Comments on: What are the Different Ways to Build a Blog?

By: JLP

JLP — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:33:50 +0000

CJ,

It takes time and effort to get traffic to your blog. I remember from the day I started my blog (October 13, 2004) until December 31, 2004 I had a TOTAL of 143 hits! To be fair, I did VERY LITTLE to drive traffic to my blog during that time period.

By: CJ

CJ — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:13:19 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out how to drive traffic to my blog, The Coin Jar. I’ve been blogging since June 2006, and just passed 100 hits (I know, yawn!), though I’ve only made 14 posts. I found this article helpful, though obviously it hasn’t helped too much.

Networking has been good, especially at work. People who know me seem to have the most interest.

-CJ

16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
http://nextlevelpartner.typepad.com/bbab/2005/03/16_ways_to_driv.html

By: Harrison

Harrison — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:43:23 +0000

To me, I know I can’t post as mush as FMF and I also not fast enough to collect all the latest information that happened on the internet(mostly personal finance information). So I decided I would provide some self-written original content which can help people to achieve financial freedom. I wish I can provide my knowledge and information from the other side of the personal finance blogsphere.

Although my site is not as famous as JLP’s and FMF’s, but I think there are some value in my blog there. No matter what happen, I still will focus on my initial target. This is my blogging system. Just like JLP said, if someone comes to my site and read what I written, then I think I’ve done my job…

Opps, am I selling my site? Haha, I hope I’m not making you feeling like that,

By: samerwriter

samerwriter — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:20:42 +0000

I started reading personal finance blogs perhaps a year ago. Initially I subscribed to all the usual suspects, but a few things turned me off:

1. Large numbers of posts. I read blogs through bloglines, and if a blog posts too often it is just too hard to keep up, even to scan through the postings. If someone actually visits a blog’s homepage I can see that more postings would help keep it interesting.

2. Lack of original content. There seem to be information “swarms” such that all the blogs seemed to wind up posting the same (often trivial) stuff; as soon as some random bank would raise their interest rate .15% that would be all you’d read about for the next couple days.

I imagine both of those points make the blog great for search engine traffic, but they make it difficult to keep up or care about the content on a day-to-day basis. Over time I pruned the blogs that I read down to those that post less frequently, but with higher quality and original material.

By: FMF

FMF — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:02:44 +0000

1. Thanks for the “plug.” (though it’s more like 7 posts a day.)

2. You certainly are bringing the community together — and doing it in creative ways. Keep it up! I think it’s a way you can differentiate your blog and grow your traffic in a unique way.

By: Financial Freedumb

Financial Freedumb — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:58:17 +0000

It’s too bad I don’t have enough time to read everything. :/

By: Financial Freedumb

Financial Freedumb — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:56:01 +0000

I agree JLP…you have been bringing the PF community together…I like that. Not sure if there is much you could do differently…I think you’re doing a great job. I like knowing there’s a real person behind each blog…that’s what kind of keeps me coming back. In fact, I think once I like the “blogger,” I’ll read anything they have to write.