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E- Thanks for coming! Why would you start a group blog instead of a personal one?
N- My friend and I wrote each other very long emails and we spoke about the stress, and my friend Stacy stated that we should put this up on the web, and ask other moms for their help and opinions
G- we were both bored, and we just wanted to start a blog and we would give the link to a bunch of our friend and we could entertain them. In order to keep content, we just got more and more authors when you are lazy, you can always get someone else to write something- this is why it is a group blog…
E- How do you make sure that your group wide is being updated?
N- It is not open to having other co-authors, it;’s that my co-bloggers have been friends with me for 10 years and longer… It is organic the way we speak and write to each other. We have thought of having guest bloggers, though…
E- do you plan to blog a certain amount of times per week?
N- no, it’s very non-formal.. It’s usually a spur of the moment thing… And some days we’ll have a day that all three of us post that day…
M- because we have 11 bloggers on the blog, we try to blog everyday. We have guidelines and we say to post once every two weeks…
G- When everyone is writing for free on their free time, it’s difficult to do anything… So, generally, we usually just email someone and ask them to write a post…
E- Would you go and check out someone’s blog and say, “would you like to join our site?”
G- We have done that before! And when others have dropped out, we have done that…
M- I have asked authors to contribute to the blog, and I have screened them and have auditions for them… I always hope they stick with the same style of the blog, and follow the guidelines… Firstly, I’ll send them an email. I kicked my husband off of my blog…
G- I have never dismissed anybody… The only time people got unruly, it was a post about curdling and someone was offended by what an author said about cuddling and it being a good past-time! ...Ultimately group blogging is fun…
E- And you do it for profit Michelle?
M- We have ads on the blog… It makes enough money to sustain itself, but I won’t uit my day job b/c it doesn't make that much money…
G- my ex-partner and I basically wanted to start the blog to circulate around our friends… After a certain point, I decided to start a list of things that stuff lesbians like… And we thought that we hold write descent posts.
E- How did you overcome marketing issues?
N- As women of color blogging, we didn’t get targeted as much from PR companies with their products, and we learned throughout blogher that many women of our heritage struggle… We made sure to visit peoples’ blogs and put our names out there…
E- What is the best way to market?
M- for marketing- Its mostly word of mouth that gives us traffic…
G- to kiss other webmasters’ asses and try to get linked.. Social media… So, basically we got the most traffic after I just left a comment on melinda lowes blog… Leave links and talk to the webmasters
E- does someone here run a group blog?
Commenter: Our biggest marketing strategy today, we have good SEO, and especially if you have tech related posts… Read other peoples’ blogs, build relationships, exchange codes, do guest posts, have their traffic go to your site and vice-versa. Social bookmarking… Dig, stumble upon, etc. It can drive a lot of traffic as, well.
E- We have google news, kissing ass, and social networking to consider… You want to kiss ass, but you don’t want your lips attached to their ass, ‘cause then you become spam to them.
Commenter: We found a lot fo moms come to our live events and offering a lot of our content via our experts was a great way to create content for our site… This has helped this market, and when they talk about how they were a guest blogger on their site, etc. And have authors, they talk about how they spoke at
