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Mybloglog

November 23, 2006 by Tricia

I love Mybloglog. I joined this site a week or so ago and I’ve been busy connecting with sites I’m familiar with who’s owners are already members, and finding new blogs as I go.


This is a social network site that lets bloggers connect with one another. For example when I signed up I added 7 of my blogs to the site, and my husbands blog as well. Almost immediately I had someone leave a message welcoming me to the site and I think expressing surprise at how many sites I run. I visited their site and checked out their blog and added them as a contact. I’ve been traveling through the Mybloglog site in that manner ever since.

Whenever someone visits my sites, or my communities- each blog I added to Mybloglog has it’s own community page – and leaves a message I visit them as well. If I like their sites I add them as a contact and perhaps join their community.

A running list of popular posts in your communities can be found in the right sidebar of your Mybloglog page.

They also offer site widgets that allow you to see which Mybloglog members have visited your site recently. That’s another way to connect with bloggers. I haven’t added the Mybloglog widget to this site yet but when I do it will be in my sidebar to the right.

You can also add a code to your site that will monitor your traffic. Then when you visit your Mybloglog page you can see the site stats for your blog. I really like their stat system. You can see which of your posts are most popular, how many visitors you’ve had to each of your posts, and what links they clicked while they were on your site. You can even see where your traffic came from. This is one of the best stat programs that I’ve found. I’m only using the free version.

You can get more stats if you pay a small monthly fee for each blog that you want stats for if you’d like, but I have so many blogs in the system it would cost too much. That’s my only complaint about Mybloglog. They should have a flat fee for those who have multiple sites. Then I might take them up on their full featured stat program.

Sign up for Mybloglog and feel free to visit my Mybloglog page. I’d be happy to meet you and perhaps sign you up as a new contact.

UPDATE: January 26th – I’ve been using Mybloglog for a few months now and I’m happy to report that I have over 100 contacts and I’ve joined 53 communities. I’m still as happy with Mybloglog as when I originally wrote this post. Oh and Mybloglog was purchased by Yahoo in early January, but Yahoo has no plans to make any changes to the site- which is a good thing.

I’m also happy to say that I when I look at my AWstats I can see that I get visitors each day on all of my sites from Mybloglog.




Filed Under: Site Promotion, Social network Tagged With: comment, find, mybloglog, new bloggers, new sites, promote blog, Site Promotion, Social network, social site, Yahoo

BlogSoldiers

November 18, 2006 by Tricia

Yet another site that I use regularly for blog promotion is Blogsoldiers. This site was recently sold to a new owner and I really like what the new owners being doing to promote Blogsoldiers and get more members.


There are regular surfing contests where the top ten surfers win 500 to 100 credits each. Plus the new owner has instigated a bonus system that kicks in as you are surfing sites. I don’t know how many sites you have to surf before the bonus’ credit questions come up but If you are surfing (viewing) sites for an hour you’re bound to get bonus points at least once, if not twice.

The owner of Blogsoldiers send out newsletters every so often announcing new contests and just keeping in touch with the site members. Very few of the other traffic exchanges do this on a regular basis with the exception of Blogazoo.

Filed Under: Traffic exchange Tagged With: blogsoldiers, Contest, Promote site, surf sites, Traffic exchange

Blog Flux

November 4, 2006 by Tricia

If you write a blog or any kind of website for that matter, I can’t stress how important it is to not only create good content for your site, but to promote your site by listing it in as many search engine listings, and directories as you can.

The more listings you have the more visitors you’ll eventually get. This of course is of particular importance if you are trying to monetize your site. Visitors mean money – eventually.

One of the sites that I would recommend that you list your sites on is Blogflux. This site isn’t only a directory in which you should list your blog, it has a number of other features that you can put to good use on your site as well.

On the Blogflux site you’ll find:

  • A Button Maker – makes 80×15 or 88×13 buttons with a few clicks.
  • LinkLog – Track what links are being clicked on by your users, how often they are clicked, and what pages they are clicked from.
  • MapStats – The best way to keep track of your visitors. Not only does it provide the normal statistics found with other stat counter sites, it meshes up with Google Maps to show where your visitors are coming from.
  • PageRank Checker – Google’s PageRank is a way of ranking how important a site is. Check and show off your PR to your site’s visitors.
  • Pinger – Pinging other sites one by one can be a chore. Just enter two fields and hit submit to autmotically ping a dozen sites.
  • Polls – Instantly create AJAX-driven polls that also let you map vote results to Google Maps.
  • Quick RSS Links – Reduce the clutter on your blog. Use blogflux’ link to provide users with quick links to various feed subscribers or email subscription option.
  • Scramble – Protect your email from spamming spiders. Javascript protection to foil them all.
  • Subscription Service – Keeping track of all your favorite blogs can be a hassle and time consuming. Get a daily email that lets you know which of your subscribed blogs have updated posts.
  • Suggest – Finding blogs that you want to read is not easy – too much noise out there! Blog Flux Suggest makes finding interesting blogs an easy and quick experience. Best of all – no spam
  • Themes – Find and download themes for all of the popular blog software packages.

Filed Under: Site maintenance, Site Promotion Tagged With: Blog Flux, blog themes, button maker, directory, features, link log, mapstats, page rank, pinger, polls, rss links, scramble email, Site Promotion, subscribe, suggest

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