Is your blog satchurating?

Is your blog satchurating?

Posted by Andy
November 20, 2007

I know, ’satchurating’ isn’t a word but it serves a purpose here.

There comes a point in the life of every blog where it gains pretty good Internet saturation, meaning that there are enough links to it from other sites and blog that it keeps up a level of visits from that alone.

There is probably a really complicated term and equation for it and I’ll leave that for Chris Brogan to figure out.

The idea is that you let other people refer traffic to you because you have something teribly interesting to say in either, or all, of three places.

1. Direct Referrals

These come from people who read your blog. Creating something of a cycle. Your readers think that your writing is great and tell others by emailing them or they link to the article directly. Their readers follow the links to your site.

2. Commenting

I have three rules in commenting. 1, Comment 2, Comment and 3, Comment.
Believe it or not, people read blog comments. Blog authors read comments. I know for sure that if (which is rare) I get a comment on an article and they list a web site I’m going to check out the site.
There are a lot of blog readers who enjoy checking out the blogs of those who have made interesting comments.

3. Linking

TrackBacks are magical little things.
When you link to an article in another blog from your blog a trackback is created. A lot of the time the blog author knows about this trackback (they sometimes get a notification), other times trackbacks are listed under the article you linked to.
Again, this is an author and reader thing.
There is more chance of a trackback piquing my interest and me reading the blog than there is anything else.
Also, readers like to see who else is talking about the same or related topics.

Do you agree?

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  • Troglodyte?

    I agree with what you've said here. I also feel that commenting, linking, trackbacking, it's all like leaving the proverbial bread crumb trail in the forest to find your way home. Eventually other people will find those breadcrumbs you left and investigate them on their own to find new realizations and perhaps branch off from your trail to one of their own.

    Bloggers make a nice happy little forest. We should have a forest party.
  • I read a lot of blogs and most of these are on a "chain" that I follow everyday. One has a link in their sidebar that links to another and so on. (this is up to 23, i think) Mine does not link to anyone, sadly, so don't bother. I'm just not that savvy yet, I guess.

    However, The chain link is really important to me in adding to my list of "dailys".

    I have to say that I don't rank location on the chain by importance or favorability, as the chain doesn't always warrant this; (e.g.: I come into this site via Cafewitness, out via [chrisbrogan.com]. Thats where you fit because you are linked in by Justin and you link out to Chris.

    I'm not a troglodyte. I have a reader. I really prefer to see each of the "daily's" home sites. After all, to be on the chain means I value their content enough to see their in-text links and whatever they might have in the peripheries.

    Love the blog and love the podcast. Well Done!

    AndrewSmith
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