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10 Ways To Get More Readers For Your Genealogy Blog (Part 2)

This the second part of a series on 10 Ways to Get More Readers for Your Genealogy Blog. The first part covered planning and designing your site. This part covers how to make people aware of your site and get them to visit it.
#6: Hand-Delivered Content
You want to provide a way for your [...]

10 Ways To Get More Readers For Your Genealogy Blog (Part 1)

If you have a genealogy blog, you’d probably like to increase your traffic and gain repeat readers. This article will provide key points you need to work through, along with free resources and specific action steps. The article is split into two parts, which are posted separately. This post contains the first [...]

Planning A Blog Redesign

So you’ve had your genealogy blog up and running for about six months or more and you finally reached the point where you want to make some changes.  The changes could be as drastic as a whole new template or as simple as adding/removing sidebar items.
While change is good, change also takes planning and preparation. [...]

Renaming Your Blogger-Based Blog

This week I received an email from a fellow genealogy blogger asking for some advice on renaming her blog.  Over the course of several e-mails, I was able to help Nadasue of Into the Light decide on a course of action – you can read more about her dilemma here.
In my presentations and classes on [...]

Save The State Library of Massachusetts Badge

Thanks to Dick Eastman of  Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and others for alerting me to this issue. If you are not familiar with the issue involving the library and its fate due to budget cuts, read Dick’s post and realize that what was achieved in saving the Michigan State Library can also be achieved in [...]

Your Blog’s Welcome Mat

How welcoming is your blog? What impression does it make on new visitors?
I ask this because on Saturday, October 11, 2009, I will be giving a presentation entitled Become A Genealogy Blog User at the California Genealogical Society and Library in Oakland, CA.  And during this one hour talk, I will be not only highlighting [...]

New Blogger Stumbling Points

The other day I found a great post at Mashable discussing common blogging mistakes that businesses make when setting up a blog.  The points discussed could actually apply to any type of blog especially genealogy blogs and should serve as touchstones as to what not to do.  Here are my variations on those same points:

Don’t [...]

Using PDF Documents On Your Blog

Yesterday while on Twitter, I saw that @SeekingSurnames who runs the Desperately Seeking Surnames blog needed advice on loading PDF documents to her blog which is hosted on the Blogger platform.
Why PDF?
After I dispensed some advice (the solution is spelled out below), I realized that this may be a common problem for many genealogy bloggers. [...]

Creating A Comment Moderation Policy

One of the key features of blogging is the ability for readers to interact with the blog author through the use of comments.  It is this exchange of feedback and ideas that transforms a basic web journal into a vibrant form of social media.
If you are going to allow comments on your blog, you should [...]

Blogger Adds New Labels Options

As I wrote on Sunday, as part of Blogger’s 10th birthday they are creating gifts for their users and plan on rolling out new features.  One such feature debuted today: new label options including the ability to organize labels into a cloud and to include/exclude certain labels.
Some readers of Bootcamp for GeneaBloggers may remember that [...]