Comments on: Creating a “Everyone Reads It” Blog

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:01:00 +0000

my HOT list:
ChurchCrunch
Ragamuffin Soul
DeadlyViper.org
Mashable
Fast Company

By: stephenbateman

stephenbateman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:47:26 +0000

On the "everyone must read" list I'd humbly set forth: -Carlos Whittaker (Great community) -Mark Batterson (Solid Content) -Ben Arment (Interesting guy)

By: friar_don

friar_don — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:13:46 +0000

You forgot my blogs!

By: friar_don

friar_don — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:13:35 +0000

Honestly, Christian blogging is so much harder to catch on. ere is why: Christians are weird. Some are reformed, some are emergent, others still are lukewarm, and some do not like sinners. Some only read the KJV, others read only The Message.
It is hard to have a blog aimed toward a hugely sub-divided group, you know?

By: friar_don

friar_don — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:13:26 +0000

You forgot my blog!

By: friar_don

friar_don — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:46:01 +0000

I am one who would like more visitors. I know I have a Christian theme going on, but I ope to get more visitors to my fitness themed blog (www.calledtofitness.com) but I know it takes time. I was able to use my Christian blog to catapult people to my fitness one, but I know I need to do more work. I have two-and-a-half years in at www.youseedrybones.com and hope to grow it beyond the 30-40 visitors a day. To do this, I have started to add "how to" types of posts to my blogs. I read from problogger those really help boost traffic. We shall see.

By: stephenbateman

stephenbateman — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:59:31 +0000

It's true. Sometimes I see a post and have to force some weak comment, other times it's simply uncommentable.

But yup, never to hard to find a comment or conversation on this here blog.

By: Jonathanj

Jonathanj — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:55:19 +0000

Yeah, I recently got back in to making a point to comment on people's blogs whom I bookmark. I got away from doing this for a while, but I'm getting back in the game! Plus, ChurchCrunch, as well as human3rror.com are both easy to comment on – they're both interesting!

By: stephenbateman

stephenbateman — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:44:35 +0000

Hey Jonathan, I'm in the same boat. At 58p on Intense Debate, you comment *way* more than 95% of your readers. I doubt they have the same philosophy of blogging as connecting (yes?).

I mean here at CC there is fairly healthy conversation, but there are about 1500 lurkers as well! Unfortunate reality.

By: keshav

keshav — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:21:33 +0000

An "everyone’s gotta read it" blog does take time to build, as you mentioned. But I think, a blog that everyone would want to read should carry expertise in one field. Like Techcruch is for technology and web startups, Mashable for social media and Problogger for blogging. People know, that whenever they need any advice or new coverage, these blogs should be the first to post it and hence, these "everyone gotta read it" blogs need to stand up to expectations that readers demand. Once you create a reputation for reliability and regularity, you need to stand up for it always, or you fail.

And I think that a particular niche is also important for such a blog because a single blog can't report everything and become a one stop for people of different interests.