Get Traffic from FriendFeed

I’ve been using FriendFeed for sometime now. (I can’t track when exactly.) But it is only today that I’m planning to use it for promoting my content and, perhaps, getting more networks. According to a few well known personalities in blogging and socialmedia (I won’t be giving names but I think some of you know who the heck these people are who takes FriendFeed as the holy grail of their blog traffic), FriendFeed can give your blogs and socialmedia profiles better exposure and following hence converting to traffic, which I can’t be sure if monetizable or not. Besides the potential to promote my blogs better, I think I’m giving FriendFeed a try because it enables me to follow people and see their select online activities that they chose to share with FriendFeed, which I can look at and see if it has any use for me. Also it provides a nifty search function which enables me to search through community exchanges which Google can barely provide.

FriendFeed, basically, for those who aren’t aware of it, is a social aggregator that sucks in all your activities across different socialmedia services. People can then see what you’re up to online through these collected services and decide if they subscribe and follow your feed. Also called “lifestreaming”, there have been a bunch of other sites that provide the same service of which BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog are examples. What separates FriendFeed is that it provides better functionality than the rest, which enables you to manipulate a chaotic flood of noise into a filtered and organized content that’s more digestible.

Similar to other socialmedia sites out there, to get better exposure in FriendFeed’s system, you need to follow people and have followers as well. You need to have an active feed so that you won’t get buried by other’s feed. It’s often not difficult to get a constantly active feed since your activities from other sites, such as twitter or digg, will count inside friendfeed too, although you might want to do actual activity inside so that other users won’t brand you as a “poser”.

Ultimately, I’m writing this short FriendFeed article to get my profile some exposure. To see how much of a slacker online I’ve been lately, you can visit my FriendFeed profile. And maybe follow my feed so that I could also reciprocate. Additionally, I’m also looking at the possibility of having digg and stumble campaigns inside, although I’m not very optimistic that it will yield favorable results. Another benefit that I could think of from using FriendFeed is that I’ll be able to be updated with these people who’ve been inviting me in Twitter without necessarily joining Twitter. (I’m having second thoughts about this whole “microblogging phenomenon” because I see it as just another attention demanding tool that I have to struggle with.) It’s all just experimentation stage between me and Friendfeed for now. Hopefully, it’s going to be a worthwhile experience.

I know I haven’t covered FriendFeed enough to enlighten those who are new to it. I just don’t want to make any tips and/or recommendations to something that I haven’t tried and tested to a certain extent. If you want to know more about it, here’s a detailed guide on how to use FriendFeed. Alternatively, if you like to know more about how FriendFeed can enhance your web experience, here’s an article about FriendFeed’s great features.



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