Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette is my personal blog. I was blogging on it months before I discovered Triond. WordPress is my blog host. I am not allowed to have ads on my blog with the type of blog I have; but I am allowed to place as many links on my blog as I want. I have 1,000s of links to my Triond Account. That’s how the Gazette makes money for me.
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The Gazette template is three columns. In the left column are Blog Stats, Top Post, Pages, Archives, Recent Posts, Recent Comments and Categories.
In the middle is my daily content. The front page is set up to show the last 20 posts.
In the third column is the Calender and under this is the blogroll. The blogroll consist of A Writer’s Profile, Blogging For Fun And Profit, Great American Flash Fiction To Read, More Flash Articles and Writers. Underneath Blogging For Fun And Profit, Great American Flash Fiction To Read and More Flash Articles are hundreds of titles from my Triond Account that a reader can see and once clicked on takes the reader right to that piece. I get a hit.
Having all these links to my Triond content in the blogroll also means that if a reader finds one post of my blog by a search engine the entire blogroll of links to Triond appears with that single post. The blogroll appears with every post.
Plus, I place Triond links in the content of the individual posts.
I know there is a Triond widget a blogger can place on a personal blog, but I prefer my method. I have over 1,000 postings on my blog. I have over 1,000 chances that a reader will see something in the blogroll that he or she would want to click on.
This is how I use my personal blog to drive traffic to my Triond Account.
Wonderful advice! thanks
Widget doesn’t work well in the blog. We’ve to place the link one by one to get readers noticed.
I am gonna make a fortune reading al of Guy’s advice
I have been trying to do this but have not have much luck so far. Most of my traffic comes from Reddit and Stumble Upon. I’ve got to try and made my blog work more for me to increase my Triond readership.
My blog doesn’tsend me traffic but maybe I’ll try without the widget.
Great and informative contribution. Makes all sense to me.
Great Article, I wish I understood the whole web world.
Thanx for your contribution to building up my knowledge today as well as in the past regarding sites, blogs and triond.
AlmaG, I’m glad you found the article useful.
CHAN LEE, I don’t even think I’m allowed to put a widget on my personal blog. But I wouldn’t want one anyway.
johnnydod, I try to write articles that are useful to other people. Thanks.
Papa Sparks, I find it difficult to put in enough time on my personal blog because of all the time I put in on Triond.
Petalm, I like my way better than what the widget is suppose to do.
coffeeadict, I’m glad you found the information useful.
It all sounds very clever. I think you need to be a computer genius to be able to do all these things. I am hopeless.
Christine
fishfry, I try to write articles that are useful. Thank you.
Christine, in time with more experience you’ll get better. Just stay engaged.
A useful article.
wonder, I’m learning more about blogging every day.
I am happy with the widget, I sometimes add extra links, but only if it fits in.
Frances, I don’t even know if WordPress allows me to have a widget.
Really very good advice,I just lve to read your blogging ideas and article,Thanks
Themax, I hope the articles are helpful. Thanks.
great idea for people who have their own blog.
martie, thank you. My personal blog has sent hundreds of hits to my Triond account.
Thanks for the good information. I think my problem is not having enough time to work everything.
This will be very useful. Thank you. Keep up the good work.
A very useful blogging tip, infact you are a creative marvel to think of such a wonderful idea to both blog your way through triond.
very very informative tips. thanks for sharing.
I’m always interested in ways to drive traffic to Triond and especially my articles.
I have a Blog in which i publish all my Bookmarks and have seen a good amount of traffic through search engines.
Incredibly awesome. I swing over to your blog and take a look!
I have my blog http://tiny.cc/gCQE5 but have not developed it yet.any feed back would be appreciated.thxs.coming back to the article its good advice.thxs. guy hogan.
Guy, you are so resourceful and full of creative ideas to be resourceful….