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I started my blog like you and was sad for a while that nobody was visiting me. But participating in challenges and visiting other blogs got me followers and some great friends too! Now I really enjoy blogging and visiting my blog friends.
I find that my blog... Made On The Farm gets hardly any looks these days - there are just too many blogs out there now,
but my facebook page,... Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More
is doing better... please take a look and like!!! click on the facebook link, or just search Elljay Creations,
thanks!
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Your blog is great! Don't be discouraged! Always link to your specific blog post for your cards when you upload them to your gallery here (don't just link to your main blog address - that makes people mad when they can't find your card ) - Splitcoast's gallery is a huge source of traffic!
All of you have wonderful Blogs. The beauty of a community like ours is that we all create and share our creations. I have followed all of your blogs. Please help mine, and for those of you on Pinterest, I am following there as well. Thanks
I feel the same way about my blog. It's a lot of work and then when you see that nobody is following or viewing... it's discouraging. I need to participate in more challenges and get my projects on there.
Someone mentioned that there are so many blogs out there. This is very true. I know that I follow quite a few and some days I just skip and go to my top 5 or top 10.
Just s suggestion but to get more traffic and so google and other searches can find you the title of the post helps and adding tags to all your posts as many as you can fit such as cards,craft,themes etc and updating loads at the begining also helps....
Hiya! I agree with Jean... You need to make your blog address "linkable" in your signature. To do that, simply insert your web address to the following text (instead of studio-sara.com): wwwDOTstudio-saraDOTcom. It would read: wwwDOTyappinboutstampinDOTblogspotDOTcom . I spelled out "dot" because I'm not sure if the text would show up or the link (I know just enough about HTML to get myself in trouble sometimes).
I hope that's helpful! I've just opened your link, but it's time to shuttle the peeps to school, so I'll look at it later this AM. Good luck!
Warmly,
__________________ Sara www.studio-sara.com
Proud Creative Crew and SCS Fan Club Member
Oh, gosh, I've bungled it. Your text should read http://immediately followed by your ...w.) and end in. No spaces. I thought spelling out DOT would help, but now you know what I mean about being a danger to all with regard to HTML...
Mortified, but yours,
__________________ Sara www.studio-sara.com
Proud Creative Crew and SCS Fan Club Member
(Insert scream here) [ url ] your blog address, starting with www. and ending with [ /url ] . I should NOT have used Quick Reply (I could have previewed my reply).
I'm sorry, all...
__________________ Sara www.studio-sara.com
Proud Creative Crew and SCS Fan Club Member
I agree with the things others have said here. I found that people started visiting my blog only after I'd gone out and participated in challenges, commented on other blogs, followed other blogs etc. I think putting in links to your favourite blogs also helps. Sometimes people reciprocate and put a link to your blog in theirs too.
Personally, I'm a pictures person. If I find a blog with lovely big, clear, eye-catching pictures, I put it in my reader and visit it again and again. I think it is important to label your pictures with good key words. Then they seem to appear in the right Google image searches...which then leads people to your blog. I seem to get a lot of hits through Google image searches.
Getting comments is another story all together. Not sure what the secret to success is there. I know that I have been having trouble commenting on lots of blogs for some time now. I sometimes have problems opening the comment form, and those new captchas are down right annoying, and sometimes plain impossible for a mere human to get right.
Don't be discouraged! I know how you feel, but it takes time and it helps if you participate in challenges and after awhile you will get to know other blogger friends.
Who have responded to me, if I can get it to work.
The last response was easy to follow but some the others I don't seem to get my following to take.
So, I just signed up for (free) Bloglovin and I can add any blog I want to follow and get daily emails about posts notifications from the blogs I follow... it is so cool :cool:
I still have many more blogsd to add but I think is a great tool!
Sam, here's a dumb question... When you say "labels," do you mean the ones we add to our posts before we publish them (mine are on the right side of my screen) or is there a way to add labels the photo itself (aside from using keywords in its title)? Your response of May 22 really got me thinking...
Thanks!
Warmly,
__________________ Sara www.studio-sara.com
Proud Creative Crew and SCS Fan Club Member
I'll follow you! I love your top banner design!! Super cute!
Here is a link to mine: www.stampingartstudio.com
I'm new to blogging and would love any feedback. I know exactly how you feel.. its hard to put yourself out there and not know if anyone is looking. I think it takes time. At least I keep telling myself that.
Your blogs are great....off to follow you! Please take a moment to look (and perhaps follow) mine. I just recently started back up after taking a break to have a baby.
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When I said label, I mean't the name you give your actual image/images. Try and name the jpeg as accurately as possible, with words people might use in a Google/Yahoo search. Instead of saying BensParty.jpg...call it punch art giraffe.jpg or gatefold.jpg...words that people use to google, and accurately describe the card/technique, rather than miscellaneous words that people don't/won't be looking for...IYKWIM?
The same applies to the post titles, and the labels at the bottom of the post and words you use in a post. If you are fond of punch art (for example), make sure you accurately label everything in your post (the post itself, the title and the image) with the words punch art, and you will eventually find that people find your blog when they google punch art.
When I said label, I mean't the name you give your actual image/images. Try and name the jpeg as accurately as possible, with words people might use in a Google/Yahoo search. Instead of saying BensParty.jpg...call it punch art giraffe.jpg or gatefold.jpg...words that people use to google, and accurately describe the card/technique, rather than miscellaneous words that people don't/won't be looking for...IYKWIM?
The same applies to the post titles, and the labels at the bottom of the post and words you use in a post. If you are fond of punch art (for example), make sure you accurately label everything in your post (the post itself, the title and the image) with the words punch art, and you will eventually find that people find your blog when they google punch art.
HTH,
Sam.
I'm just seeing this thread, but that's great advice! I learned the hard way how to get Google and other search engine traffic. For example, I made a card using the cherries on the Hello Kitty Cricut Cartridge. I titled the post, "Cherry Notecard". Then a few months later, I used the strawberry on a notecard and I called it, "Strawberry Card Using Hello Kitty Cricut Cartridge." I had no idea that the Hello Kitty Cricut cartridge is highly searched in Google. Now I get lots of hits.
If you know how to look at your stats, see if Google is picking up any of your posts. Then you will have a better idea of how to title them.
I'm so glad to find this thread! I have looked at the blogs mentioned here and you all have some wonderful blogs. For those who are still posting on their blogs, I am following you now. My blog is very basic (I'm very new to this) and seeing your blogs has given me a lot of inspiration!
I went and followed all of you that I could find a followers button on. I don't usually follow by email. Sorry, just too many. Please check out my blog and follow. If I missed someone, let me know.
__________________ Jean2009 Stamping Royalty, Papercraft Magazine; Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen, 2016; Proud Fan Club Member; Teapot Tuesday TEAm
Well our promotional policy does two things - it keeps users from seeing our forums filled with advertising posts instead of stamping content - and it protects our advertisers who have invested in the site, which in turn keeps all these great resources free for all users.
So a forum filled with promotional posts would not be any less productive and healthy than randomly scattered promotional posts
I guess to me, there's a huge huge difference between a business and a blog that's just trying to get viewers. I don't understand how a business would feel threatened by that. The vast majority of blogs I visit aren't selling anything. And blog creators are what fuel this site-without them there wouldn't be anyone to see the ads at all.
And I don't see how "healthy" has anything at all to do with it. :confused:
Free stamps are typically promotion for a stamp company
"healthy" as in a healthy site that's good for the community and for the people who support it and keep it free for users.
Thanks for all the great advice, and in a strange way, it's nice to know I'm not alone in not having receiving very many comments. Come visit me at Creative Chooke
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