Friday, September 27, 2013

Writing Technical Blogs in routerfreak.com

When I started this blog, I had no idea what I am getting into. I just had this vision that I will write my blog posts in a simple language so that more people can read, understand and comment and we all learn in the process. But one of the immediate challenge was to popularize the blog so that more people reads my posts. I did following:
  1. I shared my blog through mails with my friends and family. 
  2. I updated my blog in Linked-In and shared every blog post in Linked-In.
  3. As suggested by one of my colleague, I created a twitter account for this blog to get to wider audience. I started following some of my friends and collegues so that they can retweet my tweets to get my wider audience.
Even after doing the above, I find traffic to my blog was not as much as I wanted it to be. I thought that I should write guest posts for some popular blogs as a guest editor to get to wider audience.

When I searched through Internet, I found couple of good technical blogs. Most of these blogs are Network Administrator oriented. One such blog is Router Freak and it provides tools, tips, review etc. for Network Engineers. Router Freak also provide oppourtunity to other people to write for them. I contacted them through their web-site. They very kindly agreed for me to write for them.

I wrote my first blog post on IP TTL Security on 8th August. I followed it up with SSM and ASM on 2nd September. Please do read these two blog post and send me any comments you may have.

As I was showing enthusiasm in writing blog post and I think Router Freak liked the two blog post I wrote for them, we decided to get into an agreement. We discussed and decided that I shall write Technical Contents realted to Networking only for Router Freak.

I think its a win-win situation for both of us. I get the wider audience for my posts and Router Freak hopefully gets the good technical content. I request you to please subscribe to Router Freak's RSS feed or for Network Engineer's Newsletter or both so that you can be notified about new blog posts.

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