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The REALLY Important FriendFeed Page to Watch

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:40:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: FriendFeed is becoming an uber-useful tool for me and Scoble points out just one more great way to use it.

Clip Source: scobleizer.com

There’s one FriendFeed page that is FAR more important: the one where you can see YOUR stuff that I’ve liked and commented on. Why is that more important? Well, it’s where you’ll find a lot of new stuff from other people. It is where I signal to you what I think is important to pay attention to (which is quite a database, if you look at it along with my ego feed, since that includes all sorts of cool stuff I’m seeing come through my Google Reader feed).

If you haven’t figured out yet how to see this page for everyone, just look at this URL:

http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/discussion (replace “scobleizer” with the name of your favorite person on FriendFeed).

The best way to become a great blogger is demonstrate you listen to other people. FriendFeed is BY FAR the best way to do that.

Tags: friendfeed, rss, lifestream, blogging, commenting

Why Blog Commenting is Important

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:50:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good general overview of the importance of blog commenting.

Clip Source: www.beginnerblogging.com

When launching a blog one of the key components to the effort is interacting with other blogs in your given niche. You can write all the content you want, but with seven million blogs you’re going to need to get out and communicate in order for people to find you.

One key method for doing that is commenting.

Here are some key benefits to blog commenting:

The ability to share your opinion and develop yourself as a niche expert.

Commenting shows you’re going to be active in a community and willing to offer up thoughts.

The authors of the sites on which you comment will be intrigued and oftentimes visit your site to see what you’re all about. Thus, your readership has a chance to grow.

If you’re one of the first to comment on a very popular post, other readers will follow the link to your site and see who was on top of the latest popular story.

Tags: blogging, social networking, blog traffic

Stupidly Simple Tip to Boost PR and SEO

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:33:09 GMT

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Clip Source: iffect.net

However, here is one simple tip that I really think will boost your Page Rank and SEO, giving you more ‘authority’ in the search engines.

Now here’s the thing; if the blog you’re commenting on has removed NoFollow, and your comment link now possesses ‘Google Juice’, is it wise to always point to your homepage? According to some SEO experts, we should be deep-linking at every opportunity. With Google continually working on producing more relative results, they know that an article on any given keyword, will generally give the searcher what they’re looking for a lot better than a homepage. For that reason, their algorithms are designed to pull up articles with links pointing directly to the article.

Therefore, wouldn’t it be an idea to replace the link to the homepage in the comments section, to one of your best articles? Of course, you’d change the article you’d point to every few weeks of commenting or so, to spread the weight.

Tags: blog traffic, blogging, page rank, commenting

Commenting is Good For Your Blog Health

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:59:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some excellent reasons why we should all comment more often!

Clip Source: www.chrisg.com

I don’t think we comment enough and I put that down to bloggers not realising the benefits. Here are the benefits as I see them, let me know if I miss any:

Comments = Ideas - You managed to comment. Could your comment be expanded into a post …?

Comment on Fresh Blogs For Fresh Perspectives - If you are always among the same crowd you will find inevitably the same thoughts being reflected back over and over. Break out! I advise people to comment on new blogs every day. By not commenting on the same old blogs, or especially setting a goal to comment on more blogs than the day before, you will be forced to leave your blog-reading comfort zone and visit new blogs. This exposes you to new ideas, different ways of looking at things, and hopefully a way out of the echo chamber.

You never know who is reading - It amazes me who reads my comments on obscure blogs that I thought only myself and a handful of others read. My comments on one blog lead to a consulting gig. You never know unless you try.

Tags: blogging, commenting

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