Comments on: Secret Guide to Social Blogging Success - Part II http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/ Money Saving Reviews | Money Saving News | Money Saving Tips Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:09:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: jfc http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-917 jfc Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:10:02 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-917 Thanks Y.S., Some of this stuff is rather obvious but it helps to write it down. Thanks Y.S.,

Some of this stuff is rather obvious but it helps to write it down.

]]> By: Y. S. http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-915 Y. S. Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:47:20 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-915 LooooL That is so honest :D !!! I cant believe you actually said all of those things! Personally, I'm not concerned about fame at all. But the article has so many ideas that I'll hopefully give a try. Thanks! LooooL

That is so honest :D !!!
I cant believe you actually said all of those things!

Personally, I’m not concerned about fame at all. But the article has so many ideas that I’ll hopefully give a try.

Thanks!

]]> By: jfc http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-912 jfc Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:18:24 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-912 Hi Bruce, Don't worry, it gets stupider in the next parts. :) Technorati ranking is a bit tricker since you get one vote per site for 6 months. This does limit the effect of the entourage. However, between Top Commentator, Do Follow, and other such plug-ins plus whatever legit mentions you pick up it should grow rapidly. If you take a look at the 45n5 list you can clearly see some blogs that used this strategy to up their numbers, mainly because the rest of their stats and blog activity level don't fit the numbers. Hi Bruce,

Don’t worry, it gets stupider in the next parts. :)

Technorati ranking is a bit tricker since you get one vote per site for 6 months. This does limit the effect of the entourage. However, between Top Commentator, Do Follow, and other such plug-ins plus whatever legit mentions you pick up it should grow rapidly. If you take a look at the 45n5 list you can clearly see some blogs that used this strategy to up their numbers, mainly because the rest of their stats and blog activity level don’t fit the numbers.

]]> By: Bruce http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-910 Bruce Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:27:19 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-910 Absolutely. One real benefit I can see to doing something like this is for the technorati benefits. If you created 15 to 20 free email accounts then use those to grab blogs on Blogger, live, wherever, then as you linked to your main blog you would raise your authority which would in turn raise your visibility there. If you spent some time linking all the free blogs together before those personalities ever started linking to your main blog, then this would be more as their technorati would be higher when they linked. I've always been too honest to do such a thing, but there is really nothing wrong with adopting these types of activities in a promotion strategy. Spending this amount of time jsut for fame would be stupid in my opinion but as a strategy to help launch a new blog would be a great method, plus it would be a lot cheaper than buying those expensive review posts on some of the big blogs. Absolutely. One real benefit I can see to doing something like this is for the technorati benefits. If you created 15 to 20 free email accounts then use those to grab blogs on Blogger, live, wherever, then as you linked to your main blog you would raise your authority which would in turn raise your visibility there. If you spent some time linking all the free blogs together before those personalities ever started linking to your main blog, then this would be more as their technorati would be higher when they linked.

I’ve always been too honest to do such a thing, but there is really nothing wrong with adopting these types of activities in a promotion strategy. Spending this amount of time jsut for fame would be stupid in my opinion but as a strategy to help launch a new blog would be a great method, plus it would be a lot cheaper than buying those expensive review posts on some of the big blogs.

]]> By: jfc http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-907 jfc Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:10:24 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-907 Hi Bruce, It looks like some dips&!t marked a comment of your's as spam so now you're getting sent to the Akismet filter. Contact them to get it cleared up. See my post, <a href="http://optempo.com/2007/12/23/akismet-heading-toward-failure/" rel="nofollow">Akismet: Heading Toward Failure?</a>, for my experiences with this. Except for the Entourage Blogs this part is mostly on the up and up. Comment prospecting is considered pretty acceptable. At least one blogger in the 45n5 list broke into the top 20 doing this. Borrowing content ideas is also pretty common. I happened to run across another blogger today via Blogging Zoom who was complaining about how rampant this was. You are right though that there are technical things that can trip up your Entourage blog plans. For example, hosting them all on the same shared server or hosting company. That's why I recommended splitting them up. Plus you should use private registration for all of them that have their own domains. Proxy use is also quite important and you'll certainly need to use more than one when you start using them outside your network. Hi Bruce,

It looks like some dips&!t marked a comment of your’s as spam so now you’re getting sent to the Akismet filter. Contact them to get it cleared up. See my post, Akismet: Heading Toward Failure?, for my experiences with this.

Except for the Entourage Blogs this part is mostly on the up and up. Comment prospecting is considered pretty acceptable. At least one blogger in the 45n5 list broke into the top 20 doing this. Borrowing content ideas is also pretty common. I happened to run across another blogger today via Blogging Zoom who was complaining about how rampant this was.

You are right though that there are technical things that can trip up your Entourage blog plans. For example, hosting them all on the same shared server or hosting company. That’s why I recommended splitting them up. Plus you should use private registration for all of them that have their own domains. Proxy use is also quite important and you’ll certainly need to use more than one when you start using them outside your network.

]]> By: jfc http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-906 jfc Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:40:09 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-906 Hi Shamim I've got Part III ready to go except for the pictures. I'll probably post it early tomorrow. Hi Shamim

I’ve got Part III ready to go except for the pictures. I’ll probably post it early tomorrow.

]]> By: Bruce http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-905 Bruce Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:48:12 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-905 Wellyou may be on to something here. Of course I would not use this sort of tactic on a make money type blog. While there are a lot of newbies a lot of times even the newbies are fairly astute techs which raises the chance of someone outing you. Of course in other niches this could be interesting. Wellyou may be on to something here. Of course I would not use this sort of tactic on a make money type blog. While there are a lot of newbies a lot of times even the newbies are fairly astute techs which raises the chance of someone outing you. Of course in other niches this could be interesting.

]]> By: Shamim http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-904 Shamim Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:48:24 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-904 The first and second parts were a great read. Looking forward to part 3. The first and second parts were a great read. Looking forward to part 3.

]]> By: jfc http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-903 jfc Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:27:45 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-903 Thanks Grizzly, I've got at least two more parts coming. Maybe I should put it out as an eBook. :) Thanks Grizzly,

I’ve got at least two more parts coming. Maybe I should put it out as an eBook. :)

]]> By: Grizzly http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-902 Grizzly Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:48:24 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/05/secret-guide-to-social-blogging-success-part-ii/#comment-902 Frank you black hatter you... Well done - didn't think you had it in ya! Lol Frank you black hatter you…

Well done - didn’t think you had it in ya! Lol

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