Blog engagement is crucial to making us motivated to keep blogging. It is that kind of validation we all love from our peers. Otherwise I might be just shouting at the void, right?
Well, we all need a community.
Last year I joined the 365 days commenting hosted by Read Write Love 28 and failed at it miserably. Obviously it was too much for me and I dropped out fairly early of the game. Apparently I need some encouragement and a lot of support to get to doing what I am supposed to do anyway.
Bloggers comment junction
So I asked for help from my dear bloggers in forming a community to continue visiting and commenting in each other’s blog. I was not surprised at the turnout because who would not want to make a new blogger friend right? You can still sign up for the bloggers comment junction here.
Comment 4 Comment Challenge
In the spirit of new year, why don’t give it a new start?
Welcome to the new and upgraded Comment 4 comment blog challenge 2019.
Yes you heard it right!
What is the Comment 4 Comment Challenge (C4CC)?
Blogging is a social activity. Blog engagement requires both giving and receiving. If that sounds interesting to you, this challenge is for you.
The challenge is to ‘leave no comment un-replied and un-returned’.
The challenge is two pronged:
Replying to a comment you received on your blog And then Visiting their blog to leave a comment
If you feel you are up for this challenge, SIGN UP right away.
What is the goal anyway?
If you have any of the following as goal for your blog this year
Be more social
Make more blogging friends
Improve blogging engagement
Increase the number of comments on your blog, organically
Increase your blog followers
Follow more blogs
Then this Comment 4 Comment Challenge (C4CC) for you!
How can you participate in this challenge?
Sign up for the challenge here
Grab my button and add on your blog
Follow my blog and leave a comment on my blog
Reply to every comment you receive on your blog
Share the news on social media
Bring in your buddy and as they say, the more the merrier.
Last week turned out super fun. My cousin had to my city on official grounds and we got to hang out a bit in the evenings and on Friday (being a weekly holiday).
On Friday, we went to the Museum of Illusions. It had lots of puzzles to be solved and its main attraction was the optical illusion tricks. We ended up clicking many pictures.
She is cooking my head!
No clue what we are doing!
And we are upside down.
On the other news, I finally got back to running, thanks to the pleasant climates that gets me going. But I am not going to talk more about it, lest I will jinx myself. Right?
What I read this week:
I didn’t read at all this week. I am surprised, shocked and guilty about it. Until now I hadn’t even realized that I hadn’t picked up a book.
Sigh.
I will rectify the situation this week.
What I watched this week:
In the spirit of Halloween, I watched (or re-watched) three horror movies and ended up freaking myself.
Annabelle Creation
Annabelle and
Lights out
Out of the three I think Annabelle Creations has lots of jump scares and they definitely spooked me out. What are your favorite horror movies?
On the blog
I didn’t do bad this week, though I wrote only three posts instead of the target four. But I am cutting myself some slack.
Thanks Marta for her wonderful post on how to grow a blog which I am sure would be super helpful to all of us.
If you have ever been into the organization Vlogs, Marie Kondo shouldn’t be a new name to you. And here is a Holly from Nut free Nerd’s review of Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up.
Each week a fellow blogger asks a question and the participants make a post answering the question. The goal is to make new friends and know more about the bloggers who are participating. So let us get with it shall we?
Question of the week
This week’s question was submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver’s Reviews and she asks
Do you sneak a peek at the number of views your posts have gotten?
Do I obsess over page views?
YES, while I don’t obsess over the numbers, I do check my page views at least once a week.
As the data and spreadsheet obsessed nerd that I am, I even note the weekly views and have plotted a graph out of it. And the graph looks good curve these days, you guys. Thanks to all your comments and shares.
Another statistics I kinda check weekly is my Alexa rank. Again I have no idea why I even follow that, except that I do.
Pin me!
Let us talk
So what other blog related data do you guys follow? And if you have had figured what to do with these data, please let me know. Something good might turn out of being a nerd even. Let us chat.
As I promised earlier there are going to be a lot of changes in my blog this year. Among the first of these changes, I will be posting thrice a week and do a weekly round up post, instead of my weekly twice schedule.
I know I know, I might be biting more than I can chew, but hey you can’t blame me for trying, can you?
Around the blogosphere
So this is what I propose. I will bring to you news from around the bookish world and some from the dark side, erm.. non bookish world, as well under the section that we will call as Spotlight Sunday. If you think your post deserve a spot on my article, feel free to tweet the link to me.
1) Well, it may not come as a surprise that I love Andrea Gibson and their poetry. I read this post on their Facebook page and couldn’t stop reading it again and again. I still think it was the best way to bid adieu to the past year.
2) Who said all the parties and games should end with the New Year’s Eve. Check out Britt’s Photo Scavenger hunt which runs until March 31 and there is even a prize of 50$. All you have to do is click photos fulfilling the given conditions.
3) Speaking of the new year, I know all of you have enough of plans and resolutions done. If you are like me, following through with them would be the toughest. ‘It doesn’t have to be’ says the compulsive list maker Shantala. Read her review on The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, which she swears will; ‘not only improve efficiency, but also have the ability to save time, money, and even lives’.
4) I have promised to start reading non -fiction books again and I found this amazing list of books on time management from Bookriot. I am definitely hitting the list again
Did I ever tell you my blogger community has the best people in the world.. EVER?
7) So once in a while I get all happy that I get to work from home and get to not rush through the traffic to reach the workstation. My mom still doesn’t understand what I do all day staring at the laptop. Well here is how I do what I do, mom. Don’t judge me. 8) Can you check how well do you remember the first lines of your favorite books? Well, I don’t. I got 6 on 20 and I suck, I know. What about you? Try it here.
