09
Dec
Want To Get Your Blog Seen?
So do I, and although only time will tell if my methods work, I’ve done a fair bit of reading over the last month, and there’s a lot we can do to help each other.
The following are all free, easy to do and a good way to help other bloggers & to help yourself. Please note I’m not suggesting link exchange for the sake of it - but if you genuinely like a blog, here’s how you can help publicise it, and hopefully someone will do the same for you.
Technorati: These guys are currently tracking over 62 million blogs-yours may be one of them. Sign up & claim your blog-this will enable you to view some interesting stats about your blog, such as who is linking to you & what they’re saying. You can also find other people’s blogs you like and ‘Favorite’ them. Do that, they can then check you out & maybe ‘favorite’ your blog.
StumbleUpon: A little toolbar that can be added to Internet Explorer or Firefox. Sign up for a free account, check some boxes on your interests and click stumble. This will then take you to random sites & give you the chance to rate them with a simple Thumbs Up/Down. StumbleUpon then learns your preferences & refines it’s suggestions. A great way to visit sites you’d never find in 100 years of searching, and a good source of blog material. Stumble your favourite blogs & get them more traffic, and someone may stumble yours!
Bestest Blog of All-Time: A quite stunning effort by one blogger, Bobby Griffin, to enable veryone to get some traffic to their site. More than a simple link exchange, his addition of the ‘Random Blog Button’ moves this up to being like StumbleUpon but for blogs. I have only done the free link exchange for now, and have already received dozens of hits via the random button. I intend to donate (totally optional) in the new year which should increase the chances of more hits. Essential.
del.icio.us: You’ve probably seen add to del.icio.us tags on many sites & wondered what they are. Well, in short, it’s a way of storing your bookmarks of all your favourite sites online, so you can access them from any computer. But, the kicker is that these bookmarks can be made public & searchable. So, other people with a similar interest in one of your bookmarks can find your list, and then follow another link away, or even ‘favourite you’ so they can view your future bookmarks. An excellent way to promote the sites you like.
eXlinks.net: I don’t even know what this is yet. According to the buzz & Digg it’s aiming to be a new concept in traffic exchange/social networking/bookmarking/link exchange. It’s not even in beta yet, but if you’re quick you can click on the link below and sign up which will get your blog entered into the beta when released. A head start on everyone else?
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December 9th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Since you added me to StumbleUpon about 30 seconds ago, I’ve started getting loads of hits! I’ll make sure I follow your tips!
December 9th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
Hey Chris, thanks so much for the plug and all the nice comments. Also, thanks for giving me another reason to look forward to the New Year, haha! This post was an excellent source of information on getting more traffic.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Good stuff! The initial rush will die off, but hopefully you’ll get some bookmarks & RSS subscribers out of it. It’s not considered good etiquette to OVER stumble yourself, but it’s certainly ok to do it for your homepage & if you come up with a particularly spectacular post. Gives a nice little boost to traffic.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
The man himself! My word you’re quick Bobby! I’ve now got this image of you plugged into the internet direct, like in ‘The Matrix’ scanning for mentions of your blog
Seriously, your blog is a great piece of work, the hits I’ve got from it are out of all proportion to the effort needed to register (i.e. hardly any).
December 9th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
Thanks for the ideas!! I jsut did the Technorati thing.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
Nice one Erika. How many link to you? I’m up to 9 now..
December 10th, 2006 at 11:08 am
You’ve been tagged with the ABC meme!
December 18th, 2006 at 2:44 am
Thanks for sharing - it does seem difficult to get attention to your blog at times…
December 18th, 2006 at 9:33 am
Hi Zorak, nice to see you, thanks for the comment. It can seem like hard work at times - that’s why I started blog-op.com to help us share ideas & readers. I hope it proves useful….
December 18th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Came by from THE CARNIVAL…
good tips
December 18th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Cheers Bond, hope they work…
December 19th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
So glad you posted on the carnival. Very helpful article. I do technorati and Bestest Blog and recently signed up for Stumbleupon and de.lic.ious (so this post explained their value a little better to me.)
December 19th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Hi Gale,
Stumble Upon is a very useful tool, but hideously addictive
December 19th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
If you think these tips are of use BTW, why not have a look at Blog-Op, my other blog. Improving your blog is what it’s all about, so please have a look, and maybe drop off a tip of your own.
December 19th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Came in by way of Carnival. Good suggestions for building links. thanks!