BUSINESS ERA

1. Is it okay to be hypocritical in your articles?
2. Do you think you owe someone for commenting on your blog?
3. Do you define your blog as a success if you [intlink id="2270" type="post"]make a lot of money[/intlink] from it and get a lot of comments per post?
4. Are you a conformist, or an independent?
5. Is anything you write truly a great piece of writing without some lies or a little over exaggeration?
6. Is it better to get facts from someone else, or conduct your own experiments for results?
7. Is everything a “guru” says always the right solution for you?
8. Do you truly think PageRank is worthless?
9. How would you honestly feel with a PR0 blog?
10. Is it worth replying to comments on your blog knowing that most of your replies will never be responded to or even read again?
11. Do you think your blog will still exist next month? 2 months? 3?
12. Have you discovered that writing your post first will help you write a better post title?
13. Are the links you include in your blog posts really meant to help other people, or are you just trying to sell an affiliate product or drive traffic to another website?
14. Are you really blogging to help others, or just to make profit?
15. Have you ever thought of not approving a comment because it is negative knowing nobody will find out?
16. Is it wrong to comment on your blog under a different name?
17. Do you plan for the future, or for the present in regards to your blog design?
18. Is it worth emailing larger bloggers knowing they probably won’t get back to you or even read your message because it doesn’t “meet their standards of being replied to”?
19. Are you ever willing to edit an image you use in your blog post to make it look more appealing and eye catching?
20. Are the images you use in your blog posts have a literal or metaphorical meaning that relates to your article?
21. Do you think people who comment on your blog with keywords in their name are worth being replied to, or even acknowledged in your blog?
22. Are you a “thinker” and “planner” instead of a “doer”?
23. Have you realized from experience, or by seeing that list posts are not as hard to make as they seem to be?
24. Do you think it is beneficial to make a change to your blog that your readers will like, but you may not be fond of?
25. Is there something you have been wanting to change/add/remove from your blog, but haven’t gotten around to it?
26. Do you value every comment you get on your blog the same, regardless of the content of the comment?
27. Do you ever leave out information in your posts and try to let your readers fill it in in the comments section?
28. How many times do you think about your blog when you’re away from the computer?
29. Do you avoid posting controversy on your blog because you have none to post, or you’re afraid someone might disagree with you?
30. Are you easily discouraged?
    
31. Do you think that hard work now will pay off later, even after months of hard work and no results?
32. Do you avoid trying to create relationships with other bloggers because they have a larger blog, or are more well known than you are?
33. Are you making the best of your social network/media profiles?
34. Do you ever add personality into your posts (ex: smiley faces, jokes, etc.)?
35. Do you add “friends” on social network/media sites because you want them to read you blog, or because you actually want to become friends with them?
36. Would you feel more accomplished if you got 20 comments from “regular” bloggers, or just 1 comment from a highly respected “famous” blogger?
37. Are you being as personal as you can with your readers (picture of yourself, small bio, etc.)?
38. Do you believe comments on your blog with more writing should be valued and rewarded higher than comments with less writing?
39. Are you more embarrassed when someone points out a spelling/grammar mistake, corrects wrong information, or when someone strikes down your article?
40. Do you think your posts should be concise, or filled with extra information?
41. Do you make the title of my posts clear so the reader understands what the article is about before jumping to the content?
42. What do you think when a post you put less effort into gets a bigger response than a post you put more effort into?
43. Does it bother you to see someone younger than you have a more successful blog?
44. Are you afraid to make an investment in something that could help your blog substantially because you’re afraid it won’t work?
45. Do you add a fresh perspective to a subject, or just regurgitate it?
46. Do you tend to cut out some information that could be useful to some people because you don’t want your post to be “too long“?
47. Look at your blog articles. What is the ratio of pillar articles to regular articles?
48. Have you kept up with posting consistently over the last month? If not, why?
49. Are your blog posts full of information that will remain relevant over a long period or time, or for a shorter period of time?
50. Are you afraid to ask questions to your readers that you don’t know the answer to?

1. Write content that is useful - Writing resourceful content will always attract links, hands down. If you write an article that is overflowing with useful and resourceful information - people will link to it.

2. Don’t forget trackbacks - This handy feature for Wordpress can be great way of returning the compliment for a dedicated link.

3. Remind your readers to link to you - After each posts, just throw in a quick reminder that your article can be socially bookmarked or linked to.

4. Make a Top “X” List - Alex’s post on “100 Lists To Become A Better Blogger” is the most successful post on Blogussion, to-date. This just goes to prove how much people love “lists posts” such as your “Top X [Something]”

5. Debunk a Myth - There’s only one thing better than coming up with an idea, is to prove someone else one wrong. People love opposition and to see a debate bubble up, so don’t be afraid to challenge other people’s opinions.

6. Write with a touch of conspiracy - Just reinforcing tip #5. If you can create that atmosphere of retaliation, it will always raise a few eyebrows.

7. Spread the Love - Dedicate a post or two per week to link to other blogger’s posts that you found useful. More often than not, they will tell their readers “Mr.X linked to my post, how cool!”

8. Trade articles with webmasters - Similar to guest posting, just swap articles with a fellow webmaster.

9. Release a Press Release - This guide shows you how to write + submit a good Press Release.

Freebies/Giveaways for Link-Baiting

10. Hold a contest with an incentive. Contests are great for link-baiting because when people talk about it, there will always be “Check it out here” tagged along with it.

11. Release a free design. If you can make/buy a custom WP-Theme then release it for free to your guests, you can really kick off on a viral market. Just don’t forget the “Designed by [YOUR LINK]”

12. Release a free plugin. This serves a similar purpose as a design, but not so much with a direct back-link. Instead, if your plugin is useful, the incoming links will just grow exponentially.

13. When running a contest, reward your referees that bring the most referrals. This will encourage them to blog about your contest.

Connecting With Communities

14. Become active and post on relevant forums

15. Become active and comment on relevant blogs.

16. Try not to forget your signature on forums, otherwise the whole thing is an epic fail.

17. When commenting on blogs, try to use post URLs instead of just your Blog URL - This can help regulate your links evenly amongst your blog, and not just solely to your front page.

18. DON’T spam communities with your links to your site, offer a reason for them to visit and contribute with a purpose.

19. Submit your blog to directories - These are still helpful when it comes to getting indexed, especially these directories listed here.

20. Search up DoFollow Blogs/Forums - These will carry the most significant back-links.

21. Browse Craigslists and they can provide you with a free or cheap link.

22. Build on your Technorati Profile

23. Become a Sponsor - Whether it be a theme, whole website or a small project; the sponsors always get mentioned.

24. Run for Charity, and request others to help spread the word.

25. DON’T spam. This tip cannot be reinforced enough. A deleted comment will server no purpose.

Directories, Social Bookmarking + Discussion Groups.

26. Write content for Article directories - Publish content for directories such as eZineArticles, GoArticles or iSnare. In the “About Author’s” area, you can leave a link to your website.

27. Build a Squidoo Page - It’s easy and if you have the time to develop it, it can be very authoritative. If you don’t there’s heaps of services out there to help you out.

28. Join Discussions over at Yahoo! Answers - Providing useful answers, along with a link is an easy way to earn a back-link.

29. There’s also Google Groups - It’s almost the same as Yahoo! Answers, but owned by Google.

30. Submit your voice on Digg - First build a solid profile, where you have a network of loyal diggers. If you can hit the Digg front page, you are likely to get linked to by a lot of web-masters.

31. Build on your Twitter profile then link to your site using your “Bio Area.”

32. Tweet about your posts using Twitter, then request retweets from your followers.

33. Offer a “Tweet This Post” link on every post your write, this will make Tweeters easier to tweet about your article.

Direct Link Building

34. Contact your fellow bloggers with a personalized email - asking for an reciprocal link exchange. However, keep this to a minimal and be very selective in who you choose to trade with.

35. Post around on forums asking for reciprocal link exchanges, but yet again be warned on your selection.

36. If you are a part of organizations, clubs or schools - Ask them if they can link to you, because these types of websites are more often than not; authoritative.

37. DON’T ask Darren Rowse, ShoeMoney, Matt Cutts or Yahoo, MSN and Google for back-links. It’s just a waste of time, especially the last three “contacts”

Paid Link Building

38. Buy a Review - Most sites that offer reviews will naturally link to the reviewed product/site.

39. Many webmasters buy links on popular blogs for authority, even though it’s against the Google TOS (Use at your own risk)

40. Rent links from others website - Text-Link-Ads is most likely your best option.

Using Blogussion for Link Building

41 Leave a comment - All our comments are do-follow, so the link you chose as your URL will get link-love automatically.

42. Top Commentators - As you can see on the sidebar, we use this awesome plugin. Every month, our most contributing members will be rewarded with a link.

43. We use CommentLuv - Every comment you post, will carry a link to your latest blog posts.

44. Link to our posts - We utilize the uses of ‘trackbacks.’ Hence any links to our posts, will automatically be rewarded with a back-link to them! So, Why not share this post with your readers and followers?

45. Buy a Paid Review - We link to our reviewed sites/products.

Source:blogussion.com