10 Ways to Maintain a Popular Lesbian Blog

10 Things to Do to Keep Your Blog Queer and Busy

Be a popular lesbian. This is easy online, you don't even have to get all dressed up - or even get dressed at all, for that matter. All you really need to do to start off the process, is get out there and network. You comment on my blog, I comment on yours - that sort of thing. Say something nice and/or interesting and you could very well get a return visit and comment out of it. Comment to get comments. By the way, this tip works better if you actually read what you're commenting on and say something relevant. I comment on Alison Bechdel's blog occasionally and it gets me at least 20 quick hits every time.


All linked up and everywhere to go. Join technorati.com, add links to your site, get people to add yours to their, by link exchange or listing yourself in directories, and watch how your blog's "authority" grows. The more people out there linking to your blog, the higher your ranking in search engines and directories.

Join gay-specific or gay friendly blog listings directories and aggregators. The first three that spring to mind are queerfilter.com, blogcatalog.com and slogbite.com, but good old Google will get you lots more. Because they're young and lesbian-friendly, at this point all you have to do to get featured on slogbite is sign up and email them politely. Voila, you're front page news. Places like blogcatalog also work like social networks, so put in some time there too. If you're from a country where the scene is small, a generic local blog aggregator is a great idea, because your blog will stand out. For example, I searched "South African blog aggregator" to find Afrigator.co.za which sends me constant hits.

In your Facebook. At this stage, Facebook's still riding high as the uber social network. They've got a few blog applications, but the most handy one in terms of promotion is quite new and is called Blog Network. You can list your blog, invite your contacts to become readers and you also get to see friends who have blogs listed there already, so you can do some reciprocal reading that way. You can also post links to blog entries on your profile.