Blog Marketing

I have a brand new method of making money for anyone who owns a website (blog or otherwise). This is not something I have read or something shared with me. This is not a scam of any sorts. In fact not one person on this planet knows this exists except me at this point.

I have tried this method myself before telling anyone about it. The problem is I am afraid to tell others of it. Why? Because as anyone who reads this blog knows, I do things that are not exactly wrong, but they are perhaps not 100% right either. I walk that grey line.

Thats exactly what this new method making me money is, its a grey line walking move. This means the minute how I am making all this money (to day I am making exactly $100 a day with this) gets exposed, the money is going to stop. So the more people who find out about it, the worse off I am.

I am willing to share it in slow increments but certainly not on this website. So here is the deal, if you do want to know how I am doing this (and believe me ANYONE AT ALL can go from making $0.00 to $100 in ONE day I guarantee) you have to contact me privately.

This is the only rule, you must have you own website or blog and it must have some real content (not thrown up just today). I don’t care if you have an MLM website, a blog, a shopping site, or any other type of site. If you have a site, this will work until the secret is figured out.

If you are interested in hearing what I am doing, contact me privately at 00purple@gmail.com. I will only use your email to tell you about this offer, never for any other reason. I will not use it to contact you on facebook or myspace or any other site. I will not use it to offer you any other product or service ever. I believe this offer is that good.

Also because I am only sharing this with limited people at slow increments, if I don’t contact you back the day you contact me, just 3wait. I am telling people on a first come first serve basis, probably no more then 10 people a day.

So if you want to know what this is about (and if you don’t I am laughing at you anyways) then contact me. $100 a day is $700 a week. Even if you make more then that, would you refuse $700 a week more and spend no time except listening to what I tell you (it may take about 3 to 5 emails depending on your level of expertise) in email?

00purple@gmail.com

This really has nothing to do with my blog at all but somehow people keep finding this blog by searching the topics “stop mytweetfollowers auto update” and “stop mytweetfollowers” and similar searches.

So I figured I would present those people with some nice advice, the fix is really easy because as you have likely figured out there is no “real” stop auto following option, nor a “stop spamming” option.

The fix is simply this, change your twitter password.

Yeah its a pain if a lot of services other then mytweetfollowers log into your account, but honestly its the only method I have found that works. Send twitter a compaint is my recommendation, but remember these guys are really busy with truly important issues (like loss of friends) so it may take time to get issues like this resolved.

This also works with most “get followers” automated programs.

If you want the one that honestly works, doesn’t spam, and was approved by twitter, look into http://www.twittgeek.com

So after a recent discussion on article marketing, I realized there are a TON of people that really don’t understand the first thing about it! They don’t realize how to use article marketing to bring traffic back to their blog. Whats worse, they don’t realize just how much money they are losing by NOT article marketing.

I decided because of this I’d finally release my newest ebook, article marketing secrets. This book was written because not knowing the complete theory behind article marketing is a surefire way to end up getting awful results. Now although article marketing secrets is written for total beginners, the truth is that it is a full and comprehensive guide that takes both a broad and specific view of article marketing as a whole.

What this means is that you get a look at the bigger picture, and how exactly to make article marketing work for you. I personally guarantee this ebook can teach you how to make over $100 a day just by marketing your website!

If you are unsure about article marketing, just learning, or have tried article marketing with little results, this book is definitely worth the $5 it costs to teach you! At least visit the page and see the complete list of what you will learn reading this book!

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One of the things I am very proud of is I try to keep all my readers, customers, and business partners away from MLM. A blogger has no business being in MLM. Why? I’ll explain.

MLM correctly stands for Multi Level marketing. What this means is someone created a product or service and convinced other people to sell it. To get these people to sell the product the creator says I will pay you 50% of the sales every time you sell my product. If you can get other people to sell my product I will give you 25% of the sales they make. If they get other people to sell my product, I will give you 10% of those sales, and if those people get others to sell, I will give you 5% of those sales.

Now anyone with half a brain realizes the money is not in selling the product but in getting others to sell the product. If the product is worth $10 that means a person makes $5.00 for every sale they make. However if they can get 5 other people to sell the product for them, they make $2.50 off each person who makes a sale. The idea is the more people selling for you the more money you make.

There are a lot of problems with this type of marketing. Ultimately only the guys on the very top of the chain make any money. Why? Because statistically products sold in this manner, are not wanted! They are hard to sell. That’s why the MLM was introduced.

It means if I sign up under a friend of mine, and then I get 10 more people to sign up, but along the way I realize I can’t make any money in this, I drop out. This is EXACTLY what the people on top of the chain want to happen. That means I make NO money off the people I recruited in and the profits and earnings skip me, putting more money in the high up pockets!

Are you confused? If so don’t worry, thats exactly what people involved in MLM want you to be!

Okay that explains why I think MLM is really just a scam but doesn’t tell exactly why a blogger more then anyone should avoid MLM. You see a multi level marketer has two jobs. His jobs is first to recruit people into the MLM business. To do this the marketer spends every waking moment socializing with people who may seem interested in the business. The second thing he must do is teach all the people he recruits about the newest and best ways to market both themselves and the product in question.

Why would this be bad for a blogger to do? Because they are losing money by doing it! If you start a blog with the sole intent of teaching people about your MLM then what about all the people not interested? They are just lost sales – people who will never spend money at your site. This is a HUGE loss! Also if you are spending all your time recruiting and training, how much time do you really have left to blog?

A blogger does have an alternative though. The alternative to MLM is called MLAM. MLAM is rarely talked about and its sad really because the most successful MLM’s of all time have actually been MLAM. What is MLAM? It stands for Multi Level Affiliate marketing.

When I think of MLAM two companies pop into my mind. The first is Avon and the second is Tupperware! What makes these companies different from MLM? Well I will explain. MLAM means you are not only a multi level marketing but also an affiliate of the company. As I explained in yesterdays article converting traffic into cash this is another way of saying a glorified sales person who works on commission.

MLAM companies provide you with a complete product lineup for you to sell. You are given enough different products to run your own store. This is where the idea of avon and tupperware parties came from. Women could sell these items and make a fortune off commission based sales. At the end of any given month, they would get paid based upon how many sales they made that month. This is how they differ from MLM. MLM companies do not give you enough products to run your own store. You MUST have a HEAVY downline (people signed up under you) to make real profits).

However MLAM were also different from affiliate programs because they gave you the option of making more by signing up other affiliates. So companies like avon said “you’ll make a LOT more if you put in the effort to set up a storefront, but if you are really good at MLM we also give you that option”. Either way it was a win for the avon company.

These programs ARE what you want to get involved in as a blogger. They give you products to talk about and sell on your blog. They give you signup codes so others who like what you sell can also make money the same way you do, and generally they are products people actually DO buy!

Currently my number one selling MLAM is called IM Buzz Software This is a company that gives you enough HIGH QUALITY software to start your own software company. All the software packages are free and you can rename them, add banners and links inside the software, and add your company name to the packages! You can give the software away as promotional software or you can completely sell it as your own. ‘

Whats the catch? The idea behind this program is that as you begin to profit from it you will see the benefit in upgrading your account to have even more software and more rebranding options. In fact, I guarantee you’ll upgrade if you use this program!!

Although this blog is here to teach people how to make money with their own blog, it seems mostly all I have done is show blog marketing tactics. There is actually a very good reason for that. The reason is because its easy to set up a website, but getting people to visit it is a whole different matter. Imagine opening a store but having no customers to sell products to. Big bummer. Blog marketing is the biggest part of owning a blog as a source of income.

Today I am going to talk about something different though. Today I want to start talking to you about how to turn the traffic you have generated through blog marketing into cash and profits. In order to do this you have to understand the traffic of the internet.

There are basically three types of people on the internet. There are people who are online to socialize, meet people, and make friends. There are people who are online to learn about topics and be educated about things. Then there are people who are online because they want to make money. This means the vast majority of traffic you get from your blog marketing are people not looking to spend money!

These are key facts for a blogger to know. This is why blogging is so successful. First your blog adheres to the people who like to socialize. People can come to your blog and they can comment back and forth with other people who share similar interests with them. They can also get to know you, the author of the blog, who they already know shares an interest. The interest of course is whatever your blog is about.

These people rarely want to shop online and cheap impulse buying is what they do best. Products and software that are cheap and/or free are the easiest things to advertise to these people. They are not looking for anything but friendship, so unless something really catches there eye and says “buy me now” they are not likely to spend money.

Next if you paid attention to my very first articles you will no that I believe you need an actual topic to focus your blog on. This topic can be anything from paintball to pets or from cars to dating. The point is your articles or blog posts should be teaching people something. Perhaps the newest and greatest in paintball gaming news, perhaps you are teaching how to sew, or perhaps you are teaching the latest video games cheats. The fact is you are teaching something in each of your posts.

Now the people who are coming to your blog to learn something are not exactly looking to shop, but they are not entire against it if they see something worth buying. Each article you create should in some way promote a product or service that would benefit readers of your blog. This way when someone says “hey I didn’t know they came out with a new paintball gun 8000″ or when someone says “wow this site really gives me access to all that” they have both learned something and become interested in a new product they otherwise didn’t know existed.

Although the people who visit your blog to learn something are not specifically looking to spend money, if they learn the right things are also not opposed to it. This is the type of blog traffic that you can advertise more expensive products and services too. These are people you want to sign up for monthly based services that can make you money each month when they pay their bill. For example if you are a blog talking about the latest new movie releases you may want to be trying to sell a monthly service to netflix. This way each month when a person renews their subscription you make money.

The last people are actually the easiest to deal with and the ones who unknowing make you the most money. These are the people who are looking to make money! These are the least important people to your blog, but the most important people to your success. This is what makes or breaks a blog and this is the hardest part to figure out.

People who are looking to make money and find your blog, found it because they want to make money the same way you do. This is effectively how you create the infamous downline. What is a downline? A downline are all the people who you get to sign up and make money for you!

What do I mean? It works exactly like this, you sell 5 products for company xyz. Company xyz pays you 50% of every sale you make. So if you make a $10 sale company xyz pays you $5. Company xyz also offers to pay you 25% commission of each person you can get to signup under you and make sales.

This means if you get your friend johnny to start selling products for company xyz and he makes a $10 sale, company xyz will pay you $2.50 for his sales. If you can find 100 people like johnny and they each make $10 sales, then you have made $250 and you haven’t even done anything.

This is the secret of the MLM scam. However we can use the scam that is MLM to help us make money off of others looking to make money. The trick is not finding a great MLM and building a downline, but rather finding products you like and just selling them. After you find the products you want to sell, its just a matter of making it convenient for others to signup under you.

The first question is where do the products come from? You don’t just magically have an unlimited supply of products to sell right? Actually that’s wrong. You do have an unlimited number of products. Most quality companies have what is called an affiliate program. An affiliate program is a program set up by a business so you can become and affiliation of their company. This is basically a glorified way of saying you are a commission based salesperson.

When you signup for a companies affiliate program you get access to special banners, linking codes, and other means of advertising that company and their products. Each time a person clicks your special code and makes a sale on their website you make money. Sound confusing? Its really very simple.

Take friend blaster pro for example. When visiting their website you can see a link at the top right that says “affiliates”. After signing up on that page you receive a banner (seen at the top right of this blog) with a special linking code. Now each time someone clicks that banner and buys a copy of friend blaster pro you get paid $12.00.

So now that you know a little about affiliate programs its just a matter of finding the programs that are selling products you like and can offer on your blog and placing the appropriate advertising in the correct location on your blog. That’s the last thing I am going to discuss with you in this article. How to correctly place your advertising.

Keeping in mind the three different types of people that come to your blog, you want advertising placed in a way that appeals to each market. For your social traffic, those people who buy on impulse, you want advertising that is clearly seen throughout your site. These are your sidebar banners and your top of the page banners.

Imagine if you will that you have a blog about raising children. Your social visitors are coming to your page to learn about you and your interaction with your children. They are likely parents and want to interact with other parents. Like I said before, these people are not looking to buy products.

However if they are visiting your blog and see you have a banner to the Nickelodeon magazine or to the highlights magazine they just may say to themselves “I haven’t seen this magazine sense I was a child and I loved it. I am going to buy a copy for my child”. This is impulse buying at its finest and you have made it super easy just by placing a banner to the right product.

This differs greatly from your traffic that has come to learn something. Using the same parenting blog example lets talk about that traffic. Lets say you were researching a topic about parenting and you came across a new type of stroller just released by Gerber. Now honestly no parent is going to buy a new stroller on impulse. Its either something they need or something they don’t. This is the type of product you can educate a person about!

You make a blog post talking all about strollers and your experiences and perhaps how the back wheels of the model you bought kept sticking making it a pain to use. You mention this new stroller and tell of all its features. Now if someone looking to be educated about strollers finds your blog, they are three times as likely to read a post and make an educated buying decision as they are to just look at a picture and say “that’s the one I want”. Honestly the people who want to look at pictures and decide, are not shopping online! People you educate are the people your blog posts are geared at. These are also the people your highest commission based payouts come from.

The last type of traffic is the ones looking to make money. They come to your blog and see what you are advertising and say “hey I want to do this”. Well you want to make it really easy for them. You want to have a page set up entirely to helping them making money. To do this you do nothing more or less then create a page on your blog that says something to the effect of “webmasters” or “make money” or “affiliates”.

On that page you add links using your affiliate codes (Make sure you check you code. Some affiliate programs give you different code for people to sign up under you). You just list all the companies who you sell products for, a brief description of the types of products they have, and your payout rate. For example you may say something like like this:

Friend Blaster Pro: A great affiliate program for those who get a lot of social traffic. Easy to sell to myspace visitors. They pay $12.00 per sale and 20% for each affiliate referral.

Now when people come to your page looking to make money, they see your affiliate recommendations and sign up under your name. They set up their own blog or website and start making sales for themselves. Only by doing this, they also make you even more money.

This is the basics of converting the traffic you gain from blog marketing into money. My next post is going to be about interacting with other blog owners to increase your downline and make you even more money. Hope this information helps.

Oh and if you are looking for an affiliate of your own, I highly recommend you check out Linkshare. This is an affiliate company that has a multitude of advertisers. This means you can signup for 1 program and have access to hundreds of different companies and products. Some of the companies whose products you can sell through linkshare are itunes, macy’s, McAfee, AT&T, COMPUSA, and Nickelodeon. There are actually hundreds and hundreds of companies listed through this one program. This is definately a must check out!! (please note if signing up for this program you are a publisher, not an advertiser.)

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So a couple days ago I was opening up my usual blog marketing programs when it occurred to me there had to be a better way of automating the blog commenting process.

If you recall I wrote a previous article about blog marketing and comments using the Easy Comment 1.1 plugin for firefox. Well if you are still using firefox, then I am sorry to say the plugin doesn’t work for you anymore (at least until/unless an update comes out).

However if you use flock web browser then the plugin still works great. This next bit of blog marketing information is twice as useful if you have flock and easy comment installed.

See I searched the net for new software to help me automate commenting a little more. Specifically I wanted a blog marketing software that would search through and give me the results of blogs who had commenting enabled. I was sick of seeing blogs with disabled comments or seeing search software that brought back non blog results.

I also wanted to know the google page rank of not only the page I would comment on as most software seemed to do, but I wanted to know the pagerank of the entire domain. I can handle commenting on a PR0 page who is on a domain of PR7. That is blog marketing!

Well coming by software that did everything I needed was not easy. When I did come across software, they wanted $40.00 for it. Well I am not paying that much to do the little things I wanted. So I managed to network myself a bit and find something else.

Okay I didn’t just find something I found something awesome, I even obtained reseller rights to this program it was so cool. Why would I do that? Just so I can give it away to you guys! Nope I am not kidding either. I am not charging anyone one penny for this software.

But first let me tell you exactly what it does. This is a blog search software that has the following features:

• It brings back only wordpress blogs (This is great for blog marketing with easy comment as it works with wordpress only)
• It displays between 100 and 1000 results for each search term based on your selection.
• It shows you the pagerank of both the blog post and the main blog homepage. (Knowing this can help you quickly build your PR)
• It tells you if you have a link on that post (aka have posted a comment) and what the text of the link is.
• It tells you the alexa ranking of that site
• It gives you the ability to save your searches

Seriously its actually a handy little program. Apparently its worth nearly $40 because thats about the only half decent alternative I could find. Also yes I am aware of other blog search softwares but most are crap in quality and don’t do what I need.

So now that I have the rights to this software and I have fully rebranded it. HeeHee thats right I renamed it and everything! I am going to offer it to everyone who reads this blog for… FREE!!! Well at least thats how the offer stands for now. If I see hundreds of people downloading it, I may charge people.

Or you can send me a $5 donation on paypal for my great find, hard work, and for giving you this software for free!!

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When it comes to blog marketing its not really a big secret that getting links is important for search engine rankings. However it seems a lot of people are in the dark about how to get free one way links. I’ve heard of link trade programs and trading links, but then I looked at the biggest of blogs and realized they are not really negotiating in a huge list of link trades. So how are they getting results?

That was my biggest mistake when I first started blog advertising and blog marketing. I thought the trick was to get as many incoming links as possible so I tried emailing every blog I could and emailing asking for link trades. The trouble was, it didn’t work so great. I’d get trades but little traffic resulted from it. It seemed the same 15 or 20 blogs were all a circle of traffic witch resulted in very little sales. Man the money I would have made with my blog advertising if I knew this trick a long time ago.

The key to getting an infinite an unlimited number of backlinks is actually really easy. You don’t even have to do any work. You have already done it. The key is using the information to market your blog. What am I talking about? The content of your blog can be used to market your blog and be used to make money from your blog all at the same time.

All you have to do is pick your top sale converting articles (also make sure they are informative articles) and submit them to the vast amount of free article submission sites that exist. Let me explain this in full detail. An article submission website is a website designed for people to submit free articles that others can reuse. Now you can use this to your advantage.

You want to submit your articles to as many of these websites as you can. Most of these websites have rules against no links within your articles so you want to make sure all your links are text based. Also there is a section on every submission site for you to put credits and sources for the articles you submit. This is where you include two html coded links.

One goes back to your website, the other goes to a link redirecting to an affiliate site. For this purpose there are a number of free custom url shortening services that can be used so you can pick a relevant keyword based link for your affiliate code (check cowurl.com).

As you begin searching for article submission sites you will find there are literally thousands of them. You want to submit articles to as many as you possible can. The problem with that is google counts duplicate content across multiple sites against you in search rankings. This means if 25 sites all link to you that have the exact same content google only counts it as one site. This becomes a problem.

Now generally I don’t like the use of spinner software because it creates poor quality articles that look like a 3 year old wrote them. However in this particular instance it doesn’t matter. The reason I say that is you don’t care who actually reads or uses your free articles, you only care about the link back being picked up by google.

So for article submission reasons you would want an article spinner that can rewrite all your articles. This means when google looks at the content of each article site, they are all different. However I still don’t recommend just any software for this. There is a software called article submit auto the is not just a spinner but a spinner designed specifically for the purpose of fooling search engines while publishing articles to article directory websites.

This software submits your articles to over 1500 directories and can be setup to include more. At this click of a button you can literally send 1 article written 1500 times 1500 different ways to 1500 different websites. That means 1500 backlinks for your blog for each article you submit. In literally less then 1 month with this software you can have over 10,000 backlinks.

Using this method you need no link trades at all, you pick your own link keywords, and you save a lot of time by automating the process. Actually you can read about the owner of the software who created an entire business using this software out of submitting people articles to directories. How is that for blog marketing and blog advertising all rolled up into one nifty little program.

In fact I will make a promise to you. If you try this software for a month and use it every day to send at least one article to every possible submission website listed you will gain over 1000 hits a day to your website. This is making money with a blog at its finest folks. This software is the best their is, and trust me I have tried over 20 different article submission softwares both free and paid.

After a while everyone with any kind of success can tell you that they have created a toolbox of blog marketing applications that they use. These are the applications that either help them with marketing or help them with advertising. I am no exception to this! My toolbox contains my favorite twitter marketing applications, my favorite myspace applications, and my favorite social marketing programs. Today I decided I am going to bring my toolbox of tools to you.

Below thats exactly what you are going to find, my list of tools in the order of importance to me. Please note some of these tools have multiple functions like making money on twitter and making money on myspace. I have included a brief description with each application or program.

1. Friend Blaster Pro: Friend blaster pro is the most brilliant application I have ever used. This is a complete myspace advertising solution all in one package. Whether you just want to do some myspace marketing or whether you plan to fully utilize the social marketing platform to make money on myspace this program is my highest recommendation. This does everything from build your friends list to post bulletins and its all completely automated! If it were not for this application I would not even attempt to make money with myspace.
2. The Twitter Bot This is one of my most useful finds ever! It helps with twitter marketing and making money on twitter. It does automated twitter followings, automated tweets, automated retweets, hashtag monitoring, and a ton of other useful things! Again I say if you plan to do any twitter advertising or plan on making money with twitter you want this program!! Trust me. Even if you use twitter to talk to others, when you are not at your computer this program works wonders!!
3. Tweetlater I cannot recommend creating an account here enough. A free account just doesn’t cut it. In fact take the one week trial of a paid tweetdeck account and you will see why. I pay for a monthly subscription to this program for one reason and one reason only, it can do what the tweet bot can’t do. It can stay running no matter what I do or where I go! I don’t even have to have my computer running and this program works great! I can post for months and months by setting up tweets for later dates and times. Where tweetbot can do the same, it also uses a lot more resources so their are definitely times I need to turn it off. Making money with twitter has never been easier then it is with this program. Its only downfall as I have noticed it is can’t auto retweet.
4. Free Viral Tweets This program is the best at getting people to retweet your message. It is also used by websites all across the net that claim to “grow your twitter following” on autopilot. This program works and gets others to tweet your website. Check out what the paid vcersion offers and think of how many times you have clicked such links that others have posted. Its hard to explain this program but its definately one I can’t live without!
5. WebCeo I would have crap search results if it were not for this program. Its totally free and comes as my one and only SEO recommendation. In fact just using the analysis reports from this software you can effectively offer paid advice to companies! This software is no joke. Companies like IBM even trust this software. There are paid services and seminars offered through the company that makes this software and I do recommend them highly, but the software itself is priceless… yet its free!!!
6. Instant Article Wizard Pro Simply put, I can’t survive as a blogger without this program. It takes to much time to do the correct research involved on any number of topics and this program automates the program for me. Of all the programs I use I actually use this one the most. To see my full review of it check Getting Free Articles for your Blog
7. Easy comment 1.1 Although this program no longer works for firefox as of firefox 3.5 it still works perfectly with the flock web browser. This cuts down the time it takes to comment on blogs greatly! I posted an article about using this plugin with greyhat blog marketing practices to build a lot of backlinks in a hurry. Its worth check out!
8. Link Referral This is a free web based program used to build traffic, find other blogs, and build links. This is the easiest traffic to come by and the program is one of the few of its kind that I have found actually works!
9. lavalinx This is a program I haven’t explained yet on this blog. Its for social bookmark trading. I won’t go into details yet but if you can figure it out, its hundreds of free one way links!!
10. flock Web Browser Its kind of funny the a web browser made it into my toolbox but in this day and age of being social, it seemed the only real way to go. The toolbars and features it offers are uncompairable and thats especially true of a blogger. I can’t even get into half the features of this blog without making a full manual so all I say is try it for yourself.

If you have REALLY helpful tools that do things my tools don’t, please feel free to share. Make sure however they are not just a link to a program that does something my toolbox can already do!

A few months back someone challenged that this was more of a marketing blog then it was a blogging for bucks style blog. They said my posts were all aimed at marketing a blog and none of them were about actually making money. They thought I was nuts and didn’t know what I was talking about because of it.

The truth is I haven’t been talking about marketing your blog at all. I have been talking about being social. That’s what a blogger really does and who a blogger really is. A blog is not a website. A blog is a web 2.0 social medium. Bloggers use this social medium to interact. They like to read the blogs of their friends. They like to meet people on places like twitter and myspace and facebook.

If you are going to be successful as a blog owner, you have to learn to be social with these sites. You have to learn to comment on other blogs, you have to learn to go to myspace and comment on pictures, and update your information and post bulletins. On twitter you need to talk to the people you follow. Its not just a giant feed of spam. Most importantly though you need to learn to use a blog as a social platform. It is the ultimate comment board. Talk to every blogger you see. The more you talk the more they come to read!

If you don’t do these things, you will never have a quality blog. You may hear rumors of people talking about seo and using keywords and talking about ppc and buying advertising through clicks. The truth is they may sound easy and great but if you use them, your blog will never be successful.

Honestly, if you get nothing but search engine traffic, you will have no real following of readers. These are the readers that make big blogs HUGE. They are the ones who comment post after post after post. They are the ones who subscribe to your web feeds. Without these people you are basically writing to yourself and hoping others will read and comment.

The only way to get a following of readers is by using your blog for what it truly is, a social medium. Its a way for others to read what you say and comment, and then you visit them and return a comment. This is also a very hard part of blogging and is very time consuming. Trust me though, it is well worth it!