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Friday, October 27, 2006

The Ultimate Blog post

As I have been on a training course all week I haven't been doing much coding so have been trawling the internet a bit and I found this article

The Ultimate Blog post

of course the ultimate blog post would be new comedy IT blog Amusing IT Stories
which gives an amusing Friday spin on the IT and Office environment and mixed in with some rubbish paint pictures and links to other sites makes it a sure fire winner for the ultimate blog post. Okay well maybe not and shameless plug out of the way I will get on with my post.

There is one point I would like to make that sometimes I read articles about generating traffic onto your site. I find it interesting that so many people are just concerned with getting people onto their blog. It is a bit like young un's saying they want to be famous when they grow up. Not I want to be famous for being a good singer, footballer, code hero.

It seems that bloggers in particular aren't so worried about getting traffic through writing good content but just want lots of people there going there. It takes quite a long time for a blog to gain consistent readership, especially when you consider the use of aggregated blogging software and sites which you can just look at those to see what stories interest you. This of course has it's disadvantages because to find the good stories you have to scan over the many stories that don't interest you.

if you are a blogger posting to link popular link sites is a good way to get interest and traffic to your blog. It does mean you have to write almost standalone articles that will be interesting to casual browsers, rather than people who have just subscribed to your blog.

The ultimate blog article mentions the best way to get traffic onto your blog is to tell your friends about it. I have to admit that when I created my new blog this week, I certainly have emailed all my buddies the link. Although I wasn't like this to start with because I found it slightly embarrassing having your friends, familiar and work mates reading your blog, especially as mine was a technical blog. Sometimes I blog about things I am not totally sure about and often make a prat of myself only to be rescued by some excellent comments submitted by readers of the blog.

I think one of the major ways to get readers onto your blog is persistence, you have to keep writing and build up an interesting back catalogue and also people will slowly find your blog. You also probably get better at blogging and more knowledgeable on the subjects you are blogging about, I can say for certain that I have learnt loads from writing a Java blog.

The real reason I decided to blog about the article
The Ultimate Blog post is because I was interested that the writer has created an average user for each of these popular blogs by writing the ultimate blog post for each blog.

I have to say that one of the best technical link sites is dzone. It hasn't been around a very long time but it's growth has been amazing. I think it benefits from just including technical links which has in my opinion resulted in less rubbish postings. Another good site is Digg, although the users can be quite harsh with their comments.



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