What an honor! Thank you Darren for the privilege of being included in an article, and for a nice little traffic bump too! If I can echo FrugalDad for a moment, the irony is pleasant - however, I don’t post on your blog because it’s famous.
If I may share one more lesson I’ve learned from this exchange - make your comment posts count!
I’ve seen a good deal of traffic from posting on the blogs I frequent, but in the process I’ve also seen a lot of people who are just posting to get their link out there. I never click on them - I wonder if anyone does?
On the one hand, I’m annoyed that they’re taking advantage of someone’s useful advice and hardwork, which I feel protective towards out of gratitude. On the other, I pretty much assume that anyone who’s that desperate for readers probably doesn’t have anything worth saying.
Instead, when I post on a blog, I try to make it count. A good barometer for this is that I DON’T post in the hopes that it will bring readers to my site - I post on blogs that I like and that I really want to discuss.
As a result, I only post on ProBlogger.net and Zenhabits.net on a regular basis - why? Because those are the only blogs that I read and enjoy on a regular basis! Call it “holistic” or “organic” blogging or whatever you like - I post on the blogs that get me thinking and that make me want to be involved.
This may be my vanity talking, but I like to imagine that I get the number of clickthroughs I do from Problogger or zenhabits because I’m contributing something worthwhile - in any event, I wouldn’t even be considering hosting my own blog if it wasn’t for Darren and this website, and that’s made this a community I enjoy being a part of. I like to think that shows.
