BlogSire

In my previous post, on how important it is to leave ‘quality comments’ I mentioned a few social networks and how they were important in getting your blogging credentials out in the market place. The thing is there are so many of them and I was in a rush that I forgot to mention a brand new one called SocialSpark. Social Spark is quite unique in that it not only brings bloggers together, it also allows them to interact with advertisers giving them the potential to turn their blogs into relative money making machines. At least that would be the main intention.

I immediately saw the potential of Social Spark which is why I joined up. You can see my profile here and you will notice that I already have a small community of friends. I hope that once you become a member you will also join my community ;) You will also notice that people who view my profile get to learn a little about myself and, more importantly, the blogs that I maintain.

There is only one gripe that I have at the moment and I hope that it will be resolved soon, and that is in the way that Social Spark offer paid tasks for submission. The problem is that while you may take a task thinking you will earn a certain amount you are actually reserving a slot, and when that slot becomes available the offer may well be a lot lower that what you had hoped. Still, that is my only gripe and other than that, I highly recommend people to join.

In case you did not know, I must tell you how fortunate I was that Social Spark chose to sponsor this post.

I would say that every blogger has heard many times over how important content is to ones post, how it is the number one factor that will bring return visitors and the all important high PR factor. The thing is how do people find your blog and all that good content? There is no point taking the time to write fantastic posts and then sitting on your rear end waiting for visitors to come and visit. Sure if you use the right keywords and stuff search engines may send you someone every now and again but it’s going to take you a hell of a long time to get a decent readership.

Let’s face it, nothing in life is easy and blogging is no different. You have to work at getting you ‘Blogging Name’ out there. One of the best ways is by socializing with other bloggers and you can do this by joining many of the communal blogging sites, by using places like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter etc, but I would say the most important way is by commenting on other peoples blogs.

A lot of bloggers also realize this, but where they fail is in their content. They feel that all they need do is to leave boring inane comments like ‘good post’, ‘nice blog’, ‘good job’ and other crap thinking that this will bring them the ‘hits’ that they require. How wrong they are, and for three main reasons. The first is that most blogs use the ‘nofollow’ attribute and so search engines ignore these comments. The second is that other bloggers hate these moronic responses and are now immune to them switching them off subconsciously and completely ignoring them. The last one is that the blog’s owner will more likely than not delete them and so the whole effort of the useless comment was wasted.

Now, if on the other hand the comment was relevant to the post and contained good content, you are showing others that you are knowledgeable on the subject and this will intrigue many a reader of your comment, which will have a huge potential for gaining those readers that you are pining for.

I want to direct you to a particular post on the popular Rambling Thoughts Blog! Neerav Bhatt, the owner of the blog, places such an importance on comments that he actually gives out prizes to people who write helpful comments on his blog. He does this for a reason, and that is because of the knowledge that good comments actually increase the value of his blog, and this is important to him, because although he is earning thousands of dollars via his blog, he is a little short of the Problogger whose earning potential has reached the six figure mark! Yep that is over $100,000 dollars a year. Now if that isn’t enough incentive to only put out good content comments, I don’t know what is.