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I started this blog because of my intrest in Poker ... but then I realised I could also use it to show off some of my photos and even add more pages when i find something else im interested in..
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Saturday, March 29, 2008

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.

Friday, March 28, 2008

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 .

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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.

Monday, March 24, 2008

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.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

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 ...

Blogging on Google

Google..... This so far has been the easiest site to set up a blog page on so maby this is where you should start.
It has a good selection of templates , which are also easy to change .
A big plus for google blog is google analytics ...... with this you can check and see about traffic coming to youre blog , what pages they are visiting on youre blog ( if you have more than one page ) what if anything they are clicking on, e.g are they clicking on the link to youre web site .
One negative is I dont have access to a spell checker when im writing text like this .................it is available when you are typing a post for youre blog.
Setting up links is easy , so you should have no problem linking to youre website , or to anywhere else.
You also have the option of sharing a blog ........... which means you and a friend can work to gether on the blog , or you can give some one who understands certain things like setting up google analytics , rss feeds access to youre blog and get them to do that and then remove there access when they have it set up for you ......... quite handy that.
And more on google blog later.


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