This is just a really quick article to let you know that there has literally just been a Google PageRank update!
Despite being less than three months old, Technology Bloggers has manged to achieve a PageRank of 2! This is truly amazing and wonderful news for everyone in the community!
Check out your site(s) and see if you have had any changes. If so, let us know!
For more information on PageRank, please check out these resources:
I hope the update has been good to you too 🙂
This is the third in a series of articles in which I hope to share with you my knowledge of how and why Technology Bloggers has been so successful, so fast. Learn more about this series by reading our Technology Bloggers success article.
I believe that respect is one of the most crucial things in blogging. If you are good to your readers, your readers will be good to you.
To build up a great community (like the one on this blog) you have to be a friendly author. Most of our authors, myself included, don’t just leave their article once it is written, they check back every few days and reply to comments.
But it’s not just about being a good commenter.
Being a dofollow blog is one of the main reasons for the success of this blog. People come here because they know they will be treated well.
You have heard it all before but I shall sumarise it again: if you read you benefit from out great content and the ability to comment and gain dofollow keyword rich links to your latest content; if you write you also have the ability to get dofollow keyword rich links links to your content in your article, and (if you are of author status or higher) you can get a link to your chosen site on the sidebar.
I believe that if you offer people fantastic content from a variety of different authors, as well as dofollow keyword rich links in comments, matched with great incentives to write, you have a recipe for success!
Not 100% convinced about dofollow? Well it is thought that it might lower your PageRank, especially on individual articles, and there are some rumors that it can harm you in the SERP’s, but from my personal experience, I believe that the benefits outweigh the costs.
Need some proof? Here are just a few great blogs which are very successful and are dofollow:
Check their traffic ranking. Notice anything? Dofollow blogs with great content, also the authors usually try to respond to any comments in need of a reply.
Are you a dofollow blog? If not why not? From my experience with Technology Bloggers and my own philosophy blog, dofollow is one way of succeeding in blogging.
I believe it all comes back down to respect, you are respecting your writers and readers, so in tern they respect you.
If you run a nofollow blog, try switching. Do it today and never look back 🙂
Back next Monday with the next in the series!
Do you read a lot on the internet? If you do, the chances are that you read in places where there is the ability to comment, be it on a blog (the most obvious place) or even a forum or website.
If you have a website or blog yourself, then promoting this would be a good idea… But there are other reasons!
If you are an individual you may just wish to build your own personal reputation (or brand if you like) to make yourself more popular for social or employment, or other reasons.
As an author of multiple blogs and sites, there is not much in the way of blogging that pleases an author more than a genuine (not spam – they are pesky!) comment. Bloggers describe this in many different ways, I like to say it gives bloggers a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.
So I comment to make blog owners feel good – among other reasons. I also comment to promote my website and blogs.
But we are missing the big reason why I comment!
The main reason I comment is because I love to add my opinion. If I agree with someone, I will tell them. If not I will ask them why they feel/think like they do, and I will tell them how I think/feel on something. Debate is the fuel of the blogosphere!
There are a few simple rules I follow to make sure that I am a great commenter
KeywordLuv and CommentLuv are two fantastic commenting tools to look out for if you own a website or blog. They really help you promote your blog when commenting, by allowing you to use your keywords, and feature one of your latest articles.
One final thing to watch out for is nofollow blogs, AKA the greedy (I was going to use scum, but that’s a bit strong) people in the blogosphere. These are people who run blogs which do not give you dofollowed or as they are also known followed links. This means that the link to your blog doesn’t pass on any link juice to the contributor.
It’s simple, no readers or commenters, then there is no point in writing. Treat your readers with respect, and they will return the favour.
Being a community blog we are 100% dofollow, meaning that you can guarantee you are getting great quality dofollow comments, every time 🙂
Happy commenting!