Blog Designer mind: caught my eye

Posted by Peter F on February 7 2007 in Business Traffic. There are 11 comments. Add yours!

For better or worse, I look at the world with a blog designer mind. Here are two points I came across recently that succinctly sum up a couple of concepts I’ve been thinking about.

From engtech

Community.It’s one word but it is the most important one when it comes to blogging. The only “blog metric” that makes sense is the vibrant community of readers it has. Building a community around your blog will bring you increased traffic, but how do you start? The boilerplate response to building traffic is always “SEO, social networking sites, and commenting on blogs” but it can be simplified to “be part of a community”. The easiest way to seed your blog is with an already existing community. But the only way to do that is to be part of the community yourself.

The second is from metabestweblogwin.com

Ramit Sethi has the most successful personal finance blog by nearly every measure. It has no ads. Zero. Nada. Zilch. And yet he’s able to make money off it anyhow. For Ramit the blog is the ad, and he’s the product.

Emphasis above is mine. I’ll be writing some more on a blog designer’s role in both participating in community and your “blog as ad” in the coming days