Comments on: ASK people to comment on your blog

By: Mary Richmond

Mary Richmond — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:57:33 +0000

asking for comments is a good thing–i get a lot of emails from people who don’t want to or don’t know how to comment on the blog itself which is too bad. often they have very cogent things to say and it could open a good discussion…we’re all learning here, i guess

By: Sue O'Kieffe

Sue O'Kieffe — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:50:05 +0000

You’ve provided a great service to new bloggers everywhere!

By: Miriam Badyrka

Miriam Badyrka — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:12:33 +0000

Thank you for all this information about blogs. I started my blog in January. Then, you handily send me all this info about blogging in your newsletter and blog. It is much appreciated!

By: Cathy (Kate) Johnson

Cathy (Kate) Johnson — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:30:31 +0000

You’re right about asking people to comment! I ask for responses about paintings or working on the spot, or feedback on my new art class banners on my regular webpage (http://cathyjohnson.info)and find that I get more comments then than on anything else–but my cats! (What can I say, there are a lot of cat people out there!) I have no idea how to do the text link thing, though–I keep thinking I have it sorted out and then they change how it’s done–at least on LiveJournal, where we now have .html and Rich Text formats. (It used to be sort of a bizarre hybrid that worked just fine!) Thank you for all your help, this is very valuable–I found out about you from Katherine Tyrrell’s blog at http://makingamark.blogspot.com/, by the way!

By: Carla Sonheim

Carla Sonheim — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:33:31 +0000

Great suggestions in these comments, too!

By: Sherrie Y

Sherrie Y — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:08:08 +0000

BELIEVE ALYSON ABOUT BLOGS. Three weeks after I launched mine, I started turning up second on a Google search for “linocuts.” Right behind Wikipedia. I have a LOT more traffic on the website, and the blog has created a new little following for my work in Australia. BTW: Google Analytics offers a good (FREE!) tracking device that not only counts visits, but keeps track of pages visited and lets you set up a “goal” for your traffic and track your results. Use it on your blog, use it on your website. It’s easy. And it makes cool little pictures of your data. http://www.google.com/analytics/

By: Katherine (Making a Mark)

Katherine (Making a Mark) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:06:32 +0000

Sorry – I should have made it clearer that I was only referring in the last comment to people who are VERY ‘off topic’ and only interested in their own agendas!

By: Katherine (Making a Mark)

Katherine (Making a Mark) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:04:57 +0000

A jolly good recommendation – I do the same thing. The one problem is that there’s a difficult balance to achieve between: 1) making a blog accessible for people new to blogs to comment – and 2) deterring all the very ‘odd’ people who would like to sell you their services / propound their theories. I have to keep moderation on my comments to avoid too much spam and ‘oddity’ creeping in.

By: Marina Broere

Marina Broere — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:02:11 +0000

Very good advice, I will be using it!

By: Robin N

Robin N — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:27:36 +0000

Great suggestions. The truth in finding those that inspire is the key. All of my mentors were found from searching, finding, commenting.