How to attract visitors to your blog
Karen, one of the students in the blogging competition has been looking at the clustrmap on my sidebar and wondering, ” How did she get so many visitors to this class blog?” According to the clustrmap over 4000 visitors between 14 March and 14 September.
There are many reasons and here are some of them:
- early on, my students and I visited lots of other blogs and left comments
- the name of the post is important for search engines to pick up eg Fighter jets
- making links in your posts to other blogs and websites
- having an interesting post that lots of people want to read and comment on
- making sure the class blog URL is attached to my avatar when I make a comment
- having an activity linked to the page, so the reader has something to comment on
- check out the other blogs on the class blogrolls
The most important point as Sue Waters says
the key to blogging lies in effective reading of blogs
How many blogs have you read since the competition began?
Which one made you want to read all the posts?
Which one turned you off and why?
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October 2, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
Hey Miss W!
I have a quick question for you. How do you get a class blog url to attach to my avatar? Does it do it automatically? I noticed if I click on your name it will bring me to your site. Anything special I have to do?
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October 3, 2008 @ 5:15 am
Hello Miss! Thank you for the comments! My favourite PC game is Spore, its very new! I think i sent you a comment about that allready… i dont remember! But well, i appreciate what you said about my english!
Is there any of your students that wants to “talk” to me?
Good bye, Cláudia C 6a
stubc08
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October 3, 2008 @ 7:03 am
i have a question about my avatar? Does it have to be a picture that liiks like me or can it be an object that represents me??
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October 3, 2008 @ 9:26 am
Hello thankyou Miss W, but I did not use my last name. I used my middle name, but I might edit some things. Thankyou for telling me!
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October 3, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
I consider a catchy title and good interesting content as the pre-requisites for atrracting readers.
So far, I’ve read many student blogs from the competition. The good interesting ones, I’ve bookmarked for future visits. Some of them, I found to be not updating at all regularly and found to be not interesting enough to visit many times.
But, overall, I got exposure to many student bloggers all over the world and am enjoying the experience thoroughly.
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October 3, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
Hey Miss Wyatt
Thanks for your supportive comment on my blog!
Karen’s question was a good one, and I think I’ve read fairly alot of blogs in my 1 in a half of years of blogging. Actually, I’ve loved reading Meghna’s blog, Pina’s, Laura’s and all my friend’s.
I haven’t ever been turned off any blog actually… they are all good.
Bye Miss Wyatt
Nadine
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October 3, 2008 @ 11:31 pm
Thanks, I really wanted my voki to be nice and unique. I was hoping my voice would come out nicely.
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October 4, 2008 @ 1:20 am
thanx for the advice Miss W.
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October 6, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
Thanks for the tips about how to attract visitors to our blog.
My class has just started using the blog. We hope to get as many
visitors as possible.
Mrs.She and Room 5 Pt. England School. Auckland New Zealand.
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October 8, 2008 @ 10:33 am
Thanks for this advice I hope I get alot of visitors like you.
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March 13, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
I too would like to know how to link our blog to my avatar.
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