tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099085388835042296.post3526789574668468976..comments2022-08-11T00:33:22.407-07:00Comments on Radical Psych: On DiseaseShaunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13442748467425987737noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099085388835042296.post-88888355483017526932008-02-03T13:49:00.000-08:002008-02-03T13:49:00.000-08:00I saw your comment at Shakesville also. And minst...I saw your comment at Shakesville also. And minstrel boy and I go way back (well, in blog years at least). <BR/><BR/>You have an interesting niche.<BR/><BR/>Everyone has advice on how to build readers and get linked. My suggestion is purely based on my own experience and not meant to discredit any other suggestions.<BR/><BR/>I gave up on the big blogs long ago. For starters, their comment threads are not so much a community as they are a concert stadium. You might as well be at a U2 concert at MSG during an encore and yell out, "visit my blog."<BR/><BR/>Find a blog or two where you develop a relationship with a number of people over the course of time and things will build.<BR/><BR/>I think it's far more important to stay active in a number of comment threads at different smaller blogs than it is to try and gather a few readers from commenting at the Big Box Blogs.<BR/><BR/>I would also highly recommend you try and post fresh content at least once every day or couple of days, particularly with a new blog.<BR/><BR/>And Shakesville is a great place to start. It's not a small blog but definitely has real community you'll unlikely find at very many blogs of equal size.<BR/><BR/>Aside from the blogwhoring opportunities that Melissa mentioned -- particularly those posts each week which encourage blog links, I also suggest checking out the Friday night Virtual Pub (sometimes not for the squeamish! :lol:) -- it's a great way to kick back and really get to know a few people, most of them bloggers, on a personal basis.<BR/><BR/>Good luck and hope you stick with it. It may take awhile to notice much difference but if you work hard, it will pay off to some extent.Friðvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08508816404445742901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099085388835042296.post-63626289004023725922008-02-03T12:31:00.000-08:002008-02-03T12:31:00.000-08:00goddamned glad they didn't have psychotropics when...goddamned glad they didn't have psychotropics when i was a kid. i was all of that and more. i delighted in offending certain folks. like some of the more tight assed missionaries who came to my rez to teach school. they were fun to scandalize. later, in the service i learned that subtle trick of being so exquisitely polite that it feels rude. i loved that one because there was nothing they could do about it. like complain i was too polite? hahahahaha.<BR/><BR/>welcome to the world of blogging shauna. melissa and a lot of the folks over at shakesville will give you lots of help. it's yours for the asking, or the taking.The Minstrel Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697821546165315014noreply@blogger.com