Help me spread my blog!

March 12, 2009 6:26 PM

How do I draw the right attention to my new blog?

I feel like my new blog represents a revolutionary idea. How do I draw attention to the blog and the idea? I've emailed everyone I know, but I want to extend further.

I'll post it here, too, unless that's a violation of some kind, which I assume it it.

posted by jefficator to computers & internet (14 comments total)

Is it a project?

Can you post it there?
posted by mattoxic at 6:27 PM on March 12

Put it in your profile here at MetaFilter.
posted by tellurian at 6:35 PM on March 12

Done--go look! :-)
posted by jefficator at 6:43 PM on March 12

Wait, you build homes from the future? Is that a typo?
posted by Hildegarde at 6:53 PM on March 12

Ah. Free editing. (Mr. Burns) Excellent.
posted by jefficator at 6:59 PM on March 12

That's better. Although I do have an interest in architecture, it's a little too focussed for me (I'm in Australia), but good luck. Make comments on other blogs that are simpatico and link those blogs on your blog (they'll often reciprocate). Oh! and get yourself on technorati.
posted by tellurian at 7:01 PM on March 12

Also useful to post your blog address on your Facebook or LinkedIn page, either as part of your profile or as an update ("Just posted a new comment on my blog about xyz").
posted by dboorstin at 7:34 PM on March 12

All good ideas I haven't considered. Thank you!
posted by jefficator at 7:43 PM on March 12

Read everything you can by Dion Hinchcliffe. While not specifically about promoting blogs, he does a great job of explaining things on the blogosphere, social networking, the network effect, etc . . . A good understanding of these principles will help you devise strategies to broaden your audience.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 8:37 PM on March 12 [3 favorites has favorites]

Find trade sites and contact their editor/webmaster/whoever. Also find similar blogs and do guest posts and offer to trade links.
posted by JuiceBoxHero at 9:00 PM on March 12

One thing that helped me a lot was, someone created a publicly viewable syndication feed of a bunch of blogs on the same topic as mine (using Feedburner and Google Reader.) Then, bloggers on the feed (including some who get a ton of traffic purely on their own merits) host a little RSS widget of the feed on the sidebar of their blog. And individual readers can, of course, subscribe to the feed on their personal readers.

Each time I post something that gets syndicated to this group feed, I get thousands of hits, and people who are interested enough in the subject matter to visit one blog on the feed are automatically exposed to dozens of other blogs on the same topic.
posted by peggynature at 5:15 AM on March 13

Put the addy in your email sig.
posted by watercarrier at 6:17 AM on March 13

Passive solar is revolutionary now? I'd always thought of it as mere good sense.

Making self-sufficient passive solar houses out of garbage - now, that's revolutionary.
posted by flabdablet's sock puppet at 9:21 AM on March 13

Verve has a geography based thing that narrows down to architecture. That should work for you.
posted by tellurian at 8:16 AM on March 14