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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Not getting it
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Seth Finkelstein thinks that the "A-List" bloggers are the new gatekeepers in the blogosphere. Let me just relate my experience on this. I started blogging in the summer of 2002. I was getting something like 10 pageviews a day for the first few months. It accelerated some with the addition of an RSS feed, but not tons. Building up a readership (my pageview count averages around 2500 a day now) took a long time and took a lot of work. What's it take? Well, regular postings, on topics that people find interesting enough to read and/or discuss. It's helped that I've blogged a few conferences - some of the readers who followed conference writeups have stuck around to read whatever else I blather on about. It's not magic, and it doesn't require affirmation from A-Listers (gosh knows I haven't gotten it or tried to get it :) ). What it takes is consistently putting out content that other people are interested in. Nothing more, nothing less.
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