Fellow writer, and assumingly great guy, Jonathan Crossfield recently got a taste of social networking groveling, something everyone who dabbles in social networking of any type has - or will have - experienced at least once.
But was it worth it? Is a little online social attention worth groveling? Believe it or not: by groveling on social networks, you risk your image, your worth, and your future.
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But was it worth it? Is a little online social attention worth groveling? Believe it or not: by groveling on social networks, you risk your image, your worth, and your future.
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Damn - and I was going to submit this... ;-)Thanks for the kind words about my blog, Tanner. I’ve been a subscriber of yours for a while.As for the disadvantages of begging, I hope my posts actually did a bit more than that. By provoking a little discussion about what makes a Sphinn worthy post and by following up by analysing the results, I would like to think the begging concept was a bit more ’post-modern’ than you suggest and I would like to think that a simple begging tactic would not have worked nearly so well as my post eventually did.Plus, rather than just gain me 24 hours of front-page glory, I’ve built up a network of contacts, my MyBlogLog community has grown, and backlinks and pageviews went nuts.You are perfectly correct when you say that the follow-up is crucial here, as the new readers need a reason to stick around if there is to be any benefit in this. But as for producing effective linkbait, posts such as yours only go to prove why it has worked rather than the opposite in an ironic twist. There’s no such thing as bad publicity, especially when it comes to link acquisition.