February 2009 Week 1 Roundup

So this week, the blog surpassed the entire traffic for January 2009. I guess that shows how inactive my blog was for the first month of 2009. Anyways, let’s get to some posts.

Post Roundup for February 2009 Week 1

I guess my posts weren’t of a quality that I had expected and I really didn’t post this week. Anyways, here are the two that I’d appreciate, if you gave some attention to.

Link Love for February 2009 Week 1

Here’s the first week’s link love. There were actually a lot of great posts this week (as if there aren’t any other week?!) so it was a little bit harder to choose the three that I would recommend without potentially embarrassing myself and this blog for recommending it. Maybe a solution could be more link love at the end of every month… Anyways…

Building Backlinks For 2009 is an article from IBB and Shannon pretty much nailed the backlink building on the spot. Especially when PR is a lot harder to attain than in the past and with more and more bloggers popping up from here and there, it never hurts to have some massive backlink and authority in the blogosphere. Speaking of authority…
The Power of Authority And How To Become One from Andre talks of how you can really be an authority in the blogosphere not through backlinks but just through how you speak. There’s a reason why John Chow and Shoemoney can get quite a bit of people to do stuff that mutually benefits them, such as those viral twitter contests.
What Does Success Mean? from Enkay is another great post. I just want to highlight the second point that he made on how blogging is really a community thing. A blog is certainly not created by one person. Although the writer(s) behind it is important, visitors and commentators are just as important.

Conclusion

I guess this blog is starting to pickup from where it left off as I’m starting to see an increase in traffic. Now, I just need to get these traffic converted into subscribers. A few things I’m looking at doing the next week is maintaining the posting frequency, commenting more on other blogs within my niche, and an interview (hopefully) with a blogger that has recently come back to the scene.