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  1. Is it appropriate to put a teaser in one blog to corral traffic on to another blog?  This isn’t cross-posting (putting the whole entry on two or more blogs) nor is it a signature at the end of a post advertising for a blog.

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    This is a teaser with a link to another blog.

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    Is that appropriate?  Charley/David/Bob?  LInL/PP/Ryan?  Others? 

    • I did a similar thing this morining – instead cross-posting a lengthy post about Mass. Republicans for Truth, I referred to my bolg in the commnents.

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      If that is wrong, let me know.

      • embedding in BMG comments links to pertinent diaries on your own blog is perfectly legit, as far as I am concerned.

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        but a flag did go up for me when i read this diary.  not that i feel it is “wrong”, more i feel it is pathetic.  this guy tried posting full diaries before, and got little to no response.  he tried posting comments, but that failed too because they were hit & run only and made little sense.  he is hungry for attention, and so composes these inane diaries to funnel traffic to his blog.  i think it’s sad.  i hope he comes to realize that people will gladly discourse with him, when he sets out something worthwhile to discourse on and actually follows up with dialogue.

      • You didn’t create a diary with the express interest of pulling readers off of the BMG site to your own site.  You posted a comment linking to where you had already written extensively on a subject that some other diarist wrote about.  That’s a huge difference for me.

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        You want to use this blog to advertise?  Put a link to your blog in your sig, and write interesting posts here to gain credibility and clicks.  Or, buy banner ads.  But it seems suspect to write a teaser diary with the content on another blog.  If you maintain more than one blog, that’s cool — double post, or convince an editor of this site to post a diary linking to yours.  What francislholland did just doesn’t sit well with me, although I can’t quite put a finger on why… which is why I asked the editors here, as well as other bloggers on this site who do have strong credibility (and I may have missed some — the list of PP, LinL, and Ryan isn’t exhaustive).

    • …if the blogger doesn’t toot his or her own horn, it’s unlikely that he or she will get much traffic.

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      If you click on the blog and you like what you see, go back.  If you don’t ignore it.  It isn’t that complicated.

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      At least it’s not an ad for Viagra (or at least I presume it isn’t, I didn’t click) which you see on other comment threads.

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