Did you ever wonder how do we come up with the blog posts that make the homepage of Seattle 2.0? The fact is that there is absolutely no editorial control. We don’t have a team of people (or even 1/10 of a person) who goes around the blogs in Seattle finding what’s good and selecting it. It’s all 100% automated and your blog posts could be there too, in front of 10,000 visitors every month.
If your blog was never featured on our Homepage, there’s probably a reason: You are not on the Seattle Blogs directory on Seattle 2.0. If your blog is from or about startup or entrepreneurship and from Western Washington, we are more than happy to list you on the Seattle 2.0 Blogs directory – you can submit your blog here. Once we start parsing your blog, you might show up on the homepage in just a few hours. But wait, there is a trick...
The trick for your blog posts to appear on the Seattle 2.0 homepage is to write relevant blog posts about technology startups and/or entrepreneurship. We have an algorithm that ranks each blog post as well as a 12-week weighted average of your posts. The more consistent you are in writing blog posts – let’s say, once a week – and the more relevant the posts are about startups/entrepreneurship, the higher your position on the homepage and the longer your post will be there.
Then, based on that algorithm and on what the readers of Seattle 2.0 Like/Dislike, your blog post might go into our “Must-Read Blog Posts of the Week” and attract even more readers to visit your website.
We know that getting started with a new blog is hard, particularly when you write good posts and Google Analytics tells you’ve got only 20 visitors. But if you are consistent and relevant to what we care, we’ll have you quickly jump from tens of readers, to hundreds and even thousands of readers.
Not sure how to get started blogging? Read this post I wrote about a year ago: Finding Your Blogging Voice.