Blog Power Indexing Social Networking
- 29th Aug 2007
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You have just started your new blog. Yet nobody is reading. You have put time and effort into your posts and you’d like to be an authority on your chosen subject.
Now what?
You want to get seen, your blog isn’t even indexed yet. The only comments you have had are from friends who feel your time could be better spent elsewhere.
How to zoom that blog to the faces of the media and make you a power blogger?
Answers please.
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Sites like MyBlogLog seem to be working for me. BlogCatalog and Bumpzee are also similiar. With the use of tags and blog communties, your blog moves around the network pretty fast.
Digg!
That and make sure your blog is on wordpress or similar so it’s pinging everywhere and getting listed in technorati. That’ll send Google round in a flash.
Put up a video in which you predict the downfall of Google? Also be sure to piss off a bunch of SEOs.
Get all your friends in the industry to link to you and recommend you. Digg is great for traffic & links but not good for getting RSS readers.
Link to it from your old blog :)
Get a few mates to link to you.
Line 20 posts up and let them go 1-2 a day making sure you have all the services set up to ping,
Answer a popular post like this one is going to be with a link to your blog Startups & Online Business and some good anchor text
Write a how to or an opinion piece on a new service that would be of interest or real benefit to your target audience ie
Amazons EC2 and what it means for online Entrepreneurs
Put it in your email footer block and on your business card (if you can)
Thats it for me, have tried most of this, so thought I would try comment spamming Dave
Write interesting stuff. Not only what you can read elsewhere…
Comment on other related blogs. Participate in the community…
Write some articles for industry sites, or for article writing sites like buzzle, and provide a link back to your web site. It’s great for building your name recognition and authority in the industry.
Everyone throws the word digg around like it’s easy to get on the front page. It blatantly isn’t unless you’re able to build up a group of fans who will digg your articles to get the ball rolling..
Otherwise your stuck with about three diggs / digs (?) regardless of article quality.
Post a pic of you holding a big fat adsense check.
Getting your blog known takes time like anything else, unless of course you are already known in your industry and can just ping all your industry friends to help spread the word. Other then that it will take dedication and patience. Digg works for almost any blog, except for marketing blogs, they hate those type of blogs and will try to bury you quick. SU is a good source of traffic, but not sure how many subscribers you will get out of that. And yes Farmer that check you are referring to did play a big hand in making that blog explode like it has. Its all about branding and marketing, there is no one way to do it, you have to diversify your efforts and see which work best for your niche.
Steve
Technorati
IceRocket
Reddit brings more traffic for average story than digg.
Your blog need time. You need to have experience. Yes, you are an authority on your chosen subject, but OFFLINE. You need online experience. … then … you will have natural QUALITY traffic, and you can be really considered an authority.
- sorry for my English :) -
Get a backlink on davidnaylor.co.uk ;)
Make a funny promotion video and post it on all the video sites…
In the case of my blog which I started a little over a year ago on ‘Home Rentals’ (boring!) I started writing about my competition - believe me I get very loyal reader that way!
For the past month I have over 5,000 absolute unique visitors and 65 subscribers to my feed.
Jan and Jimmi Phoenix, I tried to get a backlink from DaveN with my SES video which Dave Naylor was included - but I did get any link love from him. :(
I guess I didn’t do his English accent right. :) Dave I still love your blog even though I can’t seem to shame you into a link.
Dave Dugdale
RentVine
Dave I’m just back I the driving seat .. Just wait a little longer and i will reply to one of your many requests .. ;)
I’m relatively new to the blogging game and I’ve just started taking a different approach to growing my blog. It starts by taking the bloggers in a vertical and placing them on a scale from 1 - 10 (10 being the A-list blogs). A lot of new bloggers (including me) spend too much of their time reading and engaging A-list blogs. It’s like starting a lawn mowing business and trying to make Yankee Stadium your first client. New bloggers should read the 10s to stay up on things, but also find some 3s, 4s, and 5s to engage. Those lower tier blogs will notice and appreciate their 2nd or 3rd comment more so than an A-list blog will their 25th comment. I also think this will lead to more links early on. Once some authority is gained at the 3, 4 and 5 level, a noob can start in on the 6s, the 7s, the 8s, 9s and then….Dave Naylor :) There are a few new blogs that will have the caliber of content to disregard this advice, but there are a thousand others that shouldn’t.
the answer is not easy, there are black hat tactics. But the question is what are you blogging about? What’s your niche? How many “competitors” d you have talking about the same subject as you?
As well, what do you define as being success? High position on SERP’s? High relevance for determined tag? Good Alexa? High income?
See, the perspective of success is relative.
I’ve just got a job as online marketing manager with a reasonable income in a good company in Melbourne,Australia pretty much because of my personal website, that doesn’t have more than 500 unique visitors a month.
From my perspective is a success history once that my goal is my online name reputation management thought a website
Cheers
Lucio Dias Ribeiro
I always try out the new social bookmarking sites, like thoof. They are so hungry for users, I think the employees actually go out and visit the sites that are being bookmarked! Why everyone is so enamored with Digg I can’t say - a brief surge of traffic with little long-term effect (ah, well there are some links). So, I go with the Big Fish in a Little Pond theory for more consistent traffic from a number of places. Stumble is also an excellent place to start for a new site.
I think definitely one of the best angles is humor. I have have written several blog posts, some that I thought were entirely useful or relevant to my market, and nobody commented on them. Others that were written with a humorous angle got lots of comments. I think Dave Dugdale’s SES “video” is testament to the power of humor.