The purpose of this contest is to see who can get the most RSS subscribers, in the most creative ways. It’s not so much in how many you get, but in how you get them. There is a panel of three judges in charge, who will determine the winner.
In the case you are wondering who the 3 judges will be: Daniel from dailyblogtips is one of them, Ricky from Keyword Country is the second, and Jarrod from Sponsored Reviews is the third one. They will be giving points based on originality, and effectiveness of ideas. This contest will continue until the end of November, and hopefully I can greatly increase my RSS subscribers by then.
I have several ideas about how to do this, I’ve been writing a new post on SEO and technorati ranking, which I am very excited about, which I should be releasing in the next couple days. In addition, there are the results from my email test, to see which bloggers would respond to their readers, and then sharing the information they gave. And Finally and most exciting, I am hosting my first real contest. I will be offering lots of great prizes, if you’d like to sponsor this contest and offer anything then feel free to email me at mastersofseo@gmail.com if not then I’ll just use all my own prizes.
If you haven’t already subscribed to my RSS feed, then I would greatly appreciate the help. I will definitely check out your site as well.
Social Marker is an incredible tool for any blog. It is a great way to save time, when your submitting your site to social media sites. Now, be careful with Stumbleupon, because they have a policy against submitting your own sites. But most of the sites, are ones like Digg, with a voting format. So it’s fine if you want to submit your own ones. The only time consuming part in this whole thing, is creating accounts on each of the sites. That would take Forever!
So what I did, is just to make accounts on the big ones, like digg, stumble, propeller, mix, reddit… That way you can just do the top 15 ones, and save alot of time. Most of the others ones won’t get you very much traffic anyway, so your really not missing anything. Hopefully, you should have accounts on most of those sites anyway, so you can just go right in and start submitting.
It has little click and drag boxes, at the bottom of the browser, that are so useful, because then you don’t need to retype everything again and again.
Another feature it has that is very nice, is the social marker button. You can add it to the bottom of your posts like a digg button, and if a reader clicks on it, it will automatically submit the information at socialmarker.com for them to submit. However, I wouldn’t recommend adding it yet, because at this point it would just be clutter. There aren’t enough people using socialmarker yet to make it worth it, but in the coming months it’s popularity should grow so be ready to add it.
I’ve included a video on using it, I’ve never used a video before so let me know if this is helpful, or if I shouldn’t bother again.
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I have a special treat for all of you readers. The purpose of this blog is to talk about, “How to Get Traffic,” and to celebrate “mastersofseo” reaching the first page in google for How to Get Traffic, I’m going to be doing a series of very special blog posts.
If you want to know how I did this, read my post here on SEO.
You may have been wondering why I’ve been posting so little the last few days and the reason is because I had a really cool idea, and I’ve been working on it. I sent an email to all the top bloggers in the niche, make money online/make money blogging. People like john chow, problogger, doshdosh… In the message I asked them, all very politely of course, if they wouldn’t mind replying with some advice on how they got traffic to their site, so that I could share them with my readers. I sent the email to 25 bloggers, who are all in different areas of success. Some Very successful, and some up and coming bloggers, and I’m going to share with you their responses.
But the other point in doing this, is because I was curious as to who would respond. Who would take the time out of their day, to reply to their readers, (me.)Because I want to give them each two weeks to respond, because they are all very busy, I won’t be able to share all the details of the experiment until 11/5, exactly two weeks from when I sent them it last Wednesday. Several have already responded, however most haven’t yet. I will inform you as I go which of these popular bloggers, really care about their readers, and which ones are too full of themselves to respond. I will be comparing them in several different ways, so look forward to the comparisons!
However, I did not only send this to people like johnchow, there were also a lot of smaller bloggers, who should definitely respond as they are not making enough money to start ignoring their readers. This will be very interesting to see, which bloggers care about you, and which ones don’t. And even if I don’t get any responses, from all 25 of them, then at least you’ll be able to see which of the blogs you read really are trying to help you, and which are using you.
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