Get More Readers with Triberr
One of the greatest challenges faced by bloggers is getting more people to read your content.
Many people use paid advertising to drive traffic. Some enter into a barter scenario with a “you click my link and I’ll click yours” mentality. Still others have devised intricate schemes which trick people into clicking a link.
The first method is often viable, though risky for those with small budgets.
The second scenario can work, but you may find yourself sharing content that isn’t really appropriate for your particular niche.
The latter is just another way to game the system.
That’s why I am happy to have discovered a site that doesn’t cost a penny but delivers more targeted readers than any of the other methods for driving traffic.
The site is called Triberr.com, and it is a community of bloggers who share and discuss content that is submitted through the site.
True to the spirit of natural selection, the hundreds of bloggers who belong to this site read, discuss and share content that they believe will be of interest to their Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn followers.
There are dozens of tribes in a number of categories, including business, entertainment, design, education, health, photography, sports, religion and more.
Simply seek out a tribe and ask to be included. The person responsible for the tribe will check out your blog and approve you if your content is a good fit for their tribe.
By attaching the RSS feed for your blog and connecting your social media accounts, your new blog entries will appear on the dashboard of your tribemates.
For example, this is what a recent login to my dashboard showed as available.
By clicking in the “approve” box, I authorize Triberr.com to post to the social accounts of my choosing. I am also able to set posts to time-release, so they don’t all hit at once.
On the “My Posts” tab, I can see which of my blog posts displayed to my tribemates. The stats reveal how many times my posts were clicked on the site, as well as the number of shares my posts received.
This is content curation at it’s most communal and organic.
I only approve posts I truly believe add value to my followers. The rest I pass on and leave to someone else to share.
I’ve had the opportunity to speak with Dino Dogan, one of the founders of Triberr. He told me that the site has over 50,000 tribes and they drive over two million monthly visits to their member sites.
He’s got a great vision for growing this community. I am happy to share it with you today in hopes that you will find a tribe or two that best suits you.
I’ve even started my OWN Tribe which I’d like to invite you to be a part of!
Ready to get started? Join “Friends of Joel Comm” on Triberr.com now! When you do, it will notify me that you wish to follow. I will then promote you to Member status so you can connect your blog to the tribe. Easy, right?
Have you used Triberr.com? Or have you discovered similar sites that accomplish the same goal? Please leave your comments below!
Hi Joel,
It is truly an honor to have you write about Triberr.
I remember a long time ago, sitting at Barnes and Noble, drinking coffee, and reading Twitter Power to learn all about this weird new thing called Twitter 🙂
It was YOU who gave me my sea legs on Twitter. So to have you endorse Triberr in such a strong way is truly a milestone. Thank you 🙂
Dino
Founder of Triberr
I like and use Triberr. Dino, Triberr cofounder, is doing all he can to make it the next best hope for people and I admire his passion and ambition.
Foremost, Triberr has helped me to connect with some awesome people (authors and bloggers) and put some great content in front of my eyes. Triberr also helped drive some traffic to my blog – however not as much traffic as is driven by my Facebook fanpage or G+.
One of the big challenges of free Triberr (after the great divide when automated tweets became a cost center) is the same as you note above about the second scenario. Actually, that does not concern me (or Dino, I suppose) because we both think that a focus on niche is overrated.
Another big challenge of free Triberr is the problem of selection. In other words, if you don’t approve my posts, I won’t approve your posts. Maybe, we don’t have the time. I’ve gone from having hundreds of Tweets about my links for every blog post come down to about twenty or so. That’s a diminishing return to be sure.
I’d like to see mutually automated tribes for a subscription of $100/year per 20 members. And you can tell Dino I said that. [laughing]
HI Joel, thanks for a useful post. I’ve signed up on your recommendation. What a guy..
Great Post Joel,
Its My First Time knowing about the Site and I couldn’t wait but Joined after reading Your post about, Have already connected my Blog, Installed the Plugin to My WordPress Blog and ready to go tribing and meet other tribers.
Thanks for sharing and For the Guys who put up the Site a Big Thumbs up to you Guys.
How do you pick a tribe? There are so many and lots of overlap. Any suggestions?
Sounds like a great way to connect and build a following with related blogger’s audiences. I do see a problem where bloggers in similar markets prefer to create their own tribe resulting in many similar tribes. That would mean a blogger would have to search around to join several tribes. Would be great if there was a way to connect to others like in Linkedin.
Great to hear you’ve installed the plugin. Lemme know if you ever need any help configuring it or encounter any issues.
You can always ping me on twitters 🙂 @dinodogan
It’s best to build your own tribe. You can source people from other tribes or invite people like Joel did.
Basically, you want to be in a tribe with the greatest % of awesome bloggers 🙂
We’re rolling out an effort to help people understand tribe building strategies beyond the same niche, which is always the first and most obvious strategy.
Some of my fav strategies are location based (I’m in NYBloggers tribe, for example), event based (I’ve created BlogWorld2013 conference tribe), and sharing-destination specific (everyone must connect LinkedIn, for example).
More on tribe building strategies soon 🙂
Thnx for joining Triberr 🙂
How do you set the posts to time-release? I’m not seeing a way to do that.
This is a great story! It is amazing how God brings things full circle.
Congrats on Triberr Dino! I’m ready to join since this is the first blogging system that really makes sense to me. Love the Tribe concept!
Thank you Joel for all your great information! I miss seeing you at HHBC. You were always one of my absolute favorite visitors to come see Ken S. when I was his AA. Prayers to your family!!!
The default is every 20 minutes (if memory serves), but you can control the time window in your Tribal Stream by clicking on Settings on the right. Mine is set to every 40 minutes.
hth 🙂
Estas tribos funcionam para blogs em lingua portuguesa?
Well at last found something useful. I am a Blogger and looking for exact same thing to increase Readers for my Blog. I have just Signed up Triberr. Lets See!!