Money 24Seven Part 10 – Interactions Between Blogs
As your blog’s content increase, people in your niche will definitely mention you for intelligent or interesting discussions. This is, in a sense, an initiation of an interaction. When people speak of you, you should thank them for the mention and build up the interaction!
When you use a traffic tracking script such as the free www.statcounter.com, you can see where traffic comes from. If a large number of visitors come from a certain blog, you can be sure they have mentioned you in their latest post or linked to you from their sidebar or links page. What you should do is pay them a visit, leave constructive comments on their posts and build up a conversation!
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As you continue doing this, you will start to gather a lot of friends in your niche. This is helpful later on when you decide to do collaborations such as interviews. In fact, when you’re out of ideas for writing on your blog, you can interview other blog owners in your niche! Human beings are curious creatures, so naturally they would like to know more about a person whose writings they read so often.
If you’re using Wordpress, Textpattern, MovableType or any other advanced blog engines, you can also post trackback links on your posts. This means you can post an article about what other people have posted! Your particular post will then appear as a link on that post you have written about. This is definitely a great way to get traffic if you post brilliant insights about a post on a very famous blog. Since the famous blog already has a per-existing pool of readers, this is like a shortcut to hog their visitors! The only thing you would want to observe is to keep your posts sensible and insightful, or you’ll be viewed as a spammer.
On the other hand, if you’re using Blogger, you would not be able to use trackback links. However, you can post insightful comments on other people’s blogs and subtly include a link back to your blog. You can make it seem like you’re pointing to your blog as an extra reference to the subject of discussion. Of course, this technique is not only limited to Blogger users and users of other blog engines can employ this strategy as an additional traffic source.
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August 15th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
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August 17th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
You’ve got some excellent points in this post. I especially like your point about trackbacks. This is a tool I think many bloggers miss, and is a good reason for using Wordpress or MoveableType as blogging tools.
Thanks for the insights.
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September 6th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I still don’t get how people can possibly compare RSS with Twitter.
One is asynchronous, the other is synchronous.
Debate ends here ! People who can afford to spend their time online, either because it’s their job, or because they have nothing else better to do of course can replace one with the other. For people who have tight schedules, mettings, or are often out of office, RSS is always the better choice as it delivers data in a much more flexible way than anything synchronous can.
September 6th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
As you think about keywords, consider the following:
* Who needs your service?
Think about who will use your services, then target them with keywords. For example, people whose dogs are about to have puppies will need puppy food, so you can add phrases like “dog pregnancy” and “puppy health” to your list.
* Include variations of your keywords
People will search for your site using all sorts of keywords. Making your site easy to find means including misspelled, capitalized and plural keywords. Always include the longer forms of keywords too. For example, use “domestication” as well as “domestic.”
* Avoid wrong keywords
Do not use “stop words” — particles like “and” and “the” and common words like “Internet.” Remember, the more specific your keywords are, the better the chance that people who find your site through search engines will actually benefit from its content.
September 6th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
more people say they rely mostly on the internet for news than cite newspapers, and nearly six-in-ten Americans younger than 30 (59%) say they get most of their national and international news online. Also, the percentage of people younger than 30 citing television as a main news source has declined from 68% in September 2007 to 59% in 2008. Digital media share of voice is only going to continue climbing while other channels lose ground. Can you really afford to ignore the new medium of choice for consumers?