Building a successful blog

[Daniel Sauerwein]

As some of you may know, I run a Civil War blog called Civil War History. I am curious to know from those of you who run blogs, what tricks can I use to increase readership (I post about once a week since the site is tracked by Civil War Interactive) and gain new writers? I want to build up this and my other history sites into something big and just want to know the best ways to go about it. Thanks for your help.

[cash]

Originally Posted by Daniel Sauerwein

As some of you may know, I run a Civil War blog called Civil War History. I am curious to know from those of you who run blogs, what tricks can I use to increase readership (I post about once a week since the site is tracked by Civil War Interactive) and gain new writers? I want to build up this and my other history sites into something big and just want to know the best ways to go about it. Thanks for your help.

Well, I don't run a blog, but if I did and I needed a model, I'd use Kevin Levin's blog as my model:

http://civilwarmemory.typepad.com/civil_war_memory/

Regards,
Cash

[samgrant]

Daniel, I just went to look at your blog. After a few seconds the pannel down the right side somehow shifted left and cut off the text of the main part. ????

[larry_cockerham]

I surfed over to your blog this morning and found it fascinating and extremely well written. If my history teachers had more closely resembled or copied your techniques and attitude, I wouldn't be writing so many dumb things forty-five years later!

[FSPowers]

I took a quick look and found it very informative. I run a blog myself as part of my hobby, mostly based on a book that I've been writing for nearly two years.