how to get your msn space seen

what do you need to do to get your space noticed ?

i thought i'd give this some thought as this is a fledgling community only in the first phase of evolution and as such , the statistics show that only 40 % of bloggers update their blog weekly , even less daily . this is probably due to a number of reasons , not least the fact the many people become disheartened that no-one is reading their handiwork and wonder if their time might be better spent elsewhere .
most of what i'm going to write is common sense , however read on as i'm sure you'll find some useful items that maybe hadn't previously occured to you .

general
1. complete a new entry daily - your space will therfore come up in the " updated spaces box " on most bloggers spaces and on the msn spaces homepage .
2. post a blog early in the morning - that way more people will have an opportunity to see and comment on it .
3. allow comments to be left by anyone (by ticking the allow comments box under "blog settings" ) .
4. each comment that is left by someone pushes your blog back onto the "updated spaces list " hence the importance of the above .
5. if you don't have the time to compose a new blog entry in the morning pre - compose your entry and save it as a draft . it then only takes a few seconds to post the draft as your new entry the next morning .
6. make the content intersting or humourous ( i know this is obvious but how many msn spaces have you already come across with the first line " i'm bored " or "don't know what to write " .
7. place a link on your blog to messagecast alerts ( click on the name to go there ) - which emails or instant messengers your readers when you have updated or changed your blog . for example to get automatic alerts when this space is updated go to the top right of this space , click on the link and follow the instructions ( takes <>

so that's all pretty straighforward isn't it . for anyone that's intersted i've also put together some links to search engines and rss aggregators so that your msn space blog will have a better chance of coming up in a web search .

oh , and first day of the new job went nice n easy which was good as i'm really feeling like death with the lurgy now .