Discouraged by low readership?
Don’t know what to post?

One of my favorite blogs for bloggers that is chock-full of tips for those of us who pursue this hobby is Dave Pollard’s How to Save the World.

New bloggers are coming on line all the time, and like all of us who scoured for information when we started, we ‘older’ blogs could learn or re-learn a thing or two.

I find this point especially useful.

Get outside more: Real Live Preacher, consistently one of the three most popular Salon Blogs, deliberately seeks out (looking at the Recent Updates List for unfamiliar blog names) and welcomes and helps new bloggers — a tremendous way to get grateful new readers for his smartly written, well-laid-out blog. By using blog directories like EatonWeb or lists like Technorati’s Current Events (or just typing a topic of interest in Technorati’s search bar) you can find other bloggers interested in the same things you are, and connect with them. Or explore the blogrolls of blogs you like. When you find a ‘like mind’, link to them, e-mail them, comment on their weblog, or otherwise let them know you exist and where to find you. But don’t be pushy and overtly ask them to link to you — just let them know where you are, and they’ll come around.

The survey at Breaking the Bubble shows that the majority of god-blogs get 20-40 hits a day.
I don’t actively or consciously pursue hits.
I did the first month or two of setting up this blog.
But I realized I was buying into something false.
The mentality that ‘more is more’ disgusts me.
It’s subtle, it appears I needed to impress me.
“See I made it,” is something we can all slide into from time to time.
Yes, I’m interested in people stopping by.
If they are interested in what they see, they’ll come back.
We bloggers have all kinds of tools we can use to ‘check the traffic’ and see who is linking us. These tools, like anything else can be an asset or liability.
I hate to break it to you, but you are not going to be an A-list blogger.
What you can be, and what blogging is, is relational.
You can find top-notch discussions, and interesting people.

I gain by leap-blogging. I gain a lot.
There are constant surprises, good writing, good insight, good people, good discussion.
Lately I haven’t been romping around the blogosphere as much as normal and my blogging suffers for it.
Use blogrolls to reach out to new bloggers. Use WLW, The List, UK God-blogs, St. Blog’s The Blogdom or whatever you stumble across.
Start at the ranking lists at bottom instead of the top and encourage someone starting out.
Leave a comment at a blog that is new to you.
They’ll pop by to see who you are.
Blogging isn’t numbers and hits and linear mathematics, people are those numbers, and they can be a source of surprise and joy.

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