Rainhat – the band

Will communities lead to more traffic?

Most people want more traffic to their blog, and one way is participating in discussions online or leaving comments in other blogs and hoping that it gets some curious people to click through the links back to your blog. It seems like a pretty slow method, though. I figured there has to be some kind of collection of blogs, like a toplist or something where someone has collected interesting blogs. I mentioned Blogtoplist.com in a previous post, but I found another one. It’s a site called Blog Catalog. You sign up, fill out an account and then you can claim your blog in the account. It takes a while for the admins to verify that the blog is yours and such, but after that it will be included in their directory. The site is also a big community for bloggers, and you can take part in discussions with other bloggers about pretty much anything. I haven’t gotten my blog validated yet, so I don’t know yet if this will get my site any traffic. To be continued on that.

In the "studio"

I spent a chunk of the day recording a new song today. This one is pretty tricky on the guitar, so I did a bunch of takes but I didn’t get it quite the way I want it yet. I will continue recording tomorrow. After that, just four more songs and my album The First Dozen will be complete. Then I will start promoting it seriously and try to get it up on iTunes, Last.fm and other similar sites.

Above is a picture of me recording in my “studio”, also known as “the living room.”