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Driving Traffic With BlogCatalog

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Blogcatalog is one heck of a social community website with hundreds of thousands of users everyday. The best thing about the users there is they’re so active. In case you don’t know, blogcatalog is one of biggest traffic referrals on this blog when it was on its earlier stages. Traffic from there is really massive and its just the matter of how you are going to convert them into loyal subscribers.

Well everything started really well with me using blogcatalog until I abused them and I got banned eventually. Anyway right now I am going to share some really good tips to you on how you can get a share of the massive traffic on BG:

  1. Carve out your profile well – It’s funny that a lot of people after signing up don’t even look to edit their profile page. They immediately jump into discussions w/c is wrong. By having a nice written profile, you’re giving yourself a chance to really introduce who you are, what niche you are into and what are your blogs.
  2. Add Friends & Interact – Like any social community, blogcatalog allows you to add friends and grow your own community. The more friends you have the more traffic and readership you would get from it. So take some time to scan profiles there and hopefully interact with them the right way. Add me as your friend. 😉
  3. Discussions – The discussions page probably is the most trafficked part of it. This is a part where there is a free-flowing discussions of literally about everything. Make sure you blend well w/it. If utilized properly it can bring you hundred uniques a day. Don’t be spammy as people there easily remember who adds value and who adds crap! A bad rep is not good!
  4. Join Communities – By joining communities you are putting yourself in a larger scheme of people w/common goals. Examples of the communities there are the “stumble” community, the “make-money-online”, the technorati, the twitter community and a whole lot more.
  5. Paid Sponsorship – There are two options in this one, first is the premium sponsorship w/c costs $60 and the category position ad w/c costs $8 per month. I find the rates really cheap since what you’re getting by having your site there is just too much. I’ve tried the $8 per month on my other blogs and I would say it really converted well. If you have some budget to promote, then I would really recommend this option.

All in all blogcatalog is really a nice social community. You want traffic, you get the traffic! But getting traffic is not the end right? We, as bloggers or marketers have to find our own ways on how we can convert their curiosity to loyalty. How we can convert those first time visits, into returning readers. It’s not about the quantity of traffic, it’s about the quality of it.  What do you think?

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  7. Never really looked into blog catalouge but have used other social community services. I would say the rule remains the same which ever service you use 1) Create friends 2) Interact with them 3)Join on dicussion 4) Be the first to do all these rather wait for someone to approach you. All these help bring traffic.

    Nice post Melvin. I enjoyed reading it. By the way thanks for your comment in my blog. I really appreciate it.

    Cheers
    Krish

    Krish’s last blog post..How To Choose Right Keywords For Your Blog

  11. Dude did you know that you’re name is the same as the name of the lady I am so much in loved with? LOL, hahaha! anyway thats a pretty weird name for a guy. 😉

  17. Yep, that name. But I assume that’s not your full name right? Yea, well I guess its a guy name in your country. 😉

  22. Hi Melvin,

    I have tried the paid sponsorship for $25 in the category listing. I will come back to you after a month to share the results to you and to your readers.

    I also want to invite you to join my activity in Bloghob.com under our activities. We’re on the same niche and found your posts very useful. I will recommend it to my readers.

    Thank you very much for your support,
    Rocky

    Rocky’s last blog post..Day 5 HLR – Build interactivity to your readers

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