Discussions
Does anyone here have a MySpace page just for their Blog?
Posted by infonistacrat • 10/12/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: download, MP3, music, myspace
I have one specifically for my wonderful music blog infonistacrat.hometownproject.org/2007/10/12/new-wave-hits-of-the-80s/
If you have a MySpace Page, let me know, and we can add each other as friends!
www.myspace.com/infonistacrat
User Comments
-
Ooops.....Sorry.. I Have No Page On MySpace -
I have yet to try MySpace. I got the impression it was primarily aimed at a much younger demographic than my own middle-aged one. Do you find your My Space presence feeds traffic to your blog?-
Yeah, it actually does. If you take a look at my page (you don't need to sign up to see it), I have tried to make is look different than most of the kiddies pages out there.
the great thing is that there are groups out there, just as here, that you can participate in on almost every subject. I have made a lot of friends in the music blog scene, especially over in the UK, where they have a little more eclectic taste in music, very similar to mine. :-) I also make it a point to invite a few people as friends everyday.
As to the average age of MySpace...the average age is now 35. :-) Surprising, no? A really great article on the break down in age here: www.bloggersblog.com/cgi-bin/bloggersblog.pl?bblog=1006061 And 68% of the users are over the age of 25.
To me, it is a huge untapped audience, and since you can do searches for users based on almost any demographic and interest, MySpace has done the hard work and already identified core, targeted audiences.
Just don't be too aggressive in marketing yourself...I got a little carried away, and my first account got revoked. lol Other than that, you have HUGE potential audience waiting to hear about your blog. No, you won't get millions of hits instantly, but I get 25-35 visitors a day from MySpace, which is about 8% of my daily traffic. All that for basically 30 minutes to set up my profile, and a few minutes a day interaction. -
The stats there are incorrect the average age is actually 31. But it is an older demographic nonetheless. -
thanks for adding me on my space. I found a book group that seemed interesting and I started to reply to a thread and got a pop up, you have to be a member for seven days before you can post...so will probably have to just wait and explore further next week. I can see that participating in groups and posting to threads would get my name out and help draw traffic. So thanks for the lead as well
-
-
-
added Check it out, tell me what you think.
-
-
I don't like MySpace.
Its attack on my senses makes me wanna puke while having an epileptic seizure.-
Couldn't have expressed my emotional reaction to any better.
-
-
I have a myspace page for my blog/company
I'd be more than happy to add you!
Mine is www.myspace.com/wordanstshirts-
Thanks! Added
-
-
I've joined myspace recently, but did not use it properly. I think it's at profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=24474394...
You can add me as friend as I intend to use it more.
The study on users' age shown in your link was interesting.-
I tried to add you as a friend MeghnaK but it told me I can't since I don't know your e-mail address ;(
-
-
Sorta - myspace.com/lalate ... but myspace has gotten boring. Plus, even with our 5,000 friends on myspace, our lifetime page views on myspace are less than our blog's one day page views. Myspace just doesnt get many page views for individual myspace pages. The benefit is really in just bulletins to your friends.-
Bingo! Thats exactly what I use it for. I have a little program that sends out a bulletin every few hours with the title of my latest blog entry in it, and a link to the article.
I will admit though, that it took awhile to figure out how to use it properly. My first attempt got my account canceled. I guess sending 300 friend invites a day via automated program is not acceptable. Nor is posting to every friends message well. :-D -
LOL... um... I don't know about that. I had two million blog views on MySpace last year.
I am under the wrong profile... it is pointlessbanter
-
-
I have 20 profiles for my blog and it is my second largest traffic referrer behind stumbleupon.
My "main" profile is myspace.com/pointlessbanternet-
I gotcha covered!
-
-
I tried twice and both times I deleted. I don't like My Space, besides I listenned and read to bad news that happens there all the time.-
Bad things happen when you walk down the street.
-
-
Ugh this thread drives me nuts... Myspace has so many niche communities on it that you can exploit it and easily gain a blog audience.
ARGH.... just because you don't like a few people's profile designs or read bad thing or whatever lame ass reason you give to not like doesn't mean that it is a rather large traffic source.
Do you ever think you are possibly using it wrong?-
pointlessbanter, I am with you 100%. There is a potential audience of 60 million people there. MySpace has done ALL the work for you. They register the user. They split them up into neat little niches...go to the groups, and you will easily find YOUR target niche, with thousands of users in each group. Or do a search on any term you can think of.
But if your throwing away a potential audience of 60 million...well, thats plain crazy. Learn how to use it, and it is a nice place to grab some cheap and easy traffic.
-
-
I have a MySpace page for my primary blog and a personal page. I don't get much traffic from there, but I can't say that I have tried very hard either. I actually get more from my personal page which is full of friends from my geocaching hobby. They don't really care about beauty blogs, yet I do get hits from there. -
I don't use my myspace to advertise my blog. I keep the two worlds separate.
-
I have a my space page only to read two blogs of people I know who used to have blogs and closed them. I deleted my first my space as the whole place was disgusting. This time I just put a note for people never to email me and I take no mail but for the two people on my list.
I personally find it gross. With limited time online why would I go there?
If you spend all day on line, as a lot of those people seem to do, I guess you're bound to end up there. I'm not paying bills with my blog and do not need to instigate traffic otherwise I might feel different about it. -
I have a myspace page for my blog and it works great!! I have developed a lot of loyal readers through it, have had loads of fun and also made many friends and contacts. I also list links on my myspace page blog to direct my friends to updates on my actual blog. Feel free to check it out and send me a friends request if you like.
On The wRite Side-Myspace www.myspace.com/onthewriteside
My Blog: On The wRite Side www.onthewriteside.org -
I'm not keen on the idea of MySpace, but I think it might have something to do with my content, which I just don't see drawing an audience with mine. And I don't feel all that motivated to do so.
Now tell me how I'm wrong, Kevin. And didn't you leave it after you'd achieved your objectives?-
I think you can find people that are worth connecting with on there.
Well I left for a lot of reasons beyond growing my audience, namely censorship , petty competitiveness (I had people create gossip profiles about me, fake profiles about me, and then I had people trying to get real information about me), and the fact that I did everything I could on there. They have blog rankings and I was in the top ten daily, it was either just retain that and do nothing with it or branch out on my own. I really haven't gone into full detail about why I left because honestly I don't think most people would believe everything that went into it.
Just a quick scan of history (and I know these aren't really your areas of interest but I just wanted to illustrate a point)
Egyptian history group- over 12k members
Art history group- over 8k members
International Affairs Group- over 4k members
When doing a search of people's profiles that have history listed under their general interests it hits the make result with 5K profiles. -
Those are some serious numbers. Maybe at some point I should reconsider, especially if I ever decided to do something commercial.
-
-
I don't like myspace, but I use it anyway, because it is so widely used that as an artist who wants to get his work out there, I feel obligated to have a presence due to the sheer size of the the userbase.
I mirror entries from my blogspot account on my myspace blog just to funnel in a few extra readers, but otherwise, I find the signal::noise ratio to be rather poor and engage in very few social interactions when I am there. I find tribe.net to be a far more useful social networking site as far as the quality of discussion.
Ian-
Yeah, I think artists almost have to have a page there, even if they don't spend a lot of time on MySpace.
-
tribe.net! Holy cow, I swear that site fell completely off my radar. I need to recreate my account there, since it has been a couple years since I even visited. Thanks for the reminder!
-
-
i also have one, but it is really a baddddddd profile, as far as for promoting my blogs. its my personal profile and i just have a bunch of junk on their.
i like kevin's idea of setting up multiple profiles for a blog. hadn't thought of that. i'll have to dedicate a day to actually setting that up efficiently. i too am very surprised by the age stats. i thought the average age was more like 13, not 31. wow!
www.myspace.com/chicagosunshine-
Ack...can't add you as you have the "Gotta know my name" thing enabled. :-)
Do you live in Chicago? My wife and I lived there for 11 years, and still go back when ever we can. One of the worlds great cities, if you ask me. Nothing like a Cubs game, or a couple beers and a cheeseburger at the Billy Goat.
-
-
Yes, i am from Chicago, and it is a wonderful wonderful city. Love it to pieces. Don't mention The Cubs, im not over their horrific loss in the recent NLDS series. Argggg.
Not sure, what you refer to above in the know my name thing? huh?
oh! lol. my name is Missy. hehe. now you know.-
Yeah, when I tried to add you in myspace, it asked my for your name. lol And the Cubs...eternal suffering for us, eh? We used to love Wrigley...had season tickets for awhile. I remember sitting there on opening day in April. It was 1 degree. We hung out at the Cubby Bear, then went to the game, bought a huge Cubs blanket, drank our cold beer, and left after the first inning. Ah the good times!
-
-
Being the forward-thinking aristocrat I am, I naturally have my own MySpace profile. I do so love a gathering:
www.myspace.com/lordlikely -
I created a MySpace profile for my blog about vintage radio a couple of months ago and it turned out to be very useful. Setting it up was time-consuming, but I'm glad that I did it. I found a lot of interesting people and businesses that I would not have known about otherwise.
www.myspace.com/escapeandsuspense
Add Your Comment
Login to leave a message.
