Blogging Tricks Revealed
Just thought I would post some random musings on improving my anime blogging readership.
1. If your blog is on Otaku.fm, please do remember to use a full address for your title image the site pulls. Even though I’ve been on it for a few weeks, I only realized yesterday why some of my title images were never showing up. See normally I type and code all my entries, including the HTML code. So when I when give the link to images, usually I do “/blog/images/file.jpg” to save time from typing my domain’s full address. And well, while it works fine for loading images from the blog, apparently Otaku.fm does not pull the image as you can see in my site listings. After looking at which posts were showing correctly, I finally figured the ones with a full image address, i.e. “http://moyism.com/blog/images/file.jpg”, were loading fine! Looking at other blogs on Otaku.fm, a majority of them do not seem to have this issue but it’s good food for thought for those that didn’t know like myself!
2. One post can (un)fortunately get your blog at the top of a google search. Thanks to this post, I’m currently number 2 when you search for “lolicon blog” on google. I honestly don’t know whether to be happy or sad about that :aorz:
3. Omni is the man for helping increase your readership… even if your blog does suck!
4. Blogging daily, believe it or not, does help to keep the readership constant and fresh 
5. People love the women of Moyashimon as they rightfully should.
… sorry, I think after #2 this post lost all purpose, but I needed other examples to fill this up!
I believe that having frequent interactions with your readers via comments would help a whole lot too. Interactive blogs seem to be more popular, or least I think they are.
Blogging daily may not be as easy as it seems. Often, you will find your creative juices depleting faster than water in a desert. My opinion is that if one has nothing to blog about, there’s no point trying so hard to squeeze out a post. Taking some time off blogging or even an interesting encounter could spark up the inspiration needed.
I’m sure that readers have a preference of quality over quantity.
On side note, my blog get most of it’s hits from Animenano, followed by my link on the blogrolls of other fellow animebloggers. Although that’s not a lot, lol.
That’s rather strange about eh Otaku.fm image. All my anime ep post use absolute urls, yet other ones are relative but both still don’t pick up the image. Kind of annoying since I knew about this weeks ago and can’t seem to figure out the problem.
Blogging daily can help at times, but I think it depends on the content. I’ve noticed that the amount of readers have increased for me since I got more active and blogged everyday when my holidays started.
double, that is true as well (your point about interaction with readers via comments). And yea, daily blogging is tough. I don’t know how I was able to do it in the past nor how others can do it now. Crazy I tells ya
Adun, strange about Otaku.fm image. Do you have any .htaccess setup that may be blocking it? I know one of the first things I did was add Otaku.fm to the allowed list, which may have helped as well. And yea, that is true about content. Unlike myself, you actually blog with content while I just blog whatever tickles my pickle at the moment ^^;;
hmm, i have no idea what the traffic was like on my LJ blog when i was posting regularly, i wish i had a counter or something
my fav blogs are ones like this one, that have pics, new purchases and the odd random entry. makes for fun reading each week
Writing about a series is one way of having daily posts, since some of them air after eachother you´ll get time to write about each and every one of them.
If I just took the thumb out of my *** I would write something today as well. Espacially now since my PSP arrived today
Pretty girls are always a drag on for manly visitors, not so much for female, but still it works.
So even if your list doesn´t have any purpose after #2 it´s still a good list.
For reading about purchases of stuff I want to get myself and such this is really great, with the random change of wallpaper and even more this blog is great. Keep it up!!
I think I might have found a solution to the otaku.fm problem. Go to options > Reading Options and look for “For each article, show:” There are 2 options, and check that you have selected Full text instead of Summary. Hopefully, that might solve the problem.
It did for me.
Thanks double, just tried it out and it all works.
Congrats on “lolicon blog” search ^o^