Be Pro-Active With Your Web 2.0 Tactics

Be Pro-Active with Your Web 2.0 Tactics

**The following is an excerpt from an ebook that I’m currently
editing and will have available in a couple of days. **

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Maybe from what you have read so far, one fact is becoming
increasingly clear about why the interactivity that I have
suggested is such an important feature of most Web 2.0
marketing tactics.

That is, that it works both ways. Yes, you want the maximum
amount of visitors to come to your blog or site and you
really want them to interact with you.

But, in order to make that happen, you must go out into the
Internet community yourself and start to interact.

Otherwise, no-one will ever be able to find you!

For example, you should be making an effort to go out into
the blog community to blogs that are relevant and relative
to your industry and/or niche and start reading other
people’s blogs.

You want them to come and read yours right? So surely it is
totally natural and expected that they would want the same?

Find posts that you like on other peoples blogs and post
your own comments to them.

Please make sure that the comments that you post do have
some validity, and are relevant to the post in question.

Do this and two things will most likely result.

First, the blog owner will reciprocate by visiting your
blog. Secondly, if you set it up correctly, you should get
a valuable back-link which, (as highlighted in the last
section) is one of the most important factors in attaining
higher search engine ranking.

Why do I say that you should set it up properly?
I say this because, by default, the ‘Comments’ page of your
WordPress (WP) blog will have what is known as the
‘no-follow’ tag activated, and this can, to a large part,
negate the effectiveness of leaving comments on other
peoples WP blogs.

When you leave a comment on someone else’s blog, the next
time that Google spiders that blog, the ‘no-follow’ tag
tells the spider NOT to follow the link from your comment
back to your site.

Thus, you effectively lose search engine ‘credit’ and
incoming links, and you are already aware by now of how
important incoming links are.

So, the first thing to do is go here to download the
‘DoFollow’ WP plug-in.

Install and then activate it. This removes the ‘no-follow’
tag from the comments page.

Then you need to find other WP bloggers (and there are a
rapidly increasing number of them) who have also removed the
‘no-follow’ tag, and start visiting their sites to make
comments.

By doing this, you will generate both real visitors and
back-links to your site.

Do not, on the other hand, be tempted to waste your money on
software that makes automatic comments on other people’s
blogs.

They always get deleted and will achieve absolutely nothing
at all for you, except making sure that, even if you did
ever post a valuable comment, it would still not be accepted!

So, that is one simple way that you can make your WP blog
more interactive by being pro-active.

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I think you’ll get alot out of this ebook titled:
“Web 2.0 Traffic Tactics”

It’ll be ready in a couple of days. I’ll keep you posted!
~ pun intended ~

See you then!

Jerry