Written by: Tom Sawyer

The second most important thing for a blog is comments – the most important being posts/content. We write, write and write hoping someone will read the content, agree or disagree and comment. Comments are the sure fire way of knowing someone out there is reading what we have to say. That is basically what blogging was created for. But how do people read what they don’t know exists? Traffic.

If a business is a physical location or Internet-based, if people don’t know a business exists they cannot become customers. Likewise, blogs and websites need traffic so people know they exist and are doing good/great things on the Internet. There is an ugly side to generating traffic that costs a lot of money – I’m not even going to go there. However, there is a gentleman named Graham Langdon who is helping us bloggers with this problem. I will not get into the details of what Graham is doing (click here to read more about Entrecard), but he has helped many sites increase their traffic.  Entrecard has done a lot for many sites when it comes to site visits via card drops and adverts, but many visitors stopped by briefly without leaving comments.

Entrecard recently announced a partnership with SezWho (click here to read more about SezWho).  You know how we do things here at 7daybuzz – I’m not going to talk on a high level and make things hard to understand.  I’m going to break this down as much as possible.

If you look at the bottom of every article and comment on our site you will now see “Rate this” with some stars and a rating.  This can be used to rate comments and articles – click away if you think someone says something good.  Also, there is “(Who am I?)” after the name of every author or person who comments.  Hovering over this will bring up some of the following: public information, websites, blogs and sites recently commented on.  If I understand this correctly, a person with a higher rating will have greater influence.  And how does someone get a higher rating?  A person’s rating will increase by leaving quality comments which encourages commenting.

So to summarize what this is all about, Entrecard brings traffic to the site and SezWho gives that traffic incentive to leave comments.  Oh, did I mention this is all free?  For that price, it is worth a try.  I have actually noticed a little more traffic in the short time we have had this on our site.  Time will tell, but I think this is brilliant.

Thank you Graham and thank you SezWho!

Tags: SezWho

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