Mining the Blogosphere - March 18, 2009
presented by Anita Edge
The audio/video of the presentation will be uploaded shortly - stay tuned.
Key points:
- The blogosphere is composed (loosely) of blogs, forums, and social networking sites
- The blogosphere is vital for market (niche) research, visibility, and search engine marketing.
- Find the "Golden Blogs" for your niche: high traffic, high interactivity, high search engine visibility
Record them in a spreadsheet for future reference. - Look for blogs without NoFollow tags for posting your comments.
Use commentkahuna.com and commenthunt.com - Promote by commenting on others' Golden Blogs - be appropriate.
- Promote by joining group blogs - Squidoo.com, Oprah.com, YourHub.com, etc.
- Find blogs using leaders in your niche, tv shows, news sites, magazines
- Read and post on blogs and forums on a regular schedule.
Vital tools:
Compete.com - for traffic and keywords
Quantcast.com - for traffic, demographics, and related sites
CommentKahuna.com - for finding blogs, particularly without nofollow tags
Commenthunt.com - for finding blogs without nofollow tags.