Encouragement at the Right Time

Of course I’ve read it (and you have too) blogging is hard work. Trying to generate quality content day after day can be difficult. You’ve also heard that one of the keys to success with blogging is persistence. Few make much of an impact early on and it may be months or longer before a blogger attracts a following. I’d been going full steam ahead for a while now and hit a bit of a mental roadblock this week. The promotion I’ve been doing has been working somewhat but traffic and regular readers have been slow in coming. Then just now I got a boost. A post I submitted to Blogsvine won in their free ad campaign contest.

If you’re not familiar with Blogsvine you can be excused since they’re pretty new. Blogsvine is essentially a Digg-like social bookmarking site that’s focused on (you guessed it) blogs. You can submit entire blogs (homepage) or specific posts. Unlike Digg you are welcomed to submit your own posts and also unlike Digg bloggers tend to get a friendly reception. Blogsvine has the familiar vote up/vote down/comment on submissions and of course a profile and friend system.

I’m proud to say that my post on capitalizing on accidental traffic not only got 7 up votes and 2 comments on blogsvine (which is pretty decent for stories there), it was also judged a top 10 story by blogsvine and earns me an ad spot. I’ll certainly be giving blogsvine a bit more of my attention and I’ll keep you posted as to any results from the ad spot.

Oddly enough that post (which I do think is a good one) was one that was written fairly quickly and as a reminder to myself to take the very steps I recommended. A site of mine is getting a fair bit of accidental traffic and I can use it but haven’t to this point. Guess what’s tops of my todo list for today?