Blogging & promotion..one year later

**Ned** · Mar 22nd, 2009, 2:11 am

With regards to promoting my main blog iamned.com I have found that search engine traffic is sketchy at best and I got hit by a random penalty a year back, which I never recovered. It was so bad that my bog didn;t even come up when you typed in its name, but now it does.

Regarding promotion, I found the only way to get steady, consistent traffic was to essentially spam other people's blogs on topics similar to mine through deceptive means. You have to have thick skin cause you will get flamed and and banned. So I used proxies, too. And redirects to get the links to stay incase the URL was blocked. PPL flamed my blog, but I kept repeating it though and it became a battle of attrition. After spamming 15 or so high traffic blogs for a couple months I was finally able to get steady traffic without as much promotion, but I pissed off a lot of people including a high profile wallstreet analyst.

So this went on for many months until the stock market finally crashed in late october and I quit.

So there you go. That's one account of how I got traffic to my blog though unsavory means. If you don't mind pissing people off it works wonders.

The problem is there is too much content on the internet, but not enough carbon based life to read it all. Sometimes you got to force it down peoples throats when all else fails.

**zeruel** · Mar 22nd, 2009, 6:59 pm

Wow. That's the reason why I think spamming is really not a good choice to do.

Why would you spam if you can do it in a better way? Patience is really the key.

**dwhsnet** · Mar 23rd, 2009, 3:33 pm

Originally Posted by zeruel

Wow. That's the reason why I think spamming is really not a good choice to do.

Why would you spam if you can do it in a better way? Patience is really the key.

Spamming never works long term, unless you have a high ticket item and plan on a short run then it will just hurt you. Also make sure your titles are original I think google is penalizing for re-used blog titles

**Ned** · Mar 23rd, 2009, 4:58 pm

yea, spamming is frowned upon, but this is an account of how I got traffic and readers quickly regarding time sensitive economic and financial topics.

**ArwenTaylor** · Mar 30th, 2009, 7:04 pm

Originally Posted by Ned

yea, spamming is frowned upon, but this is an account of how I got traffic and readers quickly regarding time sensitive economic and financial topics.

It reads more like you trashed your reputation for a few transient readers. Yeah, doing it the "right" way is tedious and slow but in the end the trust you develop between yourself, your readers and your 'net neighbors will allow you to earn more money, obtain a higher level of influence and get more readers than doing it the "wrong" way.

Just my $0.03