Listening - Principles of Successful Blogging #1

• If you are interested in blogging, here are some tips from Darren Rowse that has been blogging since 2002.....

• Listening - Principles of Successful Blogging #1

  • Listening - Principles of Successful Blogging #1
  • Listen to the culture of the blogosphere
  • Listen for where your potential readers are gathering
  • Listen to what others in your niche are saying

  • My own monitoring of my niches generally happens in two ways:

    1. Subscribing to Feeds of Key Sources of Information - these days most sites have some way of subscribing to them, usually via an RSS feed.
  • 2. Keyword Alerts -
  • Recommendation Sites -
  • Twitter -
  • Listen to what is being said about you
  • Create Listening Spaces on Your Blog
  • Listen to the Questions Your Readers are Asking
  • Listen to what is working (and what isn’t)

  • Some places to start include:

    • What posts are being read most?
    • What posts are generating good conversation/comments?
    • What posts are being linked to by others most?
    • How are readers using your design? (use a tool like CrazyEgg to create a heatmap)
    • What days of the week are people reading your site most on? What times of the day?
    • What pages are people ‘bouncing’ from your site on (bounce rate shows how many people arrive on your blog and immediately leave)
    • What posts are people spending most (and least) time on?
    • What posts are you getting most negative feedback on?
  • How else do you Listen in your blogging?
  
  

  tags: problogger, blogging, Darren Rowse

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