The thinking behind MyBlogLog Sunday

Faced with time off work and a challenge to attract new readers on a traditionally slow day, MyBlogLog Sunday seemed like a good event to tackle. In week 3, judging by the comments at least, it still does!

The Content Blogger’s Sunday Challenge

For many content-based bloggers, Sunday is a bad day. Those folks working 6 days a week, have had enough of surfing the net, and it is a tall order to expect people to read the same stuff on their day off that they do at work. So numbers drop. Do you resign yourself to the lull, or do something about it?

The trouble is, for most bloggers with a job, Sunday is often the time to relax too, so who wants to take on a project for a special Sunday? Well, bloggers who don’t work 9 to 5, 6 days a week! That would be me. Sunday isn’t too precious. Putting 3 and 3 together, I went the MyBlogLog route and devised a plan which should benefit all concerned.

What is MyBlogLog Sunday?

Some quick background, MyBlogLog is a community for bloggers. We all have an icon and a widget. If you visit a site that is involved in the community, invariably your icon appears as a “latest vistior” in the widget in the sidebar.

For the past 3 Sundays at about 10.30am, it has been really interesting to visit the sites of the last 10 bloggers to appear on the face widget thing in The Pisstakers side bar. I spend quite a bit of time looking through and reading posts and most importantly, digest the About Me post (if there is one) on each blog. I then put together a post with a thumbnail and a few priceless words about each blog. Although I only write 3 lines, I think they give a fair reflection of the blogs in question.

Who benefits, if anyone?

The experience is beneficial for everyone involved, I think.

For the bloggers, they get a few deep links from The future PR8 Pisstakers!!!!! Hopefully a bit of feelgood. And if they win the prize (like Polliwog’s pond just did) for referring traffic to our site in the following week, they get some gummi bears and a review too. And I have posted all about the event on MyBlogLog, here, and on our site, which I am sure has added something to the exposure of the participants. And, you get the idea…

For me as a plain simple surferI can have the mindset that “you better get my attention fast”. And I get to discover some really hot blogs I would never find, normally.

For me as a reviewer, it is revealing too, to look more carefully at how these random blogs are put together. There are some amazingly clear and perfectly formed themes out there, as well as some real dogs, especially those mile long slow-loading widgetty word press blogs! There are some brilliant writers too, and some who spell badly enough that they should consider declaring in big letters that they aren’t native Englsh writers!

At the end of the day, it has been encouraging and there must surely be some connection between the life of MyBlogLog Sunday and a 30% rise in traffic – spread over the whole month.

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