Problems advertising photoblog

[nox]

I set up my photoblog (http://www.danielkaspar.info/iamacamera/) a couple of month ago and invited my friends to look at my images. Recently I thought about making the blog known to a wider audience.

Two weeks ago, I sent my link to http://www.blimage.de/ and to http://london.photobloggers.org/ as I am based in South England and Germany. Unfortunately my blog was not added to their websites and I did not get any reply.

Does anybody know what could have gone wrong? Adding my photoblog should not be a problem actually.

Thanks a lot in advance for your advice.

sending links to www.blimage.de maybe is a little nothing, what you think?

There is a community and you can register there and enter your domain there
but do not expect that sending a link to somebody will be enough ;=)

It's up to you, nobody will do the work for you ;=)

[nox]

You are right, Connie, that would not be enough. Registering, entering my url and writing a nice descriptive text or email is what I did in both cases. Any other idea what to do? Maybe it takes a bit longer because of the summer holidays.

[jdleung]

I hardly can see the links on your site ;-(

[jdleung]

Originally Posted by nox

You are right, Connie, that would not be enough. Registering, entering my url and writing a nice descriptive text or email is what I did in both cases. Any other idea what to do? Maybe it takes a bit longer because of the summer holidays.

come here frequently ;-)

there are many lists what you can do around in the world

participate in forums, contribute to communities, have your link in signature files etc

give something to the community and it will give you back !

[nox]

Thanks for your replies.

I just received an email from London Photobloggers. They have added my site to their list. Maybe a coincidence or maybe they are reading this thread ;-) Hopefully blimage will list my blog aswell.

Jdleung, thanks for the critique, i might use a lighter color for my menues.

[Vernon.Trent]

@nox

blimage needs sometimes longer then expected
same on vfxy... all you need is patience.

add your blog to photoblogs.org as well and then surf the net, leave comments, show the people that you are there with a photoblog... then things comes together

[blinking8s+]

being a part of the community is extremely important, very few users who are not active community particepants are noticed much if at all. Those who are most active generally make up the top core of photobloggers.

[blinking8s+]

http://wisdump.com/webmastering/developing-traffic/

pretty much covers all the general ways to get traffic