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September 6th, 2007
One of the first things anyone will tell you when you venture into the world of blogging is to get traffic and build readership you have to be active in the blogosphere. No successful blog is an island. The key to blogging is community.
But as I sit here this morning I’m at a loss. After reading through my feeds and commenting where I could, stumbling around my friends and my favorite keywords for a few hours and doing the same, I’m left with a bit of an “all dressed up and nowhere to go” feeling!
I run into this from time to time. In my experience, active blogging can be a lot like summer in Kansas…8 inches of rain and massive, overwhelming flooding one week followed by a month long drought soon after!
So I thought I’d put it out here…this is what I’ve been using discover new blogs and new blog friends…
- My BlogLog -dwoffice
- StumbleUpon - dwweb
- Technorati -dwoffice
- Exploring the blogrolls and commenters on my current favorite blogs
- Digg…although, I have to admit it’s not my favorite or maybe I just don’t get how to use it efficiently!
- Bloglines…I use this as my feed reader and have also used it to search for new feeds.
How do you discover new blogs? How did you get here? Any suggestions or even criticisms of what I’m already doing are welcome…I’m even open to gratuitous comment requests and self promoting namedropping and befriending on any networks!
Help me help you help me…or something like that 
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Blogging is always like this until you actually start to generate some real traffic. It is a very hard road and seems to normally take a year before you get close to generating any traffic at all.
Hi Steven, Thanks for your comment. I’m actually not too concerned about traffic right now…seems to be building nicely. I’m really interested in finding more blogs/feeds to add to my reader! That being said, I just subscribed to Crenk!
Hi Dana,
I’m like you in always looking to add more great blogs to my reader. I’ve just added you
BTW - I don’t get digg much either. Maybe I’m just not the right kind of blog or something.
Hi Heather, Thanks for adding me! I hope I can write posts worthwhile for you to read!
I am proof positive that StumbleUpon can be a great way to bring in interested readers!
Blogging is harder work than it seems, but gaining a new friend here and there, knowing there are people who appreciate what you do, makes it all worthwhile!