"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician
I was visiting John Scalzi's By The Way earlier today, and found this post about plagiarizing. John did a great job of explaining what you can and can't do with other people's material. It's worth a read. His links led me to an article you may want to take a look at. I'll tell you why.
Many of you get your satisfaction from simply writing in your journal. Others, however, want readers. How can you determine if you have any? Well, you have the counter, which you can turn on to see if your site is being "hit." Those midnight phone calls you get from people whose sensibilities you've offended is another indicator. The comments that visitors leave for you is also a good way.
John gets a lot of these. I only get a few, but he's famous, you see. Anyway, if you're not getting many hits, or calls, and few people leave comments, perhaps you should consider "advertising" your journal. How do you do that? By listing your site on Google.
Could be everyone out there already knows how to do this. I didn't. You have to understand, however, that years ago when I was still working and the IT guy at our company was trying to convince me I needed a computer, I felt I could get by just fine with my pencil and notepad. Someone higher up convinced me otherwise, but I remain to this day a less-than-expert user.
That being said, if you haven't listed your journal at Google, and would like more people to find it, click on this link and list it. Forgo the "bombing." The process is quick, simple, and before you know it, you'll have thousands of readers, just like John!
2 comments:
Sometimes people are just quiet. I've been here several times since finding AOL-Jland but never said anything. I'm here to tell you. Great reads like yours don't need advertising. People will find you, some just might not know what to say. :-)
I'd have to agree with Robbie. I read a lot of journals when I have the time. I go to the Journals page on the Community Menu and read the picks of the week or just enter a word in the Search box just to see what comes up. Just because I don't comment doesn't mean I haven't been by.
I started my journal not knowing if I would be talking to myself or not. It has been great to see people slowly drift in. Some keep coming back and that's fantastic!
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