Comments on: Keeping Things Simple With Blog Promotion

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:27:56 +0000

Brian, I agree, the advanced stuff is in short supply. No question, but don’t you also think that there’s too much filler in a lot of these lists? Don’t you think there’s room for “The essential list” or a distinction between “a few core strategies” and “if you’ve got the time try these too.”

My point here is just that just like most online visitors only go to something like 5-10 websites per day, I’m willing to bet that most probloggers have their “core” list of 2-5 things they do on a daily basis for promotion, and then maybe another 5-10 things they might do on a weekly or monthly basis.

Some things pay off way better than others. Many things that get “recommended” turn out to be completely worthless. All I’m saying is that it would be nice if there were an authoritative “daily core list” of promotional activities that work well and have tangible payoff.

Sort of like a standards board for SEO.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:38:59 +0000

@Ryan: what Brian said plus, a lot of those “X ways” articles have been designed for browsing quickly by bloggers at any level. If you’re advanced, you gloss over the list. If you’re a beginner, the assumption is that you’d follow the link that a bullet provides so that you can learn more detail. (If there is no link, then ask, leave a comment.) If you’re in between, you gloss over what you know and study what you don’t.

How much simpler could it be? I’m going to piss off a lot of people but the real problem is that a lot of people don’t follow advice. There’s lots of it. Try one blogger’s advice. If it doesn’t work, try someone else’s. Or, read different opinions and formulate your own. Test your hypotheses by spending (precious) time trying different things. It really does take time to learn, to become a successful blogger, and most people are not willing to spend that time. That’ll be the difference between a blogger who succeeds and a blogger who doesn’t.

Your site, by the way, is probably being bombarded right now, as I can’t get it to come up. So I can’t see what you wrote (though I think I’ve already read it).

By: Brian Clark

Brian Clark — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:51:11 +0000

but there’s plenty of simple (simplistic?) advice out there for the taking. In fact, there’s not a shortage of it at all. It’s the advanced stuff that’s in short supply.

107 does not equal quality or advanced. It only equals 107.