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OMG - Hi Jof!

I'm loving the new Blog Friends. It even seemed to like my feed at some point during the beta, but it's telling me the items are empty again. I think that's everything that uses Magpie though, so it's not you apparently, it's me.

I just read the post and I had no idea what you folks were going through. Drag.

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Keiron,

Thanks for coming by. I'm thinking about trying Thunderbird. I keep forgetting to see if they have it for the Mac or if I'd have to fire up Windows to use it.

"name",

I've never tried that. I like Opera, he's very handsome and clean-cut. But for some reason, I'm in love with Firefox. :)

Howdy Diva Ann,

Now, that's the way to brand yourself in comments AND get your keyword in there. Can you write an article to people who post on DoFollow blogs on the right way to do this?

LOL @ notices. If there was one, I'd probably laugh. I like the plain wall too.

Ice-breaking is SO key in FB. And they provide non-threatening ways to say "hi, look at my profile when you get a minute.". I think people really miss that about the applications in FB, thinking they are all nuisances or useless.

Thanks for coming by!

Hey Ann,

Great to see you around here! Maybe because we work and play online a lot, the browser makes us feel the same way as a faulty tube in a TV does for people who work and watch a lot of TV.

Glad I could make you laugh out loud!

Hi Nadine,

Thanks for commenting. This is an excerpt from my update to my FB guide, where all these FB tips are in one place.

Patty,

You're welcome. As soon as I finalize the list of apps I'm going to write about, I'm going to post a list of the greatest apps on Facebook as an on-going list, and a link to them on Face Reviews if Rodney is so kind to publish them when they're done.

The answer is, create a membership site that has a wide, speciality, consumer audience, and charge a membership fee so low that it wouldn't be wroth it to unsubscribe. :)

I may do an article on this, just for you. :)

Lare,

Actually, thank you. Getting these updates gives my work so much meaning. i appreciate the visit and your notes, so much.

Hello and you're welcome. What's your name?

Thank you - I was quite thrilled to realize that Comedy Central went beyond making these videos searchable to making them embed-able. Hopefully anyone who doesn't watch will get the "dead to me" reference, as I've got quite a lot of overseas folks.

I liked the adjustable live search too. Even old MSN search, which basically was a clone of Google's algorithm (but with faster indexing), was more useful, because at least it yielded converting visitors.

Thanks.

I thank you. :) In this respect your votes count more than mine. :) Welcome.

I'm honored that you included me, and hope I did the exercise justice. The long money is on Andy being first to respond, and then Maki (I'm hilarious!). As I've been evil enough for the day, I won't hint at the others just yet.

It's one of many problems, I hear:

http://freetraffictip.com/wordpress-bloggers-di...

Welcome, Bob.

Indeed. Welcome and thanks for commenting.

Thanks and welcome Tarun. Technically the entire site is about website promotion. I'd say scroll down and browse the tags until you find a topic you want to know more about. You can start with the social media posts, they're most like this one:

http://freetraffictip.com/tag/social-media/

Anytime. Thanks for saying hi.

Right you are, Nick. Thanks for your help. :)

Hey Laura,

LOL, there's a bunch of stuff I didn't share. Like how to follow your "friends' submissions, and how it saves you time. But I knew you were just kidding. :)

Hopefully the bad folks were scared away by that word "work"!

"bob",

Quite the contrary. I'm sorry if my coyness is hard to decipher, but when I have something to say that's that plain, I usually just say it.

It takes me a lot more words than most people, LOL, but it's still unmistakeable. :)

What I'm saying is... well, what I wrote - social media is only a waste of time if YOU are a time waster. I think people who think otherwise haven't taken the time to both use and understand the tools.

If social media was crap, it wouldn't matter what their mindset was, it wouldn't work for anyone. It works for people who've learned how to work it.

Period.

So no, I don't think it's in the mindset of the people using it, not at all. If someone submits one of your better articles, at the right time, during a good part of the day, you'll get traffic, even if your mindset is that Stumble Upon sucks. This is one of those situations where what we think is independent of the truth of the matter.

Angela,

Exactly. That or they think that the fewer people who understand social media, the more traffic there is for them. Which is an error in logic, but that's another article.

Heather,

I'm still playing catch up. If it's not too late, I'll play along sometime this week.

Leo,

Thanks and welcome. There's a limit, I think, to how much you should share and build, in every relationship though. It varies for each person, but as soon as it starts to interfere with the rest of your work or becomes a situation where you do all the giving and get nothing back *perpetually*, it's time to rethink strategy.

Laura,

I'm happy to do anything I can to tell more people about you and your wonderful resources. And I love your 2 minute sales letter. I hope to be both brief and informative one day, just like you. :)

Laura,

I'm happy to do anything I can to tell more people about you and your wonderful resouces. And I love your 2 minute sales letter. I hope to be both brief and informative one day, just like you. :)

I got Sphunn! Thanks again Andy!

http://sphinn.com/story/12514

Not just a source of visitors - you can find JV partners, affiliates, new clients that find you after reading your profiles, better connections with colleagues... it's really more than that. Which I only say because there are, believe it or not, people whose problem is something other than traffic. :)

Glad to help. I visit all the sites of legitimate commenters, so thank you for being one. :)