Get Blogging 2

Now where was I?

Oh yes, I was assuming you have something one would love to read about. So what do you want to yak about?

Anything really. But if you really want to get noticed and get consistent traffic, you ought to be consistent your self in the topic (never mind that I have not done exactly that), and the frequency of your updates.

Pick a subject close to you, or one you know a lot about and consistently pump out the pages. You are sure to get noticed. Especially if you join a blogging network.

Blogging networks ensure that you get read because anyone coming across a blog on your net work has a chance of viewing your property.

So get a site that encourages communities. If you join one of these communities, you already have readership. The rest is not very difficult. Good community sites like yahoo and msn give a lot of tools to help you. Yahoo! 360° has a slight edge over msn’s spaces, but I am waiting for wallop. This new site from Microsoft is supposed to do all sorts of new things to change the way digital communities work.

But there are more community sites out there. While Yahoo! 360° and spaces, are currently still developing (Yahoo needs to improve the integration of 360 with flicker, and msn needs to marry wallop with spaces) and Google is still building the tools (calendar, video, …) all things to get people talking and building, but Blogger is a heavyweight on it’s own.

Your choice of subject will of course affect where you park your blog. So make sure you review as many sites as possible, before you do so. Also, other activities may interest you. Some sites offer social networking such that you get to meet people and share ideas, while some are nothing more than online diaries.