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Are You Famous on the Web?
Posted by Chris Knudsen on October 18th, 2006
How do you know if your blog is getting popular? Here are a couple of hints:
- Comment spam is out of control
- Other people write blog posts talking about something you posted
- People from other states and other countries ask you to do a product review on your blog
- People considered “famous” in some way or another comment on your blog
- Local papers contact you for quotes Â
- People you don’t know ask you to blog about up coming events
- People (including CEO’s from companies in other states) start conversations with you by saying “This is off the record. You can’t post this on your blog.”
- People you don’t know walk up to you at social functions with big smiles and say “Are you (insert name)? I love to read your blog!”Â
- Local business magazine offers you a column
- You get Dugg
- You get speaking engagements
- Your boss starts to look at you nervously when you talk about your blog
- Random people contact you and ask if you’re consulting
- Even better - former bosses who fired you call you up and ask you if you’re consulting
- People you’ve always wanted to network with call you up and invite you to lunch
- Radio shows and podcasters ask you to come on for a segment
- Google analytics provides the evidence you’ve tipped.
Am I missing anything here? Maybe if you’re really popular you get offered a book deal or sell your company to AOL for $25M.
What do you think?
Those are all good. Getting Dugg to the front page of Digg once or twice is nice. Links are really the currency of the web. It’s an interesting ecosystem — content drives traffic, which leads to links from other blogs and links from non-blogs, a higher pagerank, CEO’s asking for a product review, and so forth.
Left by Peter Abilla on 10/18/2006