Comments on: Bill Frederick on Choosing Blogs to Visit on a Virtual Book Tour

By: Anthony James Barnett - author

Anthony James Barnett - author — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:41:02 +0000

Another good blog, full of useful information. I wish I could raise my own profile to match!!!!

Ah well -perhaps in time.

By: Emma Larkins

Emma Larkins — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:07:57 +0000

Wow, terrific information about choosing a blog book tour host! I’m not in the process of setting up a tour myself, but that bit about Yahoo and backlinks was priceless. This is actually the first time I’ve come across it. So 1,000 is the number to work towards? I can see I’ve got a long way to go!

By: Jan Brogan

Jan Brogan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:35:29 +0000

I’m just beginning to think about a blog tour for my upcoming book. Thank you so much for this incredibly useful post!

By: Laura Christianson

Laura Christianson — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:18:54 +0000

The Yahoo inlinking thing can be useful. One of my blogs is a Typepad blog with the Typepad domain name masked, so I tried the link search for both the masked and unmasked domains and the results showed, respectively: 489 inlinks, 31 inlinks, and 5588 inlinks. So people need to know that the backlinking theory is relative. My inlinking “score” could be either a 0, 1, or 2, depending on how I count the inlinks. I think I’ll add them all together and give myself a 2!

Also, many well-read blogs get very few comments and some blogs that have few readers get lots of comments from a small core group of readers. So the number of comments a blog gets reveals more about the style and tone of the blog, rather than the sheer volume of readers.

Your ideas are good ones, however, for getting the general gist of a blog you might want to visit during a virtual tour. Thanks for sharing them.

Laura Christianson
co-founder, HeBlogsSheBlogs.com

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By: Lillie Ammann

Lillie Ammann — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:11:11 +0000

I’m planning a virtual book tour for my novel due out in a few months, and I’ll use this good advice. Thank you.

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:03:42 +0000

I just wanted to add one comment about using Yahoo to check backlinks (which they call inlinks). Take note of how the site’s URL is actually displayed. A lot of bloggers don’t use the www. version. For example, if you go to Yahoo and search link:www.allbookmarketing.com you’ll see only 24 inlinks. If you search using the correct format for the URL however – link:allbookmarketing.com you’ll see almost 4000 links. Some blogs haven’t properly set up a redirect from one version of their domain to the other too, in which cases links to each version should still show up separately (so it doesn’t hurt to check both versions to try to get a real count).