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The Beginners Guide To Promoting Your Blog

Submitted by Svartling from Google Reader

Nov 24, 2008

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A friend of mine is a very well-read, successful blogger. His personal narratives, short stories and semi-autobiographical fiction normally collect dozens of comments, sometimes well over 100, and spark lots of interesting exchanges between his readers. He’s built his audience steadily, over the course of a couple of years, and by all measures of blogging success, sans monetization, he probably holds the status of “legendary.”

But his blog is on MySpace.

Before I go on, allow me to say that the social media world normally makes fun of MySpace. They look down their noses at those commoners not sophisticated enough or too tolerant of busy graphic design to think Facebook is better. Boy, are they missing an opportunity, though. I’ve said it before, but there is a vibrant community of bloggers on MySpace, many of whom write fantastic stuff, most of whom comment and share and interact just like we do. But they do it in their own little world, away from the search spiders and PR pitches, so that makes them less impactful? MySpace blogs are the single-most overlooked

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Comments (3)

Sbtodd,

Nov 25, 2008

That's interesting. Never think of MySpace blogs, because most of them have empty content. I personally don't like MySpace, because every time I login to it I have something weird happen like a banner that says my computer is corrupted and needs to be checked.