Fantastic results

Wow I had my most visitors in my two weeks blogging to day. And its all down to visiting other similar blogs eg photo blogs ....... I had actually double my previous busiest day so far ... with a couple of hours still to go ... So not only am I getting to see some fantastic photos I'm getting visitors to ..... and hopefully a few new links. So if you're new to blogging like me go visit others ... especially if you blog about similar subjects it can only benefit you're blog.

Leg work is in the lead

Well so far visiting similar sites has been the most productive thing I have done for my blog ..... i have been visiting other photo blogs ... and leaving comments and not only has this been very enjoyable ... because i have seen some fantastic photos .... but also as i have picked up a couple of links to my blog and have received a lot of visits too .... so this is going to be a regular and enjoyable part of my blogging time .

Linking , linking and more linking

Spent another couple of hours to day searching the net on linking .......... still haven't come across any thing really useful .......... but everyone agrees you need to link ..... and with similar blogs ..... so its back to the leg work then... and trying to find similar blogs and requesting a link ....... unless of course you're reading this and you're blog is about poker , photography or blogging and you would like to link ..... well let me know by leaving a message in the comment field. I linked up with two other bloggers to-day and from using google analytics I can tell they had visits to there blogs from my blog through those links ....... so if you're a blogger and want more visitors .... lets link.

Linking me linking you its something we must do

Linking .......... we all need to do it to grow ....... but how to do it has me confused ..... People of similar blogs to you should be who you are linking to ......... so do i just ask them to link to me ...... or do I WAIT till they find me and ask can they link to me .............I don't think that will work ....... what about linking to people in you're locality eg being from Kildare , Ireland .... linking to others from these locations even if our blogs are not similar but we have a community in common ...... I have been looking into this topic and will continue to do more research into it but if you have any suggestions please leave a comment.

Attracting more visitors to youre blog

Well as I'm new to blogging this is my biggest obsession ... how to attract more visitors ....... and this is what I found out so far.
1 Join forums and participate ......... this works .. as i am using google analytics i can see for definite the people I'm meeting in the forums are visiting my blog.
2 I have joined Blog rush and this group will promote you're blog in a widget to others that use there service ....... so not only is your blog being promoted , it is also a way to find blogs that you might be interested in as other peoples blogs appear in you're Blog rush widget. To find out more click the Blog rush Widget on my page
3 I have joined google help forums ...... again participation in forums attracts others to you're blog
4 I have also just realised google allow you to create you're own help forums .... so if you want to get together with like minded bloggers and discuss issues this is where to do it .... this i think could attract a lot of visits to you're blog if you came up with something of interests .......ill leave a link for that on my page
5 Looking up help on the web as a lot is written on this subject , again I will add links to pages I think you might find useful ......... in my helpful link section ...

Attracting more traffic to youre blog

Wow so you built a blog good layout lots of content so what do you do now ............. sit back and let everybody read it ...... if only ............ that's kinda what my impression was ........... the reality is for people to visit you re blog you are going to have to put in a bit of work ........... not only is you're content going to have to be relevant to you're visitors for them to keep coming back .......... you have to work at letting them know you are actually here ..... so how do you do that ....... well simple put work .......... but its not all bad ......there is web sites ... explaining what you have to do . .. if you look for them plus whatever i come across I'm going to write about and leave links to.

More google analytics

Google analytics .......... I'm having fun with this ....I just think its great to be able to tell how many visits you had to you re blog ....... where there from ... how long they spent on you re blog ....what pages they visited and even what they clicked on ........................... I don't know how many bloogers use this feature ......... ah ha I think a poll will be useful here. ............................. As for me I was delighted this morning when I discovered I had visits from Australia , Portugal and Belgium. ...................Now I'm going to want to see new country's every time I check the stats. What i would like to know is do any of the other blog sites have this feature or is it only on google , so if you know leave a comment.

Google Analytics

Quick post ........... Just added a link to Google analytics in my Friendly link section ............... so if you want to find out about how many visitors you're blog is getting ...... and more ...... click on this.

Receiving feeds

And again I found adding the feed from this site to M.S.N live fairly easy .............. I have just added the feed from this page so now posts from both pages are covered .............. only one more niggle to sort out is how long it takes to update ... from when I add a post to when it shows up.

Blogging problems

Hi my first post on this page , and my topic will be Blogging problems ..................... Why is rss feed so awkward ....................... if someone wants a link to my posts by getting my feeds via a blog feeder it is tricky to set up or even off putting ............. but on the other hand Windows M.S.N live have made it simple to receive feeds from my blog pages on this site ..................... and how do I know this ...well I set up a page on M.S.N live and had the feeds from my poker page sent over to be shown on my M.S.N page ... and it was easy to do. But i created a blog on a friends computer with google and the same process was tricky , I managed to do it but I can see a lot of people being put off doing it because it wasn't straight forward enough ............... unfortunately I'm still trying to figure how to do it on Yahoo.