Archive for March, 2006

Increase Your Traffic with the Blog Virus Part Four

What are some examples of viral blogs?

Seth Godin  has one. (Remember that idea virus download?) He also talks about others that he’s seen. Business Week’s Blogspotting has a good eye for them too. But it’s not just about the big dogs.

On March 8th, Chris Pearson started the Virus and thousands of quality blogs have been affected.

Paul Chaney’s Business Blog Consulting may have contracted this virus. Nancy P Redford’s Practical Marketing Tips could also have it, not to mention, Marshallk, Podblaze, Intent Blog, Jason Preston, Conversational Recruiting, Abundance Secrets, Just Ask Marc, Language Translation, Tim Bossie, Michel Fortin,, Sales Mindset, and Dan at Vitamin Maniac. I’m sure I’m forgetting at least a dozen people. It basically means that I’m mistaken about how popular your blog is so I thought you were already getting your due.

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Reposting Blog Virus How-To with Player

“Voyez?” She said in Bad French. (You have to click the link^ to see the player if you’re on the home page. )

[audio post]How to Catch and Spread The Blog Virus : Part Three

In this Free Traffic Tips Minicast:

  • 6 of the 9 Tips for How to Create and Spread the Blog Virus
  • Why only 6 of them? I’ll Tell You.
  • Can You Guess the Name of the New Blog Optimization Package?

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Increase Your Website Traffic with The Blog Virus – Part Deux

Ah, the viral blog. She is like a melody you can’t quite remember. You wouldn’t be able to hum it but you certainly know the song when you hear it. She’s a light breeze on a hot Vegas day. She brings you a smile like the one when you make what is normally a week’s profit in a day.

How do you know if your blog is, how do you say… virulent?

(I’ve got a whole french accent as I write this in my head. Scary.)

You know your blog is virulent when:

  • Whatever marketing you do for it has an exponetial effect
  • A growing percentage of your audience bookmarks your site
  • Your first-time visitor traffic is sticking, and you get more and more new visitors each month
  • If you try to leave your blog for a while, you start getting angry emails
  • Your site is linked from hundreds of places that have little to do with your topic matter, and several that are directly related to you
  • Your blog posts are commented and linked at other sites

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Increase Your Website Traffic with The Blog Virus – Part One

So. What is a Viral Blog? Why should you give a rat’s backside?

Why are we talking about rats? Ew.

You’ve heard of viral marketing. That’s when you create a strain of marketing that perpetuates itself. You don’t need to grow it. You start the marketing, it builds its own momentum and keeps on going forever. You don’t have to constantly jump-start it. In fact, you may not be able to stop it if you try.

So what is a viral blog?

A viral blog is one that people link to and pass on because they just can’t help it. If they forget to tell someone about it, they might forget to use it themselves. Folks bookmark it, they tell other people about it, they email themselves so they won’t forget. They join your subscription via email so they won’t forget. They put your RSS feeds in their own special folders so they won’t forget.

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Increase Your Web Site Traffic with …

A Viral Blog.

What is a viral blog? How do you know if your blog is viral? If mine isn’t, what do I do? Name some examples of viral blog. That’s what’s up today on Traffic Thursdays. Please return your seats to an upright position.

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