Comments on: Building blog authority through social networking

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:58:13 +0000

Great article! I am a newbie to the social networking concept, idea, method for developing relationships, and generating traffic. Thanks for the insightful foundation.

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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:22:12 +0000

Good basic article. Regarding above, I agree it is not a an end all solution to creating authority, but it is definitely a foundation. Good article for when you are starting out and want to create a presence and begin to be percieved as an expert and reliable with your blogging. Regarding the above comment, this is a good article that talks about authority. Convey Website Authority Thanks for the good read!

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By: James Duthie

James Duthie — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:35:26 +0000

@ John – Thanks for the considered input. Again – I’ll refer to the same quote I gave Newyorkdude. This post isn’t meant to be a complete guide to authority development, just the networking side. Knowledge and credibility are clearly important elements to the process. I don’t believe I ever said they weren’t, but I suppose I could also have made the knowledge point a little more poignant.

Re the classification of authority – I’m certainly not talking search engine authority. The title makes reference to blogging authority, and there’s no reference to search engines in the article. I understand that is a whole other kettle of fish.

I must say I find your second comment somewhat hypocritical. You’ve criticised me for a targeted networking process, but then said you won’t network on this blog because there’s nothing in it for you (ie. link juice). Pot calling kettle black perhaps…?

@ homaid – glad you enjoyed the article. Thanks for dropping by.

By: homaid

homaid — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:16:17 +0000

dear james, i loved your article it is very useful and full of great information to help newbies in both blogging and social networking worlds.