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April 23rd, 2007 by Joshua Dorkin | Filed under Blogging, Building Traffic, Networking, Social Media, Tutorials.I wrote about using MyBlogLog a few weeks ago (networking with social media sites) for networking purposes. I now want to tell you exactly how to build massive traffic using the MyBlogLog community.
MyBlogLog is an extremely important tool for getting a blog off the ground and for building exposure to your site. Many people don’t realize how powerful it really is! This post will help you get a jump start in building traffic to your blog / website, and will also help you find new, interesting sites you never knew about before.
How to Set Up MyBlogLog on Your Blog or Website
- Create an account with MyBlogLog. This hould take less than a minute. All you’ll need is to pick out your username, email, password, and the URL of your blog. Once you’ve created an account, be sure to upload an image of yourself as your avatar. Photos are just more personal and make things a bit more inviting.
- To bring more interest to your profile, or simply to help users get to know a bit about you, be sure to fill out some personal information in your profile. Again, it really just helps people to connect with you.
- You will then want to claim your blog or website. To do this, you’ll need to place a snippet of code that MBL provides you within your blog’s template. Now, when you look at your profile page, you’ll see your website.
Both you and your website now have “communities.” Personally, you have the ability to add friends and chat with them. People must join your website’s community, but they can also chat with you through the site’s community.
The last major technical step in getting going is installing the MyBlogLog Widget on your blog or website. If you look in your personal profile, you’ll see a link underneath your website’s community “Get Widgets.” The one you are concerned with is the “Recent Readers” widget. This allows you and your other readers to see who has been on your site recently. Layout the widget to your liking and add it to your blog’s sidebar.
Congratulations! You’re Ready.
Here’s where the traffic building begins!
8 Steps To Successfully Building Blog Traffic Using MyBlogLog
- Make sure you are logged into MyBlogLog. This seems obvious, but if you’re not signed in, then people on the site can’t see you when you’re surfing around.
- Surf your favorite blogs! Start visiting the sites you’d normally visit and see if they have MyBlogLog widget installed. If they do, click on the View Reader Community link at the bottom. This will bring you to their website’s community.
- Join the communty and also add the user as a friend/contact. This shows the user in both their personal profile and their website’s community profile that you are interested. It also gives you more exposure so others can find you more easily.
(Note: When you add a user as a friend, you are sent back to your profile, not that user’s. I think this is a glaring problem with the site, as I then have to go back to the blog – to the community – to the user to find their profile again. I hope Eric and others at MBL consider changing this. It will just make things that much easier for users)
- This is one of the most important steps: Leave a comment on either their personal profile or their website’s community profile. Make sure it is not simply “Nice site” or “Great Blog.” Be sure to leave a relevant comment so the user can tell that you’ve actually visited their site.
As a result of your comment, the odds are that the user will go and visit your profile (by clicking on your avatar). They will then see your blog / websites and if they have any curiousity in the topic, will check them out. You’ve just exposed your site to another new person!
- Wash, Rinse, Repeat! After a while, you’ll have targeted all the sites that you are a fan of. Don’t fret, you have much more work ahead!
- Now that you’ve gone and let your favorite sites know about your interest, it is time to start finding new sites. There are a many ways to do this:
How to find New Websites of Interest
a) Visit your favorite site’s community pages and look at who else is commenting. Visit their site / blog and return to step 2.
b) Visit your favorite site’s community pages and look at who else is a member. Visit their site / blog and return to step 2.
c) Return to your personal profile page and see who “Viewed this Page Recently.” Visit their site / blog and return to step 2.
d) Go to the “My Admirers” section of your profile. Visit their site / blog and return to step 2.
e) See who is leaving you comments on your personal community profile or your site’s community. Visit their site / blog and return to step 2.
f) Visit the profiles of other users you’ve found and see what communities they are a part of. Odds are they will likely be related to their interests. You now have a slew of other communities and sites to visit. - Watch the traffic begin! You’ll start to notice traffic slowly start to come from MyBlogLog. Keep people interested by continung to write quality posts.
- Set aside some time every day to expand your MyBlogLog contacts, visit new sites, comment, and get yourself out there. Remember, every time you visit another site with the MBL Recent Readers widget, you have another opportunity for exposure for yourself. The more you’re seen around, the more likely people will want to connect with you.
Don’t forget that in addition to using MyBlogLog for traffic that there are other important methods. Commenting on other, related blogs with thoughtful messages is hugely important. This should also become a part of your daily routine.
In case you’d like to start somewhere, you can do so with me!
My Personal Profile: BigP (my username)
This Blog’s Profile: TimeForBlogging
Join up and get involved in MyBlogLog today to build your blog’s traffic!
You have pretty much nailed MBL 101!
Rex
This is a very thorough review and instructional post. I’m going to go back over your suggestion (re: where your add contact request takes you) and discuss it with the team. But I just had to let you know this is great. And thanks for linking to my blog. I’m flattered
Thanks guys. Shall I begin the level 2 course?
I appreciate your comments, especially yours Robyn (sorry Rex), as you work for the company. It is great that you have reached out asked for my input.
All my best to you both (and anyone else who comes by to read this!)
I have to second its a very good review
ive seen a few mybloglog clones out there liuke bumpzee but i definately prefer mybloglog. ive found some poor blogs on it though with hundreds of members because the owner has sent messages to every blog owner he can find haha 
Kevin, you are right about finding poor blogs with a ton of members. I get the spam messages on MBL from users with a link to their site asking me to join . . . goes in the waste basket normally. If they want my attention, I want someone who at least put in the effort to find something out about me or my sites.
Guess there is a tradeoff. . . . I could have more members, but many would be low-quality spammer-types. Not the type of crowd I want around.
Very nice and thorough post. I need to send this to a couple of people I have been telling to join MBL
The little problem you noted is quite annoying.
The other annoying thing is the spam. It isn’t as bad as it used to be, but there is still a fair amount of spam comments from the five thousand random users who start blogs daily thinking they can link to that link guy and earn millions of dollars.
I originally joined and didn’t go for some time but when I did and started looking it over I was pleasantly surprised at some of the gems I found out there.
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Hey Cooper, I’ve been in discussions with the MyBlogLog team in an effort to help them make some changes for the better when it comes to the “annoying problem” Lets see if they actually come through (I hope so!).
Hi,
can you suggest some good way to find bloggers which could be prepared to publish a post (written by me) about let’s say a “webmaster forum with a contest”. I mean, is it Mybloglog appropriate for this or maybe some other community site? I looked around a little and was frustrated about a large number of bad blogs/sites. Those who have good sites may be hard to convince to accept a post.
Jan, are you asking for recommendations for sites who will accept your articels to publish on their sites? I’m sure there are plenty of people, me included, who are happy to have quality guest bloggers help out. Tell me a bite more about what you’re asking here.
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Great ideas I actually look at mybloglog visitors websites and invite them for a link exchange and in turn some people become regular readers of my blog which increases my daily trafic.
Josh, explain #3 in more detail for claiming your blog. I’ve never been able to get an image of my blog to show up on my MyBlogLog profile page. I would really, really appreciate your help on this.
I didn’t realize that you can make good traffic out of MyBlogLog. I used to get only odd count which was not too big. Now I learned it from you
Thank you/
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Martin –
Once you create an account, click on the “Add Site/Blog I Author” button and follow the directions. You’ll need to put a snippet of code in your blog’s source files. The site should automatically generate an image file for your site.
I’d actually ask Robyn at MyBlogLog for help. She’d be better at answering your question if that doesn’t do it. I hope that helps!
Benedict – MBL alone won’t bring you traffic. It is certainly a great tool, though!
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Some great advices for new users!
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great article, it is posted at the carnival here- http://homebizblogger.com/2007/04/30/carnival-of-blogging-sucess/
thanks for submitting!
Thanks Eve!
Some reallly good stuff on you blog! Thanks for the info re: mybloglog! Great community site!
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Great tutorial! I’ve been using MyBlogLog for the last several weeks to increase traffic and meet other bloggers. I think it’s great. Thanks for the informative post.
Thanks for this article. I’d signed up on MyBlogLog way back in January and had never really used it. I followed the setup instructions you provided today and, with luck, will find time to follow the remaining instructions regularly in the upcoming weeks.
It’s a huge challenge to direct traffic to a blog. My hit counts and feed subscriber list has been growing steadily, but not very quickly. Perhaps this will accelerate things. Thanks for the advice!
Hey everyone, I’m really happy that this has been helpful to you. Keep up your efforts, they do eventually pay off!
very great resource. thanks so much in helping me understand mybloglog more.
Glad I could be of help, Jackie!
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Great article Joshua! I only wished I’d found it “before” I signed up for MBL a couple of weeks ago. When I first signed up, I was like….ok….what do I do now? But it didn’t take long to figure things out. Your post helped me to validate that I was doing the right things to start building traffic.
Much thanks and best of luck to you!
Chris
Chris – Thanks! I only hope others can find the article before going through the “learning curve” that you and I went through.
hey joshua,
this would prove as valuable advice to new users. keep it up!
-rob
Thanks Rob!
Nice guide, come in handy as I just joined Mybloglog.
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Good luck using MBL, Heero!
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I found decent success with MyBlogLog as well. One thing that I wasn’t doing that this article states is leaving comments – I will have to start doing this.
That being said, I found Josh’s blog through MyBlogLog and can certainly glad that I did!
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I read your tips on how to build traffic and I found it very interesting. You have really nice guide which I followed. I curious to see if this really works.
I really didn’t notice the traffic mybloglog brings
Thanks for the nice post
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I joined MBL sometime ago but didn’t really bother with it much. I guess it’s time for a revisit! Thanks for the info.
MBL is a big community, the good thing is that the members are very educated and well-mannered that makes it different from MySpace. It also brings traffic, but not really too many. People mainly visit your profile just to put a note that they were there. Only few out of them visit your website. I think its like this.
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That is a comprehensive post. I have been taking a slightly different route to building a community at MBL, via MyBlogLog Sunday.
I guess I am very skeptical of bloggers with thousands of “online friends and relations”. I prefer to stick with the real world way of doing things (plus I am a glutton for punishment) so every week I try and contribute content and meaningful links by writing mini reviews for 10 MBL bloggers. I link to their MBL community, as well as link to a post on their site, and stumble some posts too.
I certainly dont have the biggest community, but I do have a connection with my members that goes a little bit beyond a random click and those inane “great site, check mine out” messages. (I have done it too, but it doesnt feel great!)
Your tactics are spot on for maximising MBL community size, each to their own, but really, in my opinion, accumulating numbers isn’t that productive, apart from bragging rights I guess.
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Hi again.
I’m really enjoying your posts. Thanks for all the tips. Good luck to your blog.
Cheers!
Great piece of advice, joining your MyBloglog community right now!
Very interesting post. I’ll be spending more time with certain areas. Well done and good luck with your work.
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Hi Josh Dorkin,
Your contents is great, I’m very new mybloglog do not know where to start. After reading your article I explore more idea how it work. Thank you
How do I set one more website url at “Site & Blog I Author” . What I did was click edit setting , but this only allow one blog/website to upload ?
Thank you
I totally agree with you. I have seen massive amount of traffic after i installed the widget on my blog and started visiting interesting sites.
Hi Thanks for the Great post, i will start to try in MyBloglog, hope to get massive traffic also.
great post. i will try to use that on my blog
I am going to apply each of these points one by one where I can and wll come back to you to say if it worked, or rather I’ll blog about this post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Liz
Wow, It is one of the complete posts about mybloglog.
I am using this service before but i found many new tips
and ideas.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
best.
Mohsin
I think I want to find your your article. After a while I will say you if my traffic increase. Thank you.
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Thanks for sharing a complete guide on using mybloglog very good, I will try it soon.
This is a really good step by step guide on how to set up an account with this blog system, looking forward to using it.
This is really very useful. Thanks and I never thought of using mybloglog in such a way. However, I realize there’s a low response rate from the comment or message I send to the members. I don’t know is it that they are more active with other social networking site such as myspace and facebook or they are simply not active in MyBlogLog.
Do you have any ideas?
Very great info! I’ve been a fan of mybloglog for quite some time but never truly understand its importance!
Most posts like this use the same crap over and over. But you have actually given out some great information here. Thanks.
Thank you man! It was really useful info!
Excellent tips. Just subscribed to the RSS Feed. Go on!
Very nice article and great tips to gain more traffic. Thank you for your resources. Keep it up.
Thanks this was easy to read and understand. I use a site builder that has a blog built in with a separate domain name that my site’s domain name.
Great post and great tips for increasing more traffic using mybloglog. Thank you.
Yahoo is going to rename MyBlogLog to YahooBlogLog or MyYahooLog. Maybe, this renaming will bring new functionalities..
i have been using mybloglog and it is a good way to get traffic also.
its a good post
but the method is very tedious
i suggest that please check the spelling in your line “This hould take less than a minute. All you’ll need is to pick out your username….”
replace hould with should!
hei josh, thx for the article
it explained a lot to me
i want to try some thing new to increase my traffic
you got me the idea to start using mybloglog, many of my friend use others but it seem that mybloglog is better than others
thx again and keep up the good job maybe u need a bigger pocket hehehe
I already a member of mybloglog. but I didn’t use it to increase my traffic..
Actually i dont’ know what to do with that. This post help me to understand how to use bloglog to build traffic…
I have proven the power of mybloglog to visiting traffics to our sites. just surfing and add comment to their sites, they will impactly visiting us.
Just an awesome guide too Use MyblogLog..
Bookmarked it..Thanks
excelent tips. i usually using mybloglog but until now i can’t manage and make it more effective. thanks.
Joshua, good stuff. I have just setup a MyBlogLog account, joined your community, and added you as a contact.
If anybody wants to add me, my Personal Profile is: liveyourway
…at least I think it is…I’m still new at this!
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MyBlogLog violates AdSense TOS. MBL publicly releases your AdSense Click through Rate (violation og section 7, TOS). See this article for proof.
I joined MyBlogLog thanks to this post and so far I am very impressed and can see the potential it holds.
I joined your community and I will keep checking your blog for more interesting posts like this one.
I signed up for MyBlogLog months ago and did nothing with it .. now I’m following your excellent advice. I especially enjoyed the easy to follow, step by step guide. Thanks!
It’s because of this article that I’m active in MyBlogLog.
Well, I was part of it but now I’m active in it.
Thanks.
I’ve given it a thumbs up on my Stumble bar.
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I love it. I think MyBlogLog is one of the greatest new things on the internet hands down.
MBL in a nutshell, good technique… I use MBL all the time as well so this should help… thanks..
It is a great tool to network with although it does take a lot of work to keep it up.
I’m a member of MyBlogLog since last year, but I never really took advantage of the potential of the website until i read this post. I have a question though, I hope you can answer, cause I also use BlogCatalog. How do you compare both? thanks
Awesome idea. It seems so simple I don’t know why I didn’t think of it. Thanks for allowing us to be SEO whores and encouraging us to start with your own MBL profile
I started following this. In some way it gave me lots of visitors in my blog the first day. Thanks for the tips.
This is the post I was looking for. So much talk about mybloglog and now I know how to use it. Thanks!
Thanks for the great information on MyBlogLog. I just signed up for it and was wondering how to use it the best way to get more exposure for my blog. This post answered most of my questions! THX!!!
hmmm…
i have mybloglog account but never optimized it, maybe I can try now
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Good content.. Thanks for the great information
Well done! Its hard to find quality information. Two thumbs up!
This is great post…I hope that I’ll get a lot of traffic to my new music blog. Good luck my friends!
Thanks for the highly informative post I will have to give it a try on my six pack abs site.
Thanks for this. I was curios about MyBlogLog and you explained it perfectly.
Hey, great post! I have my bloglog but have never known how to actually use it properly, I do use Blog catalog and Stumbleupon and they work great, but now I just have another one to add to the list.
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Hello; WOW I am new to this MyBlogLog and blogging. My coach Liz Tomey suggested I come here and you have a lot of info. Thank you. I can believe it, You are a real estate investor too!!
Hi, actually i’m not new on MBL but you know, recently i just research the connection traffic and MBL on google
and i found your site on first page and #1 (mybloglog dan traffic), now i will try your tutorial, best regard… 