I don't have a problem getting noticed. But perhaps you do? This weekend at PodCamp4 (#pcb4) Adam Pieniazek and I decided to host an impromptu session called "Social Media Schemery". One person showed up (Thanks Tamsen!).
However, I felt that since it seemed to be such a hot topic for a wide variety of up and coming bloggers (and was a question I heard asked most of the day). Thus, without further adieu "33 Kickass Ways to Get Your Blog Noticed":
1. Write compelling content. Seriously, might want to get on that.
2. Take a contrarian position. Get off my lawn!!!
3. Ask a power user to submit your site to a social bookmarking site like Digg. Easy as pie.
4. Mommy bloggers rule. Praise all the mommy goodness.
5. Mommy bloggers suck. Out an angry mommy.
6. Weddings!!!! These are kind of super-awesome.
7. Use auto-tune. I'm on a boat!
8. Do something awesome. Diet Coke=Win.
10. Link out to relevant content. Relevance=Good.
13. Own a niche. I own my lack of a jacket.
14. Use pop culture references.
15. Swear. Adds to authenticity...or something?
16. Get arrested.
17. Be Lisa Barone.
18. Say ridiculous things on Twitter.
19. Write a How-To:
20. Piss people Off. Works for me.
21. Declare that something is dead. Wired does it...why can't you?
22. Construct Awesome Headlines.
23. Write linkbait. Lots and lots of linkbait.
24. Regularly participate in guest posts.
25. Call out someone or something who is already unpopular.
27. Be snarky, funny or anti-authoritarian.
28. Use ridiculous pictures. (See Above)
29. (Omit someone important from your blog post.)
30. Utilize puppets. Because lets face it, puppets are awesome.
31. Be Chris Brogan.
32. Publish things that potentially could get you sued.
33. Write Lists. Crap.
Obviously these are tongue in cheek. However, each method described here actually works. The ability to be seen amongst the crowd has proven invaluable to my own blogging success. I hook people with the funny/snark and reel them in with the hard hitting PR and Marketing analysis.
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lol, nice
Amusingly accurate. (I often go to bed at night hoping to wake up as Chris Brogan or David Armano. I think maybe I need to grow a beard. ) In adidtion to commitment, consistent quality content, and relevance, some traffic building tricks really are needed.
Wayne Kurtzman was there too. I'm counting it! And Jim Spencer stopped in.
We had 3 attendees!
Great list, you gave me an idea for my next post “I Am Chris Brogan”.
Great list, though some of them might be a little too tongue in cheek for me to authentically pull off (feels like #1 should be the cardinal rule of all blogging!)
I've gotta say too, I'm amazed how well #9 works. Like, truly amazed. The #BlogCrush series I have over on the Webb started as a way to learn more about other blogs and build community by letting people know about the great bloggers out there. Now I have people Tweeting and emailing about how they want to become the next #BlogCrush and it's included on Top 10 lists. That was NEVER something I expected when I started.
Though you DO have to be careful. I recently received an email, rather tongue in cheek (I think) asking why I didn't have any “ugly guys as a #BlogCrush.” I think this would also include a recent posting where all the folks are like “Of course the girls have a crush on you…aww…you're so cute…blah blah blah” and I feel like maybe some people lost the point!
Can you submit my site to a bookmarking site like Digg? Thanks.
Linkbaiting totally works. I saw you in my stats and now I'm poking all around trying to find you a jacket.
I'm actually scared how well this working. I wrote this half as a joke/half serious.
Could possibly turn into one of my best trafficked posts ever. *Facepalm*
No. Learn 2 play noooob.
Glad you approve Sasha
Haha, yeah the award thing is ridiculously easy to pull off and extremely effective in terms of people's egos. Mainly because everyone wants to see their name up on another blog
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Is being like Chris Brogan…like being “I am Spartacus”???
I'm so amused by this post that it hurts…
Respectfully, if you think it is “easy” for me to write those every week or Ryan Stephens to compile his Top 10 then I think I may have misjudged…
I will agree some are weak (heck, possibly you think mine are…) but I would venture to say that any of those examples you list can be done really well or really poorly.
Again I this it all falls back to item #1. While the stroking of people's ego is an easy cross-link, taking time to show appreciation to bloggers who deserve it will never be a “joke” to me.
The idea itself is easy. The actual work that it takes to throw it together is not.
Funny list
I lolled. Your Lisa Barone tip worked. I saw her tweet this and had to come to have a look.
#34: Write comments on an inordinate amount of blogs similar to yours
Great list!
Thank you for this perfect guide. Even I have to save this lesson in my special place since I need more much time to learn it.
Ha! Thanks for the shout-out, Stuart. Unsurprisingly, this is an awesome list, and lemming-like, I shall follow its instructions.
(My new post today was renamed in your honor, a fact about which I'll tweet momentarily.)
–Tamsen (@tamadear, @Sametz)
Vanity Linkbait ftw!!!
Haha, checking it out now Tamsen
Yeah, I kind of do that don't I?
You…plus 73% of other bloggers. All I'm sayin.
Madness?
THIS
IS
SCHEMA!
#35: Frequently remind people that you don't care what they think about you, while actively seeking their attention.
As someone who writes and edits blogs for a living. My number rule is be concise! No one wants to read Silas Marner….
P.S. I like the pic with this blog post, it's not easy being green.
Rock on Sarah. You are the 1,000th comment
You know a few weeks ago I would have laughed at “write a How To.” Us aspiring novelists hate to stoop to guide writing. But us aspiring bloggers should take note. I wrote a bunch of How To's on eHow over the past 6 days and I've gotten traffic from I don't know where…. Guess I can take a hint.
funny article on blogging http://thelostjacket.com/marketing/33-ways-blog...
I like your list. I like Seth Godin's 2006 list more: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/06...
The difference for me is you link every line. He doesn't.
The goal then would be to use as many of these techniques as possible in one post! That should net the most traffic with the least effort! Nice post.
You forgot to mention putting animals in clothes! http://www.instituteofanimalhaberdashery.com
I agree, this is a keeper. Bookmarked.
I agree, this is a keeper. Bookmarked.
I agree, this is a keeper. Bookmarked.
I agree, this is a keeper. Bookmarked.
That Lady GaGa picture is awesome. Thus, I contribute a #34: attach the muppet of your choice to your head, adorn yourself in a dress made of the same aforementioned muppet of your choice and unleash your crazy on an unsuspecting world. Carry a flip cam. Then return home to blog your happy little ass off. Lather, rinse and repeat as necessary. As you were.
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