Top 25 Blogs About Blogging

The “Top 25 Blogs About Blogging” list ranks blogs according to their Google Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority.

Each of the four factors range from 0 to 10, where 10 is the best score. The maximum total score for each blog, therefore, is 40. There will be monthly updates. Below the table you will find the details about the algorithm (check also the Top 25 SEO Blogs).

#1	Problogger	6	10	10	10	36
#2	Copyblogger	6	9	10	10	35
#3	John Chow	6	10	6	10	32
#4	Quick Online Tips	6	8	10	6	30
#5	Daily Blog Tips	5	8	7	9	29
#6	Lorelle on Wordpress	6	8	6	9	29
#7	Dosh Dosh	4	9	5	9	27
#8	Performancing	7	8	1	10	26
#9	Weblog Tools Collection	6	9	5	6	26
#10	Blog Herald	6	7	4	9	26
#11	Blogging Pro	6	7	4	8	25
#12	Successful-Blog	6	6	4	8	24
#13	JohnTP	6	8	3	7	24
#14	Engtech	6	6	2	7	21
#15	Bloggers Blog	6	3	6	5	20
#16	Andy Beard	5	7	2	6	20
#17	ChrisG	5	6	4	4	19
#18	Converstations	5	3	5	6	19
#19	The Wrong Advices	5	4	1	5	15
#20	Business Blog Wire	6	2	2	4	14
#21	Alister Cameron	5	4	1	4	14
#22	Blog About Your Blog	4	5	1	4	14
#23	Blogtrepreneur	5	3	1	4	13
#24	I Help You Blog	4	3	2	2	12
#25	Build A Better Blog	6	1	3	1	11

Blogs considered: the list considers only blogs that have a high percentage of blogging-related content. Topics might range from blogging tips to monetization, from news to building communities or business blogs.

Google Pagerank (0 to 10): the actual Pagerank was used on the algorithm.

Alexa Rank (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on the Alexa Rank (i.e., 150k and up, 150k-100k, 100k-75k, 75k-50k) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Bloglines Subscribers (0 to 10): Subscriber ranges were determined (i.e., 1-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Technorati Authority (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on Technorati’s Authority rank(i.e., 1-100, 100-200, 200-400,400-600) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

(By: Dailyblogtips)

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Eric Giguere: 10 steps to increase your technorati ranking

Eric Giguere is the author of the book Make Easy Money with Google - Using the AdSense Advertising Program as we have read the review here. He is also the author of another book: Uncommon Adsense. These books give us good tips and experiences for using Google Adsense.

In this post I shall share you tips from Eric Giguere about how to increase your technorati ranking. I have read this here. My blog technorati ranking is low, and I'm learning day by day to increase it. All the best for you and me!

Following are the tips:

1. Consolidate your blogs into one. Ultimately, it's all about the links back to your blog. Multiple blogs means fewer links to each blog, hence lower rankings for each blog. One way I could get Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense to rank higher is to fold in GeekAffiliate, but I'm not going to do that. Consolidating your blogs might be better for your Techorati ranking, but it may be bad for your readership, especially if the different blogs you run on are very different and unrelated topics. Only you can decide what's more important. But if you're going for a high ranking, There Can Be Only One.
2. Claim your blog. Self-evident, but Technorati's not going to rank your blog if they don't know about it!
3. Tag the blog. When you claim the blog, you get to tag it with up to 20 keywords that describe the blog. Fill all 20 slots with relevant keywords.
4. Tag the posts. Place relevant Technorati tags in each post. If you're using WordPress, the SimpleTags plugin makes it really easy to tag your posting as you're writing it.
5. Use good tags. There's a bit of an art to choosing how you'll tag a post. You'll have a list of standard tags (for this blog, I obviously tag almost every post with “AdSense” and “Google”) but you'll want to spend some time exploring the Technorati tag clouds to find popular tags that you might be missing. (This applies both to the blog tags and the post tags.)
6. Ping promptly. When you post a new blog entry, immediately ping Technorati. It's trivial to do it automatically, but you can also do it manually if you must. But the timing is important because Technorati lists blog postings by their publication time, not by their ping time. So if you post an item and only ping an hour later, your entry might never show up on the first page for a given keyword, especially for popular topics.
7. Make sure your blog is being indexed. Some blogs (such as mine) have had problems getting Technorati to index them properly. Make sure you posts are showing up and that your “last updated” time for your blog is correct.
8. Develop some authority. Anyone with a half-decent blog on any remotely profitable topic is going to have splogs linking to them in no time flat. What you want, though, are links from older, more established, authoritative blogs. These will confer an aura of authority on your own blog. Technorati browsers can selectively filter out low- or no-authority blogs, so it's important to get some authority as quickly as possible.
9. Add a photo/avatar to your blogs. A lot of blogs don't have a photo or avatar associated with them. It's really easy to add one to your Technorati account. When people are scanning through Technorati looking for interesting blogs, using an eye-catching graphic as the photo/avatar is one way to make your blog jump out at them. You still have to convince them to read, though, so…
10. Be interesting. Ultimately, your blog's going to be judged on its content. If you're writing good stuff, others will link to you, though you can make that more likely by writing good headlines (see 10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work) and leaning towards topics and opinions that are more on the controversial side.
    

The Technorati ranking is just one measure of a blog's popularity, of course, but not every well-read blog is necessarily going to show up high in Technorati's list. But if public recognition is what you crave, the steps I just described will help you climb the rankings.

Remember, it's one post at a time, and don't forget that you're competing against other blogs who are also trying hard to increase their rankings. That's why your rankings drift if you don't keep your blog going — it's not really that you lose links, but that other blogs keep getting links. (Refer back to The Tyranny of the Blog.)

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30 Traffic Generation Tips

Here are the tips given by 30 famous Bloggers to help you increase your Blog traffic.

Vietnameses can visit here to read the translation.

1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.

2. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.

3. Scott Townsend
Inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati (using the ping functionality) when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic coming from those sources. (check the List of Ping Services)

4. Kyle
Simplify. Pay attention to complex issues in your field of work. It may be a big long publication that is hard to wade through or a concept that is hard to grasp. Reference it and make a shorter “for dummies” version with your own lessons learned and relevant tips. When doing this, I have been surprised to find that the simplified post will appear before the more complex version in search results. Perhaps this is why it results in increased traffic; people looking for more help or clarification on the subject will land on your blog.

5. Grant Gerver
Try to be polemic. I write obsessively about all-things political from the left-wing perspective in the form of humorous, sarcastic one-liners.

6. Daniel
A simple tip that will probably boost your page views: install a translator plugin. I decided to use a paid plugin for this, but if I am not wrong there are some free ones as well. The translation is not very good, as you can imagine, but it helps to attract readers that are not fluent in English.

7. Rory
Submit articles to blog carnivals (http://blogcarnival.com) that are related to your niche. Your article almost always gets posted, and it must generate a handful of visitors, at least.

8. Ramen Junkie
Newsgroups. I always see a spike when I post a review to a newsgroup.

9. Eric Atkins
Create a new design for your website. Not only will it be more attractive to your regular readers, but you can submit it to some CSS gallery showcase sites that feature great designs. This will give you exposure on those sites while generating a lot of traffic and backlinks from those types of sites.

10. Megan Taylor
Participate in conversations on related blogs. Start conversations on your own blog. Don’t just post about a story and leave it at that, engage your audience, ask questions and call to action.

11. Guido
Comment on blogs, write useful content and make good friends on forums.

12. Brian Auer
You must be active to generate traffic. I post comments on other blogs that are related to mine, and I post my site link in my signature at the forums. Spread the word about your blog and it will certainly attract readers.

13. Shankar Ganesh
Just browse around MyBlogLog.com and you will surely get visitors to your blog. Also try to join as many communities as possible that are related to your topic.

14. Andrew Timberlake
A great tip for generating traffic is off-line by including your url in all your off-line liturature from business cards, letterheads, pamphlets, adverts through in-store signage if applicable. I even have our website on my vehicle.

15. Cory OBrien
Read lots of other blogs. Leave trackbacks. Make sure your blog is optimized for search engines. Leverage social bookmarking sites like digg (both for new ideas and for traffic).

16. Jester
Leave comments on other blogs. If you’re already reading them, it takes
just a couple of seconds to leave a message agreeing or disagreeing
with the author, you get to leave a link to your site, and you will almost
ALWAYS get traffic from your comments.

17. Goerge Manty
Post 3-5 times a day. Use ping services like pingomatic or set up wordpress to ping some of the ping services. Engage your readers. Put up polls, ask them questions, give them quizes, free tools, etc. Make them want to come back and tell their friends about you.

18. Engtech
Community. It’s one word but it is the most important one when it comes to blogging. The only “blog metric” that makes sense is the vibrant community of readers it has. Building a community around your blog will bring you increased traffic, but how do you start? The boilerplate response to building traffic is always “SEO, social networking sites, and commenting on blogs” but it can be simplified to “be part of a community”. The easiest way to seed your blog is with an already existing community. But the only way to do that is to be part of the community yourself.

19. Chris
Squidoo Lenses are a good way to generate traffic. By using a lense,
you can generate your own custom “community” of webpages, including some
of the more popular pages in your “neighborhood.” Including your own
webpage in such a list is a good way of generating traffic.

20. Splork
I’ve had good success writing articles and submitting them to EzineArticles. Articles that have been written from well-researched keyword phrases and accepted by EzineArticles tend to rank very high in Google for that search term. Placing anchor text in the footer of those articles so the reader can visit my relevant website has always increased my site traffic.

21. Jen Gordon
I came upon some unexpected traffic when my blog popped up on some css design portals like www.cssmania.com and www.webcreme.com. If you can put some time into the concept behind and design for your blog, I’d recommend submitting your site to a design portal not only for
additional traffic but to build an additional community around your site.

22. Kat
I’ve recently gotten involved with several “MySpace-like” community sites that focus on my target audience. I share my thoughts in their forums, post intros to my real blog on their system blog and I’ve even created a group for my specific niche. It’s been very, very successful for me.

23. Inspirationbit
Well, obviously everyone knows that social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, etc. bring lots of traffic. But I’m now submitting some of my articles to blogg-buzz.com (a digg like site for bloggers), and I always get not a bad traffic from there.

24. Mark Alves
Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate your expertise, get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out there.

25. Tillerman
Be the first to write a post about the ‘Top Ten Blogs’ in your niche. The post will rank highly in any general search for blogs in your niche and other bloggers in your niche write about the post and link to it.

26. Nick
Participating in forums is a great way to get loyal readers. Either link baiting people in your signature or posting great advice and tips will give you high quality traffic, which will result in return visitors.

27. Brandon Wood
A simple trick I’ve used to increase traffic to my blog is participate in group writing projects. In fact, that’s what I’m doing right now.

28. Alan Thomas
Don’t forget your archives. I just posted a roundup of all interviews I did over the past seven months. One of them generated a new link and a big traffic spike from a group of users that look like they will be loyal readers now.

29. KWiz
Write something controversial. I don’t think it’s good to write something controversial just for the purpose of getting traffic necessarily (especially if it’s only for that purpose and you’re being disingenuous), but it works.

30. Dennis Coughlin
Find the best blogs on your niche and contact the authors. Introduce yourself and send a link of your blog. This might help them to discover your blog, read it and possibly link to it.

(By: Dailyblogtips)

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10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less

I share here 10 tips of Darren to improve Blog traffic. Vietnameses can visit here to read the translation!

1. Create link clusters within your blog

A link cluster is a group of links that you can point at a post or page to improve its search engine ranking. Let’s say you have a post that’s ranked for ’stupid business ideas’. Edit 10 of your other posts to create links (using ’stupid business ideas’ as the anchor text) to the ’stupid business ideas’ post and you will surely move up in Google for that keyword. This process can be implemented in about 10 minutes and can be used for any keyword your site ranks for or is trying to rank for.

2. Rework HTML title tags of trafficked posts

By watching your stats, you can often identify posts that get search traffic from a keyword, even though the keyword isn’t listed in the HTML title of the post. By editing your posts’ HTML titles to add the keywords they cover, you can strengthen the rankings and therefore the traffic that the post generates. You can easily make a difference with this method in less than 20 minutes. This method combines very well with #1.

3. Invite your readers to connect with you on StumbleUpon and Facebook

You can never ever have too many friends on SU and Facebook. Inviting existing readers to find you on these services with a post should take less than 20 minutes.

4. Save your best posts for the best times of the week

Writing a home-run post on a Saturday afternoon will probably happen from time to time. However, does your blog have good traffic on Saturdays? Analyzing your blog’s stats to determine when it naturally has the most traffic can get more eyes on a great post, which will translate to more social votes and more links. If you have created the post of your life, wait for a good day to publish - it will cost you about 1 minute on a later date to put it up.

5. Edit your post one more time

How can you improve your title? How can you improve your first paragraph? Small details in your post, especially in the beginning of your post, can make an enormous difference in its ability to draw social traffic and links. You can definitely improve your title, first paragraph, formatting, and grammar within 30 minutes.

6. Stop writing about yourself. Start solving problems

Surfers become readers when a blog provides something that is wanted. A casual visitor may read your blog because they find training, answers to problems, entertainment, or something else they want. This more than likely will mean that they won’t want to read about you, your girlfriend, your cats, your kids, or your catastrophes (unless you have a personal blog that your friends read). Discontinuing the off-topic posts will help you to develop more repeat traffic and takes exactly 0 minutes to implement.

7. Subscribe to the feeds of your industry’s major players

That way, you won’t miss important news releases. When news breaks in your industry, there will be a lot of extra traffic searching for information on the event. Adding your thoughts will almost always generate extra traffic. Subscribing to the feeds of your industry’s top sites should take no more than 15 minutes.

8. Give a great post to a prominent blog

Let’s say that you took the time to write something great. Donating your post to a great blogger can help you to create a win-win. The great blogger gets a great piece of content that will bring him social traffic and links and you can create exposure for your name and brand. Emailing your post to a great blogger or blog takes less than 10 minutes.

9. Go to the store

Look at magazines. Pay special attention to the types of titles that are used on the covers. Write down the most interesting titles and think about what makes them interesting. In order to generate buzz around a post, a great title is an absolute necessity. More on this topic here: The Cosmo Headline Technique for Blogging Inspiration. You should be able to find some good title ideas in about 30 minutes.

10. Answer your email and comment questions

Nothing will show a reader that you care more than answering an question (even if you have already answered that question 100 times on your site). Why do people read your blog? Because you solve their problems. Why will they come back again and again to your blog? Because you solve their problems. Answering a person’s email or comment question should take less than 5 minutes.

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Top 10 Proven Tips to Increase Blog Traffic

Here I’m sharing with you my Top 10 Tips that helped me to increase traffic to my blog. This has helped me and would surely help you too, if you continuously do it.

1. Comment of other blogs: It has been proved that commenting on other’s blog could increase traffic to your blog. Leave good comments blend it with humor, people love humor. When you find some controversial post simply put your comments in a memorable form, like you’re a grown up, controversies are the most effective way to become famous with least amount of effort but be sure not to fire people against yourself.

2. Submit your articles to Social Networking sites: Social Networking sites are the best places where you could submit your articles and get an instant boost of traffic to your blog. If people like it they will surely link to it, hence increasing even more traffic. While top Social Networking sites are the best ones, you must also consider to submit your articles to Niche specific Social Networking sites. This would give you considerably good amount of recognition for your work.

3. Comment on online communities: Join and take part in the online forums and communities. Don’t forget to add a signature with your blog URL. Your comments on these communities and forums would reward you in becoming a respected part of the community as well as get you work.

4. Bookmarking Articles: Ask your visitors to bookmark your articles. Sites like StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks and del.irio.us could provide you with loads of traffic.

5. Interact with blog commenter: Make friendly relations with your blog commenter. Make them feel at home and they will make you feel at home. It’s that simple. Always try to help your commenter with some useful resource, if that is not possible lead them to a place which would solve their problems, don’t worry about they leaving your site, if they like your help they will return.

6. Write with a Consistency: Write at least 3-5 resourceful articles a week. Doing this will let your visitors understand that you are a dedicated blogger, who cares to help. If you’re not consistent enough to write then why would your readers would be consistent to visit your blog.

7. Submit your blog on Blog Directories: Submit your blogs to Technorati, Techmeme, Blogcatalog and other blog directories. Blog directories are also a place where you could submit your blogs and get traffic, initially when your blog is fairly new.

8. Link to other’s Article: Linking in and out helps a lot. Firstly, it helps you in providing proof about your thoughts as well as helps you get people link to you for providing a resourceful article.

9. RSS Feeds: Always syndicate RSS through feedburner, why? Because they are the best. Syndicating feeds also results in increasing traffic, as the people who are in list of your feed would definitely come back.

10. Be Patient : This last tip is the most important one, this tells you to be patient. Whatever you do, be it building a big house or making a million dollars, everything takes time, so does our online venture. Consider this, if you have stepped in to Internet Marketing, then you didn’t get involved by chance. It’s that even your destiny wants you to get in it. If you’re patient enough to cross the initial period of failure then your future would be full of colors of success.

(By: Manish Pandey)

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