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How To Get Influential Blogs to Talk About You

One of the main themes from the comments on the 3 Things I’ve learned over the past 2 Months post is how to get influential blogs to write about you.

I hope to address that with this post.

If you want influencer’s to talk about you, you must give them a reason to write about you. You must have a story for them to tell that will be of interest to their audience. Without a relevant story it’s game over. So spend time creating a website, blog post or contest… something that is truly remarkable that people can’t not talk about.

Once you’ve created something that is truly remarkable, send an email to the influential blogs that are relevant to your niche telling them why they should write about you.

Some of the blogs you contact may end up writing about you, but most probably won’t. That’s okay, because it only takes one influential blog to write about you in order for your story to spread to other blogs.

If you don’t find success with your first email, change up a few things.

Give them a new story angle.

Perhaps your original story idea wasn’t a good fit for that blog. Present your story from a different angle.

Submit your story idea on the weekend.

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I’ve been surprised at how well this has worked for me. Most influential blogs need content on the weekend just like they do during the week. Only problem is that most companies aren’t making news over the weekend. Fill this void by submitting your content when everybody else isn’t.

Try emailing a different editor.

Influential blogs usually have multiple editors. Perhaps the editor that read your previous submission wasn’t interested in your story. But there maybe another editor that is interested.

In conclusion, I want to encourage you to not give up and to always experiment with new ways to reach the influential bloggers in your niche.


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       Posted in: Link Building, Promotion
     by: Luke Knowles
Your Thoughts? [ 15 ]      
July 8, 2008       
 
 
   
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Nice Post. For me unique, good and up to date content. Also nice blog layout design comes second.

       Ivonson July 11, 2008        
 
 

this is so true

       Rani July 18, 2008        
 
 

I’ve noticed that just by ranking top for some major keywords, people will automatically link to when talking about that topic. Using search results to position yourself as an authoritative source is key

       Hubcaps September 4, 2008        
 
 

Your site is shit listed in Google

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This site may harm your computer.

       Vygantas December 11, 2008        
 
 

Nice article :)

       Hosting Review January 2, 2009        
 
 

wow fantastic article! I really love this website!

       Bisnis Internet February 6, 2009        
 
 

Great ideas, I truly like the weekend tip!
That’s actually a good one, it gets you right on top of the requests pile on monday morning. Smart of you!

       Webdesign February 14, 2009        
 
 

Good stuff. If you can create an article well suited to their blog you can propose a guest post. Often time bloggers love that because it’s free content for their site.

       Ad Hustler February 17, 2009        
 
 

Great post. I’m going to try out the weekend tip. I’ll let you know my results.

       Jack Zufelt March 10, 2009        
 
 

This was a very useful and interesting post. Thank you for sharing this with us. I wouldn’t never have thought about the weekend thing. Great information, thanks again.

- Sean C.

       Sean March 22, 2009        
 
 

Great post! Submitting a story on a weekend is a great idea.

       Sharon Wilson April 28, 2009        
 
 

Well, good post, I do share your opinion… and I may add that the best articles that other blogs can pick up are generally speaking “controversial” articles. Writing something controversial will assure other will talk about is…

       superenalotto August 2, 2009        
 
 

This actually worked for me a few weeks ago. Emailing editors is kind of hit-and-miss, but eventually you’ll find someone who loves what you write. Nice work!

       Eric Rudolf November 10, 2009        
 
 

Yeah, it helps to always make yourself a controversy for them to talk about you. You have to be some sort of celebrity in your own way.

       Jeff C December 7, 2009        
 
 

Knowing you got 14 thoughts and comments including mine means it works.

Nice One!

from Dallas Internet Marketing Consulting

       Egi December 12, 2009        
 
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