Comments on: Q: What is a Blog and Why Should I Blog?

By: Tilusha Adams

Tilusha Adams — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:02:36 +0000

Thanks for this information. I am a registered dietitian and just quit my job in corporate America. I was wanting to write about health and fitness. I’m also asian so I wanted to talk more about Eastern foods vs American and the health benefits.
How do you know who is reading your blog?

By: Steven Chang

Steven Chang — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:59:54 +0000

Hey Leslie,

People usually read blogs that are related to their interests.

Usually they will find you via the search engines (ie. how did you find my blog?).

Blogs are very search engine friendly – meaning as long as you put out content on your blog, they become searchable by other people.

There are definitely more proactive way to finding your readers and it simple boils down to advertising… word of mouth, participating in forums, buying ad spaces on related blogs, etc.

One free way to advertise is to get your blog post syndicated by other related blogs. See this video here:

http://www.howtostartablog.com/syndicate-blog-content-blog-carnival.php

Hope that helps to get you started,
Steven Chang

By: Leslie Korshak

Leslie Korshak — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:40:25 +0000

Thank you for the information. My questions are: Who reads other people’s blogs? How do they find them?

Thank you,
Leslie