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The Technorati Favorited sites exchange

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I just posted an article on Tricia’s musings called “Become part of the Technorati Favorites exchange” that I probably should have posted on this site. I posted it on Tricia’s Musings because that is of course my most popular site and I’d like as many people as possible to get involved with the Technorati Favorites exchange as possible.

Are you a Technorati member? Have you claimed your site on Technorati? If so, did you know that if enough other people mark your site as a favorite you could get on to the Technorati top 100 favorited sites list? There are a lot of benefits to being listed in Technorati and being favorited by others, and even more if your site is favorited by a lot of people and you manage to get on that top 100 list.

Please check out my Technorati favorites exchange post, and see how you can start getting others to mark your site as a favorite.




Are you part of the I Follow Movement?

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A few days ago I wrote a post on one of my other sites about the I Follow movement and how many bloggers have decided to remove the rel no follow tags from the comment sections of their blogs so that they could give their visitors that took the time to stop and leave a comment a real link.

Now, I’ve had a plugin on my sites called Comment Plugger for the better part of the last year and this plugin gave my site visitors a real link directly under the post whenever they left a comment. Now I’ve also added the Do Follow Plugin to all of our sites to ensure that all comments left anywhere on our sites provide real links that will be picked up by the search engines for our site visitors.

If you’d like to become part of the I Follow movement, either go into your sites template and change the no follow tags to follow tags in your comment section, or if you are a wordpress user download the No Follow plugin and simply activate it in order to provide links that search engines can follow when your visitors leave a comment.

If you’ve already removed the No Follow tags I’d also like to invite you to join the Do Follow blogroll that I created this past Sunday. The list is growing daily and already has at least 50 blogs listed on it. I’d love to add your site too! Visit my Do Follow bloggers page to learn what you need to do to qualify for the list, then send me a message and I’ll email the blogroll code to you so that you can add it to your site. Simple as that – soon you too can be a Do Follow Blogger.

If you’d like to get on the D-List and pass it on to others, along with the benefit of spreading the links of sites that are part of the I follow movement please read my post “Have you been following the I follow movement” over on Tricia’s Musings. Copy the current list and add some Do follow sites to the list and post your own altered version of the list on your site. Spread the word.

Mybloglog

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I love Mybloglog. I joined this site a week or so ago and I’ve been busy connecting with sites I’m familiar with who’s owners are already members, and finding new blogs as I go.

This is a social network site that lets bloggers connect with one another. For example when I signed up I added 7 of my blogs to the site, and my husbands blog as well. Almost immediately I had someone leave a message welcoming me to the site and I think expressing surprise at how many sites I run. I visited their site and checked out their blog and added them as a contact. I’ve been traveling through the Mybloglog site in that manner ever since.

Whenever someone visits my sites, or my communities- each blog I added to Mybloglog has it’s own community page – and leaves a message I visit them as well. If I like their sites I add them as a contact and perhaps join their community.

A running list of popular posts in your communities can be found in the right sidebar of your Mybloglog page.

They also offer site widgets that allow you to see which Mybloglog members have visited your site recently. That’s another way to connect with bloggers. I haven’t added the Mybloglog widget to this site yet but when I do it will be in my sidebar to the right.

You can also add a code to your site that will monitor your traffic. Then when you visit your Mybloglog page you can see the site stats for your blog. I really like their stat system. You can see which of your posts are most popular, how many visitors you’ve had to each of your posts, and what links they clicked while they were on your site. You can even see where your traffic came from. This is one of the best stat programs that I’ve found. I’m only using the free version.

You can get more stats if you pay a small monthly fee for each blog that you want stats for if you’d like, but I have so many blogs in the system it would cost too much. That’s my only complaint about Mybloglog. They should have a flat fee for those who have multiple sites. Then I might take them up on their full featured stat program.

Sign up for Mybloglog and feel free to visit my Mybloglog page. I’d be happy to meet you and perhaps sign you up as a new contact.

UPDATE: January 26th – I’ve been using Mybloglog for a few months now and I’m happy to report that I have over 100 contacts and I’ve joined 53 communities. I’m still as happy with Mybloglog as when I originally wrote this post. Oh and Mybloglog was purchased by Yahoo in early January, but Yahoo has no plans to make any changes to the site- which is a good thing.

I’m also happy to say that I when I look at my AWstats I can see that I get visitors each day on all of my sites from Mybloglog.

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