On Problogger, guest writer Martin Roth urges us to add to the Inbox burden of all the A-List bloggers, as he advises new bloggers to "alert other bloggers in the hope that some of them will link to you." Read further and his tips include "polite emails to 50-or-so of the most popular writers in the blogosphere, suggesting they might be interested in it."
Roth advises you not to do this "more than, say, once or twice a month."
That’s just the kind of indiscriminate spam that makes those same popular bloggers retreat further and further from contact with others. Who has time, when you’re deleting e-mails from a few million bloggers following advice from the likes of Roth?
Don’t let me stop you from promoting your blog. But please, use some method other than just working your way through the Technorati Top 100. Roth is the author of Bird Flu Update.
Link via Steve Rubel.
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Saskboy // Apr 11, 2006 at 11:52 pm
I find posting on blogs to be a better way of advertising. Wheeee!
2 Eric Eggertson // Apr 12, 2006 at 12:40 am
And less annoying. At least when you post a comment on someone’s blog, you’re contributing something to their blog, even if it’s just shameless self-promotion.
3 Saskboy // Apr 13, 2006 at 12:02 am
Plus if the commenter is like me, they’ll try to remember to come back to see if the blogger left a reply.