Promoting Your Blog

Google's advice on how to promote your blog may be highly effective for those looking to gain a wider audience. We have discussed and implemented many of these suggestions such as:

• thinking about audience 
• writing quality content 
• writing short posts and paragraphs 
• archiving 
• linking to other blogs
• creating a blogroll
• enabling following on your blog (e-mail this post; follow by e-mail)
• publishing regularly
• being an active commentator, and more.

However, Google's "article" is a good reminder and adds some more helpful technical suggestions, some of which are specific to Google and Blogger like adding your blog to blogger listings, etc. Any advice not covered here you'd like to share or know more about?

What Do You See?

What emotions or ideas spring to mind when you look at this image? Why does/doesn't it appeal to you? How could you use this picture to to help make an argument/point about your blog topic?

What is it?

What emotions or ideas spring to mind when you look at this image? Why does/doesn't it appeal to you? How could you use this picture to to help make an argument/point about your blog topic?

Cat Picture of the Day

Although this cat isn't actually up for adoption, his saucy demeanor and downright cuteness remind us why looking after our feline friends is so important.

Would this be a strong "abstract" picture to forward an argument for a blog about adopting pets?