The bee that gets the honey doesn't hang around the hive
I didn't post a "fresh" blog entry last week because I am currently devoting one hour a day to tedious -- but extremely important -- blog housekeeping tasks. I have 115 blogs and Web sites on my aggregator. Each day, I am methodically adding ten links to those blogs to this relatively new blog of mine -- and then individually contacting the authors to let them known that I subscribe to their blogs and have added a link to them on my own blog. I am then requesting that they take a look at my blog and, if they find it useful, subscribe and link in return.
I am halfway through this process and it seems to be working well! My site statistics continue to improve each day, as do the Google results for my blog. The blog itself has finanlly surpassed my LinkedIn profile (although not yet JDSupra).
When it comes to blogging, "The bee that gets the honey doesn't hang around the hive" is a much better slogan than "If you build it, they will come." They won't come unless they know you are there.
If you want good results for your blog or other social media site, you have to "work" it -- making sure that links to your site appear on other sites and making sure that other prominent bloggers know that you exist and are regularly monitoring (and perhaps commenting on) your posts. You want to return the favor by mentioning and commenting on their posts as well.
Time for online spring cleaning!
