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"Email release" ?

"Email release" ?

E-mailing other blogs with a link to a post that is very good, unique or very relevant somehow. Don't be frustrated if it doesn't often work. Sometimes it does.

Consider this my first step toward marketing my site. It's called protein wisdom, and it's home to some of the most prolific spammers in the whole of blogdom.

Stop by and enjoy the experience!

Here is an incisive comment on your post. I bet you are curious enough to check out my own "web" "log" (or ""blog"").

Gah, to me that's just spam. I really dislike people putting me on a e-mail list to receive their every post. To me it's just presumptuous. Especially when I'm not on their blogroll, which is usually the case.

An unabashed and willful plug for Heard Here. Insightful, witty, thoughtful, thoughtless, and mostly unread. Don't make me beg.

Amatures :)

To really, really beg, one must first transcend the current paradigm to achieve one-ness with that which you are begging for.

(translated: Hi. I'm blogless. Please Help.

See? http://www.banderas-mall.com/gallery/currentpix/0311a/Puss-in-Boots_01.jpg

OK, it doesn't work as well as actually having "img src" work in comments, but, dammit, I'm transcending here! >:) )

Good luck on the Weblog Awards. Maybe next year for me ;)

Lysander

Ok, you guys are way off.

1. Florida -

You say: Gah, to me that's just spam. I really dislike people putting me on a e-mail list to receive their every post. To me it's just presumptuous. Especially when I'm not on their blogroll, which is usually the case.

You just pointed out almost all the exceptions to effective, non-annoying execution. Too often. Every post. Not on blogroll.

A good e-mail is every once in awhile, and make it a good post. I used to send out too many releases when I started - many people do. But then I learned that when I only sent out a release for something like, oh, my interview with Michael Berg, or my moonbat pictorials, people liked the posts enough, or found them unique enough, that they would be glad to link them. Also, I have people send me stuff that relates to a post that I just wrote, and includes some new research, and I gladly link it. It's all about context.

2. Hitman, Ghost, Jeff -

Smartasses.

Can I count that as an endorsement Bill?

I for one am appalled at the level of shameless self-promotion and outright groveling on the part of certain commenters in this thread. It almost makes me ashamed to be a blogger. Did I mention I had a blog? I didn't? Oh, you should check it out - please! Come on, one visit - would it kill you?

Yeah, I know what prostitution is. For that matter, I know what link-prostitution is too. Just never heard this "email release" euphemism.

Forget about that, though: Anybody wanna party?

Welcome to MY blogroll, btw. This is what it's like.

I just started my own blog, Fear of a Red State. Nothing worth reading just yet, but I'm working on a little something I haven't seen anywhere else. I appreciate you and Jeff Goldstein pointing out this article, Bill; I'm sure I'll find it helpful.

I started my blog last month. I think I've got some pretty good stuff posted but so far traffic has been sparse. Thanks for pointing me to this good advice on how to change that.

If there's a WebLog award offered in 2005 for the "Least Visited Blog in the Universe" I am all over that one. You won't catchme falling for any linky love or notable comments to drive traffic. Oh Crap.....

Thanks for the link to the WaPo article... I had already thought of the various suggestions, except for registration. I was kind of hesitant to register, but found the blogwise registration not only straightforward, but free! (I'm always surprised -- still -- that so much is free.) I went ahead and submitted my blog to blogwise, but am waiting to think some more about signing up for SimpleAds (once BlogSnobs), which I found by following a link off MetroBlogs.

Happy posting, everyone!