What blog or online business couldn’t use more visitors? There are so many little ways to plant seeds of growth that no list can be comprehensive, so we’ll just start with some off the top of our head and count on our readers to add their best ideas. Feel free to leave links to related articles and posts in the do follow comments.
As you visit other bloggers be sure to share the best posts you find at your favorite Social Networking site. I favor the FriendFeed bookmarklet. The better your shared items the more people will want to read what YOU write. Take a little extra time and make your FriendFeed posts more valuable to readers.
Here are Five easy to use tools to make the results of your time online more fruitful:
- Go to FFHolic to find the Most Discussed, Most Liked, Most Commented, Most Popular and Most Active discussions at FriendFeed. Select those that are related to your areas of interest and get involved in the discussion. Others reading your comments are likely to subscribe to you, read your feeds, check out your blogs – maybe even write about you or link to you. ACTIVE participants get shared!
- Go to Twellow and find others with the same interests as you. If you want to see all the bloggers you can find it under Media. The more powerful blogger Twitter users you follow the more you’ll learn – and the more who will follow you. Visit their blogs and leave pertinent comments. (If that is sounding repetitive it is because it is VERY IMPORTANT.)
- Use Twitterholic to visit the Top 100 Twitterers. There is a reason they’re top Twitter users, so even if you aren’t interested in their topics DO pay attention to what they’re doing to get ideas on how YOU can be more successful.
- Set up Twilerts for the subjects you are interested in to get an email once a day with related tweets. Remember to add any names or users you use so you can see when someone is interested in you so you can follow them. If they recommended you be sure to thank them.
- Use Zuula Blog Search to find the most recent AND relevant blog posts on any topic you’re interested in. Blog an answer and link them in and drop by their blog and comment. Wouldn’t you like the reader of the posts you most enjoy to be your readers too? With blog commenting and linking they can.
Have your own favorite way to grow your online networks? We would LOVE to hear from you. Drop your ideas including YOUR links and links to resources you use and recommend in the comments.
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Great list of resources here…bookmarked them all!
Thanks,
Matt
Twitter: @GrowMap
Thanks for letting us know, Matt. I hope you’ll drop by again. Be sure to check out the articles on Matt’s blog. I’ve submitted several of them to FriendFeed and especially like You Want Customers? Ask for Them at http://smallbizbee.com/index/2008/12/08/customers-them/
Can’t say that i agree fully to this article because the most important #1 is missing; good content. You can do your very best to follow the 5 methods described in this article, but if first-time visitors to your blog are not interested in the content of what you write, then they’ll not return to your blog. With good content i mean more then copying opinions of others or referring to that, but formulating your own opinion and really contributing.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello Ronald,
Good content is a given; without it no amount of traffic will make any difference. The visitors who will decide to read this blog, for example, will read more than just this post on their first visit.
They’ll check out the categories and other posts to see what is posted here. My posts tend to be longer than many would prefer so I can’t cover everything required in each post. I haven’t even scratched the surface of what is important in this entire blog!
Just found your website and am loving it. I subscribed. Thanks for the links.
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