Photography Blogging – Sleepers And The Long Tail

After blogging for a few years, you start to notice patterns and trends in the posts published. One overall trend is obvious - the longer a post has been published and out there on the world wide web, the more chance it has had of being read. A pattern I really enjoy seeing is what… Continue reading Photography Blogging – Sleepers And The Long Tail

5 Ways I’m Doubling My Efforts With Flickr

As you probably know, I'm a big fan of Flickr and have used it for 11 years now as a way to organise and archive my best photos, easily insert them into blog posts here on 35hunter, and discover photographs that I love. So whenever I can, I try to sing Flickr's praises and encourage… Continue reading 5 Ways I’m Doubling My Efforts With Flickr

The Three Biggest Turn Offs When Viewing Photography Blogs

I follow around 25 blogs at any one time, all of them chosen as I feel they are well worth my attention. We're each limited in how much time we have, so who wants to waste it on blogs and sites they're not getting anything from? In my explorations, a few common features pop up… Continue reading The Three Biggest Turn Offs When Viewing Photography Blogs

How To Support The Blogs And Communties You Love

As I’ve spoken about previously, aside from enjoying the writing and thinking out loud my blog provides, a major reason for having a blog at all is to create and grow a community of like minded people. I could just jump on an existing site or social media platform but I prefer to do things… Continue reading How To Support The Blogs And Communties You Love

Photo Blogging – What Does Success Look Like?

Fellow bloggers, I expect a good few of you are, like me, fascinated with the stats and figures WordPress makes available to us too, to gauge how "successful" our blogs are. For a long time with 35hunter, I was most interested in visitors and page views. Surely, I thought, the more visits and page views… Continue reading Photo Blogging – What Does Success Look Like?