Comments on: The Myth of ‘Great Content’ Marketing Itself

By: Modified | Proton | Cars | Modifikasi Kereta

Modified | Proton | Cars | Modifikasi Kereta — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:09:35 +0000

i really like this post and agree to it. too much pressure distort the excitement. its like to attract an attention of a woman. it should be noticeable but at the same time not too aggressive or otherwise she will run away…once you are noticed, traffic will keep coming continuously though you are not posting regularly…

By: JEM article!

JEM article! — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:33:30 +0000

I sometimes find that promoting a blog article works in an opposite direction. It produces results, but not for the product or service I was trying to target. Instead I get results from something I had previously promoted! Or I get traffic in an unrelated area.

By: Without Dash

Without Dash — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:21:34 +0000

Thanks for this, because I was still hoping that my great content would be ‘found’ by someone and got marketed by itself, just like as a little girl I was always sitting sweetly on a swing hoping for some agent to discover me and make me into a moviestar or supermodel.
I guess it is time to put myself out there.

By: Realtor

Realtor — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:03:53 +0000

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I look forward to many more entries with high quality info.
I’m a marketer myself and your information always seems to get my business brain going!!

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By: Vance Sova

Vance Sova — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:17:49 +0000

Hi Darren,

Your post about the myth of content marketing itself is very helpful to me.

I’ve heard and read that content is king but as you point out it needs to be found first.

As for the seeding the content I can see your point.

I’m just starting with blogging and the only promotion I’ve done is within a forum.

I found that when I try to push it too much people get turned off. If i don’t say anything they don’t come either.

So as you say it needs to be helped just the right amount.

Thank you for writing great stuff.

Vance

By: Bora Paris

Bora Paris — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:57:09 +0000

Hi Darrenj, Thanks for great post again!
The graph you’ve provided is gaussian distribution or Normal distribution (close to) is a Nature low on the Earth we live.
One more prove of natural traffic.
What great in your articles – subject and clear content. And…. people response. Such articles are trigger for new ideas.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:48:10 +0000

.. I agree with Robert (commented above), the build it and they will come model doesn't really work anymore. I am not actually sure if it ever worked - beyond the very early days. That being said it shouldn't be understated when laying out how important unique content is for an ultimately successful site.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:09:52 +0000

There is so much content out there that the “build it and they will come” model no longer works for an up-and-coming blog.

By: KETAN RINDANI

KETAN RINDANI — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:01:05 +0000

I agree with you. In the last so many days I have been doing a lot to try and get people onto my blog. But just a few smart moves and it looks like it’s working. Only that I need to keep posting and doing the basics right – letting people know something new has come up for them; and leave the rest to natural laws. It will work, I’m sure.

By: rahul garg

rahul garg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:37:17 +0000

nice post.
i want to know what all things can i use to “seed” my blog

By: film izle

film izle — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:42:30 +0000

Very truly said. Here we have a quote “Too much Lemon makes the Juice bitter”. If fact too much aggressiveness or less aggressiveness is too dangerous. When it comes to build the foundation of a blog, balancing is very important.

By: Ron Passfield

Ron Passfield — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:15:45 +0000

Darren very sound advice as usual. I’ve been struggling with the balance between too much and too little myself. I like the concept of seeding and have been using the new social bookmarking site, RedGage, lately to increase my seeding activities. RedGage allows the uploading of links, videos, pictures and documents and provides an RSS feed of your uploads. My colleagues lately have also been discussing the benefits of “selfless marketing” – promoting the work of others – as another form of promotion and branding.

By: Super Blogger

Super Blogger — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:59:55 +0000

A valid point made. Writing good content is useless if you’re not gonna market it well. Writing useful content is not enough, you need to make sure that it gets read.

But when they get there .. make sure that they see good content..

Super Blogger

http://superbloggertricks.blogspot.com/

By: XBox Ninja

XBox Ninja — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:58:18 +0000

I've seen hundreds of people start up blogs and write a whole WEALTH of information on them, without actually finding any form of actual audience. Strange how that works, truly... :( -X3N | xbox 360

By: Pete | The Tango Notebook

Pete | The Tango Notebook — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:03:18 +0000

FACEBOOK! FACEBOOK! FACEBOOK!

After reading and loving this article, I tried thinking outside the box a bit and got the idea to try using Facebook to increase my blog traffic.

I started a Fanpage for my blog and created 2 campaigns with Facebook advertising, one for getting people to my blog, and the other for getting people to join my Fanpage. My goals are to:

1) increase email subscribers to my blog
2) get loads of fans on my Facebooks Fanpage
3) get heaps of exposure to my blog and Fanpage

In 5 days of advertising, I’ve got almost 100 fans and over 30 email subscribers to my blog… It’s working! At this rate, I should have over 150 subscribers by the end of the month, with a budget of $300 spent.

The money is small potatoes if you think about how many people you can target (my small niche totals about 40,000 qualified people on the Facebook network) and the kind of authority and traffic you can build during your experiments.

It’s all because of the ideas in this article.
Many thanks!

Pete | The Tango Notebook

P.S. – One of my Facebook ads.

By: rajput

rajput — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:27:07 +0000

Great post Darren…….keep blogging

By: SefermPost

SefermPost — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:10:11 +0000

Great article. The thing is, how do I grow my readers and retain them? Anyone help.

By: Paul Hassing

Paul Hassing — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:14:52 +0000

Thank you, Darren. Every time I come here I have a good experience. Keep up the ace work! Best regards, P. :)

By: Alex Yeo

Alex Yeo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:49:14 +0000

This is the first time I saw such a graph base on effort vs effective of promotion. Yeah, the seed story makes sense.

Will keep a look out for your next blog post for the 9 tips. Thanks.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:00:09 +0000

I prefer to use article marketing and document sites to gain authority backlinks and to rank for low competition high search keywords as my secret traffic technique.
http://the-traffic-secrets-101.blogspot.com/