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What I thought I would never do

Posted By: Arthur on January 26, 2008 in Site goodies - Comments: 5 Comments »

myspace.gifI finally did it.  I have been fighting this for quite some time, but I broke down and did it.  I didn’t enjoy it, but I think it will go a little way to help promote the blog.  I hope so anyway.  Now everyone is asking “What did he do?”.  I will tell you.  I put SimplyOutdoors.net out there for the social networking gods to see.  I created a Myspace account.

I have been trying to fight it for some time, but I want the blog to become more popular and one sure fire way to help that cause is to put it in the social networking scene.  I just couldn’t fight it any longer.  There is no quicker way on the World Wide Web to get noticed.  So I did it and I’m not ashamed.

In all fairness I hope quite a few people notice us this way and then make their way over to the blog and become a bigger part of our audience.  After all that is the goal of our site; to attract an audience and to attract new readers on a daily basis.  I think Myspace is one way of doing it.

So if any of you out there reading this have a Myspace account, don’t hesitate to add us.  Our address is http://www.myspace.com/simplyoutdoors.  I’m looking forward to all the new contacts that we attract from this endeavour.  The more people we can get our message out to the better:)

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  1. Kris says:

    keep us posted on whether this brings you more quality traffic. if it works, i’ll try it out too!

    good luck

  2. Rick says:

    I have to say you are really putting an effort into building Simply Outdoors and I give you a lot of credit. I sincerely hope this works and like Kristine says if it does maybe I will think about it.

    Good Luck with this venture.

  3. Marc says:

    I think it’s a great idea. I did the same thing and have noticed that there are more visitors coming to my blog.

    Another interesting thing was that I had a guy from two towns over send me a message through mySpace and we had spoke in a local archery shop one day, but never even caught each other’s names. It’s amazing how small a world it is.

  4. I used Linked in and FaceBook, although I haven’t been as aggressive about promoting blogs as I would like to be. Guess I’ll have to get a bit more firedup about that.

    Oh, just want to correct some confusion. Kris is the guy who writes Jake’s Outdoors. You’ll never see me listed anywhere as Kris, I always go by Kristine. So if you see a comment from Kris, it is him.

    Unless, of course, he says something really insightful and witty. Then I’ll probably claim it was me. :-)

  5. Jeff says:

    oooooooohhhhhhhhh nnnnnnnnnnnoooooooo!!!!!!!!
    Please don’t tell me that I now have to get a myspace page if I want more readers. Just tell me it isn’t so…
    My wife and I always make fun of our friends that have them. I will have to keep it a secret if I do it or she will never let me live it down. Oh, please tell me it isn’t working.

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