Tracking your blog readers

It’s not enough just to blog. Posting is the beginning of the conversation but then your readers have to take over. Some will leave comments (which you certainly read and respond to) but others will talk about your blog on their own blog. So how are you to know who is talking about you? Well there are a couple of methods.

1. Trackbacks: Most blogging software will show you who has linked to your blog. Follow the links, read up, comment, add folks to your blogroll!

2. Google Alerts: Use a google alert to check for your name, blog name, and username (if you use a pseudonym like I do). You’ll be amazed what you’ll find in your inbox!

3. Technorati, Google Blogsearch, and Bloglines: Make use of search engines that just look at blogs. Most will give you a RSS feed you can use to see who has written aboout your blog.

4. Del.icio.us Tagometer plug-in: Like the plug-in we have here on our front page, this del.icio.us plug-in allows you to see who has linked to you on del.icio.us and how they tagged the link. Follow the breadcrumbs to see what else these folks are interested in. You might find a way to increase your readership.

Don’t let the conversation stop at your blog post!

23 January 2007 | Intellagirl, self-promotion | Comments