POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

A blog about a blog Stacy McCain wrote about blogging

I've learned a lot about blogging in my whopping 2 years on the 'sphere.  Blog stat flow charts bring out the 12 year old boy humor in me, feminists are a total pain in the ass. one bad commenter can ruin a whole day, and there's a bizarre antisocial networking that is absolutely critical if you actually want your work read.  This week I learned something brand new.  Readers will feign outrage at trivial posts about celebrity scandals and reality tv, but those posts get kRaZy traffic.  Which reminded me of this blogger 101 must read from Robert Stacy McCain, How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog in Less Than a Year.  By the way, McCain is one of a handful of experienced bloggers known for giving the time of day to new bloggers, and in case we never say so, we do appreciate it.  As a token of my appreciation, I shall now pen my own "R.S. McCain for Dummies" and link the hell out of him in the spirit of rule #2.

1. Shameless Blogwhoring: McCain recommends emailing posts to outfits like Hot Air and Instapundit with reckless abandon.  That's a little forward for me, but if it's something important I've been known to direct message a link to bloggers with bigger followings on twitter and ask them to retweet it. 

2. Full Metal Jacket Reach-Around:  I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine, with links.  Which reminds me: Goldfish and Clowns, Daily Trawler, Greg Pollowitz, Snark and Boobs, POWIP.  And don't forget to initiate linkage as well.

3. Memeorandum According to McCain, Memeorandum is an easy way to see what topics are hot at the moment.  Hmm, writing about things people besides myself are interested in... that's so crazy it might work.

4. Make Enemies: Check.  I seem to do this by, in my opinion, constructively criticizing my home team.  This may not be the best strategy for growing your blog, but it makes me feel objective and rebellious.

5. Sex Sells: Especially considering the blogosphere is chock full of single men that never leave their apartment.  Bathing suit pics are always nice.

Blogger or not, go read the whole thing anyway.  It's hilarious and explains in a lot more detail just how electronic, inbred barnyard dance really works.  I also recommend any post that calls me pretty in the first sentence (truthfully, this is the only one).  Don't forget to follow McCain and his faithful sidekick, Smitty on twitter also.

Kill Truck

KillTruck is a wife, mother, blogger and native midwesterner now living in Eastern Washington state. She writes about politics, pop culture, parenting, wifing and a few other subjects she has no authority to write about. She has macabre fascinations with prostitution and/or cannibalism. In her free time she enjoys eating and/or drinking her feelings, liveblogging Lifetime movies, thinking about Scott Brown and mocking things she doesn’t understand.

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