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Blogging Guide > Advertising and Promotion > While stumbling around, I found the light switch
A quick recap
The first blog entry I submitted, Redefining the album concept, generated lots of interest but no comments. I submitted several other pages and watched the results, writing about them in another blog entry, StumbleUpon and a visitor's attention span.
Second time lucky?
After making a couple of area redesigns, I submitted my follow-up blog entry to StumbleUpon itself - and it's done a lot better. 400 hits and 4 comments so far - although two of the comments are from me, and one was from someone who already reads my blog before I embarked on this adventure. Still, my latest visitor also downloaded a track and commented on it, so things are definitely looking up.
Something changed.
What's different this time? I'd say the redesigns helped. Also, the album concept blog entry may have been a bit too far-fetched to grab people's attention just by reading a small bit of it.
But it's probably much more simple than that. It makes sense that an article about the site it's submitted to would generate more interest than something less focused. After all, this is a site the readers use.
What happens next?
This was really just an experiment to see if the site was likely towork for me. So far, it seems to do a lot more good than any othersite I've submitted to.
I don't plan to submit dozens and dozens of blog entries just to get my site out there. I might go back and find a few of my more organised ramblings and submit those, but I'll stick to the better entries. There's not much point submitting entries that don't really have much of a purpose.
Just a few days ago, I said I was frustrated at not being able to know what people really thought - but the figures were good. Now, I'm learning a bit more about how to spread the word when I've got something worth sharing.
That seems to be the key: write something good, spread the word in the right places, and people DO come and visit. But write any old nonsense and try to get your name out there for that, and you don't get very far.
Maybe my blog entries are improving. I guess that's what happens when you move from weekly to daily blogging.
While stumbling around, I found the light switch
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Well, it seems like I've had better luck with my latest StumbleUpon submission.A quick recap
The first blog entry I submitted, Redefining the album concept, generated lots of interest but no comments. I submitted several other pages and watched the results, writing about them in another blog entry, StumbleUpon and a visitor's attention span.
Second time lucky?
After making a couple of area redesigns, I submitted my follow-up blog entry to StumbleUpon itself - and it's done a lot better. 400 hits and 4 comments so far - although two of the comments are from me, and one was from someone who already reads my blog before I embarked on this adventure. Still, my latest visitor also downloaded a track and commented on it, so things are definitely looking up.
Something changed.
What's different this time? I'd say the redesigns helped. Also, the album concept blog entry may have been a bit too far-fetched to grab people's attention just by reading a small bit of it.
But it's probably much more simple than that. It makes sense that an article about the site it's submitted to would generate more interest than something less focused. After all, this is a site the readers use.
What happens next?
This was really just an experiment to see if the site was likely towork for me. So far, it seems to do a lot more good than any othersite I've submitted to.
I don't plan to submit dozens and dozens of blog entries just to get my site out there. I might go back and find a few of my more organised ramblings and submit those, but I'll stick to the better entries. There's not much point submitting entries that don't really have much of a purpose.
Just a few days ago, I said I was frustrated at not being able to know what people really thought - but the figures were good. Now, I'm learning a bit more about how to spread the word when I've got something worth sharing.
That seems to be the key: write something good, spread the word in the right places, and people DO come and visit. But write any old nonsense and try to get your name out there for that, and you don't get very far.
Maybe my blog entries are improving. I guess that's what happens when you move from weekly to daily blogging.
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Hi Sushi, thanks for leaving a comment. Yes, I'm a musician, in fact I have quite a lot of my music available to download on my site. Just click the Music link at the top. It's all absolutely free.
Are you a musician by chance?