It’s all in a bit of fun and not to be taken seriously or is it?
One True Fan can only be described as a blogging/website game, you the player gain points just by visiting your favourite sites and showing other what you are a One True Fan of.
But even though it is all for fun, One True Fan can be used for its potential backlinks, just imagine people becoming a fan of your blog via the site, at that point a link to your site is placed on their profile page along with pages they have shared from your site and all these links are DoFollow, hmmm tasty.
I’ve been “playing” One True Fan for a little while now after seeing a tweet from @Ileane and noticing that it came from the site, so I just had to check it out, you connect via Twitter Oauth and then add a browser plugin to register the sites you are surfing, I’m using Chrome and luckily they have an extension for you.
When surfing you have a box at the bottom of the screen that allow you to check in (I do this automatically it’s quicker), you can also share the page you are visiting via Twitter, Facebook and Delicious, you gain points for doing this. You can also gain “patches” such as ones for sharing posts, adding facebook etc.
Now to the nitty-gritty, One True Fan is really just for fun, yes it can be used to help out with some backlinks to your blog and posts, but it is just a simple, but entertaining.
The only downside is, as they and others can see what websites you are visiting, this could in turn, lead to this information being used for marketing purposes, but I suppose most sites have that potential. But as I said earlier, it’s all just a bit of fun.
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Hmm, no comments I feel lonely here.
It looks fun and I signed up, now I just have to figure out how it works.
By the way, Congratulations on your 700th post
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Thanks Alex, I didn’t realise I’d hit the 700 mark, wow, time flies
Twitter: ronniedare
I can call this one as building backlinks while having fun. Great share and find Karen.
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Thanks Ron, but I can’t take all the credit, it was @Ileane that led me to it in the first place
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Hey Karen, I think One True Fan is a blast! I like when you take over and become One True Fan of a given site and the Tweet say “whose house? my house” LOL. You and I go back and forth being One True fan of CommentLuv and BloggerLuv. I think it’s a cool way for us to keep up with each other and make sure we visit our favorite sites so we can take back the crown.
Thanks for playing the game with me Karen!
Twitter: BlazingMinds
True fan or an avid follower of your blog sites are maybe have the best similarity that we could compared with. I’m becoming a wide reader when I started to create my own blogs and I had just found out myself to be a passionate blogger. Yeah, we admit that this is one of the good ways of gaining back links but in “give and take” manner. Blogging is just game that needs to be enjoyed. However, rules must always be followed. Thanks Karen. Another healthy idea coming from you.
Twitter: davelucas
Hi Karen!
Since you are already active in OTF, is there any way you can check and gauge the vulnerabilty of the system? Is it open to exploitation by hackers or evil technogeeks? Are people other than blogger Aldon experiencing computer system slowdowns when using it?
Aside from my poor old PC “too slow already” I’ve had troubles in the past when trying to add a toolbar or plug-in or extension.
You’ll find some of my experiences here:
http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2010/11/300-drops-whats-point.html
PLEASE feel free to respond via commenting on the above article!
Cheers!
Twitter: BlazingMinds
My PC has been running smoothly with no slow downs since using OTF, may be you need an upgrade to your computer
Twitter: seommotips
I saw a few tweets from @Ileane mentioning My True One Fan and got curious. She pointed me to this post after I inquired here. Thanks for the nice explanation. Why should I not have this small fun?
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What’s life without a bit of fun anyway
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I saw the tweets by Ileane too and made a mental note to check it out; you just reminded me to read the “note” … thanks!
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Well there you go you see! I do have my uses every now and again
Twitter: comptalks
Saw the demo on techcrunch disrupt but never tested it as it will eventually slow down the website (my own opinion )
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Interesting post. It never hurts to have more backlinks, no? Thank you this post Karen. I have to try this.
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Let me know what you think after you’ve had some time with it
Twitter: zdan06
Maybe I can consider this strategy as good link building. Just seen the video many times and I am starting to use it. I will give feedback whenever there is positive response.
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I just got involved in One True Fan today after a Louis Gray mention. Because it’s beta, things are pretty rough, and I’m still trying to figure out the patch hierarchy, but it seems intriguing.
I think this is one of the unique technique of link building and I want to try this for blog for gathering more backlinks.
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I did inquired here. Thanks for the nice explanation. Why should I not have this small fun?
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