Comments on: Five Signs You Might Be a Blogwhore

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:02:12 +0000

Good, I only fit #1, and even there, I write longer comments than one stupid little line, so I guess I’m okay. Of course, I’m one of those Twitter folks who won’t even follow anyone who doesn’t talk to someone every once in awhile; after all, isn’t that what social media is supposed to be, social?

By: Gwen T

Gwen T — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:13:56 +0000

Yay me! I’m not a blogwhore…yet LOL I’m glad I found your blog and will add it to my list to read daily. Perhaps I’ll follow you on Twitter too LOL Thanks for the nice laugh.

I don’t get the time zone tweeting thing though…

Nice meeting you all :)

By: Jennifer L

Jennifer L — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:43:45 +0000

This is cracking me up. I will never feel guilty again about the infrequent times that I link one of my two (only two!) blogs to my Facebook page ever again!

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:06:23 +0000

The time zone tweets are simply bad advice… at least if we’re talking about all / most of your links. It’s spam plain and simple.

The only reason you should multi-tweet a link is if it’s a BIG deal — think big new site launch, not that you wrote a blog post. And even then you should only be posting across multiple time zones with the same thing IF the news you’re tweeting is highly relevant to people in ALL of those time zones, and there’s little chance they’d have seen the earlier tweet.

It’s one thing to think about marketing and linkbuilding. It’s another thing to paint a picture of yourself as a spammer in the process (like folks who tweet the same blog posts from their own account and a “blog” Twitter account, or who post links to every post no matter how mundane half of them are, or the ones who post the same post link five times a day — why would you want to associate yourself with that??).

Save multi-tweeting for “special” occasions when you’ve got something really buzzworthy going on. If you never do, then do something about it and build something worth that buzz.

By: BaileyMcC

BaileyMcC — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:58:51 +0000

I would never post the same link for different time zones. I think that gets a little spammy. I prefer to use search.twitter or similar engines to get a feel for what others are talking about around topics I’m interested in/write about and then get involved in the live conversation that way.

The Xanga reference got me too, that was hilarious.

By: Salma

Salma — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:57:22 +0000

Wow! Great article! I never thought of it that way!

Umm, is this article about tying your shoes? I’m lost.

OK seriously though, I just started a full-time freelance career (9 months ago) and get really nervous doing self-promotion. How much is enough? How much is too little? I read on Guy Kawasaki’s blog about the importance of sending the same tweet out in 3 different time zones (too lazy to link here, sorry). So, in your wise and all-knowing opinion :) what’s a good promotional frequency to shoot for?

p.s. your post had me in stitches :)

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:15:19 +0000

haha – No, by the time I saw your comment I made no connection (didn’t read it right after reading Clint’s post, so I didn’t even remember Swift was mentioned). Sorry. Had you started with an “Imma gonna let u finish,” I probably would have. But I stand by all comments regardless. :P

By: Yolander Prinzel

Yolander Prinzel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:02:43 +0000

Hold on Matt, I’m gonna let you finish…but first I’m gonna tell you that U R jeluzzzz too.

By: Matt Willard

Matt Willard — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:59:33 +0000

You mentioned Taylor Swift in the post so I alluded to the Kanye West interrupt.

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:12:56 +0000

@Yo – LOL Yeah, that’s why I ask to have my other blog removed. One thing I always find amusing is that people like Anne and Angie rarely seem to get on these lists in the freelance writing niche compared to the usual suspects — maybe they don’t whore themselves out enough or something, but they run far better blogs than the same old stuff always there. While once in a while a newer blog gets some credit due so the list is actually useful in exposing it to more people, for the most part it gets rather dull rather quickly.

@Matt – Obviously not. lol Sorry.