What's Good with Riffing?
January 16, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Labels: Blogging , Blogging tips , community , linking , riffer , riffing
Labels: Blogging , Blogging tips , community , linking , riffer , riffing
I received an e-mail update from Friday Traffic Report a few days ago and on the e-mail he talked about a way to solve two problems that are common with bloggers. The problems that he talked about is the problem of creating fresh content daily and the problem of getting backlink for blogs.
The solution that will hit the birds with just one stone is the technique that they call as RIFFING. Basically, in riffing you will just quote other blogger’s post on your blog and hope that the blogger that you quoted will quote your blog too.
According to Antone Roundy, riffing will help you generate new contents for your blog because all you have to do is to quote the blog, with the topic you are interested in, and expound on the quote or the topic of that other blogger.
Riffing is also good in getting backlinks because other bloggers will quote on your blog.
However, riffing is a voluntary process. This means that the blogger that you quoted from is not obliged to quote you back. This is the weakness of riffing. What if you are just a simple blogger with a low pagerank blog? I am sure that other bloggers with blogs with higher pagerank will not quote your blog. The low-pagerank blogger will be waiting a backlink that will never come.
Antone Roundy says that the solution for this is for the blogger to create a compelling and quote worthy content. Also, those who would want to participate in riffing should place this badge:
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The badge shows that you are participating in riffing and that if they quote your blog, then you will quote them back.
However, having this badge still does not guarantee that other riffing participants will quote your blog post. Riffing all boils down to quality content and that what you should keep in mind before participating in riffing.
Visit the riffers' page to know more about riffing.
Visit the riffers' page to know more about riffing.
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tQ for the Riffers thingie, been learning day by day. Salamat.
You are welcome Bananaz. :-)
hmmm this sounds interesting
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