Last May I heard about this thing called “Blog Jog Day.” I knew a lot of my friends did different types of blog hops, but this particular one intrigued me because the human in charge of it runs writing and publishing blogs. That means the group of bloggers participating, even if they are not authors, are a bit more literary-minded than the average blogger. Being an author myself, I like that! And it seems like a way to get quality traffic to your blog, as opposed to the type of hit-and-miss visitors from some of the other low-budget blog advertising services (although I still use them because I have made some good friends through the ads).
This Blog Jog Day is on Sunday, November 21, and here is how it works:
- You sign up for it. The Blog Jog Day creator buys advertising for this event, so she charges $2 to sign up. In addition to defraying those costs, it also discourages spam blogs. I did not think this was too much money. My human spends at least that much to feed us cats just for one day!
- The Blog Jog Day human sends you a link to one of the other blogs that is participating, and you include it in your post for that day. That way, readers can “jog” from one blog to another if they want. (The blogger’s link that was sent to me happens to be a human author!)
- You post anything you want on Blog Jog Day. I will be having a giveaway! So even if you don’t care about blog jogging, you will still want to stop by!
If this sounds interesting or fun to you, do check into it! One plus is that it is happening during the height of holiday shopping season, so if you are an author like me (feline or otherwise), or if your humans sell crafty type things, this might be a nice, inexpensive way to get more shoppers!
See all of Summer’s merch at her Designercat Shop, available on Zazzle.
That sounds very interesting, Sparkle. And charging a nominal fee is a good idea, to discourage said nasty spammers. We’ll check it out if we can!
Mom says we can check it out when she gets home from work.
The Florida Furkids and Angel Sniffie
I love the idea Sparkle…. I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks for the heads up.
Have a great day…
Max
Fanks for the information!
This sounds interesting! We’ll have our mom check it out!
That sounds like a good idea. We will certainly check it out. It is always fun to meet new people. Have a great day.
Thanks for telling us about this – we’ll get mum to read up about it.
That sounds like a great idea, Sparkle.
Sounds quite interesting! We’ll have to check it out!
What a kool idea~!!! We will check it out. Thanx Sparkle~!!!
This is neat! I signed up. 🙂
Good for you Sparkle!
Go Sparkle go!!!
Sparkle, we avoid exercise, but a blog jog sounds like fun!
you are a very clever cat Sparkle
This is a great idea — I think I will sign up!
We will look into this, Sparkle.
By the way, Bibi says thanks so much for your kind words.
We hadn’t heard of the Blog Jog before but it sounds interesting. We’ll have to check it out and we’ll certainly check out your post that day!
Blog hops and blog jogs! Cool idea, thanks for letting us know, Sparkle. The charge isn’t much at all. We’ll have to see if we can have our act together for it…we can never seem to be prepared for the various blog hops so who knows!
-Pip, Smidgen, Minnie
Definitely something for us ta consider doin!
Greetings Sparkle,
We love the idea and appreciate the heads up and will be checking back.
Wishing you all the best,
Miss Kitty and Egmont
My Human is dumber and lazier than dirt about all this, but she’ll come visit for sure!