I need your help. I need you to help spread the word about Digging with Darren (DWD). (Yes, this is a shameless plug.)
DWD has been rolling (sometimes fast and sometimes slowly) since the Fall of 2002 (shortly after my archaeological trip to Israel). At one time this site had a large reader base and lots of discussion (some very heated). However, due to my wrestling with balancing my time with my family, and balancing my theology as well, I let this site sit dormant. Over the last few months I have slowly been picking up steam again and working to improve the site and especially the quality & quantity of the content. I would like to increase my readership, and post articles that are valuable to our faith community.
I have written on a wide variety of topics that should appeal to a broad audience, and will continue to do so. I work my best when I know people are enjoying what I’m putting out. Here’s where I need your help.
I need you to recommend DWD to your friends, tweet my posts, share my posts on Facebook, link to me on your websites, etc. Anything you can do would be appreciated. You can easily do those things with the links at the top of each article page.
Also, if you have any suggestions for articles, or how to get DWD to a greater audience, please post your thoughts as a comment on this post.
Thanks in advance for your help! I look forward to hearing back from you!
Will do, Darren. Glad to hear you’re ramping things up.
On facebook I use Networked Blogs to automatically post new blog entries to my profile. There’s a facebook group that I also post my new entries on. The group is called “Christian Bloggers Network”. I also created a “like” page on facebook specifically for the blog (which Networked Blogs works with as well).
Outside of facebook I always stumble the link and post it on Conversant Life. Plus I occasional write for Everyday Christian which has brought me visitors I’d probably never reach.
Darren Reply:
February 5th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Jason – I need to learn about those things. I don’t have a clue about any of the Facebook stuff. FB seems to make things more difficult than necessary. Any pointers you can give as to how to get those things set up would be appreciated. Thanks for the tips!
I see you got the Networked Blogs set-up. The group you just have to search for and then join it; you’ll have to manually post your latest posts on their page though.
As to creating a “like” page just go to any page you like, scroll down to the bottom. On the left-hand side you should see a text link that says “Create a Page” click it and you’re on your way to having a “Like” page. Then connect it to Networked Blogs and start suggest the page to your entire friends list.