Developer blogs - help finding followers

General (non-technical) Marketing and Monetization
#1

Who bothers doing developer blogs/game info pages etc. here? I started facebook, twitter and a website a couple of days ago which I’m currently updating when I make progress with my new game I’m working on.

Initially I thought I’d just post on facebook saying “Hello everyone, please like my page” howerver I decided not to do that as I wont be able to work out if people are liking because I asked them too or they have seen something somewhere to draw them to the page. It’s still a bit early as the content is sparse on all 3 but I need to start planning.

The bit that I’m currently stuck on is HOW? How do you get people onto your sites to follow, like or whatever? Does anybody have any advice they could offer.

Thanks for reading

Phil [import]uid: 148866 topic_id: 33284 reply_id: 333284[/import]

#2

What’s wrong with asking them? You have to get readership some how and until people know about it they won’t come read it.

You don’t have to be blatent like “Please Like me because I’m cool”, but what you should do is publish a post to your blog, and then FB/Tweet the URL to the post and what it’s about. You will get some likes/follows to your stream from that. Then it doesn’t hurt to periodically advertise the blog site and it doesn’t hurt to post: “To stay up todate on my latest blog posts, like this page” or “… follow me on twitter”.

Also make sure on your blog site that links to follow/like are there as well. [import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 33284 reply_id: 132237[/import]

#3

Hmm maybe you’re right I think I just sort of thought of it in a pure “interested only” sort of crowd I wanted to pull in first. Like you say though this is hard as I don’t know who they are yet so start with who I do know! [import]uid: 148866 topic_id: 33284 reply_id: 132242[/import]

#4

What’s wrong with asking them? You have to get readership some how and until people know about it they won’t come read it.

You don’t have to be blatent like “Please Like me because I’m cool”, but what you should do is publish a post to your blog, and then FB/Tweet the URL to the post and what it’s about. You will get some likes/follows to your stream from that. Then it doesn’t hurt to periodically advertise the blog site and it doesn’t hurt to post: “To stay up todate on my latest blog posts, like this page” or “… follow me on twitter”.

Also make sure on your blog site that links to follow/like are there as well. [import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 33284 reply_id: 132237[/import]

#5

Hmm maybe you’re right I think I just sort of thought of it in a pure “interested only” sort of crowd I wanted to pull in first. Like you say though this is hard as I don’t know who they are yet so start with who I do know! [import]uid: 148866 topic_id: 33284 reply_id: 132242[/import]