This time it will be an experimental post, because it is, actually, a simple blog comment on 3 Resons Why Blog Commenting Is Important by Alex from howtospoter.com.

The reason why I’m publishing the comment on my blog is that it was considered a spam by Alex’s spam-proof system :) This must be some mistake.. But I find this case a very good idea for this post.

Besides, my readers know that I speak about web traffic and web promotion. Excellent promotion demands risks and unusual attempts to do something new, where you’ll be the first one… Isn’t this case a good and unusual way of web promotion? :)

My Spammed Comment on Alex’s Blog

Make sure you have read Alex’s post before reading the following comment:

Alex has already reported via Twitter that it really could be his spam filter issue.

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Video Dessert: «Laughing Baby»

Do you enjoy ripping newspaper like this little baby? :) I couldn’t stand his laughter – very relaxing video.

This is already the 2nd roundup of the MIC competition. And I’m glad to announce the winners…

Pay your attention, that I have written all the counted votes separately. It shows how many votes you got per certain posts.

Winners of MIC in February, 2010

1. Ileane – 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1

   She won again! I guess, that until I run this contest, her banner will be shining on my blog :)

   Ileane, I have already reviewed you once :) What if this time you would have written some special guest post for me instead of a review?

2. Kiesha – 2, 2

   Kiesha is a great discovery this time! She is beautiful, thankful, kind and very smart blogger :) Looking for more of your comments, Kiesha!

3. Imran Yousaf – 3

   Imran has commented only once on my blog, but he got 3 votes for it. And though there are other commenters having a total of 3 votes, I decided, that Imran deserves to take the 3rd place, because of the ratio (made comments/votes for comments).

Other great participants, commenters and excellent bloggers

Commenters, who got also 3 votes:

• ppo – 1, 1, 1
• element321 – 1, 1, 1
• Tom – 1, 2

Commenters, who got 2 votes:

• Thebondgurl – 2
• Hesham – 1, 1

Commenters, who got 1 vote:

• Ari Herzog – 1
• Arun Basil Lal – 1
• chandan – 1
• Dragon Blogger – 1
• Fazreen – 1
• James M. – 1
• Jeffrey – 1
• Jimi Jones – 1
• Henri Junttila – 1
• Keith – 1
• Kissie – 1
• Lee Ka Hoong – 1
• Marko – 1
• Ralf – 1
• Rose – 1
• Selurus – 1
• Shirley – 1
• Simon – 1
• tech money – 1
• Tycoon Blogger – 1

Special attention to her:

jess – 1

She left one nice comment, but not included her website.. Too sad, isn’t it?

Vote for each other

I know that for most of you this contest means nothing and you don’t take it seriously. But is that too hard to vote for good comments? You, actually, express your opinion this way, and it makes other people pay attention at good and helpful comments. And what I also believe in is that all made good things.. even the smallest ones.. somehow, somewhere will come back to you, just like a boomerang.

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Video Dessert: «Dramatic Lemur»

A very relative video dessert this time:) This lemur is amazed by the winners, you can see it in his eyes!

The results of MIC competition for January:

1. Ileane (23) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 8 (3 times voted at BlogEngage + 1 retweet); Points for submission: 5 (1 digg submission);
2. ppo (20) – Points for starred comments: 20; Points for voting: 0;
3. Jordan Cooper (18) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 8 (2 times voted at BlogEngage + 2 retweets);
4. Karl Foxley (14) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 4 (2 times voted at BlogEngage);
5. Suresh Khanal (12) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 2 (1 digg);
6. Henri Junttila (12) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 2 (1 retweet);
7. chandan (10) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 0;
8. binit (10) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 0;
9. Abdul Akbar Banwa (10) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 0;
10. Justin Fiores (10) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 0;

Several words

Thanks to everyone for good comments. It’s my great pleasure to read your thoughts and opinions.

I also bet, that some of you didn’t expect te be listed here, but you are :) I hope you don’t mind and looking forward to your future comments, votes and submissions.

Tips to Get More Points

1. Just share you thoughts and opinions in comments – this is the most right way to get your comment starred.
2. If you wish to get points for submissions or voting – just leave you profile names in the end of comments, so I could know, that those were your votes or submissions. Sometimes it’s rather hard to identify you, because your nicknames differ. Demand points – they truly belong to you! :)
3. Submission is counted only if it has unique title, unique description and the right category.
4. Sites (that I count) for submitting posts are now: Digg, BlogEngage, Sphinn and plus 1 more – Mixx; You get 5 points for the submitted post;
5. If you submit one of my posts, just let me know (through the contact form, twitter, or a comment) about the link!
6. Learn more about the MIC competition.

Winners Get…

• Ileane – #1: Gets free 125-125 banner place for a month, review of her blog, highlighted comments during February and #1 position on the home page;
• ppo – #2: Gets #2 position on the home page;
• Jordan Cooper – #3: Gets #3 position on the home page;

More details – on the MIC competition page.

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As for the prizes.. All of them will be active by tomorrow :)

When is the next MIC competition?

Actually, it has already started :). Remember, that only comments made for the latest post are counted (submissions and votes too). Good luck!

You can participate in the competition described below. All you need is to leave a good comment. “Good” doesn’t mean a long, big, huge comment or else. It only means, that your comment should be relevant and natural. You might need to read the comment policy.

How to Win?

NB! I’ve made the competition easier.

• The better comment you leave, the better chances you have to be noticed by other commenters;
• Little tip: if you reply to other comments, your chances to be noticed increase;
• You should have some nice gravatar assigned to your specified email. It, definitely, plays a role! You can get one here;
• Be natural. Like or dislike other commenters pressing the appropriate buttons (thumb up’s/thumb down’s) under each comment. Everything comes back to you like a boomerang;
• You can comment on any post published within a current month. The easier way is to check the archives;
• By the end of the competition month I make a list of those, who have at least 1 positive vote. Those three commenters, who have the biggest number of votes – win. Here’s the roundup for Jan. 2010. NB! The January roundup has the old terms of MIC competition;

What winners get?

1. All 3 of you get a “do follow” link on iWoodpecker’s home page to your blog, or website, or twitter profile etc. It may include your keywords. And it will look like this :

2. The best commenter can get a free banner, that I will make for him for free. Of course, if you wish :) Look again at the pic above or check the home page of iWoodpecker.

3. The best commenter can use 125×125 ad spot until the end of the next competition. You can send me your own banner or use the one I’ll make for you. Choose it.

4. The best commenter gets a review of his or her blog. Of course, I’ll mention why he or she is worthy being the M.I.C. See the latest review of Ileane Smith, who became MIC #1 in January.

5. The competition begins at the beginning of a month and lasts until the end of the month.

When I was doing my latest post – Insane List of 140 Do Follow & Nofollow Blogs with CommentLuv 2010, I’ve noticed several strange things about do follow and nofollow blogs. Theoretically, a nofollow blog should rank better, than a do follow blog, because a nofollow blog doesn’t share its ranking in links. So, it means, that it stores it for itself. You know that. Nothing new. But..

Ok, let’s compare several pair of blogs from my list of blogs with CommentLuv. In this case, the “pair” is a do follow blog and a nofollow blog with similar Google pagerank and Alexa ranking.

Do Follow VS Nofollow: Round 1

blog.hichamaged.net (will be “A”) and www.jhsiess.com (will be “B”). Their Google pageranks are both 4. And both of them have appr. 219,000 of Alexa (by the 21st of Dec. 2009). A is a nofollow blog and B is a do follow blog. Ok with that.

Niches

A’s niche is “life, personal, psychology” and B’s niche is “life, death, personal”. Well.. the same boring, I guess :)

Compete Ranks

Use popuri.us to check my work. So.. A has 825,263 and B has 263,443. The lower means the better. Seems like B is winning. Let’s go further.

Yahoo backlinks

A has 18,449 and B – 18,120. Almost the same, so nobody wins this time.

Archives

A’s archive and B’s archive. Don’t count the total amount of their posts. You can visually decide, that A’s got twice more, than B.

Wait a minute.. A is nofollow and it has so many posts! This blog lives longer and it should be ranked better, than B. But considering the fact, that they have pagerank 4, B wins with less posts, because it has gained its rank faster. And it has better Alexa ranking, which means there is more website traffic running on this blog.

Summary

www.jhsiess.com, which is B and a do follow blog, wins.

Do Follow VS Nofollow: Round 2

eblogtip.com (as “A”) and www.andrewkeir.com (as “B”). Both of them have Google pagerank 2 and Alexa – ~176,000. A is a do follow and B is nofollow.

Niches

A’s niche is mostly “blogging, design”, B’s niche is “blogging, money etc”. Almost the same.

Compete Ranks

A has N/A. B has 238,011. Technically, B wins.

Yahoo backlinks

A – 6,466, B – 744. It’s clear, that A wins.

Archives

B has about 185 posts and the first one was posted on October 19th, 2008. A has twice less – 98 posts by today, and the oldest post was published on Sept. 28th, 2009.

Summary

A wins, because it has twice less posts, it is younger and it has much more of backlinks. Remember, that A is a do follow blog?

Do Follow VS Nofollow: Final Conclusion

No doubt, that do follow blog is better, because you get high-ranked much more faster. Why? Maybe it’s because the majority of your visitors are those, who wants to comment. Or maybe those, who comment, eventually do some kind of an external promotion, which surely do the best for you and your blog.

What do you think?

Are those parameters, that I’ve used, enough for a total comparison of do follow and nofollow blogs? Maybe there is something else, that should change the final result of this experiment?

I’ll gladly accept your opinions.

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Video Dessert: «Dramatic Cat»

Insane dramatic cat… watching TV and then…

Alright! At last! 4 full days or about 36 hours of searching and filtering and now it’s done. Simply insane list of 140 do follow and nollow blogs. Moreover, I’ve sorted all of them out. Now you are able to pick those, which are better.

How are they sorted?
By Google pagerank, Alexa ranking, and this time I’ve added some notes, that will help you to search those blogs, that relate to your niche.

How this list supposed to help you?
You can get lots of external links from other blogs to your site. The only thing you have to do is to leave good comments. Don’t spam :) It is useless and pointless.

What is CommentLuv?
This is a wordpress plugin, that adds a link to the latest post of the comment’s author. More about CommentLuv.

Why is this list so perfect?
Well.. First of all, it’s compiled from about 900 websites. I’ve found them on the first 15 pages of Google search with the following phrase – cumment luv dofollow. I’ve looked for all the most valuable lists.
It was really hard, because almost all of the provided links were dead. But.. a little bit of patience and everything’s done now :)

About notes
As you can see, I’ve added some notes, but not to every listed blog. Why is that? That is because those blogs, that don’t have any note, relate to my niche and I will, probably, use for commenting.

Why notes are so short?
I save your time :) It would be better for SEO to make several-lines-notes, but that wouldn’t look compact.

What’s my niche?
Look under my logo above :) It says “Speaking about website traffic & promotion”. Well.. Of course it’s not so easy to fit my niche for so many blogs. But I’m going to use also “make money online”, “tech”, “blogging tips” and “internet marketing” blogs for commenting. Rather close, isn’t it? Anyway, I think it’s my targeted traffic :)

Why 2010 again?
Because these dofollow and nofollow blogs will, probably, work in 2010, as most of them do now. Anyways, this list will be updated after each Google PageRank update.

How to treat “+”, “-”, “?” in the scheme?
Example 1: “example.com – (-;-) – 5 – 201,471 – rare”. From this example you can see that michaeltorbert.com author’s link in comment is “nofollow” and the CommentLuv’s link is also “nofollow”. Google pagerank is 5 and Alexa ranking is 201,471. The note says, that this blog publishes new posts rarely.
Example 2: “example2.com – (+;-) – 3 – 1,305,531 – tech, writing, very rare”. From this example you can see that inkthinkerblog.com author’s link in comment is “do follow”, but CommentLuv’s link is “nofollow”. The note says, that the current blog relates to the niche about technologies and writing. “Very rare” means, that the author of this blog publishes new posts extremely rare >.<, so there won't be much work with commenting on this blog.

Example 3: “example3.com – (+;?) – 3 – 25,578 – fast growth”. From this example you can see that example3.com author’s link in comment is “do follow”, but CommentLuv’s link is whether dofollow or nofollow and there’s no exact explanation why it’s not exact. Contact that blog’s author for more details. The note says, that this blog has very fast promotion. You better stick to what’s going on it.

So.. I hope I’ve answered most of the possible questions.

Scheme of the list: “URL – (+/-/?;+/-/?) – Google pagerank – Alexa ranking – Note”

Working DoFollow Blogs with CommentLuv

1. www.junkdrawerblog.com – (+;+) – 5 – 39,677 – life, personal;
2. ariwriter.com – (+;+) – 5 – 69,202;
3. niceblogger.com – (+;+) – 4 – 25,886;
4. kikolani.com – (+;+) – 4 – 28,650;
5. www.johncow.com – (-;+) – 4 – 30,664;
6. thesisthemehq.com – (+;+) – 4 – 40,906;
7. website-in-a-weekend.net – (+;+) – 4 – 49,677 – fast growth, great blog, great blogger;
8. www.animhut.com – (+;+) – 4 – 53,975 – twitter, design;
9. www.growmap.com – (+;+) – 4 – 60,883 – pure dofollow blog, gets lots of comments;
10. wassupblog.com – (+;+) – 4 – 74,344 – growing, pure dofollow;
11. weblogbetter.com – (+;+) – 4 – 79,403;
12. bloggingwithoutablog.com – (+;+) – 4 – 94,697 – personal, internet, advices;
13. www.luvemorleavem.com – (+;+) – 4 – 121,829 – life, personal;
14. nthambazale.com – (+;-) – 4 – 137,246;
15. www.waynejohn.com – (+;+) – 4 – 173,070 – building websites, mmo;
16. exclusive-executive-resumes.com – (+;+) – 4 – 191,412 – finance;
17. theboldlife.com – (+;+) – 4 – 229,263 – life;
18. www.extremejohn.com – (?;?) – 3 – 27,495 – links are dofollow and nofollow without logics;
19. www.kimwoodbridge.com – (+;+) – 3 – 27,577 – social development;
20. www.howtospoter.com – (+;+) – 3 – 33,458 – links become dofollow after several comments;
21. tycoonblogger.com – (?;?) – 3 – 38,495 – links are dofollow and nofollow without logics;
22. www.jtpratt.com – (+;+) – 3 – 41,467;
23. blazingminds.co.uk – (+;+) – 3 – 47,784 – links become dofollow after several comments;
24. eblogtip.com – (+;?) – 3 – 48,939 – improved Alexa, blogging – ComLuv links don’t work;
25. potpolitics.com – (+;+) – 3 – 50,849;
26. myblog2day.com – (?;?) – 3 – 52,743 – money online, good – links are dofollow and nofollow without logics;
27. www.untwistedvortex.com – (-;+) – 3 – 54,677 – life, personal;
28. www.bloggingjunction.com – (+;+) – 3 – 76,686 – tech, blogging;
29. www.forcedgreen.com – (+;+) – 3 – 82,189 – life;
30. damonday.com – (+;+) – 3 – 109,296 – finance;
31. www.dennisedell.com – (?;+) – 3 – 121,123 – blogging – ComLuv links are dofollow, nickname links are randomly dofollow;
32. mikepaetzold.com – (+;+) – 3 – 138,945 – improved;
33. www.technogati.com – (+;+) – 3 – 153,207 – Alexa is greatly decreased;
34. theblogabouteverything.com – (+;+) – 3 – 156,414 – about everything;
35. extremeezine.com – (+;+) – 3 – 161,122 – great blogging topics;
36. learningfolder.net – (+;+) – 3 – 181,380;
37. www.tech-mania.com – (+;+) – 3 – 185,570 – tech, almost not getting comments;
38. www.seomkt.com – (+;+) – 3 – 199,843;
39. www.betterbloggingforbloggers.com – (+;+) – 3 – 227,196 – IntenseDebate + Pure DoFollow CommentLuv Blog;
40. jronaldlee.com – (+;+) – 3 – 246,531 – photography;
41. www.drkalsweightlosstips.com – (+;+) – 3 – 294,513 – weight loss tips, keyword love + top commenters;
42. johnlagoudakis.com – (+;+) – 3 – 312,637;
43. www.suzannefranco.com – (+;+) – 3 – 330,621;
44. www.sandierpastures.com – (+;+) – 3 – 364,083 – life, travel;
45. expressiveworld.com – (+;+) – 3 – 601,461 – art, psychology – links are dofollow and nofollow without logics;
46. athleticalley.com – (+;+) – 3 – 602,169 – weightloss, sports;
47. www.dragonblogger.com – (+;+) – 2 – 35,470 – daily updates, reviews, blog monetization, tech;
48. www.serradinho.com – (+;+) – 2 – 58,334;
49. www.netchunks.com – (+;+) – 2 – 64,201 – web magazine;
50. www.mostlyblog.com – (-;-) – 2 – 112,676 – still very frequent updates;
51. tech18.com – (+;+) – 2 – 187,930 – great blogger;
52. guidegoods.blogspot.com – (+;+) – 2 – 270,628 – tech;
53. introvertzone.com – (+;+) – 2 – 297,748 – psychology, world;
54. tmtips.com – (+;+) – 2 – 487,934 – personal, internet themes;
55. nobogies.com – (+;+) – 2 – 594,004 – twitter, golf, reviews – no recent comments;
56. bradblogging.com – (-;+) – 0 – 63,304 – script error with ComLuv, doesn’t work;
57. www.findingthemoney.net – (+;+) – N/A – 2,593,466 – looks promising;

Working Nofollow Blogs with CommentLuv

1. www.marketingpilgrim.com – (-;-) – 6 – 11,556 – 5+ posts per day;
2. blog.2createawebsite.com – (-;-) – 5 – 7,919;
3. www.blogussion.com – (+;+) – 5 – 17,591;
4. dadshouseblog.com – (-;-) – 5 – 82,743 – parents, life;
5. www.lushlee.com – (-;-) – 5 – 151,688 – design, inspiration;
6. www.brandonacox.com – (-;-) – 5 – 165,946 – personal;
7. blog.dk.sg – (-;-) – 5 – 440,250 – tech;
8. www.tricksdaddy.com – (-;-) – 4 – 25,165 – tech;
9. www.smartbloggerz.com – (-;-) – 4 – 35,909;
10. thebloggess.com – (-;-) – 4 – 39,027 – personal – PR dropped from 6 to 4, always lots of comments;
11. www.techhamlet.com – (-;-) – 4 – 43,048 – fast, tech;
12. sem-group.net – (-;-) – 4 – 48,506 – SEM – very good improvements: from PR 3 to 4, from Alexa ~150k to 48k;
13. jaypeeonline.net – (-;-) – 4 – 72,110;
14. www.jhsiess.com – (-;-) – 4 – 147,142 – life, family;
15. critical-hits.com – (-;-) – 4 – 417,553 – gaming;
16. stopdropandblog.com – (-;-) – 4 – 447,385 – life, personal;
17. www.nomeatathlete.com – (-;-) – 4 – 654,119 – sports, health;
18. www.famousbloggers.net – (-;-) – 3 – 22,493;
19. www.techcats.net – (+;-) – 3 – 46,201 – going up – ComLuv links are nofollow;
20. anime2.kokidokom.net – (-;-) – 3 – 52,745 – anime, japan;
21. techchunks.com – (-;-) – 3 – 62,131 – fast, tech;
22. www.niharsworld.com – (-;-) – 3 – 64,339;
23. forthelose.org – (-;-) – 3 – 67,395 – WP and web design tips – looking good;
24. www.worthytips.com – (-;-) – 3 – 91,711 – fast, tech;
25. www.bloggingwithchris.com – (-;-) – 3 – 97,966 – rare updates;
26. geniusgeeks.com – (-;-) – 3 – 99,631 – cool blog design;
27. www.standoutblogger.com – (-;-) – 3 – 103,630;
28. teenius.com – (-;-) – 3 – 107,253;
29. www.joetech.com – (-;-) – 3 – 128,239;
30. another-blogger.com – (?;-) – 3 – 132,517 – name links can be dofollow;
31. softwarecritics.info – (+;-) – 3 – 153,505 – software – ComLuv links are nofollow;
32. www.dennisedell.com – (-;+) – 3 – 170,664;
33. www.losethattyre.co.uk – (-;-) – 3 – 227,225 – health;
34. www.earthtoholly.com – (-;-) – 3 – 247,922 – twitter, nature, life;
35. bleedingespresso.com – (-;-) – 3 – 399,493 – life, personal;
36. www.huntsvillepr.com – (-;-) – 3 – 811,763;
37. kestrelsaerie.us – (-;-) – 3 – 2,720,594 – life;
38. techcrank.com – (-;-) – 2 – 62,131 – tech;
39. www.technshare.com – (-;?) – 2 – 74,151 – mmo, blogging, seo;
40. www.mostlyblog.com – (-;-) – 2 – 112,676 – still very frequent updates;
41. www.pallab.net – (-;-) – 2 – 197,072;
42. www.bloggingjunkie.com – (-;-) – 2 – 484,212 – blogging, great design;
43. tek3d.org – (-;-) – 1 – 194,672 – tech + dofollow comments after 8 responses (?);
44. www.datmoney.com – (-;-) – 0 – 139,023 – blogging tips;

Rarely Updated Nofollow Blogs with CommentLuv

1. www.collectiblescornertv.com – (-;-) – 5 – 824,516;
2. www.lauraroeder.com – (-;-) – 4 – 98,575 – beautiful bloggeress, rarely updated;
3. asnio.com – (-;-) – 4 – 136,191 – latest update was on December, 2009;
4. blog.hichamaged.net – (-;-) – 4 – 702,808 – looks like no more future updates;
5. zebida.com – (-;-) – 3 – 220,121;
6. www.blogrpro.com – (-;-) – 3 – 228,460 – nice blog design;
7. blog.newmediabloggers.com – (-;-) – 3 – 334,624 – nice beginning;
8. technobuz.com – (-;-) – 3 – 378,158;
9. www.domainmarvelous.com – (-;-) – 3 – 669,427 – domains – latest update was on January, 2010;
10. davidnotes.com – (-;-) – 3 – 825,820 – life, personal;
11. www.evilwoobie.com – (-;-) – 3 – 926,709 – dating, relationship;
12. sensitivitytothings.com – (-;-) – 3 – 1,229,581 – life;
13. www.juliesjournal.com – (-;-) – 2 – 196,847 – woman, personal – lots of spammy comments;
14. www.andrewkeir.com – (-;-) – 2 – 231,053 – design, blogging;

Rarely Updated DoFollow Blogs with CommentLuv

1. your-dailyword.blogspot.com – (+;+) – 4 – 377,573 – bible, life;
2. www.lostaddress.org – (+;+) – 4 – 488,075 – random nonsense;
3. blog.hichamaged.net – (+;-) – 4 – 702,808 – self-improvement;
4. www.minthegap.com – (-;+) – 4 – 790,071 – life;
5. www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com – (+;+) – 3 – 132,265 – rare, but long;
6. www.idowebmarketing.com – (+;+) – 3 – 193,503;
7. crayonwriter.com – (+;+) – 3 – 295,121 – personal, writing;
8. dougchampigny.com – (+;+) – 3 – 302,640;
9. angesbiz.com – (+;+) – 3 – 452,917 – personal development, inspiration;
10. legacymarketingservices.com/wk – (+;+) – 3 – 1,070,597;
11. inkthinkerblog.com – (+;-) – 3 – 1,079,726 – tech, writing – ComLuv links are nofollow;
12. psychicgeek.com – (+;+) – 3 – 1,523,927 – life, personal;
13. mylifethinking.com – (+;-) – 2 – 211,293 – personal – nickname links are randomly dofollow;
14. twentyten.com – (+;+) – 2 – 417,951;
15. www.makingmoneyonline.com – (+;+) – 2 – 416,139 – mmo;
16. www.miscbytes.com – (+;+) – 2 – 459,726 – life, personal, very rare updates;
17. biznz.org – (+;+) – 2 – 515,284 – mmo, seo;
18. www.oestsetnoc.us – (+;+) – 2 – 693,747 – 96-day-experiment on SEO;
19. captain-affiliate.com – (+;+) – 2 – 759,032 – affiliate marketing, includes audio podcasts;
20. themixingdj.com – (+;+) – 2 – 1,010,546 – music, dj – extremely rare updates;
21. bloggingwire.com/msileanespeaks/ – (+;+) – 2 – N/A – Twitter, Blogging, Podcasting;
22. codeyhugo.com – (+;+) – 1 – 790,696;
23. bloggingwire.com/podcast/ – (-;+) – 0 – N/A – Blogging about Podcasting;

Updated on 13th April 2010

A lot of work, right? Basically, because I started blogging not so long time ago, I’ve made this list for myself :) So, you can see, that I didn’t regret my time. Good luck, dear commenters!

PS: “Almost dead” changed to “Barely Active” :)

PPS: “Barely Active” changed to “Rarely Updated” :)

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Today’s Dessert: Robot Boys’ Awesome Dance

Winner of Talent 2008 Denmark – Robot Boys. These guys are amazing dancers and entertainers. They won the final, and the prize money of 250,000 danish kroner. Watch…

How do you think, where you are more visible: in the street with hundreds (maybe thousands) of people or in some common room with several persons in it?

Let’s get to some popular website, where we can leave our comments. Most of these sites have huge numbers of posts and articles. How many comments do you see under each post? 50, or 80.. more? Are you going to read them all? Are you going to visit each and every author’s page and read their creations? This is madness, because you don’t have so much time!

Now… Most of us have very low numbers of visitors. Our amount of content is also not so big. Do you remember your reaction, when you get some comment? Sure.. you check this author’s page, right? And most of your visitors do, because this is almost the only one comment you have on your current post. And if it’s written well and attractively, I bet , that you would read it.

The same way works a promotion of your website, when you leave comments

• Find those websites , where the average comments number is not bigger, than 10-15;
• Make your comment readable and relevant;
• Do not make huge comments. Save your visitors time. 2-3 lines – max;

Analyze yourself

• Write down somewhere your list of those websites, where you used to comment;
• Use Google Analytics to track visitors from those blogs;
• Improve your commenting technique.

This post is a logical continuation of my previous work, where I’ve been talking about top web directories and top social bookmarking sites. This series of posts consists of the most fresh stats and links upon November, 2009.

Today, it’s time to have a look at proffesionals of blogging, that are worth your time.

Warning!

Stop wasting your time on low-rated blogs.. like mine :). Begin commenting and gaining new & fresh traffic from high-rated blogs.
You know what…? That really doesn’t sound quite normal. Because talking about this is kinda “personal” for each of us. But still..
Here’s my list of the best of the best.. with Google pagerank and Alexa of course.

Scheme of the list: URL – Google PageRank – Alexa ranking

• www.readwriteweb.com – 8 – 1,864
• www.seomoz.org – 8 – 1,915
• www.googleblog.blogspot.com – 8 – 2,080
• www.mashable.com – 7 – 344
• www.techcrunch.com – 7 – 367
• www.blog.searchenginewatch.com – 7 – 2,967
• www.mattcutts.com/blog/ – 7 – 4,501
• www.thinkprogress.org – 7 – 10,128
• www.seobook.com/blog/ – 6 – 1,021
• www.problogger.net – 6 – 2,001
• www.copyblogger.com – 6 – 4,126
• www.toprankblog.com – 6 – 8,451
• www.davidnaylor.co.uk/blog/ – 5 – 17,892
• www.seobythesea.com – 5 – 22,165
• www8.getmiro.com/blog/ – N/A – 24,724 – Its PR is 8, but because of “www8″ it’s N/A now

If that’s still not enough, check these out also. Or.. Technorati’s top.. But why I don’t like Technorati’s top is because almost every single blog isn’t suitable for promoting…

My recommendation:

Use only some of my list and focus on what you comment and how you comment. That would save your nerves and attention.

So often.. we simply cannot leave our thoughts on someone’s website. We know that this is our extra traffic, but…

But why? What makes us be afraid of commenting? I’ve tried to understand this moment in my brain and here’s what I’ve got:

1) I’ve got something on my website that I don’t want to show.
- There are no such websites, that you should be afraid of. Because Internet is like a street. Don’t be afraid of the stuff, that you have on your website. Leaving a comment means that you’ll start getting visitors from the backlink of your comment forever until this comment is deleted (usually comments live very long). So, if now you’re afraid of your stuff, then maybe in some time this would help you with extra traffic. Think sometimes of the future things.

2) I’m just afraid of expressing my thoughts.

- Alright… then tell me – what the hell are you doing on the Internet? Shut your PC down and do something different. That’s it.
But if you want to make something of yours popular on the Internet, then you have to be active everywhere.

3) My comments don’t fit others.
- That’s great! This means, that you’ll attract lots of attention. This is what you really need, when you leave your comments.

4) What if the author of this website won’t show my comment or ban me?
- This is possible. But wait.. Do you really think like that everytime you leave a comment? That’s awful.
Try to think a little bit more positive. The world will change around you.

5) I’ve got a lot of grammar mistakes…
- So what?
Who doesn’t have? Feel free to comment everywhere. Think of the author’s thoughts, when he was setting the comment form. He really needs it. At least to encourage himself.

6) There’s no point in commenting, because it’s set to “nofollow”.
- The “nofollow” attribute only restricts an access to Google bot. Other search engines ignore it.