Is that even a surprise? Gone are the days when you wrote a “linkbait” to pass some search engine juice to your pages. Well, you can still produce stellar content but the effect of it as far as building links goes won’t be as effective as it once used to be. Twitter is awesome. I love it. I use it as a communication channel, an engagement tool and marketing platform, but damn, it seems like it’s killing a lot of other aspect of blogging that we all grew so accustomed to.

Linkbaits certainly aren’t dead but they can be put under the category of “soon to be extinct.” When you create content that goes viral, there used to be a time people took time to mention it on their blogs, not anymore. They simply sign on to their Twitter account and link away and hundreds other retweet. You certainly get the pageviews but in the long run you lose out on those precious link juice that once used to be the cornerstone of success, it still is but much harder to get.

Anyways, just a quick thought from this corner of the web. Share your thoughts. Do your linkbait efforts produce as much result as they used to or did retweets kill it?

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Anyways, last night while I was checking my Facebook profile, I though a Fan page would serve the purpose pretty good. I just need a site where I can interact with a tight knit community, get their feedback and share links that relates to social media one way or the other. It took me about 10 minutes at the most to get the page up and it’s live. Well, I certainly don’t need a blog or a site to share links and in this case Facebook Fan Page was a good tool for me to utilize.

I am hoping you guys will come join me there. Just click on the badge below to join,

It feels good. It feels good that I don’t have to worry about numbers. Whether I am writing on blogs or helping a client market their product or content via social media platforms, it’s all about the numbers. It’s always been that way. After all, numbers are what  drives everyone to set their foot on the web. A new blogger’s goal in the beginning is to get as many subscribers he possibly can. We are wired to think that numbers is all that matters. It’s all about the numbers. Subscribers, page views, affiliate accounts, comments….it all comes down to numbers.

As most of you know this blog was abandoned for a while. I started it cause I want to build a community. A place I can call my home on the web. Today while I was checking numbers on some of my client’s sites, I noticed something different about myself. I haven’t checked subscriber count, traffic stats and I don’t really care how many comments I get to a post on this blog. The thing I care about this blog is participation. Of course when there are 10 comments that’s a number, however, your comments aren’t just a mere number to boast next to the post title, at least not here.

I feel quite relieved and am glad that I have one less thing to worry about. I don’t need numbers here. I want guests, guests who will come visit me and share their thoughts. I don’t need subscribers in the form of numbers to throw down a feedburner chiclet on the sidebar. If you come, read, participate and engage with me and the rest who do the same here, I am good. I don’t care if this blog gets 100,000 a day or 10 visits a day as long as those 10 visits engage and participate I am a happy camper.

I have become so accustomed to looking at numbers and planning my next step, that not having to worry about it and just write for you and myself is an awesome feeling. This blog is all about you and a bit about me. Numbers are the last thing I’ll ever worry about here. The only thing I’ll worry about is participation and engagment. That’s the way it should always be but we have become slaves to the number game. I am free of number slavery, at least on this blog.

Would love to hear what you think and how you handle your own blog. What matters more to you – engagement or statistics?

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