Blogging promotion tip #832: summit registers

In past episodes, we've covered tattooing your URL on your forehead, balloon drops, engaging in a high-speed chase with your URL painted on the roof of your car, and putting your pet in a T-shirt with your blog's URL on it and parading it around town.

Todays tip is inserting blog advertising in summit registers.

As you can see from the comment from this site here, this has already paid off:

Hi. I picked up your blog business card at the top of Guadalupe Peak. Good idea. Will an entry on GP be forthcoming?

In an attempt to continue getting the phenomenal summit-register-related traffic, just yesterday I placed a summit register at Strawberry Peak. I placed a small notebook and a couple pens in a metal box festooned with kitty pictures, because that's all they had at the discount store. I also, of course, signed it using this blog's URL, so I fully expect the traffic to increase markedly in the coming months.

Bear in mind I'm quite serious about this promotion business. As usual I got a late start, and I was also delayed because they were holding a road rally of some kind in the Angeles National Forest and there appeared to have been a serious accident. I didn't see the accident, but I was in a long line of cars waiting for a helicopter to land so the injured person(s) could be transported out of there. I can't find a news report on this and I don't have any more details.

When I started hiking from Red Box up the eastern route, the radiation from the ground felt like I was standing next to an oven. There was very little breeze and it was muggy and smoggy. I eventually made it to the top and made it back down but I really should start earlier or later during the summer, eh? I also saw no one else going up or coming back, and I only saw a few other people in the Red Box parking lot. I really need to go to the Sierras soon. I'll bring blogging cards.

Bloggage · Sun, 07/17/2005 - 13:45 · · Importance: 1