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Running thru the days on BloggingExperiment.com, I’m trying to glean Bens best tips and share them with you, as well as my experiences putting them into practice.

Day6–starting with a surplus of posts
Here Ben is talking about the importance of not just starting a blog, writing, and then trying to get visitors right away. He says that, even though the visitors might like what you’ve written, they are unlikely to stay since you don’t have much to read about.

I think this is great advice. I wouldn’t call them great posts, but I did have something here to read. I need to be better about consistency, but I’m trying to make sure there is plenty to read. In fact, at the time of writing this, I have 3 articles postdated to come out in a few days. I think this will help.

Day7–What’s my topic
I’m having trouble with this idea. I think I have a great topic – learning from others. But I’m afraid it may be too broad.

Most good blogs are about a focused topic, blogging or woodworking or sales or home remodeling. Not about them all rolled into one.

Sometimes I think it might be better to have a different blog for each topic. I’m curious what others think?

Is this blog too broad? Would you suggest separating the different categories into different blogs? Or do you think the different categories under the topic of Learning would be just fine? Leave me a comment to let me know what you think.

Day7–Start Getting The Word Out
Also On day seven, Ben started getting the word out thru several different avenues.

First he made sure his readers had more than one way of reading his content. Of course they can come to his site and read. That, of course, would be the optimum method because there they will see be able to get to your archive and about pages, leave comments, and see your ads. He, like most people out there, set up a FeedBurner account, copied the codes that he needed. Simply put, I copied his efforts here.

There were several other suggestions and sites he recommended that I did. Authority Blogger Forum is a great resource he suggests. They’ve got a great feature called “pimp my blog”. There you can make a request for the group to critique your blog, giving you advice from layout and theme, to content and monetization. Speaking of monetization, although the forum doesn’t shun people trying to make money from their blog, their focus is on a blogger becoming an authority in their field.

On of the greatest points he makes was to become a participant – not only online but live events as well. Find blogs that are similar to yours, become familiar with their content and stance on the topic. Participate in conversation in comments and forums. I’ve been doing this with Ben from BloggingExperiment.com and Mark from TheWoodWhisperer.com sense I wrote Linking Out and Other Things I’ve Learned in the Past Couple Days. It’s great conversation and great help.