Four Steps To Get More Traffic To Your Website Using MyBlogLog
Posted by Brix as Blogging Tools, Plugins, Promotion, Software and Widgets, TipsYou 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”.
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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8 Responses
Benj Espina
31|May|2007Haha. 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.
ariel
31|May|2007maybe you should just remove the bullets. change it to numbers, but not through the ol tags.
Brix
31|May|2007Ariel, looks like that’s what I have to do alright.
J.T Dabbagian
31|May|2007Lol, that’s kind of a cheap trick…but it should work…
Benj Espina
31|May|2007Yes, but what they don’t know can’t hurt them, right? hehe
Ia Lucero
01|Jun|2007I 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!
Sourav
13|Jun|2007I 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…:)
lDaw Hosting Blog
08|Apr|2008Googd 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.
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