It's a good article for newbies
Ooh, that brings up a good point - say you were writing this for an
advanced blogger to advertise. What points would you bring up?
When I read ProBlogger, I never,
ever can see a distinction between people who are newbies vs. people who are totally advanced, only in the regard that the people who are totally advanced have "made it" and got their blog out to a wide audience. All of the things you do to make your blog known are similiar across the board - great content mixed with some advertising and a dash of luck. So, the article wasn't written in a "this is for newbies" sense but an "everybody can use this just as a reference" way.
Is there some secret to advance blogging advertising that I'm missing? Or do those people keep on doing what the rest of us are doing, on a much wider, broader scale? I can't be the only one who sometimes wonders this.
But readers should know (IMO) that social networking and bookmarking services are only useful for networking, and finding those with similar interests...
That's a good point, I'll edit the post to reflect that.
One other distinction I think you should make in the article is that these are FREE ways to advertise...
You know, that was actually in my first draft of the post, in the first paragraph.
But being the perfectionist I am, I rewrote the intro about 5 times, and somehow by the last attempt that distinction never made it. I'll edit that in as well.
(Also, I don't know about your "asking for diggs / stumbles" in this thread though, as great content doesn't need to be asked for, people are smart enough to choose what they feel is "digg or stumble worthy")
What if asking for the Digg or Stumble brings one person to D/S the post who normally wouldn't have, which in turn brings a totally random person to the article who would never have seen it before? People
are smart, but sometimes a little reminder is helpful. (It's the same reasoning for making your RSS link and image in your blog obnoxiously big and/or easy to find.) I see how you could get a bad taste in your mouth from how I asked, though, that's poor wording on my fault. I'll edit that.
Thank you for the feedback!
