Shame-less Self Promotion

We’ve all been there, your blog is languishing in the depths of Technorati Despair, and nobody is reading what you have written. You fancy encouraging a spike of activity around the blogosphere, so what you do is post a few comments on your favourite blogs.

Comments are the best form of getting comments, I mean, at the very least you’ll get at least one clickthrough, at best you’ll get your comment referenced in a later post (such as one of my comments on Mike’s Money Making Mission). There a good way of building traffic between blogs, as often blogs have similar readerships.

Just one word of advice, don’t be shameless with your self promotion, and offer something to the post, other than just your blog.

One such incident a few years back was considered the birth of targetted adverts. Uber-blogger Tom Coates blogged about his father when he got a comment. It seemed heartfelt, but on further research the comment was from a splog, you can catch up more with this story here. Tom Coates was a fairly big fish in the small blogging pool, and it got brought up on the BBC website too, so much so that the reputable company behind the comment had to issue a formal apology regarding the whole situation.

All of us here would love more readers, of course! We’re all bloggers here, and we all actively participate in the blogosphere. We are all understanding, and want to make a useful contribution to the blogosphere, and to other people’s posts. Just don’t shamelessly promote your blog. If you do, you’ll get far less readers than you may hope for.

With that being said, I’m sure you’d all love my fantastic personal blog: The Gospel According To Rhys 😉

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