How I Found You Online

From time to time I am asked by visitors to this blog how I found them. Usually, their visit here is preceded by my visit over there. When asked I reply personally with the details, if known. Whatever other comments about their article or site they want from me I’ll share that information with them too.

Well, just how did I find you? Let me count some of the possible ways:

• Since making this blog more comment friendly and signing up with two “do follow” or “I follow” communities, I will often visit those bloggers who are part of these communities to see what they are all about. If there is something of interest to me, I will stop by, perhaps leave a comment which will link to this blog, or you may simply see my mugshot appear on your social network widget.
• When someone joins one of my MyBlogLog communities, I try to stop by their website or blog as soon as possible.
• I frequent Digital Point mostly to jabber (screen name: MattKNC) and I occasionally visit Sitepoint (screen name: thearticlewriter), especially when I have something to sell.
• I will read what many of my freelance writing contemporaries have to say on their blogs. When I discover someone new, I like to visit that blog too.
• When I use StumbleUpon (screen name: MattKeegan) I will stumble through a particular subject (such as internet tools) or I will stumble a friend’s pages. When I find something I like, I’ll stop in for a longer visit and leave a comment (or a thumb’s up) from time to time.
• I am fairly new to BUMPzee (screen name: MattK), my name is still with MySpace and Spicy pages, and I just this past week had my account approved for BlogCatalog (screen name: MattK).
• I plan on joining LinkedIn eventually, but I think I’ll sit Twitter out.

Oh, there are times when I randomly find someone’s site through Google search. Yes, despite my reliance on social networks these days, I still will use Google to help me find something online which may take me directly to your site.