Five Ways To Promote Your Blog Or Website With Robust Writing
May 28, 2008 · Print This Article
One of the great things about the blog medium is the personal interaction.
By commenting regularly, readers of a blog can become known and extend their own blog’s reach.
By leaving thought-provoking comments that interact with a post, the readers and the author can all help each other by raising points that may have been missed or not fully fleshed out in the post.
With the move to a WordPress blog comes several new features that enable you (the readers of Robust Writing) to become more actively involved here as well as promote your own blog or website.
1. CommentLuv: whenever you leave a comment to one of my posts, you can check the box for CommentLuv, which will run the title of your latest blog post at the bottom of your comment. So, leave an interesting comment, and your fellow Robust Writing readers may be prompted to click over to your blog, especially if the headline for your latest post was an eye-catching one.
2. Top 10 Commentors: on the sidebar is a list of the 10 readers who comment the most on Robust Writing. Comment regularly and you’ll likely be in the top 10 list, ensuring that your name (and blog or website link) will be running on Robust Writing non-stop.
3. Recent Comments: also running on the sidebar are the five most recent comments on Robust Writing. If you comment regularly, especially to each new post, your name will be displaying on the sidebar as well.
Those three things are free and simple ways to advertise your blog or website. Just comment regularly with interesting thoughts and your name will become known to the readership here.
A couple more ways–they cost some money, but they’re worth it.
4. Advertise: I’ve got four 125 X 125 boxes for ads. Contact me to advertise your site or product for an entire month, right at the top of the Robust Writing sidebar. Prices are very reasonable.
5. Hire me: you can hire me to do some robust writing for your own blog or website or for any other writing needs you may have. You can even hire me for some blog writing consultations, where we’ll work together to sharpen your writing and shape it to meet your blog’s needs. Read more about me and check out my portfolio.
There you have it–five ways you can use Robust Writing to promote your blog or website.
Have fun.
As this post is all about commenting I thought it was an opportune time to leave a note on the new site.
I appreciated your thoughtful, well-written posts at vigorous writing and I am looking forward to more of them here at robust writing! I too have a passion for clear, crisp communications - I talk about it on the front page of my business site at rebeccaleigh.com.au
It would be a shame if the great content from your old site was lost - are you planning to revisit some of those topics here?
Rebecca,
Thanks for commenting and for your good words about my previous blog.
One of the things I like about my new format (which significantly enhances the commenting experience for my readers) is that I can start to get to know a little more who’s reading me.
I’m definitely going to revisit some of the same topics–anything related to exploring how to write more clearly and profitably is fair game here.
In fact, I’m planning on doing some “remix posts”–shorter, more tightly written versions of some of my favorite posts from the original blog.
I’ll begin posting some of them later in the week.
Glad you stopped by.
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Awesome! Looking forward to it Jesse
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@ Jesse
I ticked the CommentLuv box but - answer came there none.
In other words, it didn’t work…sob. Let’s see if I get the link this time.
It’s like getting a reward for commenting. I’m going to try CommentLuv at GoodlifeZen!
On another note, I’m a bit wary of cluttering up the sidebar too much by using all the first 3 methods you suggest.
@Rebecca
I agree, Rebecca! I really enjoyed the posts on Vigorous Writing! Some I even remember
Especially the one about ‘Metadiscourse’. Whenever I start writing a sentence with something like “I would like to say…” or “In my opinion…” I pull myself up and scrub out what I’ve written. Jesse, could you maybe have an archive page of Vigorous Writing posts?
I think both Rebecca and I - and many others - would be grateful.
This is a testrun because commentluv didn’t work in my last post. Now I’ve put the URL of my last post in the ‘Website’ box.
10 ..9…8…7..6…5…4…3…2..1..0 do we have lift-off??
Mary,
Try using your full website address:
http://www.goodlifezen.com
That might do it.
Vigorous is old news…Let’s all move on with the future of Robust Writing, like one commentator said in the blog’s first post…
To Mary—-Not so sure why you are concerned with cluttering up the sidebar. Advertisement is advertisement, even if it’s a bad one. Just ask the professional marketers and they’ll tell you that worthy organizations promote themselves by taking a dramatic stand on national issues.
For example, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) recently spoke out against the latest grand theft auto video game because users can drink at a bar and then drive. Obviously, they went out on a limb, since anyone can drink a beer and drive away hours after drinking without any complications!
You see, they had not been getting much press coverage. Maybe people were forgetting about their cause, which I think is very good, and I applaud them for the initiative to begin the organization (although in order to be a mother, there must be father, so it makes out to be father’s don’t care going by the title).
Perhaps they took a stand for press coverage? Who knows, I’m not buddies with the head of public relations at MADD, but I do know that it got my attention. I had forgotten about such a good cause, until I heard my peers complaining about them trying to bash the hot new game.
Now, what I am curious about is mobile blogging. It appears you are keen on crisp, somewhat traditional writing. However, the future of a new brand of writing is mobile writing.
Will you be mobile writing for us? Afterall, this is the future of information…
Mobile writing is abbreviating words, writing “u” instead of spelling “you.” It is concise!
It’s a different form, but middle schoolers are now doing it in their papers.
Writer4Life,
What is mobile writing? I’m not familiar with it.
Interesting point about MADD.
Mobile writing? Tell us more.
I am not fond of the blogger format at all. One of the primary reasons is in order to click on someones website you must click their name, and then click their profile. This certainly does not promote people checking your website out after you leave a comment!
Secondly, some blogs seem to go out of their way to make it difficult to check others websites out of those who left comments. Like when they make the name really tiny. I find this a great deterrence for me to leave a comment and I follow suit. I think the commentluv feature is great! And indeed it makes commenting much more welcoming.
Bamboo,
I agree with you. Blogger can be cool if it’s used well, but often, it isn’t so much.
Yeah, I really want to encourage commenting here, so these new features should help that.
Glad you commented, and I hope you hang out here in the future.
Hi Jesse,
I’m trying to catch up on your posts. I love how you’ve shown different ways we can advertise here. CommentLuv is a new feature at my blog too. I love it, don’t you?! I also have the most recent comments feature.
I think this new site is amazing and you’re doing a great job of blending the same “you” with the new look. Everyone should be ‘tickled pink’!
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Michele,
CommentLuv is really cool. I see you made the transition to WordPress as well. Good job.
Yeah, I’m trying to still just be myself and fit that in with a new look.
I’ll try to keep it up.