A few quick links to get your week started:
- Mark from 45n5 put up a Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs late last week which is a pretty good list of blogs in this niche. What is more interesting to me than the list itself is his videos talking about how he’s building the list itself into getting some good traffic (part 1 and part 2). As he says in his videos this type of strategy can be used in lots of niches and not just the ‘making money online’ one. One idea I had for Mark on improving the Top100 list is to include RSS feeds of blogs featured – or even make one mashed up feed of them all.
- Many readers of ProBlogger use social media sites to promote their blog posts. While I don’t recommend that you spam them all with every post you write it can be useful to submit your best work (and that of others) to participate in these bookmarking sites. Social Poster is a tool that enables you to submit posts to multiple bookmarking sites at once (or at least to prepopulate their forms with good information to speed things up.
- Aaron at Technosailor has put together a ‘self importance test‘. Funnily enough I came up as being like Chris Pirillo and not myself (apparently I’m one of the answers).
I’m Chris Pirillo too, though I suspect I’m not one of the answers :)
Not sure what to make of that, really. Wonder who the others are?
I think you’re over here in the land of midwest goodness. As it turns out, I am most like you!
If you can make a top 100 of weblogs about a certain theme, that theme is definitely not a ‘niche’ anymore!
Ha – I’m most like Darren Rowse. Ugh, who the heck is he? :P
“You are like Darren Rowse. You are relatively mild mannered, confident in how you operate and choose not to “rock the boat”. Your ego does not flair often. Instead, you choose to assist other bloggers as much as possible. In some cases, you may find it to be your mission in life. You do not participate in a large amount of social networking and if you do, you’re not particularly aggressive about “friending” people. To you, it is a waste of time that could be used for more productive things.”
Yeah, I came up with most like Darren Rowse also. I only wish I could make the kind of money he does. :D
congrats! ;)
How does Social Poster differ from OnlyWire? Is it better or worse.
What a handy list to have and certainly one for my Netvibe page. Darren you are inspirtation to all of us bloggers.
I agree the more your out there the more that will come back in.
Kudos to Mark at 45n5 for an idea that will naturally generate inbound links over a long-period of time. I can imagine members of the list linking up whenever they jump a few spots, so it has the potential for sustained growth. My imaginary hat goes off to him :)
I am like Darren too.
Though i don’t use a Mac and i don’t hold any meetings.
Golly I’m like you! A bit of a shock.
Niamh
Well, I came out to be like you (Darren) also.
Adding the rss feeds is a good idea, and maybe an OPML download (explaining what that is) would be a great idea for a newbie to get a fast track to getting all the money making news from the top 100.
thanks for the mention Darren and the advice ;-)
mark
It would be funny if the only answer was your like Darren from Problogger and their was only one link to that from this page. I say that because a few people are saying that they are similar to Darren and I turned out that was too.
Hey Darren-
I’m you!!!
How funny is that.
I’m Matt Mullenweg! “Though you recognize your authority, you do not relish the idea of using your power too aggressively. Instead, you rely on peers a lot. You do participate in the social media world, but it is not something that occupies a lot of time. You most likey devote yourself to projects that you feel passionate about and tend to evangelize those things quite a bit.”
If I had any authority I would find that quite flattering. :) It certainly describes the blogger I _want_ to be.
Darren, you turned out to be more like Chris Pirillo and not yourself? Heh that’s interesting.
I am, apparently, Matt Mullenweg. I imagine that, by now, the “I’m you” comments are wearing thin. What I suggest is putting the quiz to the test… sponsor a blogger’s version of Trading Places… never seen the show… don’t have TV… but I’m familiar with the concept. Let’s really find out who is whom!
I seem to be Darren Rowse too! Darren, you seem to have a few ‘Mini-Me’s. :)
Heh… I came up as the same as Darren too! May I be as successful also!
I think we’ve crashed Technosailor!
The closest to a mashup of the Top 100 is Dosh Dosh News. Maybe collaboration between Mark and Maki would be the answer?
I also did the self importance test http://www.jeffro2pt0.com/which-internet-celebrity-are-you/ and I came out as being like Darren Rowse lol.
Another site that helps manage social bookmarking is onlywire.com
Using its free service you can submit your post to all of the following social bookmarking sites:
Backflip, Bibsonomy, Blinklist, Blogmemes, Blue Dot, de.lirio.us, del.icio.us, Diigo, Excites, Furl, linkatopia, Linkroll, Looklater, ma.gnolia, Markaboo, Rawsugar, Shadows, Simpy, Spurl, unalog, Wink, xilinus
Another “You are most like Darren Rowse!”
Personally, I think that’s cool!
I’m most like Darren Rowse… I like where this is going. :)
I liked 45n5.com about the list. His yesterday’s post talks about email promotion. I was wondering if you reply to blog email promotions!
It is fun to scan te comments and see how many of us (yes, me added to the list) are like you. Does that mean that after a while readers start resembling the blogger?
I tried the test and came out as most like you, but if you’re not like you, then I’m a far more conflicted and complex individual than I’d given myself credit for!
I´m you, as most people. Don´t you get that “Being John Malcovich” feeling??
Well, I wasn’t all that surprised to know that I also came out like you. :) Were there stats on the results? I’m sure if I had turned out to be like someone else I wouldn’t have come back here to leave a comment.
I turned out to be like Darren as well! :) Awesome.