If you’re strapped on time but want a top blog that everyone reads here’s one thing that can help you gain blogosphere fame, Build up content.
Launching a blog or even promoting a blog or blogs with little or no content may create some initial buzz, but you won’t get any return or regular readers. You’ll get some people stopping by initially, and then nothing. You’ll go back to your three or four unique visitors per day and be frustrated as to why that is. It’s content. Unless you’re putting up pictures of half naked women all over your blog you won’t get people coming back.
You have to build up content.
What I suggest first is to just blog for your friends. Start putting up content, tell your friends about it and put up some more. Having a few readers will be enough to keep you going through the initial phase of building content. Then as you have a good base of articles, maybe 30 or 40 spanned over a month, start stock piling. With just 30 or 40 minutes a day, rather than 15 or 20 minutes you can write two articles. Save one, (I suggest the non-time-sensative one you save), and post the other.
Once you have about 30 articles saved, you can then launch a blog to the masses. The time you spend promoting your blog will be well spent, and you’ll always have something new for the readers to read with your stockpiled articles, and you’ll have your content from your month or two of content building blogging. People will see that your blog is serious and ready to stick around and will for one thing keep you in their blog roll and for another, keep you around their regular reads.
I’ll say again, don’t launch or promote without content up, more than 30 articles, and content waiting in the wings, more than 30 preferrably. It’s like insurance in case you get bored, then your launch won’t be for nothing.
[...] But I’ve stuck with it and I’ve actually expanded from just this one blog into a whole network of blogs called Blogtown Press Blog Network. The network launch is coming along, however I feel as though it would have been a little more successful had I practiced what I recently preached over at Blogging on Empty about building content before a launch, but I’m a “do then learn” type. I’m still working on promoting and hopefully my Blog Network Launch Contest and blog network gets picked up by a big time blog and helps spread the word. (Hint Hint) [...]
Thank you for the good advice, actually, I am already doing this, but just for one blog.
I want to do it with all my blogs.