Challenge 3 – Please visit me!!
Your blog is up and running but not many people are visiting you to leave comments. How do you attract comments and how do you find out who is visiting?
Attracting visitors:
- my students and I visit lots of other blogs and leave 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
Check out these student posts and the comments about building your blog audience:
Checking who is visiting:
There are a few ways to do this. You could have
- a counter such as the flagcounter on this page
- a clustrmap, how to add to your sidebar
- and if 13 or older, a feedjit map
Some classes taking part in the challenge are keeping a large world map showing where their visitors are coming from. They want to know about your country and where you live. This week’s challenge is to visit at least 10 other blogs that are new to you and leave a comment on an interesting post.
Make sure you stop by Mrs Cranford and Mrs Rush with their class blogs.
Remember the most important point as Sue Waters says
the key to blogging lies in effective reading of blogs
March 15, 2009 @ 4:20 pm
[...] week is Week 3 in the blogging challenge. Miss Wyatt has put a new challenge up for us to do. As you will see you have to visit 10 ‘new’ blogs and leave a comment. [...]
March 16, 2009 @ 9:07 am
Hello, again! Mrs. Wyatt, do you know who after a year has had the most attendance to their ClustrMap? If any other people are reading this blog, please go to ours:
http://writeoutloud.edublogs.org.
Thanks!
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Miss W. Reply:
March 20th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I’m not sure who would have the most visitors on their clustrmap after a year, but my class had nearly 18 000. If you go to Sue Waters blog called The Edublogger she would have had a lt lot more than me.
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March 16, 2009 @ 11:15 am
[...] is week three of the blogging challenge. One post is up for [...]
March 17, 2009 @ 3:11 am
Hi!
Thanks!so , now I will go and visit some blogs!
kisses!
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March 17, 2009 @ 10:48 am
Cool! This will be fun and interesting!
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March 18, 2009 @ 12:34 am
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March 18, 2009 @ 7:56 am
Hi there!
I made myself an avatar and I’ve already got that map with the red points because I like knowing all the people from different countries who are visiting me!
it’s incredible when i find out that someone from taiwan or new zealand have read my blog!
it really makes me happy!
i wanted to thanked you because with this challenge i’ve made a lot of friends from different countries and that’s sth i always wanted but never thought could come true!
so thank you very much!
if you want, you can come to my blog
kisses!
reni
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Miss W. Reply:
March 20th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Reni,
I am very glad you are making friends. That is what the blogging challenge is all about.
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March 18, 2009 @ 5:07 pm
Hi everyone!
My name is Melisa. I’m twelve years old. I’m from Turkey. My school name is TED İstanbul College. You can visit our blog everytime.
http://www.blogteddy.com/6th/
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March 18, 2009 @ 5:07 pm
G’day!
I’m from Turkey and go to TED Istanbul College. I like to play Wii and Iphone. I checked your blog and I found it very interesting. It was so enjoyable to read. You can visit our blog too:
http://www.blogteddy.com/6th/
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Miss W. Reply:
March 20th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
G’day Naz,
Glad you find my blog interesting. I hope you and your friends enjoy doing the activities from the blogging challenge. I like your comment avatar.
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March 18, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
MY REAL NAME İS ALPER.MY FİRST COMMENT WAS A JOKE
(THEY HAVE A VERY GOOD ENGLİSH)
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March 18, 2009 @ 8:35 pm
Hı am Cansu I live in Turkey and I love your blog and. I love swimming and playing tennis I love HOT DOGS very much.
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Miss W. Reply:
March 20th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
G’day Cansu,
Do you have mustard or tomato sauce on your hot dogs?
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March 18, 2009 @ 11:46 pm
Hey Miss Wyatt its been a while since I commented you blog. i just put up a very amazing
deep thoughted blog post check it-
Do Actions speak louder than intentions?
Check it Out!!!!!
http://julyaf09.edublogs.org/2009/03/18/actions-speak-louder-than-intentions/
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Miss W. Reply:
March 20th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
What a thought provoking post! Mr Bogush certainly has you all thinking when he sets you a question ….
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March 19, 2009 @ 3:40 am
This challenge may seem pointless for some, but it is cool that you are using this to promote other peoples’ blog.
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Miss W. Reply:
March 20th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Matt,
One of the main reasons for having a blog is to collaborate and make conversations with other people. As the organizer of the challenge, I try to make sure many blogs are mentioned as part of each weekly challenge.
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March 20, 2009 @ 4:33 am
Hello, World! It’s megan! Today is International Dress Day at my school! Students who have something from their culture (or any culture) wear their outfit. I am 7% French, so I wore a Beret and French Scarf. What do you have from your culture? What culture are you from? Please comment back!!!
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Miss W. Reply:
March 20th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Hi Megan,
What a great idea to show your culture to other people at school. Do you have your own blog or a class blog that I could come back and comment on?
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March 21, 2009 @ 11:11 am
I think that this will be a great way to interact with fellow bloggers as well as interesting. To start doing this, I am tagging you on the subject “If I could only bring five things. . .”. There is more information on my blog at .
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March 22, 2009 @ 12:19 am
Thanks for keeping us up to date with the challenges. This is so helpful for my class (and myself!) who are still new to blogging. The challenges have been great at helping the students find out what is important to do first when blogging.
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March 22, 2009 @ 1:34 am
Thank you Miss W. for the tips.I very much want to have lots of visitors to my blog and have my clustrmap fill up.
-Dominique
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March 24, 2009 @ 8:34 am
i wound that this is a very good way to find out who is watching my blog and it is very interesting how people all over the world are watching it.
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March 27, 2009 @ 7:46 am
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March 29, 2009 @ 7:41 am
Hi Miss W.
I forgot to say in my previous post that my blog is: http://dominiquelovestoread.edublogs.org . I would love to have lots of people visit it!Thank you for making all the challenges, they are very fun to do. How long did it take for your clustr map to fill up that much?
-Dominique
p.s. Also visit my francais teacher Mlle. Watson’s blog : frenchymms.edublogs.org
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March 31, 2009 @ 10:54 am
These are some great tips! Thanks for posting them and reminding people who have been blogging for a while, or new bloggers, how to attract people to their blog!
http://www.mraustinsblog.com
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April 12, 2009 @ 10:49 pm
Hi, this is James from grade 5F at Gems Word Acadamy in sunny Dubai. We have a new blog you can visit at http://gwagrade5.edublogs.org/
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April 12, 2009 @ 11:02 pm
SAMM: siads/12/4/09
This ebudlogs is cool! I kind of like to comments on this but I’ll need time to think!!
P.S student and teacher from other school cool comment keep it up!!!!
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September 24, 2009 @ 4:23 am
l love your blog it’s realy cool!
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