I am looking for 4 people who want to join me in a little blogging experiment…. I want to see if we can boost each other’s traffic over the summer.
Here’s what we will do:
Each week, we will simply read each other’s blogs and on Sunday, we will write a post with a link to our favorite post from each person in the ‘blogging group’ that week. We will then post a link to the blog post we wrote that contains the links to everyone’s blogs through social media.
For example, on Sunday morning, I would go to the 4 other people’s blogs, pick out a post I liked from that week and write one post on Indie Biz Chicks that contained the links to those 4 posts. Make sense?
This will run from June 6 – August 29.
To participate, you must have a blog with a Google page rank of at least 3 and you need to write at least 3 blog posts per week while this program is running. (hey – if you aren’t blogging, we can’t pick out a favorite blog post of the week..) You will also need to be willing to share your traffic stats at the beginning and end of the experiment.
If you are interested in participating, please leave a reply in the comments section.
I will be choosing the participants on May 30.
Sounds like a fantastic idea! Please put my name into the running! =)
Add me to your list. Sounds like fun and a great experiment!
I like this idea. I would love to be considered. Thank you! =)
I would love to be considered but my blog is ranked at a 2, not a 3 🙁
Ooh, sounds so cool, I’d love to do this, and summer is when I have more free time!
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I don’t blog enough to take part, and I doubt my blog would really suit this experiment, but I had a question. How will you account for natural growth, so you know whether or not the experiment has been a success?
I am about to start blogging and am curious to see how it works. It sounds like a wonderful idea but wouldn’t you have to have a blog with a general focus — say tools for entrpreneurs or public relations tips to make this work?
Lets say I blog about cooking and the other posts are about football, travel, photography and places to go with kids on weekends, I don’t understand how it would fit into the focus of my blog. Maybe I could tweak one so it fit into my guidelines. Unless I say I am parat of an experiment and let people know what it is.
My blog ranks a 3. Unfortunately with vacations I can’t play because there will be some breaks in blogging. I have a couple of questions though that I hope you will answer. Could you direct us to an example or two of a blog/website that has a high page rank so we could see what it looks like? Could someone really get a 10 ranking? Do you think it is good to post your page ranking (since mine is only 3) on my blog for others to see? I found a widget that will post it for me. Thanks and I look forward to following your experiment.
Great idea! I’d be up for it if you’d have me.
Okay – lots of questions!
First of all, NO, I do NOT expect anyone will have a page rank of 10 by the end of summer. Do you know who has a page rank of 10? Google and Facebook. If I could make a site that popular in 3 months, I would not be sitting around doing that for any of you for free. I would be out doing it for millions of dollars. No offense, but that is my honest reaction.
Second of all, I don’t think it really matters if the person has a cooking blog, a business blog, etc. If I post on my site “Hey, these are 4 posts I really liked this week, check them out” will you do it? Not everyone will, but a lot of you will. I mean, I cook every day. And most of you do, too. So if I point out a recipe on a cooking blog, would you take a look? And I like to save money. Most of you do, too. So if I point out a post on how to save money on groceries, would you take a look? I bet a lot of you will!
That being said, I am not going to accept someone with a fix it yourself motorcycle blog because I don’t have any interest in that. A very small number of you might want to fix your own motorcycle, but I bet that most of you do not. I will be sticking with blogs that I feel MOST of us would care about. It does not have to be about business, just something my fellow Indie Biz Chicks have an interest in.
And if you are going on vacation, for goodness sakes, post now and post date them to show up throughout the summer! Just because you are going on vacation doesn’t mean your blog or your business have to. That is the beauty of working online. You can go to the amusement park and have fun all day and come home to find money in your Paypal waiting for you!
Oh – I forgot to answer how to account for natural growth.
As I said in the post, you MUST be willing to share your statistics with me. I am going to see how many people are being referred to you from each blog! I will know EXACTLY if this is working and how much it is.
I will throw my name in the hat! I love posting and I do read blogs and comment on a regular basis
I’m such a novice wanting to break out of that status! I had to do a google search for google page rank! Put my name in the running…Helen
Oh, referrals, fair enough. I thought this experiment was trying to achieve more growth than just the odd click, what with the emphasis on pagerank. Perhaps inclusion criteria should be number of visitors instead?
Your page rank is a good indicator of your visitors. Someone who doesn’t get much traffic will have a low page rank. Someone with a lot of traffic will have a higher page rank.
I know how pagerank roughly correlates with traffic, but it doesn’t always. Also, since you’d like to see actual statistics from the entrants, wouldn’t it be easier to just set the threshold at a particular number of visitors?
No, I’m personally more interested in Page Rank.
This is going to give the participants incoming links to their blogs. If they are getting incoming links from other blogs with a good page rank, they are going to see an increase in their page rank, as well as their search engine results, which, again, will result in more traffic.
That is not going to happen if the links are coming in from a blog with no page rank.
At the end of the experiment, I want to see if they are receiving visits from the other participants blogs AND if they are receiving more visits from Google.
Trust me, I know what I’m looking for here, and I know why I set the criteria as I did.
That’s what I though – you’re trying to promote some natural growth above and beyond just referrals. So, back to my original question – how will you differentiate between growth because of this experiment and normal growth?
Dude. I said earlier I’m going to look at the statistics. I’ve checked out your site. I see that your name is John, and that you talk a lot about drugs and how to make bombs. I wish you the best of luck with that. But I’m done arguing with you or trying to prove myself to you on my own blog. I’m gonna do an experiment, I’m gonna track the statistics, and then I’m gonna blog the results at the end of summer. The end.
I’m just being curious. I was genuinely interested in how you’d conduct this experiment. I’m not trying to argue.
Yes, I write about drugs – I have a degree in pharmacology and have been in national newspapers, radio and TV discussing what I write about.
Granted, you’re more of a marketer and I’m more of a scientist, but within science, open and frank discussion of methods is a good thing. It helps people iron out flaws in their experiments and produce meaningful results. Perhaps the world of marketing is much more opaque than the good ol’ peer review system that’s worked so well for science?
Oh, and I don’t write about making bombs. :^|
hi there! i would love to be part of your experiment!!
John,
The statistics are pretty scientific and they speak for themselves. Do you track your’s? If not, look at your stats and you’ll see what I mean. I can go back in time. I can see the top landing pages, the top exit pages.
Let’s say that Sarah and Sally are in the experiment. If they both see a JUMP in traffic, and their top landing pages for those 3 months are the pages that people posted in their weekly “check out these posts” round-up, then I will know the experiment worked.
I mean, it is VERY unlikely that those results would be a random coincidence.
Do you see what I am saying? Does this make sense to you at all?
What an interesting experiment. I would love to be a part of this. I’m currently researching all I can about SEO, so to experiment first hand would be exciting!!
I don’t think I qualify–just beginning to rehab my blog that has been sadly neglected. But I will eagerly follow this experiment.
Jenni
I’d be game to play, sounds like a fun experiment!
I would be interested in the experiment.
Okay – I’ve got quite a few responses here, so I am going to stop taking new entries and I will get in touch with those that have already submitted their requests to be involved!
Thank you!!!