Building Blog Community by Setting Homework For Readers

Building Blog Community by Setting Homework For Readers: "A month back I finished a post on how to increase your blog’s page views with the tip of ‘give your readers a homework assignment’.

I included it as a tip based on what I’d been experimenting with for just one week - it was really an unproven tip based largely upon a hunch.

I thought it was time to expand the tip as I’ve continued to set homework for readers, especially on my digital photography school blog and in the last couple of weeks have been quite amazed by the results. Below I outline the benefits of setting homework for readers.



Firstly here’s how I’ve been doing it:


Each of my assignments is based upon a ‘tips post’ I’ve written on DPS.
At the end of each tip I point to an assignment thread over at the DPS Flickr Group.
The Assignment thread links back to the tips post that the idea for the assignment came from.
Assignments are simply an invitat"