Promote your blog with Linkedin
Is your blog linkedin?
I must admit that I have up to now neglected Linkedin as a potential source of traffic. I am going to spend some time and build up my profile as well as my network. We all know that networking is important in building your readership. It is essential to interact and build friendships with other bloggers in your niche. Why not utilize the #1 site that was built for the sole purpose of networking and making connections.
You may be thinking that Linkedin is just for professional and business people. Well you are exactly right and if you want to build your blog it is important to view your blog as a business and view yourself as a professional.
Earlier this year Linkedin added a feature very similiar to Twitter and Facebook where you can add an update about what you are doing now. This is a great spot to highlight your must recent blog post.
Also earlier this year Linkedin partnered up with Wordpress to add an application that pulls your recent blog posts and adds them to your profile. This is an app that you add on Linked in simply by typing in your blog url and they do the rest. Take a look at the screen shot below:
Over the next couple of months I will be trying to add to my network and hopefully drive some consistent traffic to my blog. I will provide an update in a couple of month and report back on how successful this initiative is.
In the meantime, I am curious to see if any of you are using Linked in and seeing any meaningful blog traffic from it?
If you are on linkedin, please send me a request..Here is my link Tycoon Blogger on Linkedin
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Every once and a while I will check this site out but I hardly use it as the tool it is intended to be. Great post.
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I have been in Linkedin for some time but not yet optimize it for blog.
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This is why I use HelloTxt to send messages to all my networks at least 1x per day, it will ping FaceBook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn, Plurk, Frienster among 40 other Social Networks instantly.
There is even a plug-in for wordpress which will ping all 40+ of your social networks everytime you publish a post.
I do however use LinkedIn for my day job, and I don’t like to heavily promote my blogging to my day job, so its hard because my growing success as a blogger can hurt my day job reputation eventually as I gain more success.
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I don’t use LinkedIn much as it’s a little bit more professional kind and not much easy to use…But I like it sometimes as I got some 2 euros for participating in a simple email survey from LinkedIn..
Will be Sending you a friend request there..Watch for it.
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I don’t use it, but have seen it on numerous blogs/sites. I don’t think it is for me now, maybe at a later stage.
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I don’t really use it that much either, but I have been there for a while and my profile is up to 90%. Just need more connections and recommendations. Hey, maybe we can connect to each other once you have it all up and running:)
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I didn’t knoe it is good for link building, but now i know, heading to linked in and link – baiting. Thanks for the tip Dan
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ps. i am not able to add you i donno why?
but if you can here’s my linked in address http://www.linkedin.com/in/gautamhans
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You know I don’t really use it as a tool, but in that I get a little bit of traffic from there (about 100/month) I guess maybe I should work with it and I could probably get more. Thanks for the tip.
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Interesting.
Will have a look at that.
thanks.
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well i don’t know much about it but linkedin is really going to work for me.i will have to check it out.
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Great blog. All posts have something to learn. Your work is very good and i appreciate you and hopping for some more informative posts.
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Thanks for informing, LinkedIn has become big source of traffic for any bloggers. As it provides networking option with bloggers in your niche. I am thinking to use it for my new site
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Though it’s a good practice to promote blog over LinkedIn, it has drawback too. No one wants all the posts (say hacking) to be visible to a portal where you host your CV and complete profile visible to your colleauges.
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Just started blogging…thanks for the info, I’ll check it out and hopefully it will help me increase traffic. Thanks again. – Alan
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thank’s for ur article.
it’s useful for me
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Good advice in general, for me a no-can-do right now.
Blogging is a sideline. Being known as “a blogger” could very well close other doors for me. It’s really easy to forget that most people have only the vaguest notion of what blogging is, and isn’t… a situation I hope changes soon.
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dankeller (124 comments) Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
@Dave – I agree.
I actually have 2 accounts on linkedin. My personal account that is related to my offline business life and then I started one for “Tycoon Blogger” for all my online business pursuits.
I think it is good for me to seperate the two at this time as well..
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Yah.. I just signed up in Linkedin and it’s great.
I have heard so much about that site before but I was ignoring them until I’ve realized that Linkedin is also a great site for promoting our blogs.
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I do not use Linkedin much, I much prefer facebook and twitter that linkedin.
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i do have a profile on linked-in but i have never taken it as a promotion purpose now i will keep use of it to promote business.
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I never really thought of using linkedin as a potential for getting more traffic.It seems more for professional people.Thanks for this resource.
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i never new linkedin was good for building inbound links, i was stuck with facebook and twitter.
thanks for this post
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linkedin is getting better by the day. I am going to check it out.
anyway thanks for the post
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This is just another one of the many great social networking tools that are great are driving traffic and interested readers to your site. I have had great success using LinkedIn with my business.
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Thanks for the tip. I never realized until now that you can actually promote blogs effectively using linkedin.
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