“Ten Easy Ways to Make Money With a Blog”
“How to Become A Successful Blogger Overnight”
“Twelve Tips to Get More Comments”
“The Secret to Getting More Visitors To a Blog”
“Attract Hundreds of RSS Feed Readers In a Matter of Days”
O.K. You get the message.
In hopes of becoming more successful with our blogs, catchy blog titles like these may entice us to read a post, but how good is the message? And will it work for us?
Truth be told, maybe not.
Today’s Lesson
One thing I have learned from blogging is what works for you may not work for me.
Why?
Because you’re you, and I’m me.
We approach things differently. We think differently. We write differently. We market ourselves differently. We devote different amounts of time to blogging. We take the information we read and process it differently.
As much as the helpful blogging information might be true for the author of the article, chances we’re not looking at the complete picture of how they got from point A to point B.
For example:
- How long have they been blogging?
- What is their page rank?
- How many visitors do they currently have?
- How often do they publish?
- Do they have anchor articles in their archives which attract search engine traffic?
- How much time do they spend on blogging activities?
- How well are they known in blogosphere?
- Are they using SEO (search engine optimization)?
- If so, what method do they use? And…what search terms/ keywords did they use?
- Are they using meta tags and a search engine friendly theme?
- What time of the day and day of the week do they post their articles?
- How many subscribers do they currently have?
- And, do those current subscribers act as evangelists for them?
- Are they also promoting their posts on Twitter, Facebook, Digg and other online networking sites?
- Have they posted reliable material in the past?
- Have they built up their presence off-line, as well?
- In addition to their blog, are they also sending out newsletters or doing webinars?
See what I mean?
We can read articles of how to be a successful blogger and spend countless hours tweaking, but if we don’t take the other factors into consideration, all of that work could be for naught.
Am I saying we’re wasting our time reading those articles?
No.
What I am saying is “reader beware”.
Today’s Assignment
Have you ever tried something another blogger is having success with, only to have it flop?
Or, has something another blogger shared, helped you become more successful?
Care to share?
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With CommentLuv a blogger gets to let those who comment share a link back to their site which often results in more traffic for both bloggers.
It’s a great reward for those who take the time to comment on our blogs; a way to thank others for sharing their thoughts.
CommentLuv definitely spreads the love.
Today’s Lesson
You may have noticed when a blog has CommentLuv enabled, at the end of the link to your blog post is a small red heart
. By hovering over the heart with your cursor, it can tell more about you, your blog, where you visited last as well as more of your posts. It’s also clickable.
While going through the comments on recent posts, I noticed many of you are not using this feature. Instead, if I hover over the heart, I’m either seeing,
or,
When your CommentLuv link is labeled as a Feedburner link, Feedburner is getting the link love, instead of you.
In other words, your CommentLuv heart is broken.
When I signed up at ComLuv.com, I wanted to make sure my heart was working. After several tweaks and the Feedburner “fix”, here’s what you will see if you hover over the heart after a link to one of my posts:
Although some of you may prefer not to have additional information about yourself and where you visit available, for those of you who are trying to get noticed in blogosphere, by using this feature, you’re giving readers a chance to learn more about you as well as what other posts you have on your blog AND they can click directly on them.
The fix for your broken CommentLuv heart is easy.
You MUST register your blog.
1) Go to ComLuv.com
2) If you have the plugin installed and want to register your site(s*), click on the gray “Register Your Sites” bar and follow the instructions. Be careful when entering your feed address. It must be accurate for the CommentLuv links to work.
3) If you do not have the plugin installed, click on the orange “Download the plugin” bar. After activating the plugin, return to ComLuv.com and register your site.
If the CommentLuv links shows your site as a feedburner link, the fix can be found on the ComLuv blog at How To Turn Off Feedburner Redirects
It’s that simple.
What say you?
Today’s Assignment
Are you taking advantage of all the CommentLuv plugin has to offer?
Do you see any disadvantages to using the plugin?
Or, is this just one too many plugins to worry about?
P.S. For more information on how CommentLuv was born, you can read my interview with the plugin author, Andy Bailey.
*For a small fee, you can register more than one URL or add static links.