The Power of Commenting on Other People’s Blogs

I found this post as I discovered “ProBlogger. When you find an interesting blog, it really affirms their influence when you see that 7,000 other people follow them on Twitter. I click “follow” so I don’t have to subscribe to their RSS feed because I never check Google Reader.

ProBlogger created this video about “The Power of Commenting on Other Blogs” that I want all our Corporate bloggers to see : )

How did I find ProBlogger, anyway? With all the various ways to find someone online, it’s getting quite difficult to remember how you find things. I found ProBLogger this morning through Tweetburner. Tweetburner is a “short URL” service that not only lets you shorten an URL and create a redirect, it:
1. Lets you post directly to Twitter within its interface (even if they do need some usability tweaks)
2. Lets you login to your account (which is tied to your Twitter account, so it’s the same login) to track your traffic.
3. Shows you how many people clicked on each link you posted (over all time, does not seem to break it out by past day, month, etc.) But with Twitter, if people don’t see it in the first hour, they’ll probably never see it anyway.

I was checking Tweetburner out of vanity to see how many clicks I got on a few links I posted last night, and ProBlogger had gotten 37 clicks in the past hour on his post about the birth of his new son.

~K