August OPB Theme/Online Potluck

I was thinking about our August theme at OPB and came up with the idea of 'Photographer's Choice' - ie- post what you want. This could work well for the Online Potluck. We could post food pics here and link to/from the potluck post at Firemind.

What do you think?

Blogger Templates

Blogger Templates (via notmyown). They look cool. I used the 'Kubrick' template when experimenting with Wordpress.

July Theme 2/Photoblogs

OPB July Theme

Parks and Playgrounds it is. I will post a mini intro at OPB.

Photoblogs

I posted a topic at Flickr to find some photoblogs for Photo Links. If you have any comments or suggestions let me know.

Blogging Tips

Jim Elve at BlogsCanada has written an interesting post called A Few Blogging Tips. The tips are useful and will work for any blog. He does say (in comments) that the tips "are primarily about building readership".

Jim suggests that bloggers register with as many blog directories as possible. I agree with this to a certain extent but think people consider how much effort they want to put into promotion.

Many directories are bloated with out of date listings and your blog may get lost in the mess. When I am browsing directories I hate to troll through many dead links or blogs. Make sure the directory you use is maintained regularly.

Some bloggers I know have experimented with 'traffic exchange' services like BlogExplosion. The consensus seems to be that: while your readership will go up; it is hard to attract loyal readers. Sometimes users have to read blogs they don't like and comment to 'make hits'. It is interesting to note that Jim doesn't include such services in his list of examples.