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Building readership on a political blog
Posted by hippieprof • 9/11/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: left-wing, Liberal, political, readership
Greetings....
I have been here a day or two and joined a couple of groups and left a couple of messages but I haven't had much response - so maybe I am just looking in the wrong places.
I recently started a blog at:
hippieprofessor.com
It is mostly a left-wing political blog, but there are some surprises thrown in occasionally. It is hosted by wordpress, but I did splurge and buy my own domain name.
My immediate goal is to increase readership and in the process engender open and rational discussion on a variety of political topics. I don't have any immediate plans to make money off this - though that might be in the cards someday. Again, my first goal is to build an actively involved readership.
So far I have been visiting lots of other political blogs and leaving comments - hoping that people will follow links back to my blog - and occasionally blogwhoring by posting explicit links to my blog. It is working slowly - I am starting to get some hits and I have a few people stopping by to comment regularly - but progress is slow.
Does anyone have any hints for increasing readership on a political blog?
Thanks in advance....
-- hippieprof
User Comments
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Blatant link-dropping is a bad idea (though we all did it when we started out)--it'll give you a bad name in the blogosphere, making fellow bloggers LESS likely to visit your blog or link to you, rather than more.
Mostly, I'd say keep visiting blogs and leave intelligent, original, well-written, and not-too-longwinded comments, and make sure that your blog posts are also intelligent, original, well-written, and not-too-longwinded...-
drjay....
Thanks for the response - and thanks for visiting my blog.
I have a question about link dropping.
Obviously it is very bad form to drop a link when it is irrelevant to the ongoing discussion.
But - suppose I have just written a long piece exactly on the topic of discussion (and it would of course be brilliant and insightful...
) - is it OK to drop a link in those cases - with my comment referencing the fact that I have just written on the topic?
Thanks!
-- hippieprof
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i wish you well professer! my boat floats bout the same as yours. I leave bunches of comments daily and get no response either. My comment right now is: Think about this, the honest hard working American who work daily to follow the laws of the land, trying hard day after day to raise honest U.S. American children. Respect. books, family, friends, games and Salute the U.S.A. flag, all the, what used to be proper things in life are going to hell in this country so all the punk left wing liberial politically correct degenerates can go ahead and destroy this country that WE have fought to keep free. I am sick of watching the Honest Hard Working Americans get screwed by a bunch of communist democrat no good political crooks who are living high on the hog for now, but i tell you this, soon we all have a meeting with Lord Jesus in Heaven and we shall see where the real power lays. Laugh now for you shall mourn and weep. This was once a great country but look what is happining to us. Are there no longer any Americans with backbone? Communist are ripping at our throats. Are only a handfull of us seeing what is happening? I am crippled with parkinsons disease and other crippling diseases, a Vietnam Era Veteran (Honorable) and Proud, but sick to my stomach for what this country is turning into. It makes me sick to my stomach. I sit here in great pain this morning, but, i cry thinking about the parents who sent their sons and daughters off to battle to keep murderous rapist and thugs from infiltrating this great country, U.S.A. Meany of our troops come back crippled or dead,but it seems the bad guys are already here and each time a Proud U.S. Military person goes down on the field of battle, another communist fag from hell takes their place while the spineless politicians and rich get richer. Sure wish all you left wing freaks would go make well for yourselves in a third world country and enjoy your leberial ways.
Dr Doc dlcs:
fox-news-magazine.blogspot.com/
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