DISQUS

Marg · 4 months ago

This is a great post. Especially like the idea of responding to the comments you get. I try to do that as much as possible. Also like the idea of mentioning readers in your blogs. Good idea.

Carrie · 4 months ago

good info, thanks for giving us all these tips. in fact, i already DID mention you in my encouragement blog, so you're welcome. :) looking forward to more tips and link-ups!

Gina @ The Shabby Chic Cottage · 4 months ago

Great tips! I whole heartedly agree that paying attention to your core readers is what makes you gain more core readers. I try to comment on 25 or so blogs a day, so that others will know that I am not only making my own content but appreciating theirs as well. Thanks for the great tips!

Chic Mama · 4 months ago

Another great post! I look forward to your upcoming tools and the ideas you have to bring us in the future!


Praying for you and your family!

Apryl · 4 months ago

Thanks so much for doing this series - I am new to blogging and I hope your posts will help me to get off to a good start!

Personalized Sketches and Sent · 4 months ago

Thanks for some more great insight! I really truly love to read all the new posts from the blogs I follow! But whew! when I happen to miss one week...boy oh boy, I sure do get behind!


I'm trying to learn how to balance the blogging, blogreading, work, family, artwork orders...and esp my "God and me" time!



Thanks again!

Blessings & Aloha!

Tootsie · 4 months ago

this was a great help....I do all of these things all the time! glad to know I am on the right track!

JanMary · 4 months ago

Very useful post.


I still remember the thrill when a blogger first replied to one of my first ever comments on a blog.



I try wherever possible to reply and visit their blog too.

Brandi · 4 months ago

Thanks for the good ideas! I'm glad that after reading this, I've found that I haven't been a terrible blogger! :)
I would love to know how to add a link to the comment form. I have seen that on some other's blogs, but I'm not sure how to do it. Maybe it's because I'm on Blogger? Hmm.

Genny · 4 months ago

Great post, Brent. I've been using your MckLinky list for my Mom-Mondays and it's been great.

Peggy · 4 months ago

ooooo...competition! Now your true colors are flaring! (lol) not really...


What a great post with many insights & great information! I know you know I needed this & I hope other MckLinky Readers show their appreciation. I'm waiting now for your book!



If I get up the courage to blog about this, can I link to this?



I do take the time with my commenters & reciprocate, never leaving insincere or multiple copy statements but ones that show I've read their content & want to encourage them in what they have shared. Anyways, I appreciate this feedback to a comment I left & this answered one heart break about blogging.



Thanks Brent! You are indeed a TRUE Christian & a great blogger.(minus that competitive edge..)

(maybe that's a 'guy thing'...sorry, I'm kidding but couldn't resist!)

Carrie · 4 months ago

Where was this post when I first started blogging last Christmas?? Lol. Jk. Great tips. :)

Jenjie · 4 months ago

I have just begin to follow you, I am really enjoying blogging and I love the great advice that you have given me so far.


Thanks so much.

Evelyn Mayfield · 4 months ago

Great ideas. I already learned a few the hard way, but seeing them here reinforces what I learned. As for the new ideas I just rec'd from you, thank you. I am so glad I found MckKlinky and its entire community. I will begin co-linking ASAP.
http://prayersncrafts.blogspot.com

http://www.evelynmayfield.etsy.com

icefairy · 4 months ago

Thank you for the great post, Brent! I still remember how warm I felt when a blogger replied to my comment in an email. She now has over 1600 followers and over 1100 subscribers. I have no problem replying to my reader's emails since there aren't many of them. I used to reciprocate blog following when I had a handful of followers. Now I find it hard to do. I do read every single comment but I'm inclined to reply in a comment on the post rather than by email. All in all, it takes a considerable amount of time to build a great blog.

Julia @ Hooked on Houses · 4 months ago

Very well said! I hadn't thought about it this way, but you're right. There are so many sites competing for our attention. I tend to return again and again to those bloggers I feel like I have some sort of relationship with.

Nickimum · 4 months ago

Thanks Brett, I am pretty new in the Blog world, my friends tell me I have alot to share as we are fostercarers, adoptive parents and parents of SN kids.......but I see us as just every day folks, are people really interested in everyday folks ?? Is there stuff that you shouldn't share on your blogs, can you share to much doom and gloom, can you share to much mundan everyday stuff???
I often go to write a blog post and think......hmmm with this really interest people, should I be prejudging my blog readers like that........I am finding that I am getting all caught up in only sharing important stuff (in my view).........Is it wrong to presume people will find our crazy routine and everyday life as boring as I do sometimes LOL........
Anyway I love this series its really helped me and I am suggesting it to friends,
Hugs Nicki

brentriggs · 4 months ago

I can only answer for me, but if it helps you decide, here goes: I share what is on my heart regardless of what people think... but, I don't share things that are truly TOO intimate, private to our family only (and SHOULD be private)... I try not to complain or whine on my blog even though I feel like it sometimes... and even though I share the blues, the discouragement and difficulties once in a while, my primary goal is to share things that are uplifting... not just fluffy "positive thinking" nonsense, but genuinely uplifting, edifying and spiritually nourishing content. Sometimes fun and light hearted (we all need that), sometimes serious, sometimes sad, sometimes personal. Whatever I feel like sharing as long as I know God is not saying "no" to it.