Comments on: How To Start A Hyperlocal Blog And Keep Your Full Time Job http://bloggerlens.com/how-to-start-a-hyperlocal-blog-and-keep-your-full-time-job/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:16:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ssherron http://bloggerlens.com/how-to-start-a-hyperlocal-blog-and-keep-your-full-time-job/comment-page-1/#comment-195 ssherron Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:11:57 +0000 http://bloggerlens.com/?p=329#comment-195 @Denise You are welcome and thanks for the link. @Denise You are welcome and thanks for the link.

]]> By: Denise http://bloggerlens.com/how-to-start-a-hyperlocal-blog-and-keep-your-full-time-job/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Denise Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:46:09 +0000 http://bloggerlens.com/?p=329#comment-194 Thanks Steve for the plugin link! I will be giving you a link back to your Monroe Scoop blog on my local blog "Local News Around the World" page. Thanks Steve for the plugin link!

I will be giving you a link back to your Monroe Scoop blog on my local blog “Local News Around the World” page.

]]> By: ssherron http://bloggerlens.com/how-to-start-a-hyperlocal-blog-and-keep-your-full-time-job/comment-page-1/#comment-191 ssherron Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:43:10 +0000 http://bloggerlens.com/?p=329#comment-191 @Denise On my "Submit Articles" page, I use cforms II plugin. http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin Oh yes, I edit each and every article to a degree. I mostly add pertinent keywords. For example, I get a submission that says "Union County School Board elects new Superintendent". I will change it to say "Union County North Carolina School Board selects Bill Mitchell as new Superintendent". I just want to give the search engines a little help. @Denise On my “Submit Articles” page, I use cforms II plugin. http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin

Oh yes, I edit each and every article to a degree. I mostly add pertinent keywords. For example, I get a submission that says “Union County School Board elects new Superintendent”. I will change it to say “Union County North Carolina School Board selects Bill Mitchell as new Superintendent”.

I just want to give the search engines a little help.

]]> By: Denise http://bloggerlens.com/how-to-start-a-hyperlocal-blog-and-keep-your-full-time-job/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Denise Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:23:24 +0000 http://bloggerlens.com/?p=329#comment-190 Steve, On your submit articles page, did you just use a contact plug-in? If so which one? Also do you edit or approve every article? Steve,

On your submit articles page, did you just use a contact plug-in? If so which one?

Also do you edit or approve every article?

]]> By: ssherron http://bloggerlens.com/how-to-start-a-hyperlocal-blog-and-keep-your-full-time-job/comment-page-1/#comment-91 ssherron Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:26:38 +0000 http://bloggerlens.com/?p=329#comment-91 I'm glad you are going hyperlocal Allyn, and no doubt you will succeed. I expect you will take it to the next level. What I have found is that people love to see themselves in photos, videos and in print. They call and e-mail their friends and family. They are your blogs greatest ambassadors. The cool thing about hyperlocal is that nothing is generally too stupid to post. There is an audience for everything. Take a picture of a grocery cart at the bottom of the parking lot at the grocery store. Title it "Lonely Cart" and people will comment and tell you what a nice photo or how they hate that people don't put the carts back in the rack. Keep me up on your progress. I’m glad you are going hyperlocal Allyn, and no doubt you will succeed. I expect you will take it to the next level. What I have found is that people love to see themselves in photos, videos and in print. They call and e-mail their friends and family. They are your blogs greatest ambassadors. The cool thing about hyperlocal is that nothing is generally too stupid to post. There is an audience for everything. Take a picture of a grocery cart at the bottom of the parking lot at the grocery store. Title it “Lonely Cart” and people will comment and tell you what a nice photo or how they hate that people don’t put the carts back in the rack.

Keep me up on your progress.

]]> By: Allyn http://bloggerlens.com/how-to-start-a-hyperlocal-blog-and-keep-your-full-time-job/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Allyn Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:47:00 +0000 http://bloggerlens.com/?p=329#comment-90 I think you are quite the internet marketer there big gunner! You have actually inspired me to start a hyper local. Just bought the domain yesterday and have rounded up a friend (a defunct, discouraged political blogger...he voted for McCain) who lives in my town, and we are going to "go to hyper local heaven" and kick some butt. We both HATE our local newspapers because, well, they just suck. I found that I can grab news feeds from these local papers and place them on my site. (they at least are good for facts and such) and then we are going to each post one "people related" article per week. Some vid too, of course. I like ducks, vids of ducks...that will be cool. I think the best part of your post deals with domain aging. you can never underestimate the power in a domain that has been on the net for over a year or more. This goes well with what you say about getting it started slowly and it will be there waiting for you! Aged domains will take over local terms very quickly once you do put in the full time and "stick it to the man!" good stuff, and a great complement to the niche sites I have focused on for so long. AL I think you are quite the internet marketer there big gunner!
You have actually inspired me to start a hyper local. Just bought the domain yesterday and have rounded up a friend (a defunct, discouraged political blogger…he voted for McCain) who lives in my town, and we are going to “go to hyper local heaven” and kick some butt.
We both HATE our local newspapers because, well, they just suck.

I found that I can grab news feeds from these local papers and place them on my site. (they at least are good for facts and such) and then we are going to each post one “people related” article per week. Some vid too, of course. I like ducks, vids of ducks…that will be cool.

I think the best part of your post deals with domain aging. you can never underestimate the power in a domain that has been on the net for over a year or more. This goes well with what you say about getting it started slowly and it will be there waiting for you!
Aged domains will take over local terms very quickly once you do put in the full time and “stick it to the man!”
good stuff, and a great complement to the niche sites I have focused on for so long.
AL

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