Comments on: It Takes a Gathering to Build a Crowd

By: Evelyn Lim | Attraction Mind Map

Evelyn Lim | Attraction Mind Map — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:15:00 +0000

I’ve observed the same too. Not a day passes by without seeing a post from the bigger blogs on the first page of Digg. It is quite a challenge so far, for some of the smaller blogs like mine.

I guess I will just have to continue writing good content and maybe check out some of the smaller social media sites as well. Thanks for sharing your tips!

By: Sketchee

Sketchee — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:44:34 +0000

Great post, I’m working hard on my blog. Maybe someday someone somewhere will actually read it!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:14:15 +0000

Steven,

Thanks for the informative and helpful post you’ve written. It’s quite pertinent as I am grappling with many of the issues you’ve brought up.

One of the best points I thought you brought up was to be active on blogs in your niche and to try to get to know those bloggers. Also, I completely agree with your suggestion to make an effort to get to know other bloggers who are at the same stage in the blogging lifecycle as you.

Thanks!

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:00:28 +0000

I think you have to take the pulse of the social media site. Digg, for instance, loves techie stuff. Sphinn, ironically wants to be about SEO. as you build up your votes, you need to gather like-minded friends. You will just shoot yourself in the foot, if your friends have blogs that are so different from your topic.

By: Bambooclat

Bambooclat — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:48:10 +0000

The golden rule applies as well. If you want folks to digg you, you have to digg them

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:50:55 +0000

Formed a group with a bloggers in the same, or related, topics. We Reditt, Digg and Stumble each other’s stories. Today the majority of my visitors come from Stumble, although I’m not sure why.

By: Pentad

Pentad — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:47:04 +0000

Informative post. Thank you. As Farfield, I don’t really like asking for votes. I try to build friends-lists, and be pro-active myself in stumbling, digging, and promoting the work of others. It’s important that good material gets around. Of course, it’s exactly as the author states, the network base has to be large. I’ve actually used more time on the smaller social sites, and submit articles there and build a base. They, too, will grow….even, Digg started out small at one point.

By: Farfield

Farfield — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:18:07 +0000

Interesting post. I don’t really feel like asking my (real) friends for votes. I just don’t want to bother them with that. I’m not sure yet how to use StumbleUpon, I think I’m going to have a look at that soon to see how it could benefit me.

By: DefogMyBlog

DefogMyBlog — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:58:08 +0000

Ok, maybe we cannot easily make the front page but having even one digg can be useful when trying to get a site indexed. I have seen diggs pop up on searches and sometimes with another entry for the same page and that is useful. If your digg is in that spot on the front page then your competitor isn’t. So I recommend avoiding a ‘front page on digg or nothing’ approach to this.

By: Political Disgust

Political Disgust — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:33:04 +0000

That is a great post and I think the most important point made is 1) quality of the articles/posts on your site and 2) networking. You have to be meeting new people, and exposing your site on other blogs and sites every single day, 24-7. It is the nature of the business. I am constantly amazed at the crappy sites (in my opinion) that have massive readership, diggs, stumbles, etc etc etc. While I can criticize the content, I CAN NOT criticize their successful networking, marketing and promotion that somehow drove that high readership to their site. Now I believe 100% that this high readership will eventually leave if the quality is not there also, but that can be addressed once you have built the base.
Like many others I am also always trying to build my membership/readership base and think it is the single most important part of what we do as bloggers.

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Political Disgust

By: Ely

Ely — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:40:26 +0000

Social networking by ‘getting the crowd’ to do something is quite an insightful way of getting traffic to a website. I’ll try it on my own site.

By: Hemu

Hemu — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:44:33 +0000

Hey Darren, Your Tips are so useful to promote and manage a blogs to their peaks.

Thanks a lot man. You are rocking.

By: Barbara Ling

Barbara Ling — Sun, 04 May 2008 09:46:49 +0000

I now simply do what I have done best over the past 10 years – write great content, take advantage of SEO, offer help whenever possible and let that snowball into an ever bigger following.

I’m shy by nature and so work much better when I’m able to work within my own parameters.

Enjoy,

Barbara

By: The Blogger Tips

The Blogger Tips — Sun, 04 May 2008 09:45:36 +0000

I like this knowlegeable post. This provide traffic education to bloggers on social media. Thanks!

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:47:31 +0000

Terrific article. I’ve been trying to get serious traffic, but the most I’ve gotten is about 200 extra hits per day for about a month. Hope this helps me.

By: David at DavidNordmark.com

David at DavidNordmark.com — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:30:36 +0000

This is exactly the article I was looking for. As a new blogger, I was interested in learning how I could take advantage of social media. This article is a great start. I should also point out that on his website, he has a great list of the social media sites that are out there, beyond the big ones.

- Dave

By: Bash Bosh

Bash Bosh — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:53:48 +0000

Very quality article that will help all bloggers. Specially oriented to blogger beginners. All i have to say that this article is more than useful…

By: Ryan McLean

Ryan McLean — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:06:41 +0000

THanks heaps for this guest post.
It was more inspiring than it was anything else. Sometimes when you start blogging you feel as if all your efforts are in vain because you seen no progress (or very minimal progress).
However, this is a great post because it encourages me that all I have to do is build a small gathering and then it can more easily become a crowd. It won’t be this hard forever, it will get easier as I get more and more people on my side.
So thanks for the awesome post.

By: Starfeeder

Starfeeder — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:00:13 +0000

Great post

I love Social-media marketing… it just takes so much time, sometimes more then creating some good pillar articles.

More and more I’m seeing so many different duties that a main blogger has to deal with, not just writing & SEO, but marketing, advertising, networking, deal making, managing etc etc…

and to think I was one of those people that thought blogging didn’t take too much effort. X_x

By: Muscle Post

Muscle Post — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:29:40 +0000

This is some really great information. Most of us don’t have enough of a gathering right now to expect to do very well on Digg and StumbleUpon…so networking is really essential.

It takes some work and a fair amount of time, but it’s as important as developing good content if you want to be successful.