Top 5 things to do with all the Top 5 Lists
If you have not heard about the Group Writing Project at Problogger, then there is a good chance that you started blogging yesterday :-). Everyone who’s anyone is contributing to this project and since i am one of them, i too wanted to write a top 5 list. I thought about the top 5 list i could write on, for a while and then seeing the massive number of top 5 lists being created, i decided to write a top 5 list of things that could be done with all these top 5 lists. So, here goes…
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Link to all the lists. I have already done so by creating a list of all lists. This will not only help me keep a track of all the links i have been to, in a central place (my blog), but also provide loads of surfing opportunities to the readers of my blog. Also, nothing is lost in linking to others. “Linking” is the foundation upon which the blogging world exists and as it is often said “Always share the link love”!
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Read each and every Top 5 list. Yes, you must be thinking that i must be crazy to read through 500 such lists, but believe me, at the end of it, you will realise its worth. It doesn’t matter whether you are a geek, a wanderlust, a music lover, a sports lover or whatever, there is a list for you in here. Read them, get to know the people who wrote them and who knows, you might make new friends in the blogosphere. There is a good chance that you have never visited many of the blogs in this list. You may like the writing styles of some of these bloggers and end up adding them to your regular feeds.
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Some of the lists might fascinate you to the extent that you could start a Blog Meme on the same topic on your blog. A Blog Meme is “an idea that is shared and passed from blog to blog, like a question posted in one blog and answered in many other blogs”. For example, you might like the list “Top 5 reasons boys are better than girls” and decide to start a blog meme on the same topic on your blog and tag others. But be careful, you might end up being the one responsible for the online war of the sexes!
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Comment on the lists you like. Don’t spam the blogs in the hope that they link back to you, but leave comments on the lists you felt a connection with or ones you felt you could contribute more to. For example, geeks (anyone who uses Mac must be a geek!) might want to contribute lot more items to the list “5 Mac Apps for Bloggers“.
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Promote the lists on your blog. This doesn’t end with just linking to the lists, but also providing your input on the ones you like and recommending them to you readers. Some of you out there might be high-profile bloggers and if you recommend any of the lists, it will result in that blogger getting more exposure. Surely, if their writing is good, they deserve that exposure, don’t they?
So, if you haven’t yet participated in this project, do go over to problogger and participate.
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A very great post.
Ever since the Group Writing event started, I already though of ways on how to make use of all the top 5 lists that were submitted.
On the first day, I have visited almost all the blogs that has entered in the event. It is quite an undertaking but it was worth it because I have gained something in return: Traffic/Readers and a new set of blogs to read and visit ^_^
On my blog hopping, I also tried to comment on the blogs which interests me or from which I can relate to. This has once again given me some considerable traffic. ^_^ Spamming could only make your relationship with other bloggers even worse.
Thanks for your post.
If you have time, why don’t you drop by my post:
http://mobileko.blogspot.com/2007/05/snatch-top-5-tips-on-how-to-be.html
It’s also an entry for the problogger top 5- group writing project. ^^ Goodluck to us all!
I’ve read about ten lists this morning, and yours just hit a home run! I thought you were going to say something silly…but this is an outstanding idea. Now, if I could figure out how to copy that list into Word Press. I need to go meet a geek! Great job!
I just did a straight-forward copy-paste, nothing more!
Good ideas. The hardest part is reading them all. There are more entries this time, than anytime I can remember in past group writing projects of Darren’s.
Better than good! I like your recommndations, especially 1 and 2. I can’t commit to reading them all, but I am sure going to get a lot read!!
I’m no techno-mom, but even I have learned a lot from looking over the lists.
You can check out how my boys had their horizons broadened at the downtown music festival at my place.
Hey!
It’s the first time I check a blog from your country, and I think it’s really great done. My congratulations.
I’ll keep in touch to link you, okay?
see you
visit my blog to at http://boggito.blogspot.com
bye bye
fernando
I will do my level best.