May | 31 | 2007

Four Steps To Get More Traffic To Your Website Using MyBlogLog

Posted by Brix as Blogging Tools, Plugins, Promotion, Software and Widgets, Tips

You are probably familiar with MyBlogLog. This is a social networking site which allows you sign up and add a widget to blog so you can see your visitor’s avatars. I have used it on my blogs to see visitors coming to my web pages.

Here’s how it works… When you sign up in MyBLogLog, a small cookie is saved in your personal computer. A cookie is a text file containing information and is accesible by browsers. When you go to various sites that have mybloglog widget, the browser accessing the cookie and your picture will show up on the web page. You, the blog owner, would see an avatar – a picture representation of whoever visited your website.

People are naturally curious. They want to find out about people who saw their website. When they see an avatar, there is a tendency to click on it and discover more about their visitors. People would probably go to your blog because they saw your avatar in their websites. By just going around the blogosphere checking out those with mybloglog widgets, you can get traffic to your blog.

Here’s a simple technique to get traffic by taking advantage of the mybloglog plugin:

1.  First, sign up ang create a MyBloglog account.

2.  Upload an attention-grabbing avatar. In my experience, pretty pictures of young ladies get the attention of people. (Hmm, I wonder why.)

3.  Surf the net. When you see a website with the mybloglog plugin, bookmark it on your browser.

4.  Every morning (or when you start browsing the net), open all the blogs that you’ve bookmarked. Your avatar should now show up in all the web pages. You can use the FireFox browser for this because it allows you to open multiple bookmarks when you choose “Open All in Tabs”.

    Open MyBlogLog List in FireFox

    Naturally, your avatar would show up in their sites… virtually enticing them to check out your latest blog post.

    Try it out. It works.

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    Comments (9)

    9 Responses

    1. Benj Espina

      31|May|2007

      Haha. And the unsuspecting “victim” would’ve never known. It’s a very real phenomenon. People really do visit your site if they see your avatar as a recent visitor while they’re online.

      The layout really breaks up with bullets. hmmm.

    2. ariel

      31|May|2007

      maybe you should just remove the bullets. change it to numbers, but not through the ol tags.

    3. Brix

      31|May|2007

      Ariel, looks like that’s what I have to do alright.

    4. J.T Dabbagian

      31|May|2007

      Lol, that’s kind of a cheap trick…but it should work…

    5. Benj Espina

      31|May|2007

      Yes, but what they don’t know can’t hurt them, right? hehe

    6. Ia Lucero

      01|Jun|2007

      I hear they’re going to police questionable-looking avatars, so be careful! Somebody should really fix the layout here. We can’t practice what we’re preaching because of it!

      Oh, and I think this strategy should work well with BlogCatalog too!

    7. Sourav

      13|Jun|2007

      I think this is great…

      let me try and then I will come back to share my expereicne as wel….

      Till then wish me all the best…:)

    8. lDaw Hosting Blog

      08|Apr|2008

      Googd simple advice that works. It is however very time consuming to do that and the traffic is not that much. You’d go on TechCrunch for example, a very high traffic blog that receives many visitors. It however does not distribute to many of them to MyBlogLog members. But I agree that this social network helps new blogs to get some visitors.

      A good idea is to join groups and to talk with people who are interested the same thins as you do.

    9. mike

      17|Nov|2008

      I like Mybloglog. A lot of interesting blogs are also on there.

      


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