It all depends. What is your reason for starting a community blog? What do you hope to accomplish or gain? How much time and effort are you willing to invest? These are individual questions that I have asked myself a hundred times. I guess all bloggers have high’s and low’s. There is no difference when you publish a community blog. There are good days and there are not so good days. I can honestly say, [...]
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If you have just found this site, I thought I would do a re-cap and summarize what I’m trying to accomplish here on bloggerlens.com. I publish a hyperlocal site in Monroe, N.C., monroescoop.com. Some call sites like mine hyperlocal blogs. Some call them citizen journalism sites. Whatever you prefer to call it, it’s a site focused on my hometown. News, community events, business profiles etc. I have been hyperlocal blogging since December, 2008. Just [...] This article will be short and sweet, but very important to your hyperlocal blog. Twitter. Plain and simple. Go to Twitter and sign up. Start using it. There are a zillion articles written about Twitter, so I will not go into the details here. It’s easy enough to find out, just Google it. Twitter will send traffic to your site. Every time I post an article on the Monroe Scoop, I will tweet a [...] I would like to take a little more time with you today to talk some more about your selection of your domain name. If you missed the first article, here is the link again. Selecting your Hyperlocal web domain name. It’s important to select a name in which you will or can dominate the search engines. There are a lot of smart people out there and finding keywords in which you can dominate the SERPS [...] Is it expensive to become a hyperlocal blogger? I probably can’t afford it even if I want to start my own community site. The first answer is NO! You probably already have what you need to start hyperlocal blogging. Your biggest expense will be your time. Time is valuable and you success will somewhat depend upon the time you are willing to devote to your site. Do you have a computer? Do you have internet [...] |
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