Magic Happens When Connecting to the Blogosphere

In a previous Blogging 101 post, I described the blogosphere as a tightly woven spider web built upon community and relationships.

Allow me to share a personal experience of how this community works at times:

Last Wednesday I shared how I was looking forward to our trip to Las Vegas (we leave early next Monday morning!) and how I'm looking forward to seeing my bloggy friends at BlogWorld. I specifically named a few of them and hyperlinked to their blogs to share their knowledge and expertise with you.

Then the blogosphere magic began:

Chris Brogan wrote a very kind and thoughtful post about yours truly! I don't know if the link to his blog prompted him to write or if was coincidence. Either way, I appreciated it He then tweeted about his latest post:

When Chris Brogan tweets, people listen! Within a couple of hours, I had 15-20 new Twitter followers within a couple of hours and my blog traffic was spiking.

Then Liz Strauss posted a hilarious response to Chris and tweeted:

My blog enjoyed a significant traffic spike that day:

(If memory serves me correctly, the traffic spike back in March was also thanks to a Brogan tweet!)

Rounding out the trio, my Aussie friend Des Walsh wrote a post about using the dashboard in WordPress - another blogging platform - to track incoming links and, noticing the link from my post to his blog, he mentioned the Left Thumb Blogger and created a link back to my Disaboom blog here.

Linking to other people's blogs doesn't always result in that much response - and that definitely was not my intention when writing my original post last week. But, that is the magic of the blogosphere - you never know when something will go blog wild!

Morale of the story: get out there in the blogosphere and connect with people. Build relationships. Link to other people when you write your blog posts and see what happens.

Blog on!

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