By this moment you have my 34 ex-bookmarks directly from Google Chrome bookmarking panel. And now let me show you 28 bookmarks more. This is the 2nd part of my ex-bookmarks for beginning bloggers and for beginning webmasters.

Note: 3 of them are in russian. You can use Google translate service or install Google toolbar, which has its own high-speed built-in translator.

4 Blogging Resources for Your WordPress Blog

1. CommentLuv is a plugin for WordPress blogs.

   If you want to recieve more comments, you better start using it today. And, if you have a PageRank of 1-2 or more, your blog most likely will be soon listed in someone’s list of blogs with CommentLuv, which automatically guarantees, that you’ll start getting more and more new visitors and comments. That is why I had it in my bookmarks.

2. WP plugin Subscribe to Comments is another must-have plugin for WordPress blogs.

   This plugin enables your commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. It includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address.

   You can even integrate your blog design to the subscription manager, which I still have not done. My bad :)

3. “Previous” and “Next” Post Links code for your WordPress blog.

   This is a tutorial by DragonBlogger. I’ve bookmarked it lately and will follow it soon. Meanwhile, you can include it to your collection of blogging resources. You have one, right?

   This feature helps to reduce your bounce rate, which in turn improves your website or blog’s SERP.

4. Template Tags from WP Codex is a list of the general user tags available in WordPress, sorted by function-specific category.

   If you understand PHP and HTML at least a little, you can customize your blog as you wish using template tags.

   I have bookmarked this resource, because I needed it to fully change the structure of my blog theme.

7 Online Income Resources for Beginning Bloggers and Webmasters

1. Chitika Premium – For advertisers and media buyers, Chitika is a proven channel for targeting on-line consumers and qualified buyers. For all publishers, Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. And it can be used along with AdSense.

   They have got 3 different types of ads for publishers: in-text-ads (like Kontera and Adgitize), WhitespaceAds that appear only when whitespace is available on higher resolution monitors and integrated Chitika eMiniMalls – ads pay on a per click basis. The value of the clicks depends upon the product being featured.

   One of the most popular benefits of Chitika is that ads appear only for your traffic that comes from search engines, which means that your daily readers will never see any ad, unless they would try to come on your site through some search engine. Chitika also pays only for US and Canada traffic, though there is also an option to monetize international and non search traffic.

   This is another must-have blogging resource for your collection of useful bookmarks.

2. Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters.

   In order to make money with this platform, you have to have a lot of real followers, not bots nor internet marketing scams.

3. Ad.ly allows you also to make money and to advertise on Twitter.

   I have registered my account there a month ago or so. No results. So, I can’t say anything about how they pay and whether it is worthy or not. But I am still keeping it in my bookmarks for future.

4. Bunch of Good Affiliate Banners by Brian from BlogEngage. The list itself is great and you can save a lot of time, because if you are looking for banners to decorate your website or blog’s sidebar, then follow the link and enjoy the wide choice of banners.

5. Make Money Online Blogging by Seth from Blogussion.

   Seth introduces us to 30 ways of making money blogging. What made me bookmark this article is that the ways were categorized by 3 different blogging levels: for beginning bloggers, for beginning novices and for professional bloggers. And every way is clearly explained.

6. 15 Link Building Tips by Dosh dosh. I have bookmarked this post, because I was new to link building methods.

7. AffiliateTips is a website that provides you with a complete guide on how to make money online with the best affiliate programs. Here you will find extensive website and blogging resources on affiliate marketing.

   I have found this resource lately in Alexa’s top. Looks cool, huh? Let’s say.. I find affiliate programs working much more better comparing with annoying ads all over the blog. With this website you can find highly targeted affiliate offers for your blog’s niche in minutes. All you need is to have a ClickBank ID (or “account name” in other words).

10 Superb Lists for Blogging Improvement

1. Several High PR Forums to Boost Traffic – this is one of my oldest dusty bookmarks. You can still find there several useful forums to get traffic.

2. 100 Ping Services for WordPress Blog – simple and clear, though in russian (I have mentioned in the beginning of this post how to translate russian blogs into english).

   You can add all of those ping services to your WordPress blog through your admin panel. Find “Settings”, then navigate to “Writing”, from there find the title “Update Services”.

   Some of the listed ping services may not work. So, it is best for you to install WordPress plugin – MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. The plugin corrects WordPress’s pinging system and solves many other problems. You are also able to see, which ping services work and which not.

3. Blog with Tons of Lists of Dofollow Blogs – this is one of those blogs with very narrow niche created to beat some certain Google real-time search result. In this case, author is trying to be on the first page of Google results with the keyword phrase “more dofollow blogs” or maybe “dofollow blogs”.

   Anyways, the provided information on dofollow blogs is fantastic and frequently updated. If you are looking for dofollow blogs with your niche – start right from moredofollowblogs.blogspot.com .

4. 100 Dofollow Forums to Increase Backlinks – uncategorized, without pageranks list of dofollow forums. I have bookmarked it to make a worthy list with more details in future.

   But you can already use that list :)

5. Top SEO Blogs of 2009 – very strong list. 207 retweets and it means, that you are dealing with a worthy compilation of SEO blogs. Take several hours to read them, if you are not sure about your search engine omptimization methods.

6. Top 15 URL Shortening Services – fresh article by Siddartha from Gadget Cage. You can find for yourself almost any type of URL shortening service from this list. But use them wisely, URL shorteners can damage your SEO in the long haul.

7. Dofollow Forums – the categorized list by niche. Seems like the author updates it regularly, so it means, that the list is great. I have followed some of the links just to test them and make sure the author was doing his job right. No mistakes found, so you can freely treat it like the best blogging resource to get backlinks from forums.

8. 538 Twitter Users that Blog by ProBlogger. This one is an old list, but I bet, that Twitter users, who still exist in that list can be very useful for you and your blog. So, why not to try to add them? :)

9. List of Sites Sharing Google AdSense Revenue – if I would ever make my second blog, then it would be done on some of the platforms listed in that article. Most likely, it would be Squidoo. The opportunity of AdSense revenue sharing platform for your blog seems very attractive by this moment. Not sure how it would be in future.

   Check the list whenever you have any extra minute.

10. List of Mnemonics for beginning bloggers and webmasters. If you are using rare characters like “&” or “$” in titles, then this list of mnemonics should become your close friend :)

    I have not found any english alternative for that list of mnemonics, so use Google Translate service or Google toolbar to understand the gist of the article, if you really want it. Because, actually, you need only the list itself, which is provided pretty much clearly.

4 Unexplored Blogging Resources to Get More Extra Traffic

1. Stumpedia is the human powered search of links. You can submit any link to this directory – just like with the stories submissions. You can also find friends, join or create groups and search for some interesting stuff for yourself.

   I’d call Stumpedia a “social directory for your links”, which is fair in my opinion. Try it, this stuff is new, fresh and juicy!

2. Plaxo is a big address book and a way to stay connected with your friends, just like in Twitter or Facebook. You can also share any stuff with your contacts and Plaxo will not limit the number of characters of your messages – a big plus. You can also run polls, which is cool :)

3. Virb is the combination of Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, YouTube and Flickr.. I guess. I’ve been online there for several hours.. listening to some music and running through it. This social network is fast with a big number of daily visitors. And I should admit that I fell in love with it, because it really has a lot of potential web traffic for you website or blog. Test it.

4. Blastoff Network – is… I’m really not sure what it is. They promise you can make money, you can blast something and it’s convenient. This is how I have understood them.

   Anyways, thanks to Ileane Smith for showing this. I think it is a kind of discovery, that should be investigated a little bit more deeper.. and bookmarked, of course.

3 Ex-Bookmarks as a Bonus

1. Blog about Positive Thinking – or Maxos.ru . It is in russian, but I highly recommend it for those, who feel that it is time to fight the negativeness within you.

2. Uxbooth – a blog, that I have bookmarked, because of its design. It was long time ago and this blog was one of the first ones with unusual and great web design for me.

3. Websitebabble forum by Lisa Irby from 2CreateAWebsite.com.

   This forum is full of beginning bloggers, future webmasters and occasional visitors. I hope you know what to do with this kind of traffic :)

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Well.. no more ex-bookmarks. Now there are only 2 for you! Get traffic, earn money, improve your blogging and make new friends with these 2 parts of proven bookmarked websites, web services and web tools.

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Video Dessert: «Jessica Alba The Stare Response on ibeatyou»

This is Jessica’s entry for the “ibeatyou” stare competition. Try to stare at her as long as she does :)

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.

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.