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I just read about your new role in Grasshopper Media over on Chris Brogan's site. Congratulations! Chris has a huge passion for this emerging market, and he's excited about your take on the business angle, which has the rest of us who know Chris excited for the future of Grasshopper.
Perhaps we'll see both of you down at PodCamp Pittsburgh in November?
Best wishes.
Justin
I'm not sure about PodCamp Pittsburgh, although I'm sure Chris will be there.
I'm definitely looking at PodCamp Toronto though in February - seems so far away though!
Keep in touch, and thanks again!
Some good advice here, too. It's not easy making the headline both "in yer face" but also SEO friendly. But it is possible.
I just wish my recent headline had grabbed a bit more attention.
Your post about Digg and James Kim looks like the type of thing that could get noticed on Digg (save for the fact that it's somewhat anti-Digg.) When it comes to Digg, I've found it's almost all a question of who Diggs the post first - if it's a top Digger you've got a shot at making some noise, otherwise it's very tough.
Hey, if I cared so much about the James Kim story I would throw it into the fray, wouldn't I? It's just that I have been a bit reticent (maybe read "cowardly", or "overly cautious" if you are a forgiving sort)D'you know, I might just go over and do that now, just for the helluvit
The truth is, even the best headline might not work sometimes, but certainly there are better headlines than others out there.
I spend a lot of time on headlines. Not all of them are gems. Not all of them are intended to get dugg or generate lots of traffic. For some I do hope that's the case.
Best resource: http://www.copyblogger.com.
I'm subscribing!
And I have thrown the story to the wolves...gulp!
Item number 2, "keep posts short." I'm not totally buying this one. I thing more appropriately, keep posts succinct and meaningful. Anyone can write a short post but sometimes short equals senseless. I would argue to focus on quality and not quantity.
Despite my slight disagreement, I did enjoy the article. Glad I found your site.
I could have said "Succinct and meaningful" but I was trying to be "short" about it. *laugh*
The goal of this particular post was on how to generate more comments.
At the end of the day I do think shorter posts will result in more comments. That doesn't mean a post of 1 sentence will generate more comments than a post with 10 sentences. But a post that goes on for pages will be very hard pressed to generate commentary.
Thanks for the comment, and I hope we'll see you around some more in the future!
I remembered some of your suggestions when I wrote my most recent blog entry. Alas, I forgot 2 of them, namely, keeping it short and ending with a question. Hopefully practice will make perfect. Please do visit my site and comment on the post if you have the time. I am not as rabidly passionate about Open Source as it appears in the post. But then I was commenting on someone else's article and he did get my dander up!
haha! I couldn't help it!
Good post though
Thanks for commenting, hope to see you around.
It might be a question of your audience being very dispersed - so they find your site (let's say through Google) but there's not enough similar content to keep them engaged and coming back.
It's also a fairly personal blog, and I think those naturally get fewer comments than advice or news-related ones.
Maybe it's time for a contest? Use comments to determine the winner, offer some kind of prize, do something fun that would engage your audience...
I do like the idea of a contest. I'll have to work on that...
One odd thing is that I refer to (a.k.a. "pimp," "hawk," or "trumpet") my blog at work fairly often (although I do try to be subtle so it doesn't become annoying) yet few of my buddies from work seem to frequent the site. More often, the folks who're keeping up with it regularly are friends from halfway across the country.
And I agree in terms of it being hard to get comments on a personal blog, I think that's the nature of a personal blog.
When you go with a long story you just have to make sure you break it up well and use certain writing techniques and styles to keep things flowing...
Short but godd article. But sometimes is Ok to write some really useful and long article…
Check this out!
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You should also try PostReach ClickComments to make it easier for your readers to comment.
Check it out at www.postreach.com
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One thing I'd like to add: Include your website URL in any signature you use for forums, blog comments, etc. By using Site Meter, I've tracked that about half of my incoming traffic is from my comment/forum signature.
For a future article: How about a top five on how to visually set up a blog to generate the most interest?
Thanks again for a great article.
I do agree about putting a URL in a signature on forums ... in blog post comments I always find it a bit much. Mostly because your name already links to your site. I don't typically remove these when people do it, but I find it a bit invasive. Just my thoughts on that...
As for the top five ways to visually setup your blog -- there are lots of good articles out there on good design. I've written some of my thoughts on good blog design as well (do a search for "blog design" and they should come up!) Especially with my recent redesign, I wrote something on Problogger.net about it that was quite detailed.
Good luck!
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Keep up with your website!
Debby