Social Marketing by Michelle MacPhearson - Latest Comments in How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Pace — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:29:33 -0000

Justin,

Just using the default seems to work for most blogs.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

justin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:14:56 -0000

Very cool,thanks! One thing I am confused about from reading the tutorial though

"Input the Title Tag. This is the most important part. You must tell the Comment Sniper how to find the blog post "title" tags in the XML feed. This depends on the XML structure. For example the Title tag for Blogger XML feeds is feed/entry/title and for the Wordpress XML feed it is rss/channel/item/title. This might differ for other blog platforms so you will have to double check. "

How do I double check this?I am not sure how to know what my title tag is for my rss?

Thanks again.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

James — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:22:00 -0000

Michelle, thanks for the great info and wonderful tool. I can see where have the first comment on a popular blog post could be helpful. Are there any statistics on how the click rate falls off as you move down the list. I will be honest, I never really read all the comments myself, but maybe some people do. Thanks again.

James

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Bonnie Davis — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:09:18 -0000

I've been using Comment Hut for a while now and it works well. I'll try this tool too. What I do is when I comment is write a thoughtful post and offer some off-site resource such as an article or blog post on topic to the post. Normally this will be related to something I'm working on for a client. I've actually received numerous e-mails thanking me for the contributions I've made. I never leave a comment if I can't contribute something worthy.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Wendy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:36:49 -0000

To respond to Peter:
I've been using CommentSniper for a while, and I don't use it to spam. In fact, it helps me build relationships with bloggers in my niche. After all, there are only so many blogs I can visit in a day to see IF MAYBE they've posted something of interest. With comment sniper, the alerts come instantly, so if I'm wasting time anyway I can head directly there and be first poster.

Otherwise, I can look through the notification list for titles that interest me. Perhaps if you think of it as just a different sort of feed reader, you'll like it a bit more.

Wendy

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Cabo Vacations — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:28:37 -0000

I agree with Jack Humphrey, relevancy is the real attraction getter for click throughs. A great marketing tip is that most sales are not made by logic, they're made by emotions. They are the real "driver" for sales. If you can spark an emotion to the person reading, they will probably click the link. But still, this new tool mentioned by Michelle is extremely valuable if combined with this tip.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

WebDrops — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:17:39 -0000

well thanks Michelle... for driving my attention to this tool... definitely it sounds promising...

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

JackHumphrey — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:22:47 -0000

1. The point is not to be first.
The point is to be relevant in your market. If you are not engaged in the discussion going on in your niche, how relevant can you be? Being higher in the comments than #145 is better.

2. The results have been more traffic from blogs I've used it on. Period. More traffic.

3. It's not a tool that's for sale, it's neither Michelle's nor my tool, and we are not the kind of people to throw up something junky since we both rely on our reputation for repeat visits.

Its kind of hard to fight with people for their own successful marketing campaigns. Seems kind of out of balance that you'd have to PUSH people to look at tools that might get them more traffic if they use them.

Seems like they'd want to and we wouldn't have to rescue them from their own paranoia and angst against their own success.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Michelle MacPhearson — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:12:37 -0000

@Nellygb - it's free. You have to enter a license code, you get the license code in your email. Chillax and read the directions.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

David — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:54:26 -0000

Thanks Michelle, I did try Duncans link managment software but I had some problems with it. Going to try this = and post back if I get results.
It might have had some help to create comments or is that too Cheeky?? David

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Jamison — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:12:04 -0000

Thanks for the tool Michelle. That last post by Peter was hilarious too.

Spammy comments will always be a problem, will this tool add more spammy comments? Probably. But it will also allow relevant posters the opportuntiy to post relevant comments quick and get google juice, which is always a good thing.

Nothing is perfect, and the benefits of this tool outweigh the negatives. Thanks for sharing!

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Marenda — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:09:14 -0000

Thanks for the heads up Michelle :)

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

funbiz — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:02:40 -0000

What IF everyone have this tool...
wouldn't they all be fighting to be first??

Just wondering.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Juergen — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:00:45 -0000

I tested this already weeks ago and found it to be more and more annoying after a while - you aren't in the mood to comment all day on blogs. But it keeps alerting and distracting you all the time. As with any toy: you may find it attractive for a short while and then get rid of it. Sorry.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

SEO Consultant — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:27:24 -0000

This does seem like it could help to bring a little more traffic.

I would love to see a thorough report after testing it out a bit. Maybe I'll give it a whirl or if you can beat me to it :)

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Dennis Edell — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:20:49 -0000

It should be noted that this tool is not friendly to Vista machines.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

John — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:57:07 -0000

Looks like a good tool if used wisely. The key is to post good relevant content.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

JackHumphrey — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:42:08 -0000

We must to move beyond the knee-jerk reaction to automation assuming it is going to be used as a spam tool before anything else.

It's like we expect the worst just because people will use anything to spam if possible.

Those people aren't us, yet we all spend an inordinate amount of time and energy admonishing spammers and even worrying about ourselves being spammy.

Any software that does things like this can be used for spam. And people will use it for spam.

But nothing has changed AT ALL. This particular software doesn't add any significant spam to the load we are already getting every day and have to moderate anyway.

You as a blogger will not have to moderate any more than you do now because of this software.

Unless, people are using it to supply your site with user generated content that IS good enough to post but WAS generated because they used this software.

Where's the harm in that?

If we start assuming the best and stop worrying about what spammers are doing we'll spend a lot less time on discussions that aren't going to change anything in the end anyway.

I assume everyone here will use this and any other software properly. Innocent until PROVEN guilty.

If we all take a stab at the positive we can seea big decline in the amount of lip service we feel we must give on anything new that comes out as it pertains to how people are going to use it to spam.

Hell, let's stop giving spammers ideas if nothing else!

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Building Businesses — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:36:38 -0000

Well blog traffic is great but Michelle does the blog traffic equal increased sales and / or revenues?

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

nellygb — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:36:16 -0000

Well downloaded it and set it up and opened it and without trying ....Ive used up my trial credits so have to purchase the blah blah b***dy blah. Come on Michelle have you stooped to this level to make a few quid.
This is not free and will never be free so why did you feel you needed to waste my time and effort by claiming it was.

More hype

nellygb

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Peter — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:10:36 -0000

This seems quite like comment kahuna (jason potash) which was also free at the time.

I think it's great for finding new "leads", but like all things web 2, I think it is better to be organic and form a relationship. AKA determine who's blog and their audience is important to you and check them out everyday anyway.

What happens with these sort of tools is what happens on my blog. Probably yours too ;-)

I get hundreds of (attempted) spam comments about irrelevant things, from people I don;t know, who only come once, just because I have a keyword match. But you can say umbrella for several reasons ;-)

I'm starting to feel like a ludite, but anything that is automated and is supposed to make things quicker, either doesn't work, or doesn't work as God intended.

Every day it seems to prove to me that old fashioned leg work rules. You also get to develop a "feel" that no automated or time saving labour device can.

I mean sliced bread is OK, but it is nothing like bakers baked bread.
And the metaphor follows thru. It is more expensive, it takes longer to go to the shop to buy an you can;t eat as much, but it is better.

Ask yourself do you want to buy the tiger toasties of blog comments, or the Nightingle King Bloomer?

Either way I prefer rolls, so my list of blogging sites is even more personal and erm. tasty...

Peter

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Stewart Alexander — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:00:59 -0000

Thanks Michelle.

Already been using this and I can confirm, it's a nifty little tool that is in a way competition for one of our tools (name witheld of course).

Side note to Jack: That's naughty of you teasing like that :-)

Stewart

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

nellygb — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:58:35 -0000

I have been using comment Kahuna, comment hut on and off for a while now and also the Groovytastic version
which although it returns quite unique blogs to post to it is not as easy as the previous two apps.

I have just down loaded this tool to give it a go and compare it against the others. I will let you know Michelle but in the mean time if you have used the others maybe you can let me in on how you feel they stack up

nellygb

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

Kirk "The Bassett Hound" Hanna — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:52:20 -0000

Thanks for another great tip. I love your blog and I love your style. You are an inspiration to me.

Re: How To Get Traffic From A-List Bloggers

SEO Guide — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:51:34 -0000

Thanks Michelle, it's true, being the first to comment on popular Blog can drive great traffic to your site. We just have to be careful on not look spammy and contribute to the community.