A simple game to improve your blogging authority
Posted on July 19, 2008 by
Roy 
Blogging 
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In my last post I was talking about commenting habits of visitors and other fellow bloggers. This post is not an extension to that post but somewhere they are closely related to each other.
Let us break the blogosphere into a few tiers - for example first tier bloggers, second tier bloggers and so on. It would be easier for us to understand if we say, top 100 blogs, 101-200 blogs and so on and associate them with each tier.
Now go to Technorati to find out blogs in a chronological order in your niche. For example, if you deal with Web 2.0, just visit this page in Technorati to get a list. (Where do you find yourself there?)
The “tier one” blogs are naturally very popular - people talk about them, people link to their blogs naturally and more importantly comment on their blog to get some sort of unknown exposure.
But does your comment really matter to them? Don’t you think that you would get a better exposure by commenting on another blog in your own tier! Those blogs have already grown huge and you will be left in an obscure corner as those blogs are updated multiple times a day. (I often wonder, why do we call them blogs - they are managed by multiple authors and act more like news sources for other blogs!!)
Ok, so let’s try this game for a month - if you do not find any improvement in your blog’s overall performance - go back to wherever you want.
- Step: 1. Count your back links
- Step: 2. Select 15 to 25 blogs in your tier and 15 blogs in one tier above.
- Step: 3. Subscribe to their feeds so that you get notified whenever they make a post.
- Step: 4. Take a few minutes to read those posts and write your comment (substantial comment of course and try to engage them).
- Step: 5. Take the initiative to develop a healthy relationship with those bloggers.
After 1 month count your back links again to be sure about your improvement.
End note: It would give you much more than back links.
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Very good ‘game’, I can see a lot more links coming in, trying this - especially from the sites that don’t use nofollow- because you never know who might blog about your blog, I myself like to talk about those people who are being social on my blog.
Plus you never know who will take a look and be like that’s a cool blog - I’m going to add them to my blogroll.
Excellent idea!
I’ve created several folders in my feed readers that showcase what you describe (ie, blogs in my niche/tier/etc) so I know where to go when I want to find posts on which to comment.
Enjoy, Barbara
This is a game that I have practised all along and it works!! There is nothing like commenting on smaller blogs and getting to know those bloggers. They will easily become regular readers of your blog and will (for the most part) keep supporting you because you were there for them when they were small. Not all blogs will become top tier blogs but many smaller blogs can easily make up for one top blog.
I’ve build hundreds if not thousands of links like this.