Cross blogging – The blogging technique that to marketer is talking about
Posted on October 21, 2009
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First and foremost, I would like to tell you that this article you are reading here as parts adopted from an article from another blog at Maxblogpress blog The original article is located at
Well, that said, it was my first time to read about this technique. I applied it and the results were instant. This is a technique that really works and you should try it out if you want to drive traffic to your website and make internet money.
Take a look at this monthly average traffic volume for one of the authors Internet Marketing sites. How much internet money could this kind of website traffic mean to you? Perhaps hundreds of dollars. To some it would mean lots of money online.
Well, without boring you, here are the exact words of the originator of the technique. My work on this blog is to look out for such techniques to make money online, show them to you and if you can apply one and make money online, then I will be happy.
Looking back at the year 2008, I realize Web 2.0 was very much in its infancy and defined mainly by MySpace and Facebook. By this year, Web 2.0 properties have truly blossomed and through them I found a way to create a bigger impact with blogging. I must credit the persistent daily increase in traffic to content propagation via a micro-blogging/blogging combo strategy.
One aspect of blogging is blog submission; that goes without saying. Have you heard of crossblogging or crossposting? With the advent of Web 2.0 community sites, it is getting popular now. The tantalizing proposal is to duplicate your blog or microblog posts across as many blogging platforms as possible for the purposes of search indexing and increased readership among fellow community members, but it doesn’t make sense to do it manually by logging in and out one site after another. The crossblogging idea I’m referring here works on autopilot, which means the moment you publish something in your WordPress blog, it immediately appears in another without you having to login to this other blog.
It used to be that you can’t crosspost to as many platforms as possible due to legality, proprietary and technological issues, but the barriers are coming down. I’m going to cut to the chase and lay out step-by-step what you need to do immediately, but I’ll assume that you, the reader, have a WordPress blog. This is our starting point.
1. Create accounts and set up blogs in Multiply, Windows Live, LiveJournal, Xanga, Vox, Blogger and Twitxr (microblog platform).
2. If there are options for you to import earlier blog posts, go ahead and backup your WordPress posts and restore them in your new blogs.
3. You need to install and activate crossposting plugins to link up your WordPress blog to the mirror blogs. These are:
a. Live Space Sync (Windows Live Space crossposter)
b. Live+Press For WordPress (LiveJournal crossposter)
c. CrossPress (crosspost via e-mail)
4. Enable crossposting in Multiply in this Posting Options page inside your account. You can also setup a post-via-email address here. Visualize that your blog posts are replicated from WordPress to LiveJournal to Multiply.
5. Setup more post-via-email addresses in Vox, Blogger, Twitxr. Fill in your addresses in the CrossPress plugin. For Multiply, if you find there are duplicate posts due to both crossposting and post-via-email enabled, disable one of them.
6. Sign up with Ping.fm and Hellotxt and hook up as many social networks to them as possible. Sign up with HelloTxtFeed and Twitterfeed. From Ping.fm, you can crosspost your microposts (or tweets). In Hellotxt, go to “Settings” → “Tools & API” and enable HelloTxtFeed and TwitterFeed. Fill your WordPress feed in HelloTxtFeed. In Twitterfeed, link up your feed to Twitter, identi.ca, Ping.fm and Hellotxt. Note that Ping.fm forwards your feed to Xanga. There’s also a post-via-email option in Hellotxt.
7. Optional: Ping.fm does not allow you to schedule your tweets, but you can do this through using Hootsuite. Link up Ping.fm from inside your Hootsuite account.
8. By now you should be able to get the hang of how your blog feed is being moved around through the various sites, both in direct and indirect manners to get the maximum possible exposure for your posts. Give yourself 3 days to a week to track whether or not the posts are getting published. Again, disable options to leave just one to prevent duplicates in a platform. 2 major drawbacks I found are that crossposted posts lose their format and become one big continuous line as compared to your original WordPress posts. Also, scheduled future posts may not get published.
9. Bonus step: “You Say Too” is a soc
