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Eight Actions for Producing Quality Over Quantity | LERNR.COM — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:32:18 +0000

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By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:55:13 +0000

I didn’t start my blog until a couple years of marketing online so I was never really in the “Web 2.0″ mindset. In this day and age Web 2.0 is taking over. That means it’s all about participation.

I never really thought something as small as commenting on blogs and linking out could create such a positive response, but after a few months of blogging I continue to see my blog grow from doing so.

Great advice.

By: Ruchir

Ruchir — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:12:07 +0000

Yeah, I too have been procrastinating the last couple of weeks. I’ve to go back to all the blogging forums and start posting again…

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:37:48 +0000

@ Mike, I’ve really enjoyed Chris Garrett’s Authority Blogger Forums and The Blog Experiment (no not this site) blog forums as well. As for content, I think I probably got a bit bogged down in the Under the Microscope posts and probably should do a better job spreading those out.

By: bmunch

bmunch — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:28:41 +0000

Blogging for 4 months, I have only started commenting regularly about 2 weeks ago. Although I have seen some traffic from these comments, the greatest benefit for me is the gems I can find within the comments stream.

Blogging is a lonely job and if your blog do not have the legs to generate comments regularly, commenting and joining discussion on other blogs will give you better insight on some of the topics.

By: Mike Huang

Mike Huang — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:23:58 +0000

Ben, I’m sure you could shoot your blog back up again. These days bloggers seem to post same or similar content, so maybe try a new thing?

-Mike

p.s. I’ve never discussed in forums before, which site do you visit?

By: Colin King

Colin King — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:48:52 +0000

This is a lesson that I’ve learnt too. But how to choose? What I’m trying at the moment is to comment on the sites that I have subscribed to via rss, afterall I subscribed to them because I like them so it should be easier to comment on the posts. I don’t check whether they’re “big” bloggers or not but I am more likely to comment if they are dofollow blogs. Even so if I have something to say, I will regardless.

By: Jamie O

Jamie O — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:57:50 +0000

It starts auspiciously. There are more commenters sites’ to comment on than you have hours in the day to comment on them. So you start to only comment on “the good posters” sites as a return for putting worthwhile energies into your site. You let the “great post, good job” comments slip through the cracks. You rationalize it in any number of ways, believing that “creating better content will get me more readers, commenters and value overall than commenting”. Before you know it, that habit of commenting is nothing more than a withered vine you occasionally water.

To continue the plant analogy, a blog is like a cactus…very hard to kill. You can forget about it for a period, not give it the attention it deserves and it will stagnate. But it won’t die, because the search engines will continue to index your content and new users occasionally trickle in. But if you invest the time into it which you’re proposing, it can become lively and profitable and grow to be so much more than just a prickly plant.

I’m planting seeds of change in my mind for my blog today in hopes of better growth for tomorrow.