Whoring Ourselves?

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Permalink Reply by Mounting Counting (anonymous) on July 11, 2011 at 1:49am

yeah, my blog had this awkward puberty dry spell phase..that can lose people/momentum

 

If only I were a true blog pimp with ho minions. I'd be like "beotch, where the fuck is my blog traffic, you ain't met your quota, ho!" Get yo' ass out there and hustle those page views....i don't care what you gotta do"

 

Speaking of which, my reward to anyone hustling mad blog views for me is you get to be my bottom bitch. And isn't that what we all aspire to in life? So go promote my sheeot, or I ain't taking you to McDonald's 24 hr drive through tonight.

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Iris on July 10, 2011 at 3:21pm

If you are going to all the work to write and maintain a blog I think you should whore it out to try and gain readers, there's nothing wrong with that.

 

There is a fine line of promoting and being annoying about it. I frequently post my blog URL on Facebook, which is where I get most of my traffic coming from.  I do feel bad sometimes and I try not to be annoying about it but it's really the only way to share it with my friends and family and they enjoy reading it.

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Permalink Reply by Rebekah Meinecke on July 11, 2011 at 11:30am

I felt bad doing posting my blog updates on my personal page so I finally created a page just for my blog! That way, the people who cared could just "like" the blog page :)

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Permalink Reply by Gina on July 11, 2011 at 7:06am

I just gave this suggestion to somebody else, but you really ought to be carefully optimizing yourself for search engines. Google has some good advice on this. That way you get as much traffic as possible coming in from new places. Because you're blogging about a very specific topic, it's probably going to be difficult to snag readers from other blogs. I would recommend going out and finding new readers instead.

 

And seriously? You gotta be a little shameless in self-promotion. Just make sure you mix it with an equal amount of non-self-promotional activity. I'm sure there's a direct analogy to your line of work: you have to put yourself out there in order for customers to find you, yes? Same thing here.

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Permalink Reply by BraveTheWaves on August 11, 2011 at 7:58am

I find your comments always well thought out and helpful, Gina. :)

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Permalink Reply by Delaney on July 11, 2011 at 9:07am

I think that commenting on blogs you enjoy reading & building relationships is the best way to go!

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie McGrew on July 23, 2011 at 5:22pm

its your blog! write what you want...if ppl cant "stomach" it then they should not read it. I share a lot on my blog...and i know other bloogers that are just like you (or worse!)

 

http://mscomposure.blogspot.com/

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Permalink Reply by Shainna Tucker on August 10, 2011 at 10:11pm

I know how you feel. I have for other blogs outside of my blogspot, and I bombard all of them with the content from the blog. you shouldn't feel any shame about it, reality is, word of mouth is how you gain foot traffic, and followers. if ppl dont know the blog exist, who will read it? I say take the "advertising" slow. start out with a couple times a day, maybe post in your facebook or twitter or other blogs if you have it. just take it slow day by day.

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Permalink Reply by Ayman Nassar on August 11, 2011 at 4:12am

theres no such thing as promoting ourselves without being shameless. and theres a thin line between arrogance and confidence.

 

ps is this an example of art imitating life?

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Permalink Reply by Cherie on August 11, 2011 at 4:57am

My name is Cherie and I am a blog whore.

 

http://glass-refractions.blogspot.com

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