Favorite tips for building an audience for a blog
A columnist on the San Jose Mercury news sent out a call for help: Specifically he was asking for help in building an audience and also getting his blog's audience to engage -- very few people were leaving comments.
The famous Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble responded with 13 tips (that garnered 59 comments at the moment I read it). The tips are on practical and powerful -- any blogger can use them to promote his/her own blog.
My favorites are:
- Cause some heck.
- Write better headlines.
- Link to other bloggers you like (or hate).
- Pick a niche and own it.
- Know how Google/Yahoo/Live/Ask will find you.
Who doesn't need a bigger audience. If journalists need help, lawyers and legal marketers do too.
