Triberr is built for 99% of blogs in the blogosphere - blogs that previously got little or no website traffic.
That canāt be bad! šš
In the words of Dino Dogan, the founding father of Triberr, hereās the thing:
Triberr is not really the one driving traffic. Triberr is only a tool.
Itās up to each and every one of us to build quality tribes, and write quality content. Triberr is simply a platform that helps you leverage existing relationships you have with bloggers, and build new ones.
Iāve been using Triberr and recommending it to other bloggers almost since its inception.
Itās about time I actually published a post on what Triberr does, what it doesnāt do, and how to use it to establish your blog presence.
What Is Triberr?
from Triberrās original FAQ
At its core, Triberr is a platform to manage groups called Tribes.
A tribe is a group of people, typically bloggers, who write about the same topics.
For example, if I were a food blogger, Iād look for a tribe that consists of other food bloggers.
More examples of common interest tribes built around a specific subject, topic, or a niche:
- Writing
- Marketing
- Gardening
- Pets
- etc.
Examples of shared values are tribes built around a specific set of core values:
- Democrats
- Republicans
- Environmentalism
- Sustainability
- Education
- etc.
Yet more Triberr tribe examples:
- a tribe built around a location
Tucson Bloggers tribe bloggers from various markets (food, marketing, real estate, etc.) residing in one location:Tucson. - a tribe built around posting frequency
everyone in the tribe posts once per week - a tribe built around an event
stay in touch (in a meaningful way) with bloggers from a specific event
Once youāve identified a tribe to join, you can start by āfollowingā the tribe.
When you āfollowā a tribe, you are joining the group as an observer. This means you can see and share blog posts from the group, but they canāt see or share your blog posts. This is like an introduction period.
As soon as you follow a tribe, newly published posts from other tribe members will start to show up in your tribal stream:
Youāll have the option of approving and sharing those posts.
After youāve interacted with the tribe through sharing, commenting and engaging with members, the Chief may decide to promote you to a full fledged tribe member. As a full member, your posts will appear in the Tribal Stream of other tribe members for them to share, comment and engage with.
You may choose to create and run your own Triberr tribe, in which case you will have the ability to invite, promote or remove members and followers at your discretion.
I realize that this very short summary of Triberr wasnāt exactly “value-added”, so I took my time to put together this Slideshare presentation to walk you through establishing your own Triberr presence step by step:
Use this presentation step by step to establish (or re-establish) your Triberr presence.
For more Triberr tutorials, visit Triberr knowledge base.
Other Triberr Uses
I am all for multitasking.
The more I can do with fewer tools, the better.
Here are just some ideas to how to maximize your time on Triberr.
Use Triberr as a Content curation tool
Whether you do link roundups or comment on other blogs or simply want to keep up with great content on the web, Triberr can help you to kill all those birds with one stone.
Use Triberr as a Google Reader alternative
Similarly to using Triberr as a content creation tool, you can use it an alternative to the dying dead Google reader.
Use Triberr for Guest posting
Waiting for someone to notice your awesome content is not nearly as effective as finding blogs that are a perfect match for your post and suggesting to the bloggers to reblog it.
As you can imagine, you need to proceed with caution here - building relationships first and asking to reblog later is the best way to go.
Use Triberr Commenting System
Yes, Triberr has its own commenting system.
You can easily implement it on your blog with Triberr plugin for WordPress.
Why would you want to do it?
I am usually not in favor of using third-party commenting systems, but Triberr commenting is different.
First of all, it doesnāt replace the native WordPress system - it can be used in addition to it.
And hereās where Triberr commenting is brilliant: it syncs comments no matter where you post it.
For instance, your blog post shows up in your Triberr tribeās stream.
Someone comments on your post from Triberr stream - that comment shows up on your blog post on your blog as well. If someone reblogs your post, that very comment will show up on that reblogged post as well.
Time-saver? You bet.
From Dino Doganās Time Management Platform For Bloggers post:
Use Triberr to Share Different Content
Hereās a tip: your blog is not that only feed you can share on Triberr.
In theory, you can share your content hosted on any third-party platform on Triberr.
The “good to knowās”:
- Think of sites that host valuable content written/created by you; good examples are YouTube and Slideshare.
- You can add as many RSS feeds as you want under your account settings (screenshot below), but assign only one RSS feed per tribe.
Go under Account Settings => My blogs => Add Blog.
As you can see, I added my YouTube channel as one of the “blogs”.
Once you add your RSS feeds, under Add Blog, you need to assign each blog to a tribe.
Click on Assign Tribes and pick what youād like to share with each tribe.
If you are a member of several tribes, itās nice to share different content you publish on other third-party websites and not just your own blog - as long as that content is of high quality and matches the tribe interests, of course.
You can take this a step further: create tribes that share only YouTube videos or Slideshare presentations.
You can assign a different blog to a tribe every 30 days.
#TriberrFail
Yes, Triberr has had its ups and downs.
Hereās the other side of the coin:
Is Triberr Divisive? by Jack Steiner
The evolution of Triberr has changed so that the average member doesnāt receive the āautomagicalā sharing of their posts that we once did and consequently people spend more time looking at reciprocity.
In simple terms that means that they donāt want to share your posts unless you are sharing theirs. In concept it sounds simple but in practice it reminds me of my children screaming āplay fair.ā
Utter Triberr Fail - in this post, Katrina Joyner writes:
[Triberr] itās a wonderful premise. In a world less centered around teaching our kids not to share hairbrushes, car rides, the air we breathe it would work out great. Lately, however, not so much for me and triberr. Iāve noticed a marked lack of reciprocal sharing. I share othersā posts. They donāt share mine. Week after week, nothing changes. I share. They donāt. To be quite frank, Iāve been feeling a little used.
A Triberr Confessional - Amy McCloskey Tobin at SpinSucks.com
Before I quit using Triberr, I decided to take some responsibility regarding how I was choosing to use it. I stopped sharing all of my tribematesā posts, and took the retribution from some choosing not to share mine anymore either. I began to see Triberr as a curation tool. I did have a lot of great bloggers in my tribes, so instead of blaming Triberr for how I used it, I started to regard it as a safe keeping spot for blogs I intended to read.
Bottom line: YOU create your Triberr experience.
You want to be respected for sharing only quality content on Twitter - via Triberr or any other means? You can do that.
You want to create a cream of the crop tribe in your niche? You can do that.
You want to pollute your Twitter followersā stream with mediocre posts just for the sake of sharing? You can do that too.
My Best Triberr Traffic Generation Advice
Triberr is not about traffic generation; itās about influence.
Influence canāt be measured in Google Analytics, and thatās why so many bloggers give up on Triberr so quickly. They donāt see enough of tangible ROI (i.e. traffic), so they decide Triberr is not worth their time.
I get a lot of traffic from them [Triberr], it can be hard to tell exactly how much, since a lot of the traffic is derived from twitter or wherever others are sharing your content.
With my personal growth blog, my #1 referrer of traffic is twitter and #3 is Triberr itself. Twitter is the #2 referrer for my author blog and most of my tweets are from Triberr.
~Stacy Claflin in a comment on my Facebook fan page
I am not saying Triberr works like a charm for every blogger in every niche. But I do hope youāll give it a fair shake.
Hereās how:
1. Give Triberr time
Just like everything in business, building influence with Triberr takes time. Us wishing it wasnāt so is not going to speed up the process.
2. Use Triberr instead of Twitter
Itās much easier to cut through the noise on Triberr than it is on Twitter.
Itās easier to network, get noticed, create a following.
Twitter influence will be a result of your Triberr influence.
3. Donāt Get Caught in Numbers
Numbers are always tempting, even when we know they are a bunch of hot air. Itās just human nature.
And so it is with Triberr. Itās very tempting to be a member of dozens of tribes with millions of Twitter followers.
However, let me put it into a prospective for you:
- Ana Hoffman has just over 3,500 Twitter followers (not much by some bloggersā standards, BUT these are all organically grown followers - people who actually want to hear from her, read her tweets, and actively share them).
- A blogger youāve never heard of with a mediocre site has over 100,000 followers (many of them have egg-shaped profile pics and constantly tweet about getting thousands of new Twitter followers in a day or two).
Which one would you rather share your post?
I love this word of warning from Nicole Cook.
WARNING: Do not get caught up in a numbers game.
At the beginning, I had a reach of over 700,000 people amongst the tribes I was in. I felt like I was on top of the world.
I was terrified when I decided to leave a few tribes that my stats would fall. But that actually didnāt happen. Guess what? They rose.
Because now I am in Tribes that match my niche, their followers are engaged which is truly the most important partā (itās hard to be engaged with users when you have thousands of people youāre following and youāre not actually ātalkingā to them, but just spurting out tweets all day to posts you havenāt read.)
I wound up with hundreds of new followers, tons of new readers that actively visit daily or near daily and engagement ā actually getting to know other bloggers. That was my goal and I was successful.
Originally, I was not getting near the number of hits I have gotten in the past several months after removing myself from those huge tribes with no specific niche.
I will stress it again, use Triberr wisely ā itās not as much about the reach as you think if youāre not in the right tribes. So while your reach may decrease by leaving a tribe that doesnāt fit, if you join up in another tribe that is more your niche, even with smaller numbers ā youāll watch your stats climb.
Well said, Nicole, and that quote brings me to my next point:
4. Create Your Own Tribe
Yes, people are fed up with tribe invites. There are way too many tribes out there as it is.
But listen: creating your own tribe with a few highly targeted bloggers that create great content in your niche is the single best (and quickest) way for you (and them) to be well on your way to increasing your Twitter influence and website traffic.
This would be akin to another traffic generation strategy I used to put Traffic Generation CafƩ on the map of internet marketing blogs to reckon with: building your own commenting tribe. Triberr is the perfect platform to give that traffic strategy a face lift.
Building a great tribe will take time. Youāll have to go through a few deadbeats who just wonāt share no matter how hard you try. Or theyāll be full of excitement when they first start, share a few posts, but then realize they have to work for it after all, and simply stop showing up.
Itāll happen.
Cut them loose and move on.
Keep looking for people who want the same thing you do: to share quality content with their followers, gain new followers and readers, and building a long-term authority for themselves and their sites.
5. Make Triberr a Habit
Triberr will only work for you if you show up. Regularly.
So make it a habit to stop by once a day. Or every other day.
Just like you make it a habit to visit Twitter or Facebook. Or check your email. Or respond to comments.
Engagement doesnāt happen automatically.
6. Start an Atomic (Automatic) Tribe
Do you use Twitterfeed, Hootsuite, MarketMeStuite, or any other sharing platform to automatically tweet the latest blog posts from your favorite blogs?
I hope you do; itās a great way to provide valuable content to your followers and avoid blowing your own trumpet all the time.
Thatās exactly what automatic Triberr tribes are about - they allow your fans to automatically share your blog posts with their Twitter followers.
Itās good for the tribe members and their followers - they donāt have to remember to share your posts; and itās good for you - you get retweets without having to beg for them.
It does take true super-fans to build an automatic tribe though. Your content has to be top-notch, but whatās the point of having a blog if your content sucks to begin with, right?
Thereās one catch with automatic tribes though: you have to be a Prime member to start one (it was $40/month last time I checked).
Triberr Marketing Takeaway
Triberr is definitely a powerful tool to launch or expand your online influence and reach.
It simply works.
Whether you figure out how to put it to work for YOU is entirely up to… you guessed it - YOU.
Have fun storming Triberr!
From Ana with
Hello Ana, thank you for sharing this fantastic post of yours, this is very useful and very entertaining to read. I hope that you will have a wonderful day to day. I am looking forward for more articles that you will publish soon.
Honored, Armando! š
Hi Ana, Iām not so familiar to this Triberr thatās why I searched it to gather some information. I think this is useful stuff and will explore more for further my benefits. The good thing is itās free.
Hi Anna,
I have just finished watching the video. Now Iām trying to order my paper notes and put them into a file. I always like to have the information organized.
Maybe I am too romantic and I get too easily hooked by beautiful words but, I like very much the following:
Anna: “If you have 10 minutes a day for social media, donāt spend it on Twitter or Facebook, spend it on Triberr.” “It saves time and grows your influence like nothing else does.”
Dino: “Itās a change in mindset.” “Itās a movement to equalize the blogosphere, to create a middle class of bloggers, a creative class that can make a living online, location independent.”
I must say that I like the video and the idea. I also think Triberr is on the verge of explosion. Sooner or later, everybody will be there. Why not take advantage now?
I clicked on that link to your tribe. There is only one member: you! The rest are followers. Even Dino is a follower !
OK. So the only purpose is to share your content. I found there about 60 posts (!). It doesnāt matter so much because the content is valuable (at least this is what I imagine).
I have a question though. When a new follower arrives in your tribe and see this list of post he must share, he becomes somehow confused. What to do ? Share all the posts? In what order? With what frequency? Share only the last 5-10 ?
Of course you must read them but I imagine they are all valuable so the question is legitimate.
Maybe it would be a good idea to create some kind of guidelines there for new kids to know what to do.
Congratulations. I always like people who fight for a cause.
Have a nice day
Thanks for watching the interview, Silviu; sounds like you took some great notes.
Automatic tribe is different from a regular tribe - itās designed to automatically share the founderās posts, sort of like you would do with Twitterfeed or any other RSS sharing tool.
You donāt really have to do anything to share automatic tribe posts; all future posts will be shared. However, if you do want to go an extra mile, itās certainly great to share some past posts that draw your attention.
Hi Anna,
Thank you for the reply. “Automatic tribe”? LOL! So thatās the reason there are no members. Only followers.
Yesterday I had no idea about automated tribes. No Iām a follower in one of them. š Just because I decided to take some action.
WOW! You need people who trust you very, very much. I remember someone who warned me about automatic tribes.
However, this is a great chance to know the truth. I trust you and think that all your content is high quality so I wonāt leave the tribe. If it works, I have great content, for free, shared automatically without me moving a finger. If it doesnāt work, Iāll be more wise.
Now, great content, from top influencers, shared automatically … What a dream!
My mind is constantly focused on one thing: to create a system. A system that will AUTOMATICALLY manage all the information: the information that comes to me and the information that goes from me. As Corey Rudl said, in one of his courses: “Plan on setting everything up to be automated right from the beginning and let your computer do the bulk of the work for you.” This way I will be able to do creative work = things that I love.
This is what I want. Why? Obviously because hard work (done manually) doesnāt work.
Examples:
I posted 1000 post on facebook in 10 months (manually). For this work I was rewarded with 100 friends.
I pinned 6000 pins in 6 months on Pinterest, manually. Reward? 100 followers.
Now I know. Hard work is far from being enough. You need smart work. So: automate everything you can, organize all the work into a system and focus only on the best part (creation, relationships). I think this is the road to success. If your content helps me, I will be happy to promote it.
My question for your is: How frequent do you post? Once a day, 2 times a day? Once every two days?
Thank you very much for the reply
Have a nice and creative day
Silviu
I have a few bloggers on automatic sharing, Silviu, and yes, theyāve all consistently shown that they write the kind of content Iād be willing to share with my followers in a heartbeat.
And I completely understand what you mean about automation. Thereās no way we can afford to spend hours upon hours connecting, sharing, etc. Itās just not a great use of our time.
In the beginning of Traffic Generation CafĆ©, I managed to find my silver Twitter bullet - I developed a formular using Tweet Adder that brought be thousands of visitors who turned into readers and followers. With all the latest changes in Twitter, it doesnāt work that way any longer, but it doesnāt mean Iāll stop looking for the next one.
At the moment, I am very inconsistent with social media, but you see, you can afford it once you have a following. While you are in the process of getting a following, consistency is definitely the key. Iād suggest posting at least 3 times a day on FB and G+ and a lot more often on Twitter - more noise needs a more serious action.
Getting connected with people though is where the key is.
I think these websites should use a common phrase or something for their features. It gets so much confusing!
Anyways, how is triberr is different than sites like scoopit, stumbleupon?
I donāt know if that sounds like an intelligent question but I couldnāt understand much about Triberr!
Itās certainly nothing like the sites you mentioned, Rohan. https://trafficgenerationcafe.online/triberr-guide/
Although I couldnāt watch the video (yet), as bloggers, we all need any (legal) way of generating traffic. Triberr is worth taking a good look at. Thanks Traffic Generation Cafe.
You are welcome, Denzil.
Good day Ana, Iāve been on Triberr a few days now, is the site naturally slow? My connection is fine, and the rest of my internet speed is perfect. Itās just Triberr that takes 20 minutes to post a comment. Do you know if there is a problem with the site?
Thank you.
I havenāt noticed, Denzil; seems to be working fine. However, stop by their bonfires and see if thereās any mention of a problem or bring it to their attention.
Hi Ana:
How are you?
You got me confused here ā
What is Triberr???
Can you please let me know?
Take care.
Best wishes and regards.
Veena:)
https://trafficgenerationcafe.online/triberr-guide/
Itās very important to interact with people and that is one of the effective way that helps build your relationship faster with people and love your video, keep up the great work.
Thanks, Ferb.
Thanks Ana for the information. You made Triberr clearer for me now. I plan to use it now that I understand it more.
You are welcome, Sharron.
Hi Ana,
I just clicked to join your Tribe now, lets rock an roll on Triberr š
I read the other post you wrote about triberr and i enjoyed it a lot. I take this one as a continuation of the previous one :).
Thanks a lot for sharing and do have a fabulous weekend.
BTW: Please also extend my warm regards to your family.
MUCH appreciated, Theodore.
Iāve taken a look at Triberr and to me it just looks like another social media outlet for like minded individuals. And there is nothing wrong with that but other than possible networking opportunities I donāt see much advantage to it in terms of traffic. If I write about how to make a cat stand among 20 other people who are writing about it why bother to share it? Maybe Iām not seeing the full picture of it though?
Letās say we are in the same tribe, Adam, and one of your posts with a completely different approach to training a cat to stand catches my eye. Of course, Iāll share it with my followers, but you are right, that probably wonāt give you much traffic.
However, next time I am writing a post on the subject on my cat blog, Iāll remember that brilliant post of yours and mention it as a great additional read for my readers. Now THAT will definitely get you some traffic from other cat lovers, plus a link from my blog might help you to rank for some awesome cat standing keyword that will get you even more traffic.
And why stop there? Now that I know who you are and know that you write great content on the subject, I might mention you again or again or approach you with a JV offer or introduce you to other powerful bloggers in my niche. In other words, you are in. All thanks to Triberr.
Hi Adam,
When the Founder of the platform responds, it can often seam like a heavy-handed sale. So I hope my response doesnt come off that way.
With that in mind, allow me to elaborate on how Triberr is very different from any other platform out there.
Starting Triberr was a plan B. I didnt want to, but there was nothing else like it out there. Not even today.
I wanted a place where bloggers can connect with one another, and the place that will make things that bloggers do (writing, commenting, sharing, reading) quicker and painless.
If youāre a student of economy, they call this the cost of transaction. We want to minimize the cost of transaction for bloggers.
Simultaneously, itās built for maximum leverage.
Bottom line. Most people triple their traffic within 2 or 3 posts. You can syndicate other peopleās posts (and comments) as well. No one else has the comment syndication feature, only Triberr.
In other words, we are building solutions for bloggers because we are bloggers. You could say weāre scratching our own itch š
Hope that wasnt too much š
Cheers,
Dino
Founder of Triberr
Well said, Dino.
Nicely put Dino.
I created a Facebook group called “you share, I share” years ago. Then I realised that Triberr existed!
Triberr is definitely one of a kind, Konrad. And hey, thanks for coming by; itās been a while!
Hello Ana,
I have been using triberr for some months now and iāll say triberr is a good place to meet like minded bloggers. Triberr canāt give you that traffic you need but a good place to meet good friends. thanks
I think thatās exactly the point Dino was trying to make, Babanature - itās not necessarily about the raw traffic numbers, but in establishing your presence and recognition among our peers. Triberr is the perfect tool for that.
Iām a member of Triberr Ana, and itās a nice resource. Shares are way down and there are some recent problem but I think Dino knows it and is on top of things. Triberr is a network of some great bloggers and it takes some interaction to get the most from it. I could do a lot better from my end but I have met some great people there.
Thatās just it, Brian - Triberr is capable of giving us back exactly what we are willing to invest into it.
Oh Ana this one is a goodie. I love how you set it up as at the start with the newbie blogger.
I love hearing how newbies can use services like this it is so cool. There are so many different shiny objects out there, that is it is good to get to real deal.
One of the things I ran into, was determining if people were active or not on Triberr. Seems like many people are inactive.
Great interview.
Thanks, Ian.
Triberr, as any other social platform, changes over time. Even if someone is active there today, they might get tired of actually working for social media attention and drop out.
The trick to keeping a tribe active is to look for the “new blood” every once in a while. š
I like your ideas, Ana and your suggestions are always welcomed and on the point. I like Triberr and your post gave me more insights about its usage. Thank you very much for sharing!!!
Thanks, Takis!
Ana,
Thanks for the heads up on Triberr! But whereās your Triberr icon on your blog with a link to your Tribe? I joined but Iām sure others will want to know how to find you. Thanks again!
Hi Kevin,
We dont have a “follow me on Triberr”type icon….yet š
There are links to my tribe from Triberr posts, but thatās about it, Kevin. Reason: joining my tribe on Triberr, even though important, is far from being the primary conversion goal for Traffic Generation CafĆ©, so I donāt want to add it anywhere else on my blog.