[Spartan]

I've been told several times that I should start a blog but I never thought I'd have the time.

Having a smartphone and a lot of free time makes it seem worth it now.


Anyone have any tips on blogs and setting them up??

[porcupine]

What will you blog about?

[Spartan]

(04-23-2012 06:19 PM)porcupine Wrote:  

What will you blog about?

sal con limon
limon con sal


But really, I have a bunch of stuff I do.
Bodybuilding, Cooking, Travel, Game,

On second thought...its best not to post your life on the internet...I'm doing too much of that already.
Might have to find a way to anonymize more.

[dulst]

Some things I've picked up in the few months I've been blogging:

- Stories and "how to" posts seem to be more popular than opinion or analysis posts.
- Use aggregators. I'm on Delusion Damage and In Mala Fide's "linkage is good for you". I also occasionally get put on In Bona Fide. IBF gives me the most traffic but the other two are also great.
- When using aggregators, a cool title is what gets people to bother reading your shit, so pick titles that people can't resist reading.
- Write well, but accept that your early shit will suck and it takes time to get better.
- Use StatCounter. I thought I was bossing until i realised that over 75% of my visits last less than 5 seconds. Got that figure down to ~60% since using statcounter. The visit time feature is the most objective indicator of your writing quality.
- Use twitter, forums and comments on other blogs to promote, but don't just toot your own horn, add value.

[Alpha]

Don't start a game blog. Everyone on earth has a game blog - I'm pretty sure my mom runs one.

The key to getting traffic and any sort of real readership to a blog is by having solid, readable content and a unique perspective. Think for a good while about what exactly makes your blog different and unique, think about what a good niche for you would be, and then write in that area.

[calex]

(04-23-2012 05:58 PM)Spartan Wrote:  

I've been told several times that I should start a blog but I never thought I'd have the time.

Having a smartphone and a lot of free time makes it seem worth it now.


Anyone have any tips on blogs and setting them up??

Buy a .com domain, cheap Hostgator hosting and install wordpress on it. Delusion damage even has a moron friendly tutorial that can get you up and running in 15 minutes.

[Scott]

Wordpress if you can be arsed messing around with it.

Otherwise Blogger.com is one of the most user-friendly ones. Squarespace is also good, cheap and customisable, but I recommend a designer.

Examples of Squarespace.

[dulst]

(04-23-2012 11:26 PM)Alpha Wrote:  

Don't start a game blog. Everyone on earth has a game blog - I'm pretty sure my mom runs one.

The key to getting traffic and any sort of real readership to a blog is by having solid, readable content and a unique perspective. Think for a good while about what exactly makes your blog different and unique, think about what a good niche for you would be, and then write in that area.

Or if you do write about game, write from a fresh perspective. The internet doesn't need more info on approaching a girl and introducing yourself, but fresh game ideas are good.

An example of this approach is University of Man.