If you don’t know how to do so, that is.

So let’s see, my new blog, as part of my challenge experiment, was launched on the 8th of February. I was supposed to do so on the 1st. Effectively, I’ve lost 1 week of solid traffic gaining momentum. I’m writing around 1 article a day on it presently, but I’m going to ramp it up to 2 per day from next week on. I’m even getting some guest posts published on a few other blogs to ramp up some linkbacks and traffic.

So far, it’s been O.K. I’ve looked into free traffic services like Entrecard and MyBlogLog which has been pretty much more of a bounce and run rather than a stay and read. It could also be due to the low volume of posts on the blog, just have to wait and see I guess.

Lessons About Community Building

I’ve learned it can be quite hard for a new blogger to build a community for themself, especially if you are not connected with someone in the blogosphere by at least one degree. That one degree can truly help in the formation of new readers and a sustained community for you. Since I’m doing this as a stealth experiment under an alias building a community is exceptionally harder.

Besides it’s hard maintaining two identities on the net. Logging in and off on alias accounts is a major pain in the a–. But hey, it wouldn’t be a challenge without some sort of pain, right?

Here’s some steps I’m going to be taking to build the community for this new blog and hopefully end up with 100 RSS readers by the 29th!

• Write more guest posts
• Write more posts on the blog itself
• Change my identity for the rest of the month and comment everywhere as my alias
• Try and get dugg or gain some traffic via StumbleUpon
• …and a whole lot of other stuff

I would probably give away the new blogs name if I revealed too many steps. But nonetheless they will all be written about here as time progresses.

So far I haven’t been able to monetize it much. Being that the traffic levels are nothing to write home about, yet. More on that subject next week.

BTW, I haven’t burned my feed on feedburner yet. So I have no idea how many RSS readers I have to date. I’ll burn it at the end of this week to have a look.

About the author

Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.