Resource Links

Bloggers place links in their posts to promote something, to reach the audience in a particular way or to provide useful and in depth information on a specific field. The links that provide useful information definitely have to be present in a blog post in case you want to gain more interest to the topic but yet they have to be a small number because you want people to click on them. The best way to go about this is by adding the resource link when you summarize or analyze a certain topic. Another good way of doing it is by adding links at the end of your post which takes your visitors to other blog posts that relate to yours. It is really good if you link to your blog posts on a regular basis. A lot of experts in the SEO field know the fact that this can help you raise the value of the pages youaˆ™re linking to.

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Most of the top bloggers have an already established consistent traffic and regular readers if you will. The tricks that some of them are leveraging in order to gain traffic are so diverse and unique that you would be amazed to find out how they utilize all sorts of traffic gaining techniques.

Bloggers like John Chow and Darren Rowse are just two of the bloggers that have used the design change as means of getting traffic. Before we analyze their success and the tools they’ve used we have to mention that these two blogs are renowned for delivering useful information revealing different ways of making money through your blog. So one has to agree that these methods will most probably be successful if your blog has already attracted a consistent traffic and you just want to maintain it by implementing the new design look.

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What does this have to do with blogging? Everything! Good content will always be good content. Recently I stumbled on some web revenue rankings on the web. The rankings were calculated after an analysis of several factors which determine the blogs with the most popular status and the greatest influence on the Internet.

It turns out that ProBlogger is topping the charts which made think about how he is doing it. The blog is successful mainly because it gives people the answer to the question “How do I make money with my blog?” We learn from this blog some tactics that we can no doubt trust and take into consideration if we want to enjoy the blogging success, like receiving loads of comments on each post and maintaining our consistent traffic stable, even increase it.

Every blogger is presenting to his/her readers and visitors a piece of content focused on specific field or topic. In the blog world the comments have the value of money as in real life. If you manage to get a lot of comments on a particular post, this undoubtedly means that you have managed to sell the idea to the audience. Here are some tips we learn from Problogger about successful blogging:

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Build Your Reputation

By guest blogging a lot of new people will get to know you and your blog. This will no doubt establish you as an expert in your field, and improve your reputation. But it’s not only that. You also provide your readers with a different perspective and widen the scope of your blog’s topic.

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Engadget and its giveaways made a great impact on the blog’s comments. The “have-an-iphone-on-us” post received the amazing 25 451 comments which is the most commented post I have ever seen. The next example shows us how John Chow used one and the same contest three times. The four hour woorkweek book prize proved to be a tempting prize which nobody wanted to loose. Look at the pure blogging contest. The guy behind the scenes of this blog has learned from John Chow’s experience and has managed to pull off a good contest.

These were some of the examples I found on the web. All the bloggers aim at building high traffic and establishing a loyal community which will comment their posts regularly. The contest could really help you bloggers achieve that. Here is what you need to know and perform so that you get positive results from the blog contest:

Idea

A contest with a good idea which is directly targeting the niche is the key factor for a good kick start. Stuff that the readers would want are more likely to succeed and to be commented and praised than others. Of course the idea that stands behind the contest should be plain enough so that more people would be able to join and participate.

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You know that there are a lot of rankings and statistics of blogs on the web with regards to their page rank, inbound links, monthly visitors, alexa ranking and so forth. I still haven’t seen a ranking or statistics disclosing information on the most commented blog posts. What are the top ones? Well, I am about to give you a small compilation of mine with the top five most commented posts. I realize that this is not the real deal for sure, because there are loads of blogs out there and it is practically impossible to check all of them. Anyway, here goes:

Number 1

The most commented topic I have stumbled so far is one that was posted on Engadget. The topic received the outstanding 25 451 comments. The simple explanation for that is the Engadget giveaways! They were giving away lots of prizes, and to enter, you had to leave a comment. The response was pretty awesome as you can see. With all those comments, four more with more than 10,000 comments, 6 posts with more than 5,000 comments, and 21 posts with more than 1,000 comments. This means that while Engadget and the industry in general are posting more news and products about cell phones and portable audio, Engadget readers are more interested in gaming and informative feature posts.

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Top 10 Ranking Factors in 2005:

1. Title Tag (4.57)
2. Anchor Text of Links (4.46)
3. Keyword Use in Document Text (4.3)
4. Accessibility of Document (4.3)
5. Links to Document from Site-Internal Pages (4.15)
6. Primary Subject Matter of Site - (4.00)
7. External Links to Linking Pages (3.92)
8. Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community (3.77)
9. Global Link Popularity of Site (3.69)
10. Keyword Spamming (3.69)

Top 10 Ranking Factors in 2007:

1. Keyword Use in Title Tag (4.9)
2. Global Link Popularity of Site (4.5)
3. Anchor Text of Inbound Link (4.4)
4. Link Popularity within the Site’s Internal Link Structure (4.1)
5. Age of Site (4)
6. Topical Relevance of Inbound Links to Site (3.9)
7. Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community (3.9)
8. Keyword Use in Body Text (3.9)
9. Global Link Popularity of Linking Site (3.7)
10. Topical Relationship of Linking Page (3.6)

1 Keyword Use in Title Tag

Comparing the two listings we can undoubtedly say that the title tags are the ultimate king in SEO. This means only one thing. You have to choose the titles for your pages very carefully, so that they match the content.However, having duplicate titles on your site pages extremely lowers the ranking ability of them. Those pages compete on internal links and title tag relevance, that is why it is important to have a unique title on each page.

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A communities service that empowers authors and readers to operate at the same level. For the first time, everyone who reads a web site or blog can learn about and engage with one another, and in the process take the conversation to a whole new level. This tenth place goes to MyBlogLog with an estimated value of $10 - $12 million.

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Digg has now over a million of users reading, submitting and commenting on stories. Though the percentage of submitted stories is a smaller figure compared to the dugg and commented stories it is still a big number of stories to go through. You have to find the most unique, intriguing and exclusive ( why not shocking ) story and submit it at the right time filed under the right category. Otherwise you might be submitting stories that will never get noticed though they seem interesting to you.

This mechanism and the expansion of the social media sites and Digg in particular has made a lot of people want to cheat or game the system so that they take their piece of the traffic cake. It has always been bothering me how the same users make it to the front page every single day. Some say they have the skills and manage to predict and track stories that can be successful and popular. Skills Schmills. Does 150 equal 29? According to this screenshot it does! Wow this is a breakthrough in mathematics. No it isn’t! This is another way of cheating as I see it.
This is one big mob like community which cannot be controlled so easily and you can not actually predict what is going to be favoured and what is not. That is why you have to question everything you read and its content.

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Most of the copywriters and online marketers know the importance of the catchy headlines and the wording that they put to them. This very popular strategy (also known as the AIDA formula) can really help online writers in particular to write eye catching headlines:

“Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice.” This is a story posted on Digg that received like 8656 Diggs. The story explains how researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy way to produce a drug that kills almost all cancers. Let’s brake down the headline and see it from a different angle. We sure can learn a hell of a lot from it.

Attention

Use in the headlines words and phrases that make people react like “What the hell!” To achieve that result you have to make sure that you have this grabbing word or phrase within the headline. No one takes notice: This is the trigger part which drives the reader’s interest beyond curiosity. This is the phrase that makes the reader read the whole text. The reader now wants to find what the reason for this neglect is.

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