Get more people to read my Blog

Ya… I don’t think I am interested in really accomplishing this “goal” anymore. I am not entirely sure what purpose it would serve.

Besides, I lost motivation to post to it on a regular basis. Who cares what I have to say anyway?

-t

Recently, I switched hosting services for my website and will soon be looking into actually getting Movable Type to handle my blogging needs. When that happens, it will obviously mean the end of updates for my current blog and will hopefully inspire me to blog more.

Of course, I suppose it would also mean I am to finish updating the redesign of my website.

Despite the transfer of blog “software”, I will also be repositioning the purpose of my blog. Rather, attempting to post more specifically regarding entertainment related to computer graphics and pixel animations (.GIFs) as I have ideas set on converting SPeCks into an animated series.

Terry Tolleson

Recently, I have revisited my priorities. Not that I don’t want people to come to my blog, but with the new addition, I just don’t blog any more.

I think I might try to get a once-a-week thing going, but I am not promising anything.

To all you others attempting this goal, good luck! It is always great to have a readership. I never actually got one and some not-so-recent events prevented me from having open commenting. I know that hurts. I am around 150 away from 5,000 hits overall in the life of my blog.

Terry Tolleson

I am part of several, many, tons of forums. Too many in fact. They all vary across the board in terms of content, but there I am, on several forums. Some with accounts numbering posts above 500. That’s a lot of potential hooks to search engines.

With that said, I am going on a spree of making sure that my blog address is included in the signature of all my forum accounts. Every time I sign my name, it is a link to my blog. I have already seen some spoils from doing this. Even from this website!

So, when posting a comment or what have you, sign your name with a link to your blog.

-Terry Tolleson

I have just recently had over 2500 hits to my blog since I first integrated a stat counter to it. Unfortunately, several of these hits (perhaps 25%) are from the same people, or worse, from page reloads on the same visit. Not even sure why it counts those… Anyway, two thousand five hundred hits is nothing to scoff at.

I have increased my average daily hits by around 15%. I don’t think that is too shabby either, considering I am not famous in any way, what-so-ever. I will admit that posting a link to your blog (when relevant) when posting a comment to a more popular “blog” can be successful. I will give a small shout-out/plug to Greg Storey, of Airbag Industries , to which I owe the recent flux of hits.

I think pinging Technorati is helping as well.

-Terry Tolleson

I read a lot of blogs. Mostly regarding design and the like. On the blogs I read, many have comments posted that number in the double digits easily. I am lucky to have 2 people (that aren’t my immediate family) comment on one of my posts.

So how do I get more people to come to my blog, read it and then comment to it? I know that I average about 13 hits a day to the blog, but they are merely passing by.

What do I need to do to not only attract people, but also retain their visit in such a way to solicite a response.

This “tagging” thing seems promising. 126 people have this as a goal. Who knows… More importantly, does anyone really care?

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