Blazing Minds

With most of my other blogs, I have gone out of my way trying to promote them all over the place with not much luck, so, when I started the blazing minds blog I thought I would try a different approach to advertising the blog to the masses.

I decided to only advertise the blog on EntreCard, BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog and FuelMyBlog.

The blog was originally started with the blog hosted on WordPress but with the problems with adding scripts and grabbing the themes and plugins that I like to use, I decided to grab my self some web hosting and installed WordPress myself, so that I could get complete control of what I wanted.

After installing WordPress and then installing my plugins and the theme I liked, I then started with the promo side.

• First was EntreCard, I use this on my other blogs and have found it great for new readers/subscribers.
• Then BlogCatalog, great social network and promo for my new blog.
• MyBlogLog, similar to BlogCatalog and I’ve had traffic from it before in the past, so why not
• FuelMyBlog was a must from the get go, the site has always been good to me and my friends there have always voted for me, you know who you are

So that was the advertising/promo side, the next step was my RSS feed, I really do believe that you can’t go wrong with Feedburner, so I added the feed there and then customized it to my needs. I also found Feedcat which is very similar to feedburner, so I added the feed there also.

What next! well that was it really, added Google Adsense for the added bonus of a little bit of cash back from the site, using ads and creating a search for the blog that would bring in a little revenue, so that was it really.

So far I can quite honesly say that in the short time that I’ve been running the blog with my new address, I have had stacks of views and they come from in order of most visits:

1. EntreCard
2. FuelMyBlog
3. BlogCatalog
4. MyBlogLog

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