The Blogging Technique That No Marketers Talk About
I want to thank Pawan Agrawal for giving successful bloggers like myself to share with you successful blogging techniques you can apply to your benefit. I’ve enjoyed reading the other posts while I can’t wait to share with you my personal experience.
Take a look at my monthly average traffic volume for one of my Internet Marketing sites.
Looking back at the year 2008, I realize Web 2.0 was very much in its infancy and defined mainly by MySpace and Facebook. By this year, Web 2.0 properties have truly blossomed and through them I found a way to create a bigger impact with blogging. I must credit the persistent daily increase in traffic to content propagation via a micro-blogging/blogging combo strategy.
One aspect of blogging is blog submission; that goes without saying. Have you heard of crossblogging or crossposting? With the advent of Web 2.0 community sites, it is getting popular now. The tantalizing proposal is to duplicate your blog or microblog posts across as many blogging platforms as possible for the purposes of search indexing and increased readership among fellow community members, but it doesn’t make sense to do it manually by logging in and out one site after another. The crossblogging idea I’m referring here works on autopilot, which means the moment you publish something in your WordPress blog, it immediately appears in another without you having to login to this other blog.
It used to be that you can’t crosspost to as many platforms as possible due to legality, proprietary and technological issues, but the barriers are coming down. I’m going to cut to the chase and lay out step-by-step what you need to do immediately, but I’ll assume that you, the reader, have a WordPress blog. This is our starting point.
1. Create accounts and set up blogs in Multiply, Windows Live, LiveJournal, Xanga, Vox, Blogger and Twitxr (microblog platform).
2. If there are options for you to import earlier blog posts, go ahead and backup your WordPress posts and restore them in your new blogs.
3. You need to install and activate crossposting plugins to link up your WordPress blog to the mirror blogs. These are:
a. Live Space Sync (Windows Live Space crossposter)
b. Live+Press For WordPress (LiveJournal crossposter)
c. CrossPress (crosspost via e-mail)
4. Enable crossposting in Multiply in this Posting Options page inside your account. You can also setup a post-via-email address here. Visualize that your blog posts are replicated from WordPress to LiveJournal to Multiply.
5. Setup more post-via-email addresses in Vox, Blogger, Twitxr. Fill in your addresses in the CrossPress plugin. For Multiply, if you find there are duplicate posts due to both crossposting and post-via-email enabled, disable one of them.
6. Sign up with Ping.fm and Hellotxt and hook up as many social networks to them as possible. Sign up with HelloTxtFeed and Twitterfeed. From Ping.fm, you can crosspost your microposts (or tweets). In Hellotxt, go to “Settings” → “Tools & API” and enable HelloTxtFeed and TwitterFeed. Fill your WordPress feed in HelloTxtFeed. In Twitterfeed, link up your feed to Twitter, identi.ca, Ping.fm and Hellotxt. Note that Ping.fm forwards your feed to Xanga. There’s also a post-via-email option in Hellotxt.
7. Optional: Ping.fm does not allow you to schedule your tweets, but you can do this through using Hootsuite. Link up Ping.fm from inside your Hootsuite account.
8. By now you should be able to get the hang of how your blog feed is being moved around through the various sites, both in direct and indirect manners to get the maximum possible exposure for your posts. Give yourself 3 days to a week to track whether or not the posts are getting published. Again, disable options to leave just one to prevent duplicates in a platform. 2 major drawbacks I found are that crossposted posts lose their format and become one big continuous line as compared to your original WordPress posts. Also, scheduled future posts may not get published.
9. Bonus step: “You Say Too” is a social network where you not only submit your blog feed for display, you can also refer a friend and get an additional 15% from his AdSense views and 10% more from his referred users. Yup, the site asks for your AdSense and Amazon affiliate IDs for revenue sharing purpose.
Also read this article for more than 30 WordPress plugins to get more blog readers. Current stand-alone Vox, Xanga and MySpace crossposters can’t work anymore.
There’s another solution to transplant your posts from WordPress to Blogger in the form of a software that imports your backed up XML file to your Blogger blog very quickly.
Look at the Blogger version of the Internet Mastery Center Blog. I have more than 1,000 posts to date. You wouldn’t think I have the luxury of time to manually post twice for each article, would you? And yet the blog got its first visitor on day 3 or 4.
Download Blogsync and read the details of the software here. Blogsync self-runs straight from file and needs no installation, but it needs to have Java Development Kit installed. I have tested that Java Runtime Environment works as well. You can download either JDK or JRE here.
The file to execute Blogsync is run.bat. When you open it in Notepad, it shows:
set CP=./build/blogsync.jar;./lib/ws-commons-util-1.0.1.jar;./lib/xmlrpc-client-3.0.jar;./lib/gdata-client-1.0.jar;./lib/xmlrpc-common-3.0.jar
rem set the parameters below and run now.
set path=e:/jdk1.5.0/bin
java -cp %CP% org.easter.blogsync.BlogSync
Depending on where you install your Java files, edit your correct path to their ‘/bin’ subdirectory. Save run.bat and run it.
You’ll find there are 2 ways to import your posts, and I still have problems reading directly from my WordPress blog. So I do an export from WordPress which generates an XML file and load it into Blogsync. You must know that Blogger publishes a maximum of 50 posts in 24 hours, so you’ve to time your imports to Blogger on a day-by-day basis. As you do so, keep track of the post IDs.
Blogsync can’t work properly if the export file is too large (above 8 MB). Use the WPSplitter program to split your exported file.
Remember that the whole purpose of crossblogging must come to achieve the end in mind; that is more visitors and sales conversion. No one is supposed to become more techie than is necessary. Have fun!
Nelson Tan is the webmaster behind Internet Mastery Center. Download $347 worth of FREE Internet Marketing gifts at http://www.internetmasterycenter.com
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Thank you for sharing this Nelson. Very interesting idea.
Wow! I get the concept but the techie part is way over my head!!!!
Would this work in a very targeted niche like mine? Belly Dance?
I have a wordpress blog and would love to figure out how to
get more traffic from my niche…
Thank you for your ongoing info.
Kathreen
http://www.bellydance-adventures.com
Thanks for sharing this blogging method. Worth learning and bring it to practice!
Wow! Great info here. And nope, I didn’t know it was possible. I’ll maybe give it a try.
Thanks!
Very interesting concept here. I will certainly spend some time looking at this further. Looks as if it will take a good amount of effort to set up, but then again, anything worth having is going to take effort, right? Thank you for this information.
Nice post!
I’m a new blogger and want to become a full-time bloggers. The post you wrote above was very much help me in order to promote my blog.
Thank you for the tips!
Great article like always, I loved the “more than 30 WordPress plugins to get more blog readers” link, thanks for the great efforts!
lots of great information, i’ve been blogging for quite sometime but you brought some more ideas to the light great post Thanks!
interesting idea, go practice thanks!
Live4freedom.com
Wow that is an awesome method. I never heard of it before but am going to get started right now! Thanks for sharing.
I will have to try this with my blogs. Thank you very much for the share!
It’s hard to follow. I will try it. Thanks to share.
This is great information; however, won’t you get slapped by Google or even de-indexed due to duplicate content on so many platforms?
Hi Tambra, quite on the contrary, I get more link juice and more pages indexed. Moreover, different platforms publish the content in different lengths (as tweets) and manners. You can see even from an affiliate marketing perspective when all the affiliates may publish the same promo message in Squidoo, Hubpages, Wetpaint etc., Google won’t know if there’s just one lone author or many authors.
Google-search the title of this post and you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Although this is my original method, it’s partly inspired by the philosophy of Howie Schwartz’s Conversation Domination: “So someone else gets no. 1 ranking. So what? I get nos. 2-10.”
By the way, this post is only one chapter of my Web 2.0 report which you can get here: http://www.internetmasterycenter.com/giveaways/websocial.html
Are you sure Google won’t know there’s only one author? I’m pretty sure they would know because there’s only one ip address posting everything.
It’s a great idea and I definitely do want to try this, but I’m still a little hesitant. You said because of legal issues it couldn’t be done before? What makes okay to do now?
hi,
anybody else get an error trying to register/login into Multiply?
alex :-[
Nice concept idea behind the multiplication of your content but linking back at your main blog. Need a shit load of blog post tho’
This is a concept I was working on - but you gave more detail than I could see! I used to use the Xanga and MySpace crossover plugins - but sadly as you stated they don’t work anymore. Someday maybe they’ll get updated.
Thanks for the article!
Okay, I’m confused. It may be that I’m terribly behind the times, but what about google penalties for duplicate content?? Is that a thing of the past?
Very clever idea, let me think about linkwheel.
What a great post. Thanks a lot for sharing. I will try to implement it.
Thanks very very much for this info. I had never heard of this method of cross-blogging before.
Tim
Wow, I thought this would be a garbage post that was just junkmail, but it wasn’t
And funny thing was, I’ve been half-inadvertantly doing this anyways lol. To use the wordpress.COM blog and their embedded search results to lead over to my wordpress.ORG site lol.
Nice job
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Fantastic info. Its specialist strategies like these that can make a huge difference both to your blog traffic and your personal esteem.
There’s so much crap out there its nice to see someone openly sharing a quality system that so obviously works.
Thanks Nelson.
Great, never think of this before
Thanks for another great blog marketing idea! Could I ask how you did your share this bar (twitter / sphinn / delicious etc) at the bottom of the post - it looks good?
BTW the second link in this sentence is incorrect:
“Download Blogsync and read the details of the software here.”
This is the correct site for instructions: http://zeaster.blogspot.com/2007/01/tool-that-import-all-posts-from_4359.html
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the correction, but I think this is the better link: http://zeaster.blogspot.com/2007/09/blogsync-faq.html
As for the social bookmarking buttons, I use a WordPress plugin called Sociable: http://yoast.com/wordpress/sociable
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the correction, but I think this is the better link: http://zeaster.blogspot.com/2007/09/blogsync-faq.html
As for the social bookmarking buttons, I use Sociable plugin: http://yoast.com/wordpress/sociable
Hi awesome techines.
One you have all set up. Whisch is you starting point?
1) Woedrpess post and then multiply???
Please advice thanks
German Garcia
Regards,
I am happy with your blog posting
I want to inform and business credit.
Good Luck
What an amazing post. I do this already to some extent, but this will put my efforts into overdrive.
this is some really great information here. I never knew there was so much blogging nor had I thought of cross blogging at like this.
Nice post, thanks bunches.
Of the blog/microblog services for which you provided links, the only one I saw that provides post importing was Multiply, and the types of blogs from which you could import did not include WordPress. Am I missing something?
wow, super great post. mind blowing.
I try to digest the content, and found out this can be real super simple to work on my new blog. Aim for traffic and backlink juice.
Nice maxblogpress. you’ve done a great sharing here.
The only thing that concerns me is doesn’t this cause problems with Google regarding duplicate content?
I have mixed feelings about this. I may be newbie but I know about how short-term some of google’s rules are. If Google’s duplicate content rule changes in the very near future and this technique is specifically targeted to be considered ‘black’ hat, then you might be in for a lot of re-working to do. And not just on one blog. Just my thoughts anyway.
Hi,
This is some hardcore traffic getting stuff, I am going to try it out. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Nelson,
Thanks for your kind to sharing with us.
Thanks for maxblogpress also.
Regards,
Widi
This method is quite interesting, crossblogging, i never try before, i try it. thanks for the turorial.
From
david
Hi
This is some great stuff! I have been kicking an idea around similiar to this and was wondering how it could be done and I will try this out for sure. What I do is very visual when comes to my work and I think this would work perfectly….I thought there should be away to do this and am glad I have found this blog thanks for sharing this and I will let you know how it goes
I am buying your affiliate ninja program
great trick. just curious. this something completely new to me, and i am going to figure it out how it works if i do it.
wow what a great job i hope be like u
This is new traffic technique found useful.
My quastions here when we make crosspost with plugin, then they posted various site, Now is this duplicate content for serch engines?
Thanks for this informative post
.
Appreciate your invaluable tips…will definately check out Blogsync, this cud means more golf for me…
Hi. Great info. I’ve seen this type of info being sold for lots-o-cash, but you’re letting us know for free. Cool.
Question. I set up a couple tests with a blog using the CrossPress plugin sending an email to Ping.fm to a couple of test social sites. (OnlyWire has a pretty cool plugin too, but not as many sites).
Anyway, I noticed that even though I put a footer in CrossPress pointing back to the blog’s URL. Ping.fm, however, rewrote the link to have a Ping.fm URL. The Ping.fm URL is a redirect, so if you click on it, you do return to the original blog. I viewed the source, and Ping.fm’s redirect URL is not no-follow. So, what I’m wondering - do the search engines follow and index redirect URL’s like this?
Hi Walt,
If you google-search site:twitter.com and site:ping.fm, you’ll find URLs for individual tweets and the ping.fm links do get indexed, but chances for high ranking are very low because they contain little or no keywords at all.
So, I haven’t tested Hellotxt yet (because they seemed to be the clunkier of the 2), but do they also redirect links in posts they find?
I also noticed that CrossPress seems to choke when it’s given more than one email addy to send to, and I can’t get the live spaces plugin to get past the validation even though I’ve checked and double checked every step. Anyone else having issues?
Whoops, I take the last comment back (about spaces). It seems, according to the author’s website, if you don’t get everything perfect on the first or second try, you get locked out for 24 hours. I waited long enough, I guess, because the live sync plugin is working now.
So, Nelson, have you set up just one account for each of the social sites, or have you set up several accounts for each one? DO you set up an account for each niche?
thanks for sharing i’m just new blogger too.. i will save your link for my next visit thanks
Q: I haven’t tested Hellotxt yet (because they seemed to be the clunkier of the 2), but do they also redirect links in posts they find?
A: It shortens your URL using bit.ly.
Q: Have you set up just one account for each of the social sites, or have you set up several accounts for each one? Do you set up an account for each niche?
A: Good question. Creating separate groups, pages, domains, accounts etc. is always encouraged for fostering a tighter, more focused environment. Yes, it’s tedious, so you would want to weigh certain options carefully, like instead of creating another facebook account, just creating a fan page for your niche will do. In the first place, I would have already knew how lucrative the niche is and how passionate I’m driven to work around it.
Man, get a younger student or brother, sister to do it and pay them pocket money
this is a great idea but: I am having trouble getting my wordpress blog activated in twitterfeed.
It is parsed but for some reason my blogs do not show up on the twitter account.
I read somthing about maybe not having the right pud date.
Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
My accoutn is link to twitter , but the blogs from this account do not post.
help!
I am wondering aobut the “duplicate content problem” … won’t Goggle de-rank sites with duplicate content?
I sometimes wonder if “duplicate content” fears are just something the gurus use to sell us wannabees more stuff. I used to belong to a couple of membership sites that delivered articles and ebooks. We were supposed to re-write the articles, but I used them as-is and made AdSense money with them. I might not have made as much as if they were original one-of-a-kind products, but I don’t know about that.
Let’s face it: there’s a lot of duplicate content across “legitimate” sites, however you define that.
My own suspicion is that if you mix in stuff that’s different (feeds and such), it might take away some or all of the dupe penalty, if it exists.
Disclaimer: I’ve spent more than I’ve earned in IM.
Heyhey congrats for the software update!
Now that you’ve updated it I kinda wrote about it in my blog,
hope it’ll get you some more business
Keep up the good work man, you’re one of a few!
I’m so glad to find such helpful content with a great personality behind it to help light the way to navigate the blogoshpere. Thank you.
I’m going to try especially that ping.fm stuff i report my results i hope this works alot of people have allot of different stories to tell but thanks for the post very imformative
I thought this post is dead
Stevie, I’m glad you’re encouraged to try this out. It will be fun. Have a better 2010!
hi
i got this error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() in /home/xxxxx/public_html/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 926
i got it when installed
b. Live+Press For WordPress (LiveJournal crossposter)
after i installed
a. Live Space Sync (Windows Live Space crossposter)
any ideas of what i should do? I’m quite new to this
Stevie, just to let you know I’m not hosting my WP blog for now because it got infected with malware and I’m in the process of deleting a lot of cached files. So I can’t get into my admin panel.
I don’t know if it can work with the latest WP version. Moreover, check that your settings are correct: http://code.google.com/p/livepress/wiki/Installation
2nd tip: Disable all plugins and test each of them one by one.
3rd tip: If it’s late at night when you should be sleeping, take a nap and come back working on this next day fully refreshed.
update i got the problem fixed I dont think i will install it again tho