How a blog can spread like wildfire

Here's an example of how quick a blog can become popular. On November 5th, someone started a blog called Open Letter to the Democratic Party. In this post, the lady provided reasons why she voted for Bush and not Kerry. It was very well-written and apparently, touched a nerve. Within two days, that one post received 281 comments until she disabled the comments to the post. A few bloggers came acrossed it and made reference to it on their blogs. This attracted more visitors and more links. So this is the perfect example of the importance of good content. Good content will be noted by other bloggers and your traffic can grow very fast. Bloggerforum had an interesting thread on this blog.

The key to blogging success?

The most important thing for blogs is content that's updated frequently. If you're interested in making money, then you should also be concentrating on a high dollar niche. What I mean by a high dollar niche is a speciality type of subject that involves profitable products or services. Then you can run Google's Adsense ads on your blog. As visitors read your blog, you'll get readers who will click on the Adsense ads which will relate to your content. If your content discusses high dollar products and services, then the ads will likely be similar. So when people click on the ads, Google will reward you with some money. The higher dollars items will bring in the most money for clicks.

A real good example of a successful blog is Mobile Tracker. This blog concentrates on cell phones and the cell phone news. It was started by a 19-year-old kid and has become very successful. He brought in over $4K dollars in the month of August. Most seems to be due to Adsense. Business 2.0 featured his site in their November issue of their magazine. Bloggerforum has a thread on this article. Also, this thread was joined by the owner of mobiletracker. In this thread, this blogger stressed the importance of content. Also, it needs to be updated often. In his case, he has often posted over 100 times a month on his blog.

Experience so far with blog explosion

Blog explosion has some great features, but it's not a silver bullet. Many are suspicious of blog explosion's traffic generation feature and worry that people who come to your blog through blog explosion are just interested in gaining credits and not reading their blog.

There is some merit to these suspicions. However, if you look at blog explosion as just another marketing tool (one of many) for your blog, it's really not a bad tool. Of course, marketing is useless unless there's something behind it. For blogs that means content. Good content that's frequently updated is really the key for blogs. But once you have content, you need some marketing.

Visiting a few sites each day with blog explosion can be a great way to not only bring in some new readers to your blog, but also to experience other nice blogs. If you come across a blog that you don't like, there's no reason to wait 30 seconds to get credit for it. Just move on. There's always something interesting being talked about in the blogosphere. And that's why I think a blog traffic generator like blog explosion can last.

Here are some threads from different forums discussing blog explosion. They include some positives and negatives about the site.

• thread at bloggerforum


• thread at forum4bloggers

Simple and Quick promotion with BlurtIt

BlurtIt is a simple little website to help your site get a little more exposure. What I like about it is it's simplicity. You just add your site's URL and name, and select the blurit button. That's it. Your site gets listed at the top of the list. Of course, most people who visit this are only interested in adding their own site, not visiting yours. However, you might get a few hits from this. And it's so easy and quick, there's no reason not to spend a minute once a week by submitting your site (Its rules state that you should wait till your post drops off the list before resubmitting which usually take about a week.)