A weekend shout out to the little guys

Posted by stuart as ,

When I started blogging, there were a couple of people who were kind enough to leave the odd comment on my blog, and link me up. (I remember running whooping with delight to tell Mrs. PMPR when this blog got its first actual backlink).

One of the hardest things when starting out with blogging is “getting seen”. It’s a real struggle to break through, and I remember being so incredibly frustrated reading blogs which purported to help other bloggers, telling noobs like me to not put monetisation techniques into place until you were getting 500 unique visitors a day. 500 a day?? Five a day is cause for celebration for a new blogger. (Including your dad and your best friend!)

Now I get frustrated when bloggers like Shoemoney and Darren at Problogger tell me that doing keynote speeches at conferences and having your articles republished in metropolitan newspapers is a good way to increase your readership.

If you are a noob blogger, just starting out, this post is for you. Your chance to sell your blog to others.

I’m opening the comments in this post to those just starting out in their blogging adventure. If you’re just starting out, leave a comment on this post, telling us a little about you and your blog. Don’t forget to provide a link using your choice of keywords as the anchor text (like this: a blog about blogging and making money online).

Be as expansive or brief as you like. Tell the readers of PimpMyPageRank why they should be visiting your blog, and don’t be shy! They don’t bite! (well, not many of them, anyway)

I’d like to keep this to blogs with a pagerank of 2 or lower, it really is for new bloggers looking for another avenue to promote themselves.

As an added bonus, I’ll randomly choose two commenters to have their blogs listed under the blogwhore badge in the left sidebar of this blog. The listing will comprise of a short paragraph about the blog and a link to it.

Cheers, and get writing!