Make Money From Blogs With No Readers

I’ve been reading a lot recently how blogs are essentially ‘nothing without readers’. Strictly speaking, this is true in a sense. I mean, what is the point of blogging if your not blogging to anyone? Well, if your not looking to make money online, then there are lots of reasons – keeping track of your life, sharing things with family and friends etc. Yet if you are blogging to make money, readers should be your biggest concern right? Well…not necessarily

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Get Respect With Your Blog Comment

I want to actually talk about something I feel is quite important in your blog commenting practise, but isn’t really addressed. A lot of you will already know what I am going to talk about, possibly the majority, but I feel like I need to discuss it - for a good reason.

You see, when I started blog commenting, I always felt something was missing – I was leaving comments but people didn’t seem to be visiting my blog, and I wasn’t getting replies from the actual bloggers themselves. I wasn’t sure what I was doing wrong. Then one day it hit me like a ton a bricks – I was looking through the comments of a popular blogger, visiting the various blog comment links to check out some new blogs, and I skipped one. I realised what I did, and went back to see why I skipped it – turns out that user didnt have a personal avatar in the comment. I went and checked all the others – all these people had pictures of themselves, of their mascots, or logos next to their blog comments. Yet this user and myself didn’t…and I didn’t even know how to fix it!

Luckily I managed to find that by visiting Gravatar I was able to set myself up with an avatar and now when I post a little cheeky picture of myself shows up next to the comment I have just made. However, why should you get an avatar for posting? Well, I’v found that since getting myself an avatar, I have had an increase in the number of visitors to my blog – sadly I can’t say this is a thorough test, as I have also increased my blog commenting circle – but I genuinely believe that by having an avatar, you are making yourself a more appealing blog to visit. I feel that it instills a sense of trust in your blog, and yourself as a blogger. If you don’t have a ‘gravatar’ yet, I can’t recommend it enough! Go get one now!

Dan