[Steve Waters 1]

Hi All,

I am in the process of setting up a fashion blog - have registered the domain www.soakingupstyle.com (nothing is up yet)

The main idea behind the blog is to promote my sunglasses e-commerce website. If I can get the blog a high natural listing on Google, I should be able to generate extra traffic via links to the e-commerce site.

It would be great if anyone out there who is interested in fashion could advise me on what sort of things they would like to read in a fashion blog.

Also any advice or tips on this project would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Steve Waters
www.soakingupstyle.com

[DaveAPN]

Steve,

So basically, you're planning on becoming an affiliate of yourself... I've done the same thing - I can tell you the biggest challenge is committing the time to do it. I set out a schedule, but then crises kept popping up that prevented me from sitting down and spending the time to write worthwhile things. Then it takes a couple minutes to plug images in, and link things... All in all each blog entry took about 20-45 minutes of my time.

You may want to consider hiring a writer for your blog - perhaps not necessarily to do it constantly, but maybe 3 times a week, and you'll fill in another 3 times a week. If you want to get any natural listings, you're going to be competing with a lot of players in the sunglasses category - you need to go full tilt for several months to see any results.

Good luck,

[bookatechie]

I agree with Dave ... I ran a blog for a while and quickly found out how much time it actually takes to maintain it.
If you are considering hiring a writer you might want to see if it is worth it to spend that money on advertisement insted. It might end up beeing a little more expensive but you will get instant results.