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Creative Social Marketing with MyBlogLog

June 17, 2008 By: Justin | no comments

Over in my sidebar you’ll see a little widget that shows the icons of people who visit who also have a MyBlogLog account. There are multiple ways to market your site using MyBlogLog, but the avatar feature is a useful aspect. You can visit blogs in your niche, drop your icon, and receive traffic from other people clicking your icon. One method of marketing using MyBlogLog is just to browse around sites you know use MyBlogLog.

Well, lets be a little sneaky. Lets speed things up a little =P

I’m not black hat, but I do like creative methods of promotion.

Before we start, I suggest reading my post on Avatar Marketing You’ll want to get an avatar that grabs attention. You want people to click your icon and check out your MyBlogLog page (and hopefully your blog).

So, lets get started.

You’ll need: A MyBlogLog account and a StumbleUpon account. Set up the MyBlogLog account, add in your information, add your sites, and add a few communities. You want your profile to look populated to the people who will be visiting. You don’t want to look like a nobody, so make a few connection on MyBlogLog before you start this.

Make sure you’re logged into MyBlogLog.

The key to this is StumbleUpon. Simply select a tag related to your niche, and start stumbling. This method works better if you’re in a market that uses MyBlogLog, which I am. The SEO and Internet Marketing niche is full of bloggers with this little widget. I Stumble SEO blogs, and the next thing you know, I’m flying through sites with the little widget. Each time I visit one of these blogs, I’m dropping my avatar =P

If you stumble often, you know how easy it is to fly through a large quantity of sites, there is no reason to not take advantage of this. You can easily drop your avatar on hundreds of blogs and expose your blog and brand to thousands of new people. =)

Is This Ethical?

You always have to ask yourself if a marketing method is ethical. Well, it depends. It depends on how you use this. You could download an automation program that clicks the stumble button for you and set it on auto pilot over night while you sleep ;) Well… that’s kind of unethical. But simply stumbling sites you’re already stumbling isn’t. You’re just taking advantage of the MyBlogLog widget. If you do this on a massive scale and automate it, its “spam”, but I often stumble tags related to my interests, there is no reason I can’t drop my avatar while I’m at it. Just don’t get greedy.

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • bodytext
  • del.icio.us
  • De.lirio.us
  • Fark
  • Reddit
  • description
  • Simpy
  • Slashdot
  • Sphinn
  • Spurl
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • YahooMyWeb

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