Building relationships within the blogsphere is important for any blogger. This network can really be a savor when it comes to information sharing, back-linking, advertising, discovering a blog post for a social network, and making new friends.

It’s ideal to keep your network within your niche as this can leverage your site based on core knowledge about advertising, increasing web traffic, internet tools, etc. Information sharing is why I blog, and I am sure I don’t have to tell anyone how important this is. We share information with other readers and hope to build a fan base.

My blog is mainly about technology. This is a broad category that covers web development, internet tools, computers, internet marketing, etc. My focus is to read blogs based on my niche to expand on my knowledge and to leverage that knowledge to make my blog site a meaningful and successful site.

What is the expectation of the network?

- Build relationships
- Assist with campaigns or contests
- Discover new blog posts with social networks
- Increase back-links
- Share information

I would like to get feedback from other technology based blog sites on how we can really add value to this network and build on it.

I am exposing some facts about spam that most consider a bad thing. Not the X-Rated you were looking for, sorry. Maybe I will show you a little skin as you read on.

Spam is not as bad as you think. I know it’s annoying to manage spam email, but that’s why we have tools to manage it for us. The good thing about spam is something that many people don’t realize. Web related spam is an awesome indicator that your site is becoming recognized! Yes, can you believe it? You’re among many sites that stand out in front. It could be bots or human type spam. Whatever the type, you’re still getting web traffic.

Webmasters and web authors will tell you that spam is not quality web traffic, and they’re right. It’s just traffic and an indication that your site is getting noticed and found. I would rather have spam on my site than a high bounce rate%. Why? High bounce rates are quick visits, more like hit and run accidents. Spam at times can increase your time on site average, whether it’s a bot or human.

Example Spam Statistics:

Average Spam daily = 30

Average Spam Monthly = 900

Average page views Monthly = 1840

As you can see this web traffic is not bad, but a good indicator that your web site is being found.

What can cause spam traffic?

There’s many answers here, but I will speak about one. The way spam finds it’s way to your web site is from inbound links, also known as backlinks. The more backlinks you have, the more exposure your site will have. This is a good thing.

You can get more info on backlinks by clicking on this link http://blogtbt.com/wordpress/pagerank-and-backlinks-oh-my/

Spam is not all bad, but annoying at times. You need to look at the big picture and realize that you’re doing something right to get noticed.

BlogTBT.com has only been live for 8 weeks since launching on January 23rd 2008. We broke the Alexa 100K barrier in such a short period of time. Don’t be fooled, I worked really hard during these 8 weeks to achieve this mark. Our current ranking is 99,820 and we thank everyone who has been a visitor here. The most important visitor is one that reads my blogs and leaves a comment.

I have provided a lot of information on how to increase traffic to your blog site. Here are some of the blog posts I would like to share once again:

http://blogtbt.com/wordpress/improve-web-traffic-using-multiple-campaigns/

http://blogtbt.com/wordpress/how-to-increase-web-traffic-with-wordpress/

http://blogtbt.com/wordpress/web-site-promotion-techniques/

It’s important that you have fresh original content that will provide interest to your readers based on your niche. This is how you can create a fan base that will frequent your blog site. Be creative and write something that visitors will gain knowledge based on your niche.

There’s a blog site that provides excellent, original and helpful content. It’s a blog site I visit each day Josh’s Unconventional Marketing Blog. Josh provides some of the best techniques in getting the most out of marketing your blog site. His latest blog provides insight and strategy on how to capitalize on Entrecard. This is how you get your readers to become fans based on the value of information that you author. Way to go Josh, you have a fan!

Josh’s latest blog on “How to capitalize on Entrecard”

To celebrate our achievement, I am rewarding 100 Entrecard Credits for the first ten comments about this blog, plus the best 3 comments will get a link with a brief description on the top fold of the web site for one Month! Even if you missed out on the 100 EC’s you still can get your site listed.

It’s all about PageRank that most web authors work towards achieving. We work hard everyday to create a niche and to build a fan base that will frequent our web site daily. The money maker to me is achieving a high Google PageRank. This is far more important than an Alexa Ranking, though Alexa is still important to gauge your sites overall rank amongst 16+ million other web sites.

What is a PageRank?

Google assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each web page on the Internet; this PageRank denotes a site’s importance according to Google. The scale for PageRank is logarithmic like the Richter Scale and roughly based upon quantity of inbound links (backlinks) as well as importance of the page providing the backlink as indicated in the first paragraph.

You can get a prediction of your Google PageRank by visiting IWebTool.com or click here to see what they predict your site PageRank will be on the next Google update. There’s also many other webmaster tools you can use at IWebTool.com, such as Alexa Rank, Keyword Density, and so much more.

Need Free Backlinks?

There’s a new site called Qassia that provides free backlinks. The site is still in beta and is invite only, but they have over 12,000 members already. If you would like to get started just click on this link > http://blogzilla.qassia.com/. Once you create an account you can begin to add your web site and create Intel. Visit Qassia for more details on how to get started.

I know many web site owners utilize Alexa as their tracking vehicle. Quantcast is another great web information company that also provides various tools and web ranking statistics. I use both of these companies to measure my web sites analytics.

Quantcast rates over 20 million web sites and Alexa rates just over 16 million. Quantcast has a great free service called the Quantified Publisher program. This enables publishers to tag their sites and services for measurement. You can then gauge the actual reach, frequency and popularity of your websites, videos, widgets, games and more.

How does Quantcast collect data?

They collect data through affiliations with partners, who include advertisers, publishers, ISPs and advertising networks. All the data they collect is anonymous and contains no personally-identifiable information.

General Analytics:

• Global Reach: 5,793

• US Reach: 3,360

• Rank: 339915
• Monthly Page Views: 17,469
• Monthly Uniques: 5,793

Quantcast provides many analytics such as web traffic, demographics, and geolocation. You have the ability to get vital information on gender, age, and so much more.

Easy to join! Get quantified with Quantcast!