The Most Commented
Posted on August 13, 2007
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Blogging! What makes people blog? And, most importantly, what makes people comment on these blogs? Some would say the content, others would mention something else.
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.
Rank Among The Best
Posted on August 3, 2007
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SEOmoz recently announced the brand spanking new Google ranking factors. This is a very valuable piece of information for determining how to approach your SEO strategy. We can observe the changes of the Top 10 most important factors since 2005 till now.
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.
Community Sites - Show Me The Money
Posted on July 26, 2007
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You have probably seen many different rankings and listings when it comes to sites that are revolving round communities. Most of them have been ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. I am about to shed some light on the ten most expensive community sites. This ranking has been done according to verified deals in the past. Have a look and learn who the big boys are:
10
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.
Digging the Social Media Grave?
Posted on July 16, 2007
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There is a shed load of people nowadays trying to reap benefits from online social media by performing the so called social marketing which basically involves promoting content through sites like Digg.
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.
Headline Writing Secrets That Will Grab Your Readers By The Eyeballs!
Posted on July 5, 2007
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If you want to enjoy a great readership, you’ve got to perform several key methods when writing. First, you’ve got to get the attention of your readers. Second, you’ve got to catch their interest. Then, you’ve got to arouse their desire. And last but not least you’ve got to make sure that you make a call to action.
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.