By admin
The number one question for a new blogger is, how is my site doing? When you first start though you may not have realized it, it will take weeks probably months before you will have a steady traffic base and be able to start making money. So you pass the time by watching statcounter or anaylitics, and keep clicking on the refresh button. Well now I am going to suggest several more ways to pass the time.
One,
This guy named Dane Carlson created this little html thingy, sponsered by technorati. And you just type in your blog address, and it will give you a guess about how much your site is worth. Now don’t get your hopes up, it’s not realistic. But hey, everybody likes knowing that according to this site their blog is worth thousands of dollars. Here’s the link.
Two,
Here’s a similar program but that is more extensive. It’s called dnscoop. It also shows, links to your site which is very fun to check up on. Everybody wants to see if anyone has linked to their site. Two links are nice, but if they do it with no reward, lol it just feels good.
Three,
Go onto google and type in the web address of your site without the .com. Like for this site I would type in, mastersofseo and then press enter. It shows all the sites that you have done something on, and also those that have linked to you.
Fourth,
This site. It also shows an estimated worth, and the links, and the google ranking.
Fifth,
The last one, is Alexa ranking. This is similar to google, if you comparing a mosquito to an elephant. But many people do use it, and the ranking is more fun to follow cause your constantly moving up and down.
So there you go, hopefully these will help pass the time till you have a consistent reader list.
By admin
So you are looking for a social network to generate traffic and meet other bloggers, why blogcatalog? Because it’s by far the best.
Blog Catalog combines great discussions, with great groups, and a large enough amount of people. The one downside, is it’s incredibly addicting nature. Hours can be spent on blogcatalog, but hey it’s for your website right? so you have an excuse.
There are three components to the site. Number one discussions, That’s where people will post new questions, and most importantly offers they have. If you follow it semi regularly, you can win prizes such as links, and entrecard credits, and also gain friends and help out another blogger. Also read the discussions that relate to your blog, i’ve found answers to many of my questions on this site. Also feel free to ask your own question if you don’t see the one your looking for.
The second component is Groups. On the blogcatalog.com home page you will see at the bottom a list of the top groups. I would join all of them. The same if not more people use groups over discussions so make sure to follow these as well. It will list for you new comments so you don’t have to keep checking every group. After you have joined all the most popular groups, i would spend extra time viewing the stumble group, and technorati group. They have been the most helpful for me. If you have a digg, stumble, or technorati, or all of them then these groups will be extremely helpful. Look for free links, those come up every now and then, and join the daily stumble discussion and post your link, but make sure you return the favor otherwise you will make many angry people in the group.
The third component, is friends. Friends are key because they will visit your site, and you can send them broadcasts if you have questions or are offering something. I would start by posting a few discussions saying "let me comment on your blog." Or let me see your blog. You’ll get up to 100 comments with people’s links so don’t get overwhelmed but work your way through them, and make sure you do it. People usually return the favor and visit your blog, and as I said in my last post, this comment will also give you a free link.
So if you do all this then you’ll have friends, the ability to have your questions answered, get traffic, and get all the things you need to have a successful blog.
Here are links to some people who are on blogcatalog if you want to add them when you make an account,
LadyBanana and here’s her blog www.ladybanana.co.uk
thelookout and here’s his blog wawtech.blogspot.com/
danceoutlook and here’s her blog danceoutlook.blogspot.com/
