What do your readers have to look forward to?
My personal blog, Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, is a subject driven blog. It’s about flash fiction, reading it and writing it. My personal blog is now just a marketing tool for my Triond account. I may check the Gazette once a week; because now Triond is my blogging platform. I know there are bloggers who have several blogs, all of them dealing with a different subject. I don’t know how they do it. My hands are full just blogging for Triond. Plus, Triond does the work of putting my content on the appropriate associate sites. I hope this article makes it to Webupon.
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And I do consider myself a Triond blogger. I’m doing exactly the same thing on Triond that I did on the Gazette. There’s just less sex. But adult material was never the reason for publishing my personal blog. It was just a way to bring in more readers. And you know what? I’m getting far more page views blogging for Triond then I ever got on my personal blog.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’m a businessman. Now blogging is my business. Triond does my online marketing for me. Triond even collects my money for me. I’m free to blog.
The only real decision I have to make is, how often should I blog?
Every blogger is faced with this decision. Readers have certain expectations. As far as I can tell there are two kinds of readers of blogs: your regulars and your transients. A blog’s core readers are the regulars who look for a blog to publish at regular intervals. If a blogger can grow a regular core of readers the transients will follow.
Are you blogging tonight?
October 13th, 2009 at 6:58 am
Srry don’t blog only use facebook.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:23 am
I’ve just started a blog, mostly to try and direct traffic to my Triond output. No followers yet, LOL. But seriously, not sure if can confine myself to a narrow range of topics. Maybe Triond will have to be my blog too, so I take your point.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I facebook! Great article!
October 13th, 2009 at 8:25 am
I post all my triond articles in my blog. I am even more a fresher in blogging
October 13th, 2009 at 8:28 am
You are right. Too many blogs makes it tough – too spread out.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:51 am
royee100, you’re better off with just Facebook and Triond. The two will keep you plenty busy.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:57 am
blackrockrose, I had to stop blogging on my personal blog because after I started writing for Triond my personal blog became redundant.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Mrs. Heart, I was never one for social networking online. Triond is my online social network. A network of writers is a perfect fit for me.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:09 am
chitragopi, I don’t post my Triond articles on my personal blog because that won’t make me any money; but I do post links on my personal blog to my Triond articles.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:10 am
I have been thinking about starting a blog for ages – mainly to point readers to Triond, but from what you say maybe it’s not worth it for that purpose.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:14 am
I still have my blog, I write it daily, the content wouldnt really fit Triond. I post links to my articles on my blog but I like writing the blog it is a different kind of writing.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:15 am
strovek, that’s the reason why I don’t blog on my personal blog anymore. I want to concentrate on Triond. I spend hours on Triond every day.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Katien, I find that anything I want to blog about I can put on Triond. My personal blog was always subject driven. So, why not take that content and put it on Triond?
October 13th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Triond is all I use, at least for now.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Frances, I can understand why you want to keep your personal blog. The content I was putting on my personal blog was the same content I was putting on Triond.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:39 am
I have always thought of consolidating my work on Triond. Its just that the profile page only posts articles in order of submission, rather then featured works…
October 13th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Lady Sunshine, I already put in hours every day on Triond so I really don’t have time or enough content for a personal blog.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:42 am
I don’t have a blog, I’m plenty busy enough thanks. I would never be able to actually blog, and I probably wouldnt get many followers either. Oh well, I’ll just stick to Triond.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Vikram, that is a problem. I hope you can find a solution.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Aleena, Triond is a good choice. I feel the same way you do.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
How much you write that entirely depends how much you want to write. And more importantly how much time do you have for blogging. Also we should not write when we don’t have anything to write!
October 13th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I love Triond and the way it is set up. I also keep a blog with different content, short content. For example one of my articles was rejected on Triond because the content was “too sales oriented or commercialized” – I didn’t think so, but I have a strong background in sales, so I guess it leakes out in my writing, at times. My other writing site accepted the article, but if it didn’t it was going to end up on my blog – as I thought it was a pretty good one to just trash. My blog also allows me to earn some money thru advertising. I guess for me it works better to separate both.
October 13th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I love blogging
October 13th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
I spend so much time reading and writing. I don’t have any time to stretch further.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I have been writing online under many different pen names for several years. I have a good collection of stories on Triond and on Hub and Helium, (until I got banned for telling off the wrong person!)
My problem is figuring out the online “marketing” of my work. I’m working on that now but it’s a never ending thing; Facebook, Twitter, Stumble…geez, and I don’t think it’s making a dent yet.
I guess, according to your article, I better get on with finishing my web site so I can point traffic this direction? Right? I’m such a dork at this stuff; thanks for the info. Good article.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Sourav, I would say time is probably the deciding factor in how much a writer writes.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Marie, if I had not lost my Adsense ads on my personal blog, I kept publishing adult fiction, I would have kept blogging on my personal blog. Now I might put up five postings a month because my personal blog still sends several visitors to my Triond account every day. My personal blog has a 1,000 article footprint on the Internet so it still gets a lot of hits even though it’s not active.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
ek ellis, I’m trying to figure out how to make Triond my blogging platform. It would make things so simple. Simplicity is the gospel I believe in.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Ruby, time is the deciding factor for everything.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Taryn, what the article is saying is that I’ve made Triond my blogging platform because it makes blogging on my personal blog redundant.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I am not blogging right now. lol. Good topic. nice image. I also joined Helium.
October 13th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Great article but I havent made the leap into blogging yet.But I will probably next year when life settles down.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I love blogging. It’s a good thing too because I have three (without sex). I have an emphasis on herbal remedies, nutrition and things to provoke one’s thinking. Triond is still an important part of my life and I refer readers back to Triond to read and write.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:35 am
I do blog but I link back to my articles on paid to write sites. I just started a crafting blog:
http://craft-connection.blogspot.com/
This is an example of how I use my paid to write articles as content. Yes I write on other topics, but I collect all the crafting ones here.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:43 am
I’ve dabbled a tiny bit with blogging, and found it to be much tougher to get regular readers when you’re a one-person show than it is to get regular readers on Triond. Are you finding that Triond writing is as lucrative as your blogging?
October 14th, 2009 at 12:44 am
tonight I will be working
October 14th, 2009 at 1:04 am
That’s encouraging.Thanks!
October 14th, 2009 at 1:29 am
I use Stumbleupon as well as Triond as Stumbleupon allows me to portray my work in a more visually attractive way.
http://johnnydod.stumbleupon.com/public/
It also gives me a much wider readership.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:38 am
My first preference is Triond then to give some time to blogging
October 14th, 2009 at 1:54 am
Liked it, I’ve just started with triond.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:32 am
Nice one…
October 14th, 2009 at 5:54 am
I have two blogs, the first is a personal journal that no one reads and it’s just for my thoughts and feelings. The second is a varied blog that directs all traffic to Triond. Admittedly I have two versions of this blog, on with Blogger and the other with Wordpress. I’m in the middle of promoting my blogger blog more because I don’t get any traffic through it yet but the Wordpress blog sends at least 30 people every week.
I’m happy with that
October 14th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Blogging always seemed a little public to me. But I can see how it would be useful for specific topics.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:00 am
Guy, you are doing well on here, people like to read what you have to say!
October 15th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I also maintain a blog, mainly for the purpose of driving traffic to my Triond articles. For me blogging is done on a more personal level, it’s kinda journal-like. But I don’t update it often, because I spend more time on Triond.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Makes total sense, Guy.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:39 am
If everything your saying is true then, lead on! i just started blogging here , im a blogger on myspace but hopefully i get more views here!
October 16th, 2009 at 2:27 am
I gave blogging a try, but it didn’t work very well. It felt so lonely, unlike Triond with the community here.
October 17th, 2009 at 7:21 am
I have a blog… but just as a sharing place
October 19th, 2009 at 9:57 am
marlene, I try to figure out how to use Triond as my personal blog since I have no ads on the Gazette.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:01 am
mystery writter, publishing a blog does take time. And if you blog every day it can take a lot of time.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Judy, that’s what I do. The Gazette is just a marketing tool for my Triond content.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:08 am
janet, that’s all I use the Gazette for, to drive traffic to my Triond pieces.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
WriteEditSeek, it’s much easier to get views on Triond than it is to get views on my personal blog.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Borneon, blogging definitely takes a backseat to going to work.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Patrick, with a little time and effort a blog can work for you.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
johnnydod, I’ve decided to concentrate on Triond and just to use my blog to drive traffic to Triond.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
cutedrishti, I do the same thing. I spend %98 of my time on Triond and only %2 on my blog.
October 20th, 2009 at 3:47 am
Dear Guy Hogan.
About this article, my feelings are the same which I’ve already expressed at your another article, Confessions of a Sex Blogger.