Have you heard of backtype? I was searching Google for “tycoon blogger” yesterday and this was the fourth site that pulled up. Of course, I had to take a closer look. I discovered a pretty cool and useful tool that is intended to help bloggers track their blog comments on other blogs. Backtype works like a search engine that indexes comments on blogs and social networks and allows users to find, follow and share comments.
The coolest feature of this site is that they have the option for you to subscribe and receive updates every time your blog or keywords show up in any comments. It is like Google alerts for the blogosphere. This will enable you to monitor your “blog brand” and also it will make it real easy for you to join in on the conversation. I set it up to monitor the keyword phrase “promote your blog” as this is my primary keyword right now and I want to be involved in any and all conversations that involve this topic. This is an awesome way to increase your visibility within your target audience and help build your brand. It is also useful for reputation management and you can monitor if someone is talking smack on you or your blog.
This tool will also allow you to track what blogs other bloggers are commenting on. For example, if you wanted to know every blog that Darren from ProBlogger comments on you can find that in a couple of seconds. I will be researching this further and I want to find out the top blogs that the top bloggers are commenting on. I have already uncovered about a dozen new blogs that I will start commenting on.
About a month ago, backtype launched a plugin that aggregates comments for other sources like Twitter, Digg and other social networking sites and displays them in the comment section of your blog. It sounds like a great idea and would be great for bloggers that are looking to boost their comment volume. For now, I am holding off on installing this but I will let you know if I do and how it is working.
Have you heard of backtype before?
Do you use backtype?
Yes, backtype is indeed very useful for reputation management and you can monitor what others are saying about you.
What a wonderful tool. Thanks for letting us know. I love your site and have made it a daily routine to check it out several times a day.
Thank you so very much!
Mina Irfan
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I have noticed that site also. That is a free backlink for your blog, but the only disadvantage is that it has the nofollow tag.
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@Jill- You are welcome. Most of my post are geared towards beginners, so hopefully you will find some valuable info in other posts as well.
@Tiago- Thanks for stopping bye and hope you stick around..
@app103- Great point and I agree it is an awesome research tool. Thanks for visiting an adding value to this post.
@Sire- I have started using it for that as well. FYI, I just installed the ‘subscribe to comment’ plugin.
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I use backtype, but not to keep track of others so much as to keep track of where I am leaving my comments so that I can go back and check if anyone has replied to something I left, seeing as how not everyone uses the ‘subscribe to comment’ plugin.
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I think I have been using backtype pretty much since almost the beginning.
What you didn’t mention is how it can also be used as a research tool, to get a better look at the history of the commenters on your blog, with regards to fighting comment spam.
Sometimes if you are not too sure if a comment is spam or not, looking up the commenter (or the site he links to) on backtype can yield an answer.
It’s also a type of social bookmarking, much in the same way some other services are. And when combined with something like friendfeed, it can allow others to promote your posts to their followers without any extra work.
If you add it as a service on friendfeed, every comment you make that backtype catches will be posted to your friendfeed account.
And if you have it set up to do it, it can then be posted from your friendfeed account to your twitter, as well, although I don’t do that, myself, because I think it can be a bit annoying to flood my twitter followers with all of my friendfeed stuff, so I limit it to just a few services.
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Just find your blog, i like it alot!
I never heard about backtyp, but i think that can be a great tool to use like google alerts.
I will give it a try! thanks for the tip
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Interesting stuff… as you have mentioned , you can track the commenting method of the big guys. It also does open a whole new list of blogs on which you can comment!
Keep up the good work my friend!
Cheers
Sandeep
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Thanks for the info and tips it helps me a lot. I’m just a newbie in blogging and your info is very useful to a newbie in blogging like me.
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