Comments on: Build Your Blog’s Traffic and Impact with Resource Posts http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/05/build-your-blogs-traffic-and-impact-with-resource-posts Tools, Tips, and Technology for Productive Writers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:31:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Andrew http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/05/build-your-blogs-traffic-and-impact-with-resource-posts/comment-page-1#comment-169 Andrew Mon, 26 May 2008 18:29:57 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/?p=38#comment-169 Dustin: Great advice. I cannot recommend this strategy enough. Back in January, I compiled a <a href="http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/2008/01/04/public-speaking-blogosphere/" rel="nofollow">list of 70 public speaking bloggers</a> as a snapshot of my niche. <b>Traffic</b>: It generated much more traffic than anything I had previously written, and continues to be one of the more popular articles I've written. <b>Expert in your niche</b>: That article got me noticed, and I have tried since then to build on it. The list has grown from 70 to 106, and I now deliver a weekly review of the niche. It took a long time to compile the original list, but it was worth every second. Dustin:

Great advice. I cannot recommend this strategy enough.

Back in January, I compiled a list of 70 public speaking bloggers as a snapshot of my niche.

Traffic: It generated much more traffic than anything I had previously written, and continues to be one of the more popular articles I’ve written.

Expert in your niche: That article got me noticed, and I have tried since then to build on it. The list has grown from 70 to 106, and I now deliver a weekly review of the niche.

It took a long time to compile the original list, but it was worth every second.

]]> By: Andre Kibbe http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/05/build-your-blogs-traffic-and-impact-with-resource-posts/comment-page-1#comment-167 Andre Kibbe Sat, 24 May 2008 23:44:51 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/?p=38#comment-167 Aneesa: As someone who doesn't follow sports, but would like to be more conversant in the ones that are "water cooler" topics (football, baseball, basketball, golf, etc.), I'd love to see a resource post on the best introductions to popular sports (e.g. Football for Dummies) that go beyond Wikipedia. I think there are a ton of would-be sports fans out there who are looking for a point of entry. Aneesa: As someone who doesn’t follow sports, but would like to be more conversant in the ones that are “water cooler” topics (football, baseball, basketball, golf, etc.), I’d love to see a resource post on the best introductions to popular sports (e.g. Football for Dummies) that go beyond Wikipedia. I think there are a ton of would-be sports fans out there who are looking for a point of entry.

]]> By: May http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/05/build-your-blogs-traffic-and-impact-with-resource-posts/comment-page-1#comment-166 May Fri, 23 May 2008 20:16:51 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/?p=38#comment-166 I like the idea of being big, bold and educational :) I already have an idea of what to write now! I like the idea of being big, bold and educational :)
I already have an idea of what to write now!

]]> By: Dustin http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/05/build-your-blogs-traffic-and-impact-with-resource-posts/comment-page-1#comment-165 Dustin Fri, 23 May 2008 19:37:30 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/?p=38#comment-165 Aneesa: The "Must Read Hockey Books" post is a great example -- lots of commentary to keep it from being just another lsit of books, but clearly something to come back to more than once. I'd pull all the links into a list at the bottom for easy reference, though (keeping them interspersed with your reviews, too, of course). Naturally, you want your whole site to be a resource as well; writing "resource posts" isn't meant to be the only way you build your site. Technically, on a well-written site, every post is a valuable resource, but once in a while, you throw out a massive list, or anything else people are going to want to keep coming back to, alongside your "everyday" useful posts. Aneesa: The “Must Read Hockey Books” post is a great example — lots of commentary to keep it from being just another lsit of books, but clearly something to come back to more than once. I’d pull all the links into a list at the bottom for easy reference, though (keeping them interspersed with your reviews, too, of course).

Naturally, you want your whole site to be a resource as well; writing “resource posts” isn’t meant to be the only way you build your site. Technically, on a well-written site, every post is a valuable resource, but once in a while, you throw out a massive list, or anything else people are going to want to keep coming back to, alongside your “everyday” useful posts.

]]> By: Aneesa http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/05/build-your-blogs-traffic-and-impact-with-resource-posts/comment-page-1#comment-164 Aneesa Fri, 23 May 2008 18:28:42 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/?p=38#comment-164 Thanks Dustin. You have provided me with some excellent ideas. I hope that I have a good start with the posts I've been writing on <a href="http://idlehandsbreedkaos.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Love the Game, Don't Like Puck Bunnies</a>. Thanks Dustin. You have provided me with some excellent ideas. I hope that I have a good start with the posts I’ve been writing on Love the Game, Don’t Like Puck Bunnies.

]]> By: Dustin http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/05/build-your-blogs-traffic-and-impact-with-resource-posts/comment-page-1#comment-163 Dustin Fri, 23 May 2008 18:22:51 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/?p=38#comment-163 Aneesa: Since I neither write nor read much in the way of sports writing, I'm not sure exactly, but I think something like the greatest plays of all time, the greatest athletes of all time, how to describe a game, how writers can get their first big interview (or locker room access), the ten worst sports announcers ever -- maybe that gives you some ideas? Or consider a recurring list of the best up-and-coming players of the season -- useful stuff if published far enough in advance, though it doesn't have the same long-term staying power more "evergreen" topics might have. Or here's another one: the best sportswriters in the business. I suppose it doesn't have to be "bests", either -- how about 25 under-appreciated athletes? Or the rise and fall of a great team or athlete? The idea is, what will a lot of people want to know right now, and keep on wanting to know? Since I don't know your field all that well, some of these suggestions might just be dumb, but I don't think it would be all that hard to come up with better ones. Aneesa: Since I neither write nor read much in the way of sports writing, I’m not sure exactly, but I think something like the greatest plays of all time, the greatest athletes of all time, how to describe a game, how writers can get their first big interview (or locker room access), the ten worst sports announcers ever — maybe that gives you some ideas? Or consider a recurring list of the best up-and-coming players of the season — useful stuff if published far enough in advance, though it doesn’t have the same long-term staying power more “evergreen” topics might have. Or here’s another one: the best sportswriters in the business.

I suppose it doesn’t have to be “bests”, either — how about 25 under-appreciated athletes? Or the rise and fall of a great team or athlete? The idea is, what will a lot of people want to know right now, and keep on wanting to know? Since I don’t know your field all that well, some of these suggestions might just be dumb, but I don’t think it would be all that hard to come up with better ones.

]]> By: Aneesa http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/05/build-your-blogs-traffic-and-impact-with-resource-posts/comment-page-1#comment-162 Aneesa Fri, 23 May 2008 17:54:34 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/?p=38#comment-162 What kind of posts can sports writers consider resource posts? What kind of posts can sports writers consider resource posts?

]]> By: The Renegade Writer Blog » Blog Archive » Wanna build blog traffic? Write resource posts. http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/05/build-your-blogs-traffic-and-impact-with-resource-posts/comment-page-1#comment-161 The Renegade Writer Blog » Blog Archive » Wanna build blog traffic? Write resource posts. Fri, 23 May 2008 16:40:50 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/?p=38#comment-161 [...] For all you blog writers out there, Dustin, who blogs over at the Writer’s Technology Companion, wrote a terrific post today about how to build your blog’s traffic by writing resource posts. [...] […] For all you blog writers out there, Dustin, who blogs over at the Writer’s Technology Companion, wrote a terrific post today about how to build your blog’s traffic by writing resource posts. […]

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