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Generating a Buzz: More Fame and Success
The Thinking Blog is hot like fire! Today I was checking the site statistics and noticed that there was another flood of visitors, not to mention an increase in the number of RSS readers. At first I thought The Thinking Blog (TTB) was featured in a high profile blog or one of the posts made the frontpage on Digg. Upon further investigation I found that it was neither. Apparently, TTB has been creating so much buzz on the Blogosphere, even Google noticed it!That's right. The Blogger Team hand-picks "interesting and noteworthy Blogger-powered blogs" among millions of blogs out there and features them as "Blogs of Note" in the Google's Blogger homepage. What's more, the recognition doesn't end there. The Thinking Blog is also featured on the Blogger's official blog Blogger Buzz and takes its place in the history of the Internet as a Blog of Note. This has been quite a day for me and I'm loving all the comments and emails. Thanks Google!
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Of course, none of this would be meaningful without all you loyal "thinkers" a.k.a. friends, readers and fellow bloggers who keep coming here to take your daily dose of fuel to keep thinking. It seems like this buzz will never die down as long as I keep my hyper-creativity exploding. Thank you, each and every one of you! Special thanks to the RSS readers!
Share the buzz. Get your piece of the fame by advertising here and drive loads of traffic to your site or blog. You can choose to display graphic options as well as anchor text links under the "Sponsors" section on the top most exclusive location of the sidebar. Text links are very important and great opportunity for additional search engine optimization (SEO)! I will post more details about the latter tomorrow (to be used as a permanent link) but contact me via email for more information. Be quick to promote your site while the rates are low and get a place before all the advert spots are taken. The early bird gets the worm!
Finally, I would also like to thank the first sponsor of The Thinking Blog - John Chow!
23 thoughts:
I had a long conversation with John Chow last night and to be honest he is a really amusing person to speak with. We even exchanged funny emoticons on IM! About the re-design I proposed to him, he said:
"I like the current theme that I'm running."
Fair enough. In Turkey we have a saying:
"The offer is from us, the appreciation is up to you."
I guess John likes to show his appreciation in other ways ;)
By the way I'm linking you I really enjoy reading you:)
Have a great weekend:)
Maria
Thank you Maria & Stefano! It's great to have you here.
Don't forget to Fave this blog on Technorati, Add it to your Del.icio.us bookmarks and Stumble it if you have StumbleUpon toolbar ;)
That's stupendous! Congrats! I just recently came across your blog and do thoroughly enjoy it...especially the arts section. I still have some more exploring to do though. :)
Shine on,
Aaron
Congratulations on becoming a "Blog of Note". I hope to become a "Blog of Note" someday. Right now I am "Blog of 'Eh, that's alright'." Seriously I wish you continued success.
http://kylebeabo.blogspot.com/
Funny that Chow is your first sign up after all the times you have been trying to get his attention with your re-designs etc. Lucky you.
Congratulations and Good luck, Ilker! :-)
you definitely got recognized because of quality content which your loyal readers look forward to . Congrats
Great job, Ilker!
You deserve it.
And I won't even spam you with comments linking to my blog posts just to leech off your newfound high traffic...
:-)
I finally favored your blog on Technorati.
Did you see that John Chow said he was going to stop blogging?
I think it's an April Fool's Day joke...
Nicely done! You'll be owning the internet soon at this rate lol.
iker, it is really great! Congrats!
Ooh that's great. Funny you should mention getting lots of visitors. I found your blog through "Blogs of Note" as well :P I was checking to see if blogger had any sort of April Fool's joke.
Anyway, great title. That's probably the only reason I clicked it. I don't usually click on blogs of note :P
Congrats though! I doubt my blog will become a blog of note since it's more of a personal blog than a topic specific blog. But I haven't read your blog. I'll check it out.
I added it to my Technorati fave's too :P Perhaps if I like your posts I'll make a post about it on my blog
My Blog
Great job, Ilker! You're taking the web by storm.
Congratulations Ilker! You're obviously doing all the right things. Wishing you continued success!
Ilker, you rock! The two blogs I've learned the most from in my short time as a blogger are you and John Chow. Like John, you're giving a lot back to the blogging community. Keep it up! You're one of my role models. I hope to model your success.
We know greatness when we see it!
Bravo Ilker!
great job Ilker. Checking your posts regularly..
I knew I had picked a winner.
was here, im here, will be here...keep going you are almost there.
i just met the tuffest man alive, real nice dude
congratulations, great job!
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yup. congrats! i was about to tell you that yesterday i saw your thinkingblog on the front page of blogger.com!!! =D so cool!!!
xoxo
I'll add my congrats here ilker.
I know you have Boing Boing in your sights! ;)
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