In a world of anonimity, where you can click on a link and view peoples little universe shared in a blog, how do you show people that you really like their work? For my photo blog I get alot of comments from people saying how much they like my photos, Thanks and I really appreciate the feedback. If I was a poet I would guess that people would do the same. But how do you return the favour when all you have is an email address attached to a website address from someone who has enjoyed your work enough to leave a comment?For me, I always check out my commenters websites. I dont just go along and read the first page I like to read quite a few posts to get a feel for the people who take the time to leave meaningful comments on my work. I take the time to return the gratitude by reading their work and alot of the time leave a comment as well. So far I havent had a comment from anyone with a crap site, so congrats everyone on the quality of the blogs out there.
Being a blogger, I know how much time we all put into our little bits of real estate on the internet so I also like to play a little bit of santa and click on peoples ads as well. This is my way of giving a monetary return to the people who take the time to read my page. Adsense, adtoll, whatever it may be, I know we all make that little bit of money from people clicking on our ads so hopefully over time my click thanks will return a paycheck for my reader. Its anonymous, no one knows youve done it and it gives a little surprise when people check their ad balances.
I also do the same for entrecarders who drop on me. I try to visit as many entrecard blogs as I can, and I always drop a card when I do. But if I really like the site, and read further than the front page I will click on a few ads while I am there. Bloggers need to stick together so its up to us not to just drop and run, but really check out each others work, encourage each other to continue and click each others ads to show our appreciation of each others work. I know some Entrecarder will always drop and run, but if you see a card from me you can guarantee I have read your most recent posts and more than likely dropped a nice little tip in your ad jar.
How do you show your appreciation to fellow bloggers?
8 responses so far ↓
1 Shawn // Mar 9, 2008 at 12:49 am
Just like you, I always check out the websites of those who leave comments and then comment on one or two of their articles as well.
Another thing I do is, every once in a while, I go through all my comments and compile a list of the websites of everyone who has left a comment then I publish that list as a special “Thanks!” to my readers.
Example here:
http://blog.sduffyphotography.com/2008/02/27/wednesday-link-love-special-edition/
2 Chica // Mar 10, 2008 at 3:28 am
I’m in agreement with you on this one, I do all the same things, at least I try to do it most of the time. Great post, I believe that everyone should do those type of things, they will get much more out of their site, and their time online, then just simply blogging for themselves.
3 Erica // Mar 11, 2008 at 2:39 am
I’ve found myself doing the same thing lately! It makes me happy when I see that I’ve gotten a few clicks - I’ll gladly ’send the happy’ to other bloggers too.
4 yoshi // Mar 11, 2008 at 2:42 am
I do the same thing. I use entrecard to find new sites. I’m always looking for something new. And I know there’s a whole world out there I don’t know about.
I love to hear comments from people, and I try to comment on as many sites as I can to let them know that someone was there and read their site.
I’d love it if everyone did this, but there are so many lurkers out there, what can you do.
5 Matt Packer // Mar 11, 2008 at 10:04 am
Over on my blog I have 2 ways of sharing ‘the love’
1. I’ve got a Wordpress Plugin called Comment Luv enabled so that anyone who comments on my articles actually gets the opportunity to get a link back to their latest post.
2. Each week, usually on Wednesday, I post a ‘The Best of The Week’ article with excerpts and links from the best articles I read each week via my feed reader.
I’m kinda getting over the EntreCard thing, I’ve seen it to be a fairly false economy where people are just gaming the system with really crummy sites, and with the ‘multi-drop’ sites out there now it’s really quite easy to drop 300 cards a day and have those reciprocated..
That’s just my experience with it however..
6 Jen Weaver // Apr 5, 2008 at 11:10 am
I do the same thing! I have so many blogs on my RSS feeds (related to photography) that I spend a little bit a day reading what’s new on their sites and trying to leave a comment where I feel it’s relevant.
Thanks for dropping my my blog. I hope you enjoyed some of my photography.
Feel free to check out my photography website as well: http://www.jenweaverphotography.com
7 Jasko // Apr 7, 2008 at 2:00 am
This is really nice from you, I appreciate your attitude toward fellow bloggers. I thing that this is a kind of an approach that most of should take. By the way, tremendous blog you have out here.
8 diswlbdlastaccnt // May 23, 2008 at 2:22 pm
nice one.. i am in total agreement with you..
spread the love…
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