Create A Free Blog And A Free Blogging Community At Thoughts.com
Posted by: Manish in Blogging Tips & Advices, SEO Tips, tags: Blogging Advice, blogging community, Blogging Tips, free blog, thoughts.com
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Welcome back!
Would you like to share your ideas, opinion, and thoughts with the rest of the world for FREE?
Yes, this blog is exactly what it does for me. I share my ideas, opinion, and thoughts with the world through my blog, but hey, it is not free; it costs me money! ($6/month for hosting and $10/year for domain registration) Plus there is another key core concept in blogging besides writing unique, useful contents, that is Marketing. Whether you believe me or not, of the total time that I spend blogging, I actually spend more than 90-95% of my time marketing my blog for interactions and feedback and only about 5-10% of my time writing useful posts and articles for my readers and visitors. Blogging can be really frustrating if you are not getting any audience or visitors, where you start to feel that you’re just talking to yourself.
While searching for “free blogs” in Google, I actually landed up on a site, www.thoughts.com which I found to be quite interesting! You can blog, upload and organize your photos, share videos and podcasts, and do many more things (that is what many blogging platforms also offer for free), but what makes thoughts.com different from all the other blogging platform isthe interaction! Yep! You heard it right! When you sign up for free blogs at thoughts.com, you will have an instant, immediate audience! Take thoughts.com as a free blogging community, where you can blog about anything you like, express your thoughts, opinions, etc. and immediately get comments, feedbacks, discussion, and even rating of your posts!
How it actually works is, as you publish a blog post, it immediately gets listed on the “Recent Posts” in the front page, where readers interested in your post can immediately view your post - what an easy way to share and interact!
Also, you can easily decide whether you would like to make a blog post private, public, or viewable only by friends. I think it’s really cool, and so I have immediately signed up. What about you?
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So basically you are limiting your readership to the visitors of single site?
Bad deal.
Nah Rarst. It doesn’t limit readership to the visitors of that single site, but you can also generate traffic through other normal means just like you’re marketing your normal blogs. In fact, actually I am trying to use the system to gain visitors to my this site…
So if you are doing regular marketing anyway why use 3rd party blogging service and restrictions that come with it?
I had only recently started my “serious” blog and I can say that having own hosting, domain, etc… And freedom that comes with it is very refreshing experience.
Very true Rarst. I agree that owning domain and hosting gives a refreshing experience.
But my main concept here is “How about boosting your traffic and rank of your own “serious” blog by using 3rd party blogging services!” With thoughts.com, I’ve today alone diverted around 20 targeted traffic to my blog!
You can write useful, unique articles in thoughts.com and at the same time post a URL of your own blog! It works like a charm if you are getting what I actually mean about how to get traffic from 3rd party blogs, especially if that is interactive like this one!
Problem is that thins conent. I’ve read on quite a bit blogging advice lately and formed strong opinion that I should put priority and time into my own blog before any third party tools.
It’s like Entrecard we both use.
For some people it’s only a tool to get some visitors and discover some blogs, others become obsessed with making credits and put that before their own content.
Yes Rarst. It’s all about how you manage your limited time on different success steps of blogging.
I am currently going with more marketing than writing posts, but obviously not sacrificing or compromising on the contents. Good contents are a must, but I have really felt that mere writing good contents ain’t enough for success in blogging. You need to actually let others know that you’re in fact doing your best writing good contents in your blog!
and that is done via any forms of active marketing, be that it is active participation in blogging communities or social bookmarkings, etc.
Your blog is nofollow.
But, you are using the logo UCommentIFollow. I think this is not wise.
Hi Atniz:
Thanks for pointing this out to me. I really don’t know why and how the “Dofollow plugin” was turned off as I don’t remember turning it off at any point. You might be thinking “What a jerk…first he’s got UcommentIfollow logo with nofollow blog and now is giving an explanation” but hey, that’s the truth