You have new blog, Comrade? Is very nice blog. Maybe you want to share it with world. You want to make your own Revolution, da?
Kevin of Wizbangblog wrote excellent piece on how to get an Instalanche. Or how best to try.
Maybe you get Instalanche. Suppose, since YOUR blog is most perceptive document since this, that InstaPlutocrat links to it. You get your Instalanche. Then what? Khorosho, you send pants to dry cleaner. Good.
What next? Will you impale yourself on temporary spike in your Site Meter?
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As great Revolutionary Ringo Starr sang "You gotta pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues, And you know it don't come easy." You must work to build Revolution. Seek out intelligentsia. Exchange Blogrolls. Comment on posts. Trackback to posts.Kevin (in excellent post) called this "minor league" approach. :) Kevin is bolshoi Capitalist too, da?
Find "comrades." (No, not in hackneyed, satiric sense of Commissar, in real sense.) A network of blogger/readers. Blogrolling? That only first step. Many have 100, 200 blogs on Blogroll; not all of them are comrades. "Comrades" are bloggers, maybe of roughly same size, who read your blog, maybe comment now and then, mention/link to your blog in posts, and maybe exchange emails.
These bloggers are comrades, regardless of size. Maybe you think that tomorrow, Glenn, Atrios, Eugene, Kevin, etc. will begin featuring your blog regularly. Think again. They already have THEIR comrades.
One very important point. "Comradeship" runs both ways. Do you support your comrades' Revolution? You better, or you soon be on barricade, all by yourself, except for Google traffic from combined keywords "ladybug cum baseball pundit."
You want quality comrades. Remember, visitors to your site will follow links. Where do you send them? Good place or boring place? Requires some thought, da? Commissar does not mean to reject a comrade's request. Suppose you get email from Comrade, "Hey I wrote interesting post." He wants you to link to it. Here's rule: You link to it. When you get 80,000 hits per day, then you start picking and choosing. So, you must balance fraternal comradeship with need to send visitors to good places. Thus, good idea to select interesting comrades from start.
One small example: Comments and Trackbacks. Venomous Kate, a medium-sized and growing blogger, tires of Commenters who only want free exposure for their URL's on her blog. Too cranky? Think again. Look at bolshoi bloggers like Glenn. Does he say, "Be considerate with Comments. Add something to discussion, beyond shameless self-promotion." No. He simply does not have Comments nor Trackback. Why not, comrades? Too much bardak.
On other hand, look at little bloggers like Commissar. Any Comment or TraktorBack welcome, like warm sunny day in Moscow in March.
Use some discretion. Some thought about Comments. Something like this: Little Bloggers -- green light. Medium bloggers -- yellowlight. Big bloggers -- red light (tools not enabled). Whatever you do, does it add to them, or just to you?
Decency, respect, and comradeship apply to all aspects of blogging, not just Comments. This kind of thing goes long way.
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