Gabe Rivera, founder of TechMeme, has some advice on how to get noticed on TechMeme. The advice works well for other blog meme trackers like Findory, TailRank, Megite, Blogniscient, and others.
Gabe's advice is simple; 1)Focus on content , timely, concise, and well written. 2) Link to other relevant blogs, and hopefully get links to you. 3)Link to TechMeme, share the link love. My take on Gabe's advice? Prioritize these steps in reverse order and you will do well on TechMeme. BTW, I love TechMeme. It is my major source of blog news. TailRank is right up there too. But, I scan them all regularly.
- Focus on a subject area that you know well. Provide insight, experience, and real life lessons learned.
- Write interesting stuff that is balanced, thought provoking, controversial, and if possible, funny and surprising.
- Become an expert in one area. Act as a filter or editor to find only the best stories that you and your readers are interested in.
- Summarize. Be concise and clear.
- Participate in the conversation. Comment on other blogs and leave a link. Talkback in response to news stories. Link to them.
Participate and react are the two single most important actions you can take to get into the conversation and get noticed by the A-Listers, Blog Meme Trackers, and blog readers at large.
Participate - Read a few blogs that really interest you. Pay attention to their writing style and the topics they cover. Leave comments on their blog. Engage them and their readers in conversation. Leave a link to your blog where you might expand on the subject. If you have good insights these bloggers will start linking back to you. That drives traffic and builds an audience.
React - Read major news sources like C/Net News, The New York Times, Fortune, etc. Leave comments on their stories. React by writing a rebuttal or expand on the theme by adding your own thoughts and experiences. Leave a comment on their blog with a link to your blog. News reporters are always looking for snarky quotes and insights from notable people in the industry. They maintain a list of people to contact when they need a quote for a story. Get on their radar screen by taking an interest in what they write, by leaving comments, and by linking to them from your blog.
Most of all...have fun and write about things you truly enjoy.
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Hi Don, Thanks for your mention of Megite. You may already noticed that Megite has made significant improvement recently. The algorithm is much better than before. We also add more verticals, such as science, food and dining, The river of news and more are coming.
Posted by: Matthew Chen | November 16, 2006 at 09:45 AM
Yeah.... those will actually work well with Tailrank. We have a few other announcements pending soon which will make it easier for bloggers to get indexed by Tailrank.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Burton | November 23, 2006 at 05:11 PM