There are a couple of posts on other blogs you may be interested in this week.

The first comes from Common Sense with Mark. Well CommonSense meet No Nonsense.

Mark wrote a post on whether the actions of some people in the Blogsphere were of a herd mentality and just following the A-List bloggers. This does go on quite a bit, but in a manner that I see nothing wrong with. While every blog should strive to be unique in terms of content, what is wrong with trying to generate a little traffic to your blog. Afterall isn’t that why people spend time and energy creating the content. They want people to read it. Most of Mark’s post deals with the various traffic generation trends of late such as blog rush. Blog rush was touted a little before its time. I was even guilty of this in some of my posts, but the main reason people jumped on BlogRush was because of the name behind it. Its pretty much a given that round one was a bust, but I would not be surprised to see a round two implementation of blogrush.

Mark goes on to talk about the ever ending quest for more subscribers and more comments. Of course people want these things they are what helps to make a blog popular. If you are writing a blog and do not want readers or subscribers, why don’t you just keep it on your hard drive and get it off the net.

Sorry Mark, I don’t see a lot of CommonSense in this post.

My second link is on a subject that a lot of the A-List bloggers about blogging have been touting lately, but this one did not make Mark’s list and that is including images in your posts. I personally like images in the posts as long as there are not too many and the image is somehow related to the post. The problem for me has been finding the images that I can freely post without copywriting problems. Skelliewag to the rescue with the guide to find incredible Flickr images for your blog. There are some decent suggestions in the post and I will definitely be bookmarking it. I’ve been using Live Writer lately to write on blogs and it has an addon you can download to help you find Flickr Images and insert them. It works great with Wordpress, but the search for images is a little awkward. This post should help me with that problem, so you may start to see more images around here soon.

Lara from I Make Money On Facebook has posted an article about traffic generated form Facebook and how its the worst traffic on the net that caught my eye. Lara provides some insight into how Facebook works in regards for utilizing it as a traffic generation technique which has some possible merit. I’ve never really got Facebook really but with Lara’s help, I’m starting to see how it could be a powerful tool if utilized properly.

Technorati tags: flickr, blogrush, seo, making money, facebook, traffic generation

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Well thanks to Steve and his comment on my blogrush post ( I would give Steve a link, but he failed to leave a website link in the comment), I have another method to try and increase the number of page views on this blog. They are not bad now, but pride is getting to me and I want more readers, more subscribers, and more comments. So I’m going to investigate every method I can find to help with these goals. In steps Entrecard.com. This is a basic link sharing type program where you earn credits that you can then use to advertise on other blogs. There are some big name blogs in the network, such as Shoemoney. Since you can control which blogs show your ads as well as which blogs you allow to advertise on your site, you have a lot more control than you do with a network such as Blogrush.

I signed up a little while ago and already have one advertiser requesting to advertise on my blog. I have not advertised this blog anywhere since I don’t hardly have any credits, but I will try it out on some other blogs once I get some credits built up. You can earn credits a couple of ways, one you allow others to advertise and two when you drop your card on someone else’s advertisement. I have not figured out how to do this yet. You have to see the Entrecard on a blog and then you earn one credit for each time you do this, but I have not seen a blog in the network with the drop here verbiage on the widget. I’ll keep looking to see if I can earn some additional credits. Maybe if I get enough credits I can buy a spot on Shoemoney’s blog. right now he has a 9 day waiting list and each one costs 42 credits. I need to update my above stats in the time it has taken me to write these couple of paragraphs I already have two other advertisers waiting for space on my blog. I’m going to give this one a little of my time and see how it works out.

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I wanted to write a quick post on my blogrush“>blogrush statistics. My click through rate is not great( it was better at first) What I’ve found is for blogrush“>blogrush to be effective then you really need a catchy title for your post. It also seems like it only shows your last post on other sites then if you post a decent amount a paticular post may not get much exposure. Anyway I’ve got enough credits in my account that I’m going to keep working with blogrush“>blogrush to see if the CTR picks up.

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