I have quite a number of new blogs to introduce – and for this Newbie Carnival, advice on how to build readership for your blog, courtesy of three established Canadian bloggers.
I’m Not Paranoid is a sacred cow free zone.
Shaken, Occasionally Stirred is gaining a reputation for doing first-rate digging into stories that don’t get a lot of attention elsewhere.
Either Orr has been posting up a storm from Pennsylvania.
Right Ho! is “a conservative journalist by trade (for real, no fooling), but I have decided to remain anonymous for now”.
The Firebrand – “resurrects the ghost” of WL Mackenzie in his approach to political debate.
More To The Story is keeping an “eye on politics”, including this morning’s story that Pat O’Brien may walk away from the LIberals over SSM.
Craig Cantin was inspired to blog by both Warren Kinsella and me? This could get interesting.
David MacLean’s new blog has been mentioned here before – it’s promising to be a good resource for the rest of us: Taxpayers Federation
A conservative from Mississauga, Reasonable Right joins the growing list of blogging accountants – as does Canada’s John Galt a CPA who writes on politics, taxation, economics, and culture…
Lunchpale was recommended by a friend who suggests “he’s probably too dumb to put himself on your newbie express.” (He isn’t)
We need more voices from the Maritimes – welcome Jean Leblanc from New Brunswick.
China E-Lobby – “An organization dedicated to exposing the abuses of human rights, threats to American security, and attacks on general decency committed by Communist China, and to influencing American policy to ensure these egregious acts do not go unopposed.”
Though US based, this is a blog to watch, in light of Chinese government/military investments in Canadian resources.
Saskatchewan is becoming a hotbed for bloggers – introducing Black Sheep Press, a self-described ” libertarian with Western Separatist leanings”.
John Murney is a former broadcast journalist, strong libertarian and currently a full-time time student at the U of R. (Well, they’ll cure that soon enough!)
The Liberty Letter – another Saskabusher!
Exposed Agenda hails from Calgary, Alberta.
Invisible Hand has been “fighting statism since late last night”.
I Hate Hippies and Communists. This rather says it all – “We need to get back to a time where we openly hate these two groups.”
“In the spirit of Cyrano de Bergerac, I try to take the road less trodden – replacing vulgar, low-brow name-calling with classy, high-brow name-calling.�” (What the hell is “Vogon poetry”?)
Like SDA, habamus rodentum doesn’t seem to have much to do with rodents.
Late additions:
Sham The Toryman
The story behind Gomery Inquiry
And now for the advice
Darcey at the popular Dust My Broom offers helpful hints for newbies, including this – “I began to understand that in the blogosphere, links are like money and you may have noticed that I link a lot and have staged many big link fests. I didn’t initially mean them to drive traffic or raise standings or anything like that. Basically they are bookmarks of interest to me that I wish to keep and refer to in the future. They do however have an effect.” Good observations about “crumbtrails”, too.
Poltiical Staples was one of my first favourite reads when I started blogging – ” … don’t worry about traffic too much in the beginning, focus on finding your voice. But once you are confident that you’ve found your groove join blog groups. This is the single best way of getting your blog noticed. Commenting on other peoples blogs helps as well but follow etiquette. Make your comment applicable to the post – don’t comment just to get noticed.”
Andrew at Bound By Gravity writes;
There you go! I’ll do another in a couple of months, so if you were missed, just watch for the notice and join the next one.
The first two Newbie Carnivals are here and here. Go check them out, and see how they’re coming along.
