There is a really cool plugin, called the popularity contest plugin, which actually keeps track of your reader’s stats. It then presents them in a way to show everyone who the top posters are. This can be a great way to engage your readers.

People love competitions! Of course this plugin would only be recommended if you had a blog that had a decent amount of traffic. If you have the right crowd for this type of thing, this plugin could be quite a powerful addition to your blog.

To learn more about this plugin please view video #24 below: Read the rest of this entry

Now that you have a foundation of optimizing your blog, it is important to discuss promotion. Good rankings not only depend on on-page optimization factors as we have discussed, but off-page as well.

We will now take a look at several popular and powerful promotion methods.

To see an introduction of these methods, please view video #32 below:

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