Comments on: How to Best Pitch Bloggers – a Virtual Group Interview

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Buy Discount Books Online — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:09:54 +0000

Yes, links are so important. Better to have them right up front for all to see.

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Wholesale Thomasville Furniture — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:31:38 +0000

I’ll follow what Anil Dash would do. Lead with links. Surely, bloggers want to rank so give them good links so you can get something from them Its a give and take relationship.

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Wholesale Wicker Baskets — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:29:07 +0000

That’s an interesting post. But what I do to pitch a local blogger, I’ll just bribe him with money or a good link on my blog.

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Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:02:03 +0000

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By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:55:37 +0000

Vivien, this was a virtual interview and not an actual one. I guess I should have made that more clear. Having had to edit the post after publication I guess I cut something out that I should have left in after all

If you read my virtual interview with Lorelle and Liz Strauss do you get the full background, but in essence a virtual interview is a link post using quotes appearing as answers to bind it together.

They are thus not really answering me, but I still found answers from them. It does eliminate some of the problems with real interviews such as those you suggest, but it still requires just as much work to put together I afraid

I have seen people saying that I invented this way of writing link posts, but I am sure that somewhere in the millions of posts written before I even started blogging there is something similar.

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:59:13 +0000

Great post, Jan. Just curious how many prominent bloggers did you approach to get the answer to your question about the pitch? And how long did it take you to get the answers from them?

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Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:43:00 +0000

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By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:30:55 +0000

Believe me Joanna life consists practically of nothing, but circles when you start thinking like me and I think you are catching the bug too

Roberta – You are welcome. Having enjoyed your writing many times was it a pleasure featuring you even if it was only virtually.

By: Roberta Rosenberg

Roberta Rosenberg — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:30:16 +0000

Thanks for including me in the virtual group interview! Yours was a very clever and informative approach – and one I’ll remember!

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:20:14 +0000

What a great idea for a link post Jan.

I feel like the bloggers you’re quoting are talking directly at us!

It’s been fun doing linking and thinking – so much so that now I’m finding it hard to stop (is this an element of circularity?!) – but maybe there’s a lesson in there somewhere

Thanks once again for the inspiration to get this whole writing challenge caboodle going

Joanna