Tonight, I reviewed all of the blogs in the Hall of Fame blogroll. With regret, I removed blogs that had no posts for the month of August. It was with regret, because several of those blogs were quite funny, insightful and well written. I am hoping that it was the dog days of summer and as summer draws to a close they will return to entertain and educate us. If I removed your blog from the Hall of Fame and you post this month, add a comment here. I will reinstate your blog.
Spending several hours reviewing the blogs, I noticed several trends amongst these Hall of Fame blogs.
- The more specific the information in the headlines and in the posts, the more search engine traffic generated.
Last session, I browbeat poor Anita in to changing the headline on a post on a brain tumor to specifically identify the tumor but she started getting hits off that post soon after she changed the headline - Blog posts with examples get more comments.
Quirky Artist gives lots of examples of the art that she creates and receives. In general, the more examples she gives the more comments she gets. The great thing about the Learn to Do it Right blog is how she provides clear and detailed examples. We have a lot of art and course blogs in the Hall of Fame that could really benefit from more specific examples for their readers. - Bloggers often would mention a product or an article but they rarely shared with THEIR readers THEIR personal opinion or experience with that product or article
It is when the blogger personalizes the experience, that it becomes interesting. Most of us visit blogs because we think the blog has some authority. They are coming to get YOUR opinion and perspective. You may not always agree with the opinions on For the People, By the People but you will always know exactly what her opinion is.
I hope that you will be able to find the time to explore some of the blogs in the Hall of Fame. They are varied in topics, personality and writing style.
Your browbeating paid off Bean. I mentioned in this post where most of my traffic comes from; http://www.sliloh.com/blog/blog/blogging-thoughts-and-other-things/. Almost all from Google searches. So while I’m not getting the type of readership that follows me and comments, maybe at least it’s helpful information to some.
New blog post at Over Coffee:. http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/2008/09/who-do-you-compete-with/
I have added a post.
Sorry I’ve been neglecting my blog.
I still plan to redo the header and add photos and to update wordpress. I’ve just been afraid to bite the bullet.
http://cewbit.com/blog
I am reading all the lessons and posts and trying to absorb more and more info.
Carol
Hi Bean,
While I was taking the class last session, in addition to creating the blogparty blog, I also created two others. One was for the PrintShop class and the other was for the Painter classes I’m teaching at LVS. I told you about blogparty and printshop, but neglected to mention the blog about Painter. Meanwhile, that seems to be the one I update the most…go figure…lol.
Anyway, I pasted the url in above and will paste it in again below:
http://lvsonline.com/online-painter-classes/
I’d love it if you were to add it to the Hall of Fame. It’s mostly a running journal of what’s happening in the Painter classes, and today, with over 1200 posts on the board, I have some small idea of what you went through back in May.
You had my sympathy then. I double that sympathy now…
Elaina