Comments on: Bloggers – Internet Marketers Against Internet Marketing

By: Nathaniel Fruebi

Nathaniel Fruebi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:18:54 +0000

It’s really amazing but it’s just true. The apathy agaisnt anyone who tries to sell is surprising. Even in my country it’s the same… people just want information products for free when you put a price tag for them to get it, they see you as a con artist or scam.

I wonder how a business is gonna survive if the owners don’t sell.

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:15:38 +0000

@ Neil – For link building purposes neither article marketing or blog commenting is going to turn a site into an authoritative one, although they do help.

For direct traffic an effective article marketing campaign beats blog commenting hands-down.

Enough articles tanking in the top 10 for long-tail keywords with some search volume makes for alot of steady, long-term traffic, whereas a blog comment generally needs to appear at the top and the direct traffic dies down after the post gets burried in the blog.

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:23:54 +0000

Hi Josh

Not sure if this is quite the right place for this question, but here goes…

How do you think that blog commenting compares with article marketing as a method of driving traffic and gaining SE ranking? For the latter point I’m assuming that the blogs that are used are “follow” ones (like yours). Having done a bit of article marketing it would seem as if commenting (in a genuine way) offers more links for less effort. Is this true or am I way off the mark.

Many thanks

Neil

By: Joseph Ratliff

Joseph Ratliff — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:12:00 +0000

Nice content.

I think of a blog as a magnet, it attracts potential clients and other forms of business.

But selling does not occur at the blog, selling occurs through the blog.

And, my blog produces a little cash along the way

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:57:55 +0000

@ Terry – Yeah Aweber just recently started counting those stats. I use GetResponse and tested the waters. Instead of pointing my list subscribers to my blog post URL I sent them to the individual blog post RSS feed. Nothing happened Was just curious if those clicks would be counted.

But, although aWeber counting those stats provides a false RSS #, it is still a pretty accurate measurement of the exposure the blog is capable of. It’s just bad mojo if someone uses those stats and tries to sell a blog, as the email exposure would be gone after the sale.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:10:27 +0000

It’s too bad there are so many “make money blogging” products out there telling people it’s just a matter of writing posts and marketing your blog. Blogs are an excellent way to feed people into your marketing funnel, but when we try to monetize our blogs directly we end up with travesties . . . those blogs cluttered with banners and Adsense who look for some unsuspecting soul to buy useless space.

But my real gripe is about the inflated numbers many blogs display. You can boost your RSS subscriber count for that little chicklet everyone displays by simply adding a blog broadcast to your Aweber lists . . . that’s how Yaro Starek went from 5K to 25K “subscribers” overnight . . . and that’s assuming those subscribers are even active readers (I’m getting ready to talk about that in a blog post, can you tell? lol)

Anyway, good post. Keep up the honesty, we sure need it.

By: make money blogging

make money blogging — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:30:37 +0000

LOL josh, you’re being very politically correct, which I suppose is diametrically opposed to some of the “bashing” that has been going on in the MMO worlds as of late. Be a consumer and consume responsibly.
You know its funny because not long ago I paid 22k for a new car and got bashed and vilifed by friends and family for spending that on a car.
Some other dude spends 10 k on a web poperty and he gets villified for doing it. I bought a dodge caliber he bought a website.
Some call them as they see it, some speak up and say the truth of the matter and they get shot at.
People are people and theres no pleasing all of them. I say be honest with yourself first and then be honest with everyone else after that

By: Lisa Stoops

Lisa Stoops — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:16:46 +0000

This is a great post!! So true! I actually JUST realized this a few weeks ago and now my focus is on things that actually generate money!

By: Canon S5 Powershot

Canon S5 Powershot — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:50:12 +0000

Great perspective Josh. You make some solid points. Bravo.

By: Maurice (The CaymanHost)

Maurice (The CaymanHost) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:27:11 +0000

Hey Josh,

Spot on, couldn’t agree more, I keep reminding people that if you are trying to make money online a blog is just one tool, albeit a very useful one, that you should have in your arsenal.

Particularly, I believe, if you are positioning yourself in the very overcrowded IM “niche” – it’s a very tough place to be.