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I’ve always known that MyBlogLog is a good way to draw attention to your blog and bring in new traffic, but I never realized it was this good! I used to just visit other blogs who had the ‘recent visitors’ MBL widget and hoped someone was interested in my icon (which used to be, mind you, a face) and clicked on it. Well, now I know how to use MBL properly, and you should too!
First of all, if you want to be noticed on people’s blogs under the ‘recent readers’ widget, you’ve got to make your icon stand out! So many people use a picture of their face or even someone else’s face. But no matter how pretty the face is, it’s not going to draw as many eyes as a bright avatar that just pops out at you. My avatar is brightly colored with polka dots! And I’ve noticed other effective icons that are just brightly colored and say the name of the blog on them. Whatever you do, make it stand out more than the others and it’ll be clicked on more.
But another important thing that I never did was join other communities. Why is this helpful? Because whenever you join another blog’s community, whenever some views that blog’s MBL page, YOUR icon will be shown, and YOUR icon will have a chance of being clicked on, opposed to it not appearing in the community list at all. So now I try to join as many new blog communities I can a day, especially the ones relevant to my blogging topic (I think the limit of communities you can join per day is 15). So get to joining those communities for better exposure! Get a head start and join the Super Blogging community.
There are so many ways to use MyBlogLog that is helpful to you, and I’ll be touching on this topic again in the future. Today, I wrote about using MBL to get more traffic, notice, and exposure. Very soon I’ll write another article on MBL and how to optimize it and make it even more effective for you. In the meantime, make sure your icon is noticable and that you join 15 communities a day!
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Great post. I love mybloglog as well. I haven’t really joined communities. Not sure why. But I plan on starting. Thanks
Thank you.
I’d never joined any communities before either, except the Problogger community. But now I join 15 new ones a day, because of all the opportunities my icon will appear on other pages, and possibly be even clicked through!
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