There are a rare breed of people on big social networks, such as Digg, recognized by those web sites as their “Top Users”. These people barely think about anything else other than their mission to make that Social Network a better place, and to sustain their position as a top user. These people are usually the first ones to submit a viral post - not that they know it’s going to be viral and submit it - but, they are the ones who make it viral.

Strictly speaking, anything they touch would turn to gold.

When Plurk came out, I found it as a fun, innovative way of keeping in touch with friends - so, I just had to try it out. But it was impossible really hard to make sure the functioning of my Twitter account as well as the Plurk.

Why?

But first, why would a blogger like me a trying to make money should be concerned about keeping both of these functional? Because it’s killer traffic! You post something and announce it onto your followers on Twitter or Plurk! The interested ones will check it out - which will significantly bring you a lot of exposure provided that you have a targeted set of followers, great in numbers too…

If you’re interested about finding ways to build traffic to your blog with these services, check my earlier article - 2 Aggressive Social Media secrets that can really bring you traffic!

So, how do you do it?

I agree that Plurk and Twitter have their differences.

Well, in the beginning there was darkness, then came Twitter. It was the next big thing that everyone was talking about and was quite an addiction to the scores of people who were not eating, breathing, sleeping and even dreaming without posting on Twitter. And then, things started to get a bit ugly as the outages on Twitter, kept the whole Twitter community in dark for too long. That was till there was a new bird on the block - Plurk!

Plurk came at the right time with the right formula.

Forum traffic is good. Very good. But, I find many bloggers becoming too self centered in forums and can’t see any benefits beyond getting traffic for their blogs. And yeah, backlinks of course.

I find forums as the most powerful means of social networking. Everyone is familiar with the concept so I don’t need to go ahead and tell you the ABC’s of it right? The bottom line is that it lets you engage in fruitful conversations with other bloggers while getting some quality traffic and a ton of backlinks to your blog. But, do the benefits stop there?

To start off, what exactly is social media aggression? To make a long story short, “Aggressively promoting your blog regardless of the energy/time consumption for maximum returns”. It’s about really doing something aggressively and taking a risk to take your blog to the next level! There an thousand and one ways to “aggressively” promote your blog, social media sites being the killer joint.

So now, let’s take a look at where and how the aggression pays off.

MyBlogLog

Since my account had become inaccessible in BlogCatalog for no apparent reason, I’ve concentrated my efforts fully on Yahoo!’s MyBlogLog. And can’t say it hadn’t WOW!ed me. Backlinks are great.

Did you ever dreamt of connecting to your most loyal followers of MyBlogLog and connecting to them in all the social networks that they are listed in? For an example, you can follow a few of the people you got to know through MyBlogLog on Twitter, with a click of a button. Even if you dreamt it or not, if you’re trying to promote your blog through social media, you can surely make good use of such a tool right?

Well, it’s here - the MyBlogLog friend connector.

You can find this tool in the “add/manage friends” section of your MyBlogLog profile.

To make a long story short, As you can see in the image above, it conveniently lists all your friends and their available social media listings.