Build My Blog

As I was reading on ways to increase traffic almost everone mentioned leaving comments on other blogs in the same genre as yours. Seems resonable enough, when you leave a comment you have the opportunity to put in your website url so you get linked to through your comment. It’s a free link on another page. If that blog has a decent amount of traffic you are bound to get a few clicks out of curiosity.

But it got me thinking. Most of the comments I have read have not offered much in the way of anything insightful or an attempt at a thoughtful exchange. Most seem to be of the variety of “I agree” or “Great article” or “Thanks for the info”, etc, etc.. Is that any different from a comment offering to increase your girth or info on the next big penny stock? It is there for the singular purpose of having a link back to thier site hoping for some extra traffic or a boost in page rank.

I guess it is a nesseccary evil starting out, but it still seems kind of cheap.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Here is an intersting article about seventeen year old Ashley Qualls at Fast Company. She created the popular MySpace layout website wateverlife.com.

At 17 going on 37 (at least), Ashley is very much an Internet professional. In the less than two years since Whateverlife took off, she has dropped out of high school, bought a house, helped launch artists such as Lily Allen, and rejected offers to buy her young company. Although Ashley was flattered to be offered $1.5 million and a car of her choice–as long as the price tag wasn’t more than $100,000–she responded, in effect, Whatever. “I don’t even have my license yet,” she says.

It goes on to say her company pulls in $70,000 a month.

It just takes an idea and the will to run with it.