverts you put on it.

What annoys me when I am researching something for my blog, on the internet, is how many dead ends I come up against. Sites that appear to be a legitimate source of information which are no more than a collection of advertisements with very little content. Infuriating.
Ilona

glamrochick

yeah true your right it will take a long time.. annoying people don't seem to reply when i want to get them to subscribe.. I'm on blogger for my blog, can't seem to look for other blogs with the same 70s category kinda thing .. good point if i commented on theirs they would for mine, i hope some people would find it interesting, latest post about a the tremeloes song and the weather asking how people are o coping, I'm 21 but love old music and comedies

Ilona

Dont be disheartened, I like sixties music. I could read your blog if you put the link into your contact details in your profile. You can put the link into your Facebook also, that would get people looking. It would be a start.
Ilona

glamrochick

i put it on my Facebook wall yeah and thats cool.. i will do, thanks for offering to look at it.. you can comment on some of my posts if you wish and tell me what you think!

Ilona

I've read your blog and commented. You've made a good start. As you are studying media, writing a blog will be an excellent way of practising your communication skils. Keep at it, this could be the start of something big. All blogs start from nothing, some bloggers end up becoming quite famous. Best of luck.
Ilona

glamrochick

thanks a lot, you seem really nice, be interesting to talk to you and thanks for subscribing , yeah i thought about writing about anything interesting in my lectures and what happens at the radio station I'm going to on saturday

MoneySaver8_2

Get your SEO write so people will find you in Google.
also create some cool blog posts and contact people that might be interested through Twitter.

coolsolution

I do blogging aswell perhaps i can help you and make a direction for you if you need any?You never know what to expect.Its complicated world of web and people are constantly fighting for something.Imagine you got 3000+ followers in facebook,5000 tweeter followers, constant interaction and you take this to a company they can't ignore you.....All these are easyyyyyy...LOL.