Update – 48 hours has expired and I’ve now closed this experiment.
OK – here’s a little experiment for us to participate in this weekend. Below I’d like you to ‘pitch’ us on why we should read your blog. Read on to find out how.
I get asked these two questions a lot:
- Can you link to my blog on ProBlogger
- Can you recommend a blog on the topic of (insert topic here)
The answer to #1 is invariably no. It’s not that I don’t want to promote great blogs – but the reality is that if I promoted every blog I was asked to link to it’d take over this blog completely.
The answer to #2 is for me to sometimes give people a link but more often it’s a blank look. You see while I track the feeds of over 700 blogs that is just a drop in the ocean and the blogs I follow tend to be on just a couple of narrow topics.
So – what I want to do is give people an opportunity to promote their blog here on ProBlogger and an opportunity for others to find new blogs to read.
It’s all going to happen in the comments section of this post.
Here’s how it’ll work.
- Over the next 48 hours I am leaving the comments of this post open for you to give an elevator pitch for your blog.
- To keep the ‘pitches’ short – you have to do it in 140 characters or less.
- You can ‘sell’ your blog to us in any way you like as long as it’s 140 characters. Use humor, tell us what it’s about, tease us… what ever you want. Just keep it family friendly please.
- Feel free to use your blog’s name in the ‘name’ field in the comments section and to leave the URL in the URL section to help you save on characters.
- Please only pitch one blog to us. If you have multiple blogs just pick your best one.
- After 48 hours I’ll close the comments on this post and will point people back to it and encourage them to surf through the list and find some new blogs to read. I’ll also encourage people to link up to the ones they find and enjoy reading.
- I’m not going to do a summary list of all blogs submitted (I suspect there will be quite a few) but I will pick out a few of my favorite elevator pitches to highlight in the 2nd post.
- update – Please include the number ‘140’ in the comment. This will help us find any comments that are filtered as spam. The ‘140’ doesn’t get counted in your 140 characters.
Will this bring you tens thousands of new readers to your blog? Probably not – but it could bring a few, and they could bring others…..
I’m looking forward to seeing how you pitch us your blog (I think it’s important to be able to sell your blog in a few words so hopefully this is a useful exercise) but also to discovering some great new blogs! Your 48 hours starts…. NOW!
Subscribe to my feed to be notified when the project ends so you can come back and surf the list!
update: If you don’t see your comment come up immediately please be patient. It will have been queued for moderation – we’ll get to it eventually. There’s no need to add a 2nd comment. Thanks!
Update 2 – thanks everyone – I’ve now closed this experiment off. I do appreciate everyone’s submissions and apologize to those that missed out but this page slowed down so much that I can’t extend the experiment past 48 hours! I’ll post in the next 24 hours a few of my favorite pitches plus some reflections on the project. Wow – over 1400 submissions – thanks!
A Blog for Bloggers, Vloggers, AudioBloggers and Photologgers
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A blog I made for my girlfriend. She’s totally into photography, design, photoshop, … If you like our blog, please don’t forget to subscribe to our feeds.
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Ups, downs, ins, outs – the roller coaster ride of parenting 12 adopted children with special needs. Humor. Shock. Joy. Pain. A ride you won’t want to miss.
Full, powerful living for women of (any) size. Fattitude; Ample Activism, Gratitude, Resources & Spirituality; Self Care; Fat Science; HAES.
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Since Green Data is my technical geeky blog, then Not Green Data is my non-technical non-geeky colorful blog.
http://notgr33ndata.blogspot.com/
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My technology blog has random entries about tech gadgets, reviews and how I use my favorite techy toys.
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Biggest excuse to not exercising: no time! That’s no excuse at all. My site teaches you how fit exercise into your busy lifestyle.
Forget MMO and SEO, make money and build traffic the honest and effective way – by having a superior product. Achieve excellence through Diligent Design.
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Personal musings of an Asian Salsa Dancing Photographer, depicting how my love for photography intertwines with my world of dancing
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About Tips and tricks used to make money online. It’s not just about money, business, forex, loans though, there are a lot of different topics that are discussed: entertainment, games, sports, cars, videos and more.
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9000+ subscribers can’t be wrong. On Just Creative Design you will find Graphic Design, Web Design, Creativity + FREE HUGE giveaways!
UK based blog tracking the changing face on online media. Also focusing on search engine optimisation and semantic search.
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Darren,
My blog Headstuffing is nothing more than a collection of short writings about my little family, humorously written in my impression of the voice of my favorite writer – the late Lewis Grizzard.
My hope is to compile this collection into a book for my two little girls when they grow up. You may not learn anything from my blog, but my hope is you will have either laughed out loud once or at least stopped to think before you finish each story.
Thanks,
I am the self-proclaimed Miss Geeky! Join me and my musings of the wonderful worlds of movies, games and other fun random geekiness.
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The Pen Addict – handwritten pen reviews of all kinds. Unleash your inner pen geek – you know who you are! http://www.penaddict.com/
MISS THRIFTY is a label maven with a beady eye for bargains and a craving for saving. Credit crisis? Pah! Daily money-saving gems, great discounts and red hot tips.
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Its what I know. It’s who I know. its where i want to go
I140: I’m klutzy. I’m curvy. I love clothes and cosmetics. A fashion and beauty blog by a size 10/12 girl on a budget. Thanks for reading!
Funny stories and poems on the lives of American college students. Blog 49. 140
A personal finance, frugal living and home life blog with lots of great tips on saving money while living large.
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Taking small and simple steps will help you create and attract what you want and desire in your life.
So, What do you want?
The Chinese & English part(s) of me. <3 140.
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A Blog for Women Entrepreneur who wants to attract their ideal clients using simple Online Marketing Strategies.
Brigitte Nadeau
U.S. politics and policy. I have a strong liberal bias, but I always write thoughtful analysis. I’m not afraid to take on my own party.
“Not another money-making blog. Shabd is about my life after being thrown out of the best technical university in India. Presently Shabd discusses Adsense, with nearly 3 posts about Adsense daily.”
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THE MORE YOU ASPIRE, THE MORE YOU ACHIEVE :P
PaintBlog – helping you find great art online from Canada and around the world.
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A mom, a professional, an internet junkie. How did I get here, and what comes next? Adventures in personal discovery, with hints of social media, business and mom-blog to shake things up a bit. 140
http://jess-sanders.blogspot.com/
Hobbies. Get 1.
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http://www.SecretsForMoney.info is a brand-new Blog that launches this Friday 10/31/2008. This Blog brings you the secrets to achieving a balanced and joyous life of all wealth currencies: money, time, health, and love. The Secrets For Money™ website and Blog was inspired and created for the sole purpose of your personal development. Our slogan here is “Your Ticket To Freedom” because we are committed to helping you to freedom. We bring more life to more people.
We share with you the secrets that will increase your capacity for all wealth currencies: money, time, health, and love. Together these currencies become your “ticket to freedom”: “freedom” in its entirety—limitation—free so you can enjoy a full life, a life of the freedom that great health brings, the freedom to give and receive love into your life, time freedom, and financial freedom.
My blog is about bloggers and blogging, written in Chinese, you guys may be not interesting if you do not know Chinese.
http://www.StumbleForward.com helps those who want to go beyond debt free, build financial security, and achieve financial independence.
Are you tickled by life? Get your daily tickles at the fastest growing life enhancing website in the world. http://www.tickledbylife.com
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Describing the Shake ‘N Bake experience of moving from the northeast to the weird and whacky world of the Sonoran Desert of Cave Creek, AZ
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— Spoken Gems —
Remarkable speeches, presentations and monologues.
Thanks Michael
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A music guide for the out-of-touch-over-40 crowd.
You too can be considered cool by your kids (or at least by their friend’s older siblings)!
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http://jburns831.blogspot.com/
I am a Microsoft Excel Guru – do you need help with Excel? Ask me any question you have and I would be happy to answer them.
Hi, I’m Liz and I create free videos on everything from art to programming. I’m a nerd on a mission: to learn everything and share it too!
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The most read blog covering the megayacht industry from both a business and crew perspective:
http://www.mattbrownblog.com
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I am a Microsoft Excel Guru – do you need help with Excel? Ask me any question you have and I would be happy to answer them. 140
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ADHD or maybe just too many ideas floating in your head? Thoughts and ideas about business and life.
I’m a mommy blogger who rarely blogs about her children. 140
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Where hungry content producers get more food for thought. Ideas for bloggers, artists, videomakers and more.
Pop goes the personal growth! Self-exploration, loads of things that light me up and photos of a little orange bat-faced cat.
Eclectic travel blog featuring food and chefs, wine and winemakers, art and artists. Life is an adventure. The journey is the destination. 140
Seeking abundance? Tune up your energy vibes by reading my articles. Get entertained, educated, inspired and empowered. No regrets! 140
My Blog is blog for bloggers, here you can find blogging tips, internet marketing tips and interesting posts about Web.
Very new baseball blog featuring theme based baseball fact five days a week. This week’s theme – World Series. Baseball geeks welcome! 140
Hazel writes information for information practitioners in careers guidance in the UK and includes regular “trivia” items to lighten the load. 140