Written on May 15th, 2007 at 01:05 am by David Shawver

Reflections on the Group Writing Project

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A few people have been asking me to write a post summarizing the benefits of running last week’s ‘Top 5′ group writing project (GWP).

I’d summarize it as being worth doing in five main areas (and will add a few ‘costs’ of doing it below also):

1. Participation

The main reason that I run GWP’s is that it gets current readers participating in the blog. While there’s already a pretty good level of interaction on the blog in comments I find that a special opportunity like GWPs draws people who might previously have been lurking into coming out openly as Active readers. I find that the number of comments in the weeks following a GWP are usually higher than in the weeks before - so it does seem to impact the interActive culture of a blog. I find that with increased participation comes increased ownership from readers.

2. New Readers

There’s no doubt that this last GWP created a buzz around the blogosphere. In doing this I find that they put the name/brand of enternetusers ‘out there’ in ways that it might not have been previously and as a result every time I run one I seem to find new readers. While I don’t require people to mention that they’re in the project on their post - most do and in doing so they give those readers who also have blogs a way of discovering my blog.

Hint - What I’ve found when running GWPs is that you need to work hard to convert some of the new readers into loyal readers. Don’t let every post in the week that you run this type of thing relate to the project but work hard to provide excellent content that will make those discovering your blog for the first time want to hang around for more (and content that will keep your current loyal readers interested of course). There is a danger in running this sort of project that you become obsessed with it and ignore your current readers (and run the risk of losing them).

3. Incoming links

Related to this is the numbers of new links pointing at enternetusers. I have not counted how many blogs linked up to enternetusers and the GWP this week but I would suspect that there were well over 1000 (and probably closer to 2000 as many linked up numerous times over the week). Now people will argue over the benefits of so many links coming into a single page (or just a few) so quickly in terms of SEO - but the main reason that these links are so great is that they bring new readers with them.

NB: I’ve been told by some SEO types that my daily posts are risky to my blog when it comes to SEO also because they have so many links on them. I understand this but am more than willing to run that risk because I think the benefits of running GWPs far outweigh the costs - both to me and those participating.

4. ‘Happy Readers’

I’ve lost count of the numbers of emails that I’ve had in the last week from readers thanking me for a range of things that have come out of participating. These have included:

• finding new readers for their blogs
• big traffic days (from direct traffic from the GWP)
• big traffic from social bookmarking (quite a few participants seemed to get on Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon etc)
• lots of comments (a number of readers reported having more comments on their posts than they’ve ever had on a post)
• new rss subscribers
• new ideas for posts
• discovering new blogs to read/subscribe to

The list could go on (and the emails keep coming in). This is probably the best part of GWPs - new readers are great, but happy readers are even better. When you help someone you find they advocate for you, promote you and keep coming back for more. It is also very energizing and encouraging to get these emails on a personal level.

5. Traffic

It is difficult to quantify the actual traffic that this latest GWP brought into enternetusers. It was made harder to gauge because in the same week I was also on the front page of Digg and Delicious for one of my ‘creativity’ posts. There has definitely been an impact though on traffic (I’ve also noticed an increase in the length of time that people are staying on enternetusers per visit this week).

A couple of graphs:
I’m a bit of a graph junkie - before I move onto the costs of GWPs here are a few that might interest others who are more visual:

This first one measure the amount of posts in the blogosphere over the last two months with the words ‘top 5′ in them - via blogpulse.

This one measures the number of posts in the blogosphere over the last two months with ‘enternetusers.net’ in them (incoming links) - via blogpulse.

This one graphs mentions of ‘enternetusers’ over the last 90 days - tracked by Technorati.

Lastly - an Alexa graph measuring traffic. It shows some increase (although this was probably more to do with a good two days on Digg.

Costs of the GWP

While there are some obvious benefits of doing a project like this there are also a few costs (some obvious and some more hidden). To give a little balance to this post here are a few of the costs that I’ve observed of this last GWP.

1. Time

Perhaps the biggest cost of these projects is the time that it takes to put them together. This time around was easier due to the plugin that Gary put together for me to help automate it - however administering something with so many people contributing does take significant time and energy.

2. SEO Costs?

I’ve already mentioned this in passing - but while there are some potential gains with having so many blogs point links at the GWP there are also potential risks to this blog in having so many links pointing out from it. I also do wonder whether having so many inbound links appear so quickly will have costs also as it seems so unnatural to Google’s bots.

3. Server Load

There were a few times when the project tested the back end of enternetusers - particularly on the two days when the blog was also being Dugg. Thanks to the great tech team at b5 we got through that without too many problems.

4. Reader Distraction

The thing that worries me most about these projects is that they can be a little distracting from the main focus of the blog. While I actually run these projects to give people a little inspiration to write something that might improve their blog or bring it a little life (which does fit with the main purpose of this blog) it can be a little distracting also and I try to balance this with other on topic posts.

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Written on May 13th, 2007 at 08:05 pm by David Shawver

Which Feed Reader is Best?

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Time for a little reader debate discussion.

Which Feed Reader do you use and Why?

Are you a Google Reader fan? A Bloglines junkie? Do you prefer NewsGator, Firefox Live Bookmarks or Netvibes? Or do you prefer to follow blogs via MyYahoo or iGoogle?

Which one do you use - why?

Leave us a mini review - it’ll be interesting to see what trends emerges from the discussion.

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Written on May 12th, 2007 at 10:05 am by David Shawver

Top 5 - GWP Winner (and the #1 Reason Why Chitika Rocks)

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OK, after a good night’s sleep an hour or two working through the list to weed out a couple of little problems I’ve just selected a winner for the Top 5 Group Writing Project. Before I announce them - here are a few administrative notes:

• Full List - For those wanting to see the full list in the one place I’ve just put together a compilation page of all 893 entries at Top 5 Group Writing Project Final Submission List. Please keep surfing it, linking up (I think some top 5 favorites would be appropriate) and making friends of those bloggers you find.
• Duplicate Entries - A few people misread (or didn’t read) the rules properly and there were a few who submitted multiple entries. I’ve left them in the list but have only allowed their first entry to be eligible for the prize.
• Late Entries - There have been a few of these - but unfortunately I can’t keep adding new entries to the list. You’re welcome to keep writing Top 5 posts - but they won’t be listed any more - sorry.

Before I announce the Winner - I want to complete my own little Top 5 project - the top five reasons why I think Chitika Rocks.

#5 - On Day 1 I told you that they were interActive ads and very clickable
#4 - On Day 2 I told you about their RPU (related product units) and why they’re cool.
#3 - On Day 3 I told you about their free BlogBash ebook which is filled with great blogging tips
#2 - On Day 4 I told you about eMiniMalls

#1 Reason Why Chitika Rocks

The reason why Chitika Rocks the most can perhaps be summarized best with a little screen shot of the log in page of my Chitika account where they very kindly remind me each time I log in how much money I’ve earned by using them. Here’s what it looks like:

That amount doesn’t include April’s earnings (and goes back to when I started to use them in September 2005) - but when they do update it that figure will go past quarter of a million dollars. What else can I really say? I think Chitika Rocks (and who wouldn’t)!

Thanks again to Chitika for putting up the prize for this project.

The Winner of the Project

Before I announce the winner - let me say that there are many deserving winners this week - I hope that participants have been ‘rewarded’ with a little extra traffic (and for those of you who were featured on Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon with your entries a lot of extra traffic).

However there is only one winner and that winner relies completely upon luck as this is a random prize draw.

And that Winner is……

Nancy R. Callahan for her entry Baby names from Video Games.

Congratulations Nancy - I’ll be in touch with you shortly to arrange for $1001 cash to be sent to you from Chitika. Thanks for your entry.

And thanks to everyone for participating! I’ll hoping we can do one of these projects per month from now on in. Feel free to nominate topics below.

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Written on May 11th, 2007 at 11:05 pm by David Shawver

Top 5 - Group Writing Project Day 4

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It is with great pleasure, mixed with sadness, mixed with a tinge of excitement and mixed with some relief that I now officially close the ‘Top 5′ enternetusers Group Writing project for this week. No more submissions will be accepted.

To say that the project has been a success would be something of an understatement both on a personal front, a participant front (looking at the numbers of thank you emails that are in my inbox) and from a sponsor’s point of view (if Alden from Chitika’s message to me a few hours is anything to go by).

Today saw the biggest round of submissions for the week with 297 new entries. This takes the week’s total up to 893 (almost triple our previous record). I’m not sure if it was the topic, the prize or luck (or all three) that made this week so successful - but I want to thank everyone for participating by submitting entries and by linking up to those that you love the most. I especially want to thank two important participants in the project.

Thanks Gary

The reason there was such a long gab between this writing project and the last one is that previously running these projects has been so much work as I’ve had to manually copy and paste every entry from emails into posts. This time however I was lucky enough to have Gary King develop a WP plugin that would do the task for me so that all I had to do at the end of each day was copy and paste the list of submissions into a post with my intro. Seeing the numbers of entries we had confirms the decision to go this route - Gary has literally saved me days worth of work. Thanks Mate.

Thanks Chitika - Why They Rock #2

Thanks to the sponsors of this project - Chitika. The #2 reason why I like Chitika as a monetization option for blogs is eMiniMalls. While they have developed a nice array of ad units for blogs it’s one of their first - the eMiniMall that makes me the majority of my Chitika income.

If you’ve not seen one before here’s an example.

These units are highly configurable, very clickable and can payout quite well if you choose the right keywords to target (hint: the more related to your content and audience demographic the better).

Stay tuned for my #1 reason for loving Chitika - it’s going to be a good one!

The Prize

I’m going to post the final list of submissions below and then will post the prize winner in a post tomorrow. The reason for this is that I need to double check that I’ve got everyone’s submissions (one or two slipped through in the changeover between days and there are a few double ups that I need to weed out). This will ensure the winner is drawn fairly. I’ll also post a full list of all entries tomorrow as one list - just so you’ve got them all in the one place for something to do over the weekend!

Today’s Submissions

Well it’s time for the final list of today’s submissions. As I say - there’s a lot of them and once again they are on every topic under the sun. I hope you enjoy reading them, commenting on them and linking up to the ones you love the most.

• Top 5 Ways To Plan an Easy Move by Single Ma
• Top 5 Italian Words You Really Don’t Want to Mispronounce by Sognatrice
• Top 5 technology websites by Jaganath S R
• Top 5 Things To Do Online Before Your Trip by Maria Paz Luque
• Top 5 Reasons Bill Gates Can’t Get No Respect by Great White Snark
• My top 5 single sentence movie reviews by blaiq
• Top 5 Ways Humanity Will Use Blogging to Evolve Our Species by Jesse S. Somer
• Top 5 Birthday Cards Design from Pigeon Card by Pigeon Card
• Top 5 livros essenciais by Ibrahim Cesar
• 5 Lessons Learned From Pitching VCs by Benjamin Yoskovitz
• Top 5 Things To Do in Istanbul by Mert Erkal
• Top Five Uses For Magnetic Bracelets by Forest Mitchell
• My Top 5 Most Important Comics by Lew Newmark
• Songs That Make Me Insanely Happy - The Top 5 by Jester
• My Top 5 Wordpress Plugin Ideas by Tech Lemming
• O Top 5 dos… Top 5! by Rafa
• Top 5 Hollywood actors of the last 30 years by Biby Cletus
• Avoiding the Chemical Sandwich of Doom…Plus 4 More Tips from The Practical Archivist by Sally Jacobs
• The 5 things that Helped me Finish the Ironman by Triathlete Dad
• 5 Benefits Podcasting has helped my business by The Freq
• I Fly Free & Get Paid To Have Sex by Jeffrey Strain
• Turn Your Meager Blog Income into a Million Dollars by Chris B.
• Top 5 Blogs by Musicians by Emma
• 5 reasons why Hollywood should spend less money on their movies by Patrick Rijnders
• Top Five Acne Treatments by Maggie and Will
• 5 Easy Daily Habits To Put Your Weight Loss On Autopilot by Time To Get Fit
• Top 5 Most Wanted Answer in Physics by LaymanSc
• Alguns títulos longos by Alexandre
• Top 5 Ways To Get Your Baby To Fall Asleep by Moxie (of Ask Moxie)
• How I look at life now that I am half a century old by Christina Kong
• 5 Sympathies For The Devil by msierra
• 5 Great Sites for Landscaping How To Videos by Paul Sayer
• Five things to remember when you adopt an older child. by Joanne
• The Top 5 List of Top 5 Lists on Blogging by Cristian
• Men’s Deodorant is Better Than Women’s … Top Five by Toonses
• Top 5 Ways that Real Estate Can Help You Become a Millionaire by Saving for Wealth
• Top 5 Ways To Always Have a Job by Justin Driscoll
• Top 5 Ways to Find What Makes You Happy by Shannon Turlington
• Five things that I love about camping by Steve
• No sex yet? You still should sleep together! by Angel Cupid
• Five (Free!) resources for the burgeoning art student by Max Lawson
• Five Ways to Make Money Scrapbooking by Todd
• Top Five Little Known Wordpress Plugins by Pallab De
• Top 5 Reasons to Participate in enternetuserss Group Writing Projects by Lynn Terry
• 5 Reasons Why Stand-Up Comics Make Better Copywriters by Roberta Rosenberg
• Top 5 Reasons Why I Started a Personal Finance Blog by Dy Phan
• Five Steps to Start Working From Home by Char Polanosky
• Top 5 Reasons I Should Be Have My "Grown Up" Card Revoked For Being a Moron by zoot
• Top Five Values that You Can Learn from Wine Corks by Buda Baby
• Top 5 Reasons You Should Be Grilling by Grill Maestro
• FIVE EASY WAYS TO SPICE UP YOUR HOME DÉCOR WITH FABRIC…GET TO A FABRIC STORE NOW! by J&O Fabrics
• Top 5 Latest New Jersey Controversies by Deb/Jersey Girl
• Top 5 Video Games that should be turned into movies by betshopboy
• Top 5 Reasons You Should Stop Calling Yourself a Writer, Right Now by Jeff
• The Top 5 Things That Will Check Your Pre-Wedding Bliss by Never teh Bride
• 5 truly talented artists you’ve never heard of. by Conscious
• Top 5 places to eat gluten free by Lucy
• Top 5 US President Bankruptcies by Ian
• Do It All and Still Stay Sane by Kathryn Lang
• Top Five Reasons I Look Great on a Gluten Free Diet by Natalie
• Five strangely named websites that made it big by Dhruv Kumar
• Save money on the Top 5 Most expensive things in your life by Marshall Middle
• Top 5 Super Foods by Melanie Thomassian
• Top 5 Reasons to get outta bed in the morning. by rel
• Top Five Ways to Turbo Boost you Mac for Free by Kenny Roberts
• Top 5 Reasons To Start A Business by Jason Drohn
• Five essential skills for blogging success by Shonnie Lavender
• Five Killer Apps That Keep Me Using Kubuntu by Chris Rohde
• Top 5 Reasons Why Wives Love Radio Control Airplanes by The Hobby Guy
• Top 5 Signs You’ve Graduated to the Copywriting Big Leagues by Dina Giolitto
• Five People for Your Success by Milo
• Top 5 reasons getting a fire-fighter by Wolfgang Maslo
• Top Five Bible Verses On Money And Stewardship by Savvy Steward
• Top 5 reasons you should not listen to finance professionals by Nordicmoney
• Top 5 Internet Marketing Mistakes by The Internet Marketing Monitor
• Top 5 Free Ways to Promote Your Writing Business by Yvonne Russell
• top 5 things my pantry needs to have by Loretta
• CelebrityCatch & 5 Hottest Celebrities by Cindy
• Top 5 Worst Jobs I Have Ever Had by Angela
• Big Fat Deal’s Top 5 Size-Positive Songs for Girls Who Rock Their Curves by Weetabix
• TOP 5 - People I respect in this World by Philip Yong
• The Top 5 Google Tools I Use Every Day by Hugh Hollowell
• Top 5 Reasons to Visit and Subscribe to ecocheap by Char
• Top 5 reasons why it’s bad to be a good listener by Jude
• Five Things Pediatricians Do That Drive Me Crazy by Terri Mauro
• The Top 5 FREE Software Programs Every Writer Should Have by Rob in Denver
• 5 top reasons to market your business on the Internet by Andrew Timberlake
• Top 5 worst things about blogosphere by Pavel
• Want To Make Real Change? Stop Making These 5 Mistakes by Melissa LaRose
• Top 5 Things to Do With an Idea by Andrew G.R.
• Top 5 Reasons Writers Should Procrastinate by Alicia Sparks
• Top 5 Reasons You Should NOT Make Money Online by Ryan Ambrose
• A world fit to be conquered: Five steps to total real estate listing dominance by Greg Swann
• Top 5 Money Making blogs I Envy by Ramanujam
• Top 5 Favorite Disc Golf Courses by Jeff Sill
• Top 5 Things That Hurt Your Online Advertising by Chris Cagle
• The Top 5 Websites that are Changing Aging by Eric Schubert
• Why build a boat… blog? by Bruce C. Dillahunty
• Top Five Misconceptions of Puerto Rico by BW
• Cman’s Top 5 Tips for Building a Profitable Blog by Johnathan Long
• The secret is out! The top five things guys really want by Bruce Mulkey
• Top 5 Newsletter Design Tips by Martin Reed
• Top Five Methods to Check How Physically Fit You Are. by Harikrishnan
• Top 5 Tips for the Potential Pushy Parent by John Parsons
• Top 5 things I look for in a blog by Bengt Wendel
• Photoshop Lightroom: Top 5 Features & Tips by Ryan R Dlugosz
• My Top 5 Favorite Flowers by Lynda Walldez
• Top 5 Herbs in my Herb Garden by James
• Top 5 Tools to Build an Online Community by Joseph
• Top 5 tips for getting backlinks to your websites by vijay
• Top 5 Tips For Better Photographs by Joe Szymanski
• Green Ignorance: Top 5 Mistakes I’ve Made While Trying to Be Earth Friendly by Billy Shih
• Moving online journalism to Linux: Top 5 programs by Megan Taylor
• The top 5 lessons I learned at Kindermusik by Alli Crumley
• Top 5 Drunk Celebrities Caught on Video by Chris
• WiFi in the Wild! by Valerie
• 5 Incredible Things You Can Do After Divorce by Helene Taylor
• Top five reasons why ‘Ignorance is bliss’ by Amit Sethi
• Camels, donkeys, and sheiks oh my! by Lady Macleod
• 5 reasons to use Ubuntu and not Windows by Tim Fuchs
• My five favorite 100-calorie meals by Sarah Lewis
• Top 5 Muscle Cars Of All Times by Quais Waseeq
• Top 5 Autopilot Moneymakers for Your Website or Blog by Toivo Lainevool
• Top 5 browsing tips for safe online life. by Ramanathan
• Five Inspirational Quotes For Conversational Blogging by Dawud Miracle
• Top 5 Author Blogs by Todd
• Top 5 steps for bloggers to get written about in newspapers and magazines by hobbit hob
• Top 5 Timesaving Google Shortcuts and Search Operators by Marc and Angel
• Top 5 Greatest Collaborative Renderings Of A Fictional Male Character In Movies or TV by Todd Howard
• Mamas! Read your blogs! by Shawn
• Five Favorite Comic Strip Characters by Neal
• My Phabulous Philly top 5 by Stargazer
• Top 5 property investing tips by Rod Thomas
• Top 5 Fantasy Baseball Minor League Prospects by Knox
• The Ultimate Top 5 Reasons to Teach English Overseas in Korea! by Gdog
• Top 5 of our favorite "Top 5" Memes by Elastic Waist
• What is the Point of Your PowerPoint? (1 of 3) by Alan Bradford
• The Top Five Ways Nakedpastor Stays Naked by nakedpastor
• The most ridiculous items on eBay that I must have by shawna
• Top 5 Recent Movies that Have Influenced Me Spiritually… by Carlton Matthews
• Those Lazy Days Of Summer - Got A Pet? - Keep It Safe by Ruth Bird
• Top 5 Skincare Tips by Rhonda
• Top 5 ways to entertain yourself when you are bored [at work] by elysa
• Top Five Challenges Newbies Face Online by Gaya
• Top 5 Linux distributions by Linux Operating System
• Stránky o regresní terapii (top) by Martin
• 5 tipov ako zarábať na blogu by Jaro
• The Top 5 Films You Never Thought Someone Would Produce (But Thank God They Did) by Vishal K Bharadwaj
• The Five Best Brain Teasers of All Time by Dr. Kaplan
• The Top 5 Reasons Chocolate Lovers Love San Diego by Carole Lane
• Top 5 Forms Of Website and Blog Monetization for 2008 by Adnan
• Top 5 Ways to Get (and Stay) Fit!! by Adrienne Saia
• Top 5 Reasons Why I Love Being Plus Size by Sassy Sarah
• My top five Chattanooga choices for Mother’s Day lunch by Alicia Crumley
• 5 Reasons Dogs Can Be Annoying (And Why We Love Them Anyway) by Rhona Sutter
• (Re)Fill Your iPod: Top 5 Ways To Find New Music by Neal
• Giant Jenga Game Saves the World, One Page at a Time. Wait. What? by Riley LaShea
• Mortgage 101: Top Five Signs of Predatory Lending by elle mackenna
• Top 5 Ways To Break Out Of A Boring Life by Ray Dotson
• The Easiest Meditations by Nneka
• 5 Ways Criminal Thinking Can Make You Happier by Maile
• A top (4+1) ways to face rejection by RJ Light
• Congestion Pricing–5 Pros, 5 Cons by Claire Deveron
• StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites by Andy Beard
• 5 Things Moms Do RIGHT by Jordan (MamaBlogga)
• More Money: 5 Ways to Earn Extra Cash in Your Spare Time by J.D. Roth
• 5 things you should know before dating a journalist by Tom Chambers
• High Fives and Other Small Moves with Big Impact by Andrew Barbaccia
• "When It’s Time to STOP Writing" by Kristin Gorski
• Top 5: Razones por las que quiero ganar este concurso by El Bloggero
• 5 Low-Cost High-Impact Relatively Immediate Search Marketing Tactics by Sasha
• Top 5 Reasons to Marry a Geek by Eric Giguere
• Top 5 Reasons PHP Developers Love Rails by Patrick Reagan
• Five essential tools make blogging fun and easy by Brad Grier
• Top 5 Filipino Bloggers by Jaypee Habaradas
• Separated at Birth: Top 5 Song Mashups by Megan Gilbert
• 5 Reasons why luxury pashmina is the Ultimate fibre by Sylvia Ellis
• 5 motivos para fazer um top 5 em 5 minutos by Daniel Rodrigues "Cobalto"
• Your Small Business is Worth More than a Free Email Address by Joe Rawlinson
• Top Five Reasons To Work At Home by Laura Spencer
• TOP 5 somethingVERTISING ads by Michal Pastier
• Top Five Ways to Promote Your Artwork by Laurie Harshbarger
• Top Five Celebrity Faux Paus by Denise Grier
• Orgy Invitation: Top 5 Ways to Get One! by aag
• Riding the Waves of Change aka Hints on how to deal with change by Adrienne
• The Top 5 Emotional Intelligence FAQs by Galba Bright
• The 411: The top 5 kids crafts websites by Alicia Crumley
• Top 5 tricks for taking professional looking photos with your digital camera by Samir Bharadwaj
• Top 5 Kuwait T-Shirts That Should Be In My Closet by Kuwait-Style.com
• 5 Tops Ways to Use a VA by Kathie Thomas
• The Top 5 (of 12) Steps to Market by Patrick Nolan
• The Top 5 Supporting Characters on NBC’s ‘The Office’ by Myles
• Top 5 Applications Every Gamer Should Have by Mike Raffensperger
• The Rule of the FIVE by Austin Realtor’s Wife
• Top 5 Pagan References On Screen by Johanne Drever
• Top 5 Productivity Enhancing Ideas For Busy People by Chris Pangburn
• The Top 5 Things You Can Do For Your Kids…EVER by Aaron Emerson
• The top 5 things about Glasgow that make me want to kill myself by Jon Kane
• Top 5 Reasons to Save Your Grandmother’s DNA by Blaine Bettinger
• Five TV Shows on the Bubble That Should Be Saved by Jason - The TVaholic
• Top 5 Reasons to Close a Trade by Babak
• Top 5 Ways to Increase Your Revenues while Decreasing Your Effort by Jim
• Five Podcast Categories by dpeach
• Time Is Money: My TOP 5 Time-Saving Pro Blogging Tips by Easton Ellsworth
• Its Time For Another Round of ‘Things that Have Come Out of My Mouth Today by Erika
• Top 5 ferramentas Linux para Desenvolvedores by Rafael Schouery
• Top 5 Action Steps to Build an Online Business by Derrick Markotter
• My Favorite Standby Knitting Projects by Tricia
• Top 5 Ways to Improve Your Rock Climbing Skills by Ryan Bombard
• Top 5 Things I’ve Discovered My Mom Lied About by Brian Metzger
• The Top 5 Mistakes English Speakers Make When Speaking Spanish by David Grove
• Fantastic Five: 5 Freeware Apps You Don’t Know About by Tyler Cipriani
• Five Ways to Improve Your Photography by Mike Rothermel
• Top 5 Ways to Get a Good Photo by Joodie
• Nancy Drew, 5 Reasons Your Mom, Sister, Wife, and Daughter Want to be Her by Heidi Fournier
• 5 Future Events That Will Rock by Ian Byrd
• Top 5 (+20) Ideas to Break Your Duck by Prince John
• Top 5 Ways to Avoid E.Coli in the Workplace by Joe Raasch
• Top 5 navegadores web by Matheus Smythe Svolenski
• The Top Five Things You Can Learn from Rosie O’Donnell by Winnie McCarthy
• Top 5 Self-Help Myths by Peter Haslam
• Top 5 Intimidating Male American Gladiators by Dan Engler
• Top 5 Ways the Internet Can Save You Money by junger
• Five Hotels in Buenos Aires I wish I could afford to stay in… by Alan Patrick
• Five Under-Emphasized PowerPoint Best Practices by Jim MacLennan
• 5 Song Titles by 5 Singers That Tell A Story by GoingLikeSixty
• Top 5 Indicators of Sustainable Coffee by Bird Barista
• Mensagem do Dia Das Mães - Top 5 habilidades desses seres maravilhosos by Alex Alvarez
• As Cinco Melhores Coisas Para Fazer na Cama by Dnara
• Top 5 TiVo Hacks (for non-hackers) by Dave Zatz
• Top 5 - Erros que se Cometem Com o Primeiro Blog by Nospheratt
• Top 5 Reasons Why Building is Better than Buying by MillionDollarJourney.com
• Top 5 Desserts on TriniGourmet.com by Sarina Nicole
• Top 5 Emerging Blogs by Dre
• Top 5 ways I’ve made money as an indie artist by Des
• 10 Embarrasing Things I Spend Money On by gregg o’connell
• Top 5 Board Games I Grew Up Playing by Tahir Fayyaz
• Top 5 Slept-On Grunge Classics by Martin Skivington
• Five Easy Ways to Grow Your StumbleUpon Network by Maki
• Top Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About Alberto Gonzales by Josh Nelson
• 5 Reasons You Should Learn A Craft by Donna
• Pastel de Vento TOP 5 (movie soundtracks) - As trilhas sonoras favoritas do Pastel de Vento by Fritador de Pastel
• Top 5 Reasons Everyone Should Own a Home Business by Danielle Chonody
• Top 5 Things I Should Have Told You, But Didn’t. by Hopkinscutie
• The Top 5 Reasons Kevin is a Marketing Genius by Kent Newsome
• Top 5 American Idol Parodies by Thomas McMahon
• Why Life = Paradox: Top Five by Lauren Oujiri
• You’re Fired! - 5 Reasons Blogging Leads to the Unemployment Line by engtech
• Top 5 reasons more black bloggers are needed by Glen L Johnson
• Top 5 Ways to Spark Your Creativity by CJ
• Thank You, George Bernard by Mandy Muse
• 5 Fashion trends we hope we never see again by Cecil E. Rudd
• 5 Ways how I personalized my Internet by Stijn Vogels
• Top 5 Young Entrepreneur Projects by Dennis
• Top 5 Gluten Free Foods To Make Your Mouth Water by Karen
• Top 5 Defining Songs by Madame Pocklock
• How To be More Sexy - Latina Style by Eliane
• Top 5 Things to Consider When Thinking About Starting a Business by Amanda G
• 5 Things I’d Do With An Endless Supply of $ by One Frugal Girl
• Juggling Frogs: I’ll show you mine if you show me yours… by Juggling Frogs
• Top 5 Things to Avoid Saying to a Lady by Joel Corriveau
• Top 5 kitchen tools that bring me joy by wingerz
• Top 5 Strategies to Google Adwords Glory by Benjamin
• Top 5 memorable moments from the U.S. naturalization process by Jim Gibbon
• Photo Kayaker Top 5 Tips for Shooting Paddlers by Marek Uliasz
• Top 5 Web Addictions That Keep Me From Productivity by Laura Law
• Top 5 Ways to Discern Between Humans and Zombies by Andy Fry
• Five Forgotten Forms of Forestalling Filling Out enternetuserss "Favorite Five" Post by Matthew Anderson
• Top 5 Real Reasons Venezuela Kicked Out the IMF by Joey
• Top 5 Reasons Cyclists Shave Their Legs by UltraRob
• Five things I wish someone had told me by phoenix
• 5 Simple Deer Repellent Tips by Repellent Review
• Mission Imblogable: 5 tips for parents of young bloggers by Chris Wondra
• Five easy pieces of white by Kim B.
• Top 5 Rules For Making Your Blog A Success by Gleb
• Top 5 Ways To Use Your Senses To Achieve Your Fitness Goals by Fitness Mantra
• Top 5 Tips For Handling Collection Agencies by Kimberly Fry
• Top 5 Easiest Ways to Solve Almost Any Problem by Batronyx a.k.a. "Barry"
• Top five thoughts I have in my head right now… by Remi
• Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Become a Co-op Blogger by Will Chen
• 5 Steps to Getting the Man of Your Dreams by Terry Ng
• 5 Things I Learned Between Naps by Susan
• Top 5 Mistakes Made By Real Estate Investors During the Housing Bubble by Joshua Dorkin
• 5 Things You Can Learn About Marketing From Pro Wrestling by Paul Nilsen
• Top 5 destinations for upcoming music artists to promote their music by Ashish Sinha
• Square Root of 25 Reasons to ‘Start my own blog’ by Tyson
• Top 5 Natural Health Essentials for A Happy, Healthy Dog by Renée
• The Top 5 Best Ways To Advertise Your Blog If You’ve Only Got $10 by Cory O’Brien
• Top 5: Moving Beyond The Wrong Relationship by Meg
• The Great.com Scavenger Hunt - Part 1 by Robert Tatum
• Top 5 Reasons Your Girlfriend Shouldn’t Act Like Your Mom by Brandon Allen
• Five Great Adventures by Tina
• The Top 5 Steps to Job & Joy by Joerg Weisner
• Blogging is Quintessential! by Evelyn
• Top Five Ways To Make Money Online by Jaya Lakshmi
• 5 häufigsten fehler in der hundeerziehung by Manfred Huszar
• Top Five Things a Credit Card Must Offer by Jaya

Once again - the prize and full list of those participating will be posted tomorrow. But now after a long week - I’ve got one last ‘Top 5′….

1. Hot Chocolate Made
2. Electric Blanket On
3. Pajamas On
4. Bed
5. ZZZZZZZZZ

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Written on May 11th, 2007 at 08:05 pm by David Shawver

Group Writing Project is Closed

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Just a short note to say that this week’s ‘Top 5′ writing project is officially over.

The ending of the project coincides with me being out with friends - so I’ll post the final list of today’s submissions later tonight. The prize winner will be announced tomorrow (as I want to double check that everything is accurate before doing so).

Stay tuned and thanks to everyone for participating - it’s been a great project!

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Written on May 11th, 2007 at 12:05 pm by David Shawver

Speedlinking - 11 May 2007

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• Dosh Dosh asks whether you’re being indexed by the Snap Search Engine and suggests how to make sure you will be.
• John TP points to a WP Plugin that lets you sell reviews from your blog directly - cutting out the middle man of services like PayPerPost and Review me (of course they can also find you business that you might not otherwise have found alone).
• Nate Shares 7 ways to get your readers to ’stick’
• Richard asks How Much Textual Information Do We Consume Daily?
• Rand’s written about his SEO routine - the process they go through when working up a new site’s search engine ranking
• Cameron’s written an interesting post on Neil Patel’s personal branding blog titled On Neil’s Success - What I’ve observed from the sidelines. It’s a good post in and of itself however what I like about it most is that Neil invited a business partner to write about him in this way. It’s amazing what you learn about yourself when you get someone to reflect back to you what they see in you. Could be a good meme in that - ask another blogger who knows you well to guest post on your blog with a post about you!

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Written on May 11th, 2007 at 11:05 am by David Shawver

Bravisa - Another Online Shop

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In the last 12 months there has been a lot of activity in the online shop space. We’ve seen Chitika’s Shoplincs, Zlio and Amazon’s aStore.

I’ve personally used each of the three and have only had any real success with Shoplincs.

So today when another shop service came onto my radar - Bravisa - I wasn’t overly excited. But to be fair they are a little different (or seem to be) from the others above in that they seem to have direct links with manufacturers of products.

I’m yet to test Bravisa (how many shops can a blogger use!) but they seem to offer a nice range of products in a range of areas (from Pet Products, to Health and Beauty to Clothing) and could therefore be a good fit for some niche blogs who are struggling to find a monetization stream that fits with their topic.

The revenue model is similar to retail - the manufacturer names their price - you add a markup and Bravisa takes a 10% commission from your markup for providing you with the shop and back end (they handle all the payment system etc).

All looks good with Bravisa - however I’m probably not going to test it personally because of my previous experience with shops (and the fact that I’m happy with the one that’s working for me). However if you try it - give us a shout with a review in comments below to let us know how you find the service and features.

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Written on May 11th, 2007 at 06:05 am by David Shawver

Giving Underperforming Posts a Second Chance with Updates

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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again….

Have you ever written a post that you thought would hit the spot with your readers, generate lots of interest and/or stimulate a great conversation and then find it fell flat on it’s face?

I have - in fact it happens all the time for a variety of reasons:

• Sometimes your posts fall over because other stories break in the blogosphere and hog all the attention
• Perhaps you just had some bad luck and the right influential blogger didn’t happen to see your post (and spread the word)
• At other times its because you posted on the wrong day of the week
• Or perhaps you wrote the post in the early days of your blog before you really had any readers to read it
• Alternatively it can be simply that your post wasn’t good enough

Many of these unsuccessful posts slide off the front page of a blog never to be seen or thought about again (by your readers or by you) - however, perhaps in time, they deserve a second chance. After all, you’ve put work into researching and writing them and with a second chance in the spotlight they could actually reach their potential and become more fruitful and rewarding to you as a blogger.

Over the last few weeks I’ve experimented on a number of occasions with giving old posts that I felt hadn’t lived up to their potential a second chance. I’ve done this in a few different ways with varying degrees of success but wanted to share the method that was most successful for me (as well as a few others at the end of this post).

Reposted Update

The most successful of my experiments with giving old posts a second chance have been reposting them on the front page of a blog with updates.

I did this a few days back with a post on DPS on Slow Sync Flash. The previous version of the post had been posted back in January when my readership was considerably smaller than it currently is (ie most of my current readers wouldn’t have seen it before) and while it had been moderately successful in terms of generating comments I was never completely satisfied with the post (in terms of what I’d written and/or the traffic it got).

So I updated the post with a few tweaks that made it more useful, attrActive and relevant and reposted it at the top of my blog (simply by changing the posting date in WordPress). I also included a note that it was an updated post at the end of the post.

IMPORTANT NOTE - I am able to do this at DPS because I have a permalink structure that does not include dates (ie it is just the BlogName/PostName not BlogName/Date/PostName as it is here at enternetusers. if you have dates in your permalink structure you shouldn’t use this method as you’ll end up with a new URL for the post which can mean you lose any SEO ranking your previous version of the post had.

The results of this updated repost were significant with a front page appearance on Digg, large StumbleUpon traffic, being featured on the front page of Delicious and link ups from many blogs including a few authoritative ones.

The advantage of this method is that the post not only gets a second chance in the spotlight - but because it’s an established post with some Search Engine Ranking - the combination of the content being updated and new comments being added (SE’s like fresh content), the appearance on your front page and the extra links that the post might generate means that the post will build it’s SEO authority.

The danger of this approach is that if you do it too often with posts that most of your readers will have seen before you run the risk of them becoming disillusioned with you. I don’t have a problem with updating old posts to make them more relevant and useful - but some of your readers might get a bit sick of reading the same old stuff if you do it too often.

This approach works best on evergreen or timeless posts - particularly ‘how to’ or ‘tips’ posts.

Other ways of updating content and giving it a second chance

The reposted update is something that has worked very well for me on a number of occasions. However there are other ways to give an older post a second chance including:

• Complete Rewrite as a new post - in this approach you simply take the concepts from your previous post and rewrite it from scratch as a new post on the blog. You might make the same posts, update some of your thoughts, add new points etc but end up with two posts on the same topic. I’ve used this approach with some success also. I would generally link back to the previous version so readers can see the progression of my ideas.
• Update Posts and Link to them - another approach is to update an older post and then write a new post announcing the update with a link to it. This doesn’t tend to work quite as well for some reason - perhaps because the old post still has your old date on it and can be seen as ‘dated’ by many (it’s amazing how people write off old material as being not current or old for just being written a few months back).
• Archive Compilations - posts that look back at a year gone by and that link to old posts can also be another way of driving people back into your archives for a second look. I tend to do this on special occasions (blog anniversaries, the end of the year etc). It is a gentle way of reminding new readers that there is more to your blog than what they might have seen.
• Prominent Links to Key Posts - linking to old key posts in side bars, headers, posts or even as ‘related posts’ under your posts can be ways of giving old posts a second breath of life. This is by no means as radical as reposting an old post - but over time this can drive significant traffic back to an older underperforming post.
• Promoting Old Posts to Other Sites - this is something I’ve had some success with also - but quite accidentally. A month back I noticed a spike in the traffic coming to DPS from Digg. I immediately thought that one of my most recent posts was the one bringing in the traffic - however when I checked out where the traffic was heading I realized it was to a post that was 9 months old. One of my readers had stumbled across it and had thought it digg worthy. Others had jumped on board and as a stroke of luck and with no work on my part I had a hit on my hands as it went to the front page. It struck me at this point that perhaps my archives held other old posts that had not been promoted to other larger sites. As a result I submitted a couple of older posts to a couple of large blogs and to my amazement they were picked up and linked to. I should note that one of the main reasons that I suspect this works on DPS is that I don’t time stamp my posts. I’ve written more on this practice previously (it’s something that will again suit evergreen timeless content more than blogs that are newsy and whose posts need the context of a date to be useful to readers).

So do you update posts? If so how do you do it and have you had any success with doing so?

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Written on May 10th, 2007 at 11:05 pm by David Shawver

Blog Bash 07 - More details of New York Bloggers Day

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I’m happy to announce some further details of the enternetusers/b5media Blog Training Day and Meetup in New York that I’ve previously mentioned.

Name - ‘Blog Bash 07′
Date - 9 June
Times - 10am - 4.30pm for training and from 7pm til late for a Networking Meetup
Price - $100 USD or $75 early bird discount (includes the party) - We need to confirm a price for those wanting to just come for the Party.
Place - DoubleTree Metropolitan Hotel (569 Lexington Ave NY)

The day’s events are shaping up to be pretty fun and informative. Here’s more on what’s happening, what’s included in the price, who will benefit from coming, why we’ve priced it this way and more.

Content

I’ve already secured Brian Clark of CopyBlogger fame to do a session on his specialty (copy writing). We’re also pulling together a line up of experts in everything from Building Traffic, to Blog Technology, to Advertising on Blogs, to blogging with podcasts and video through to blog platforms.

We’re also going to give those attending the chance to vote on a few other topics that they’d like to be covered. Some potential topics might include:

• SEO
• Networking/Relational Blogging
• Beating Bloggers Block
• Blogging for Business
• Marketing Your Blog
• Legal Issues facing Bloggers
• Blog Networks

Speakers will be a mixture of b5media’s team (including myself - I’ll be keynoting) and other experts.

The day will be fairly relaxed - with a mixture of keynotes, panels and conversational sessions. We’ll be running two rooms so there will always be a choice of who you want to listen to and there will also be a spill out room for networking.

What’s included?

For your $100 (or $75 if you’re an early bird) you’ll get entry to all the sessions (5 or 6 out of a choice of 10 or 12 - as there will be two sessions on at all times), entry into the party (where you’ll get a complimentary drink and some nibbles) plus afternoon snacks will be provided. To keep the cost down we haven’t included lunch (BYO or hit the streets to grab something).

Who is this For?

This idea emerged out of the last enternetusers Meetup in New York where 80 or so bloggers got together for drinks. It was such a fun night, I got asked so many great questions and there were so many requests to do it again that we thought to extend it would be both fun and useful on two fronts:

1. Training - This is an event for bloggers of all stages in their journey. We’re putting together a range of topics that will hopefully be accessible for beginners (and even PreBloggers) through to more experienced bloggers.
2. Networking - This will be a time of great networking - we have a space specifically set aside for this and have scheduled an hour long lunch break as well as an afternoon break for you to meet other bloggers. The time between the end of the training and the party (as well as the party itself) will be great chances to meet and greet your fellow bloggers.

More on the Price

We’ve tried to keep the price down as much as possible and have chosen to charge just $100 for the full day and night to make it as accessible as possible while also trying to make the event break even.

The price is a little higher than we’d anticipated and hoped for but hotel costs in NYC were a little higher than we’d planned for.

We’ve already talked to potential sponsors for the event who will offset some of the costs. If you’d like to be involved in this way please do get in touch - we’ll make it worth your while.

The Party

The evening is going to be FUN. No speaker and no long speeches (unless Jeremy drinks too much). You’ll get a complimentary drink on entry and some light snacks - after which it’ll be a cash bar.

If you can’t get to the day of training but want to come along for the party then we’ll be happy to have you along. We are still finalizing whether there will be any cost to those doing this.

Bookings

There is a limited capacity for this event so it’ll be a first in first served thing and booking will be required (stay tuned for how to book). We are currently setting up a site where you can do this but wanted to get these details to you as soon as possible so you can block out this day in your diary and plan to be there.

We know of people who are flying in for this (last time there were quite a few) and anticipate a fairly full room so take advantage of the Early Bird discount when the site goes live next week.

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Written on May 10th, 2007 at 07:05 pm by David Shawver

Top 5 - Group Writing Project Day 3

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Today’s Submissions to this week’s enternetusers Group Writing Project have again blown me away (and proved to be quite a distraction for blogging, eating…. and getting out of my PJs!). In today’s batch there were 222 taking total participants in the project up to 596!

There’s still time to enter the project - with around 24 hours until your time is up (I’ll cut off acceptance of entries when the clock strikes midnight in Honalulu (which I think is pretty close to being the last place to see the day). To be included in the last day’s submissions and go in the running for the $1001 cash prize simply follow the process outlined in this post.

Why Chitika Rocks #3

Continuing my mini series on why Chitika, our sponsor of this project, rocks today I want to talk about another of their products - their new free BlogBash ebook. This is a collection of blog tips from 30 blog experts written over the month of April.

Submissions in this free resource are on a wide range of topics and contain some really excellent advice from bloggers like Chris Pirillo, Monolo, Joel Comm, Jeremy Wright, Neil Patel, Aaron Wall, Andy Merrett, Liz Strauss, Wendy Piersall and even one from me.

It’s well worth a look.

Day 3 Submissions

Once again you’ll want to equip yourself with some snacks and a drink to tackle this list. Having already surfed most of it today I can tell you that there are all kinds of posts in the list. I laughed, I shook my head, I nodded in agreement, I shook my head in wonder and I added a few blogs to my RSS reader (and once or twice did all of that on the one blog).

I hope you enjoy today’s submissions as much as I have. Don’t forget to link up to them, leave comments, subscribe to feeds and do a little bookmarking with those posts that resonate with you the most.

• Top 5 blogs that writes about Venpar through Bloggerwave by KCLau
• Top 5 ways to get rid of your muffin top without dieting by Stephanie Quilao
• Top Five Things I Want to Learn Before College Starts by LearningNerd
• Top 5 Productivity Tips Most People Know But Do Not Do by Donald Latumahina
• Why I need a Children’s Television Programming Intervention by Karen - Miscellaneous Mum
• 5 ways to gauge a blogger’s maturity level by Bes Zain
• Anarchy, Equality, Humility, Charity, Community by James Andrix
• Top 5 Reasons I want to Live by Widows Quest
• 5 modi per avere i piedi profumati (5 tips to have good smelling feet) by Satollo
• China’s Top 5 Most Beautiful Girls by fiLi
• Five Facts You Need to Know Before Choosing an Australian Shepherd by Author Mom with Dogs
• Top 5 Reasons you want others to succeed by Anna Farmery
• Top 5 To Do when visiting Malaysia by Kamal Zainul
• The 5 Smart Things To Do When You Purchase An Item With A Warranty by Dana
• 5 Elements of my Writer’s Sanctuary by Benjamin Solah
• Five Reasons That Credit Cards Rock and Debit Cards Suck by nickel
• 5 Reasons Why You Are Fat by Mehdi
• Plannin’ on some kissin’? 5 Foods to Keep Your Breath Fresh! by Ross
• Favourite Village Views by Mary
• The Power of the Future: Top 5 inventions of Nikola tesla by Danica Radovanovic
• Top Five Internet Business Blogs by Chris Sandberg
• Back To The Future - The Top 5 Old School Ways - That Still Work - To Get a Job by Daniel Sweet
• Top 5 search engines for easy code searching by Thejesh GN
• Top 5 Reasons Why Information Products is the Ultimate Business by Martin Neumann
• Top 5 ways to display your RSS Feed Subscription Link on your blog by Shankar Ganesh
• 5 SEO blogs I can’t get enough of by Joost
• Top Five: Why I love being Crazed & Maniacal by Amanda
• The 5 things you need to survive a toddler by Mama Duck
• Music Festival Review: Top Five Offbeat Observations From My Three Sons by Anne Glamore
• Rant, Rant, Rant, Rant and Rant! by Tracy
• Top 5 gradient color schemes for blog design by Marino
• My Top 5 Essential Ebay Sales Software… by Jennifer Hitchcock
• Country Living Rocks & why you should avoid urban living like the plague by Toonses
• The top 5 reasons for not posting to your blog by Gerald Hornsby
• Top Five Essential Practices for Developing Software by Basil Vandegriend
• Top 5 Reasons Why Presidential Candidates Should Use MySpace by Steve Petersen
• 5 ways to reduce your car’s fuel consumption (and save you money) by Scott Bird
• My top 5 photos from Brisbane (Yesterday) - Riverboat, Brewery, Stadium and Church, Painted Box and 75 metres above some Building Works by David Jackmanson
• Top 5 Reasons Why Pencils are Enviromentally Friendly by Allen Galbraith
• Top 5 weird things I’ve learnt about Japan by Ken Y-N
• Top 5 Reasons This Writing Contest is Stupid by Splork
• Top 5 Reasons To Be In Vegas Right Now by Heather
• Self Improvement Strategy: Top 5 Reasons to put a STOP to Top 5 Lists! by Aaron Potts
• Top Five Super-Fun Ways To Stay Super-Fun Fit! (Betcha didn’t think of these.) by Julie Alexander
• My Blogging Swiss Army Knife: Top 5 Essential Sites For Bloggers by Gerard McGarry
• The five best movie car chases of all time by Will Thompson
• Top 5 Free Software You Should Be Using by Kyle Eslick
• Top 5 reasons Why I’m too busy to blog by Leigh
• First Five Capistrano “Oh Crap! Oh No!” Tips by Scott Sehlhorst
• Top 5 Reasons You Should Participate In enternetusers Group Writing Projects by George
• Top 5 Blogging Myths by Daniel Scocco
• Top 5 Obsessions Of A Finance Blogger: Stuff I Like And How It Affects My Wallet by Silicon Valley Blogger
• http://www.homeowners-insurance-guide.com/top-5-ways-to-reduce-your-homeowners-insurance-premiums.htm by inswatch
• Online Shopping for the Hip Mom- Top 5 by Mommy Zabs
• Top 5 Tips for Living a More Positive Life by Henrik Edberg
• Top 5 reasons I switched to Sony Ericsson by Jhay
• Top 5 Reasons to Pay Off Your Mortgage by Michael Chantrel
• Cinco Líneas Que Me Inspiraron en la Ultima Semana by Paula Alvarado
• Top 5 Gifts For A Low-Maintenance Momma by Dexie
• $100 a Day Blogging! Discover My Top 5 Action Steps by Jon
• Top Five Reasons to Avoid Omaha, Nebraska. by Jeff Davis
• 5 Ways to Let Adultitis Spoil Your Summer by Jason of “Kim & Jason”
• Top 5 Questions That I Want Someone To Answer by NCN
• The 5 Most Crucial Daily Questions for Success by Shauna @ Breathing Prosperity
• The Top 5 ways for me to infiltrate Hollywood and sell my screenplay before my girlfriend by Shawn the ScreenwritingMoFo
• Saskatchewan that is [sa-skach-uh-won, -wuhn], Canada’s Best Kept Secret by Melissa
• Five Unforgettable Roger Clemens Moments by Geoff Young
• Top 5 reasons that I can not win a top 5 blogging competition! by Dennis Scott
• Top 5 Tuesday Bonus: Successful Coaching Changes by Scott Goldblatt
• How to Budget for a New Baby - 5 Top Tips by Maria Crickett
• Top 5 Tuesday: Swimming Fashion Faux Pas by David Cromwell
• The Top 5 Things You Should Know About David Beckham by DaveP
• Joy’s Top 5 THAI FOOD Cooking Recipes from Thailand! (^v^)/ by Joy Buasi
• Top Five Reasons for Blogging by Matthew Henrickson
• Macgoo’s Top 5 Aussie Motorsport Babe Photographers Poll by macgoo
• Top 5 must read books for a programmer by Webstuffscan
• Top Five Reasons a Singer Might Blog by Michelle
• The Top 5 Things All Diets Have In Common by Travis Eneix
• Top 5 Ways to Save Money While in School by Brett McKay
• Top 5 Things To Look For in A Home Business by Danny Gamache
• Top 5 Things I Have Learned Running IfJesusHadAWebsite.net by Greg Nilsen
• חמש טעויות בשימושיות בלוג by Hannit
• Top 5 Reasons To Go On A Nutrisystem Diet by Mr. Happy
• What Not to File: Top 5 Ways to Get Caught Cheating on Your Taxes by Kelly Erb
• 5 Ways To Be An Annoying Blogger by Nicholas
• Top 5 Videos of George Double U by Marco
• 5 Reasons to Prank a Coworker by Jeremy Spriggs
• Top 5 Affiliate Programs by Matt Jones
• Get Ripped Off By Your Psychic - A Practical Primer by ClairvoyantGuidance(DotNet)
• 5 Big Ideas of Selling T-shirt Online by Rangga
• Top 5 AppleScript Productivity Hacks for WordPress Bloggers and Podcasters by Graham English
• Top 5 SEO Skills Identified As Most Important by The (SEP) Guy
• My top 5 online productivity apps by Shawn Wallace
• Complete Slacker’s Top 5 Ways to Get Away with Doing Nothing at Work by CompleteSlacker
• Top 5 Reasons for Surveillance Cameras Inside Empty Bean Cans by Stephan
• Top 5 Ways To Keep Your WordPress Blog Valid (And Why It Matters) by Phil
• Top 5 Mother’s Day Gifts for a Homeschooling Mom by Summer M
• Top Five Letters of the Alphabet by erin
• A simple Top 5 trading/investing checklist by Falkor
• Top 5 Reasons To Move From Free Hosting by Jenn
• Bender´s Top 5 useful devices for gloriously drunk people by Daniel Bender
• Top 5 Shopping Heaven in Kuala Lumpur by sexyinred
• Five Things Hollywood Can Teach Us About SEO by Nathania Johnson
• Top Five Mythconceptions about the Catholic Church by Marc
• Top 5 Domain BrandingTips for Bloggers by Rich Miller
• Real Estate Blogging Rules I Love to Break (and you can too!) by Teri Lussier
• Top Five Best Bad Games by James Newton
• Top 5 Free Webmail Services by Brennan Monaco
• Top 5 Things Nicole Richie is Going to do when Paris Hilton Goes to Jail by Ben Walker
• Top 5 Top 5’s For Guys by Bill Futreal
• Reducing Your Top 5 To Allow More Profits… by JamesRREI
• Top 5 nejnavštěvovanějších stránek by Edie
• Top 5 Easy Ways to Have Healthier Food by Michel
• Top 5 Things I Heard Al Gore Say Today at Disney World by Nettie Hartsock
• 5 Ways To Make Video Look Like Film by C47
• My Top 5 Successful Bloggers Who Made a Difference by Liz Strauss
• top 5 things not to say at a funeral by Guinever
• Top 5 Tips to Control Your Interaction Abilities by Mihai
• Fun Fun Fun - top 5 by George Arion
• Brad Pitt’s Hat ! by David Price
• 5 Reasons Why Patients Wisely Choose Arbitration for Healthcare Conflicts by The National Arbitration Forum Blog
• Top 5 Outstanding Must Read Blogs by Daniel McLean
• 5 Things You Should do Before Launching Your Own Blog by Jan
• 5 Tips to Break Free From The Blogger’s Bubble by 365 Days
• Top 5 Mistakes Made When Naming Your Website or Company by Alden DoRosario (Not Eligible For Prize)
• Top 5 Celebrity Scandals of 2007 (and it is only May) by juicefairy
• Mo Pie’s 5 Favorite American Idol Performances of All Time by Mo Pie
• Top 5 Secrets to Expanding Your Reality by Cas
• Top 5 most expensive GPS gadgets by Sacha Fuentes
• Top 5 CSS layout tips by Tim Nash
• The Top 5 Eclipse plugins by Thomas Einwaller
• 5 Must Have Wordpress Plugins by Kris Karkoski
• Top Five Blog Design Rules for Businesses by Perfection Consulting
• 5 Beauty Products Which Can Save Your Life by Andrea
• My 5 favorite headphones for Brainwave Entrainment Products. by Susan DEnham
• Top 5 Secrets to Expand Your Reality by Arsen
• Top Five Reasons I Love My Dogs by Katelyn
• 5 Ways To Capture Attention Like A CEO by Jane May
• Top 5 Drought Tolerant Australian Native Plants… by Corinne
• My Top 5 “Top 5″ Posts by Adam Parker
• Top 5 Webmaster Skills by Justin
• Five Things You Learn On a Dairy Farm by mjkunz
• The five things you’ll need for the boss’s NASCAR party by charlie
• The Top Five Fuhringer Family Fishing Trip Disasters by T. D. Fuhringer
• Top 5 Ways to Build a Wonderful Life by John Wesley
• Freelancers: Start Winning More Proposals NOW by Chris
• Top 5 motivos para escrever um blog em inglês by Dudu Tomaselli
• 5 Tips For Success In I.T. Consulting by Brian
• Five differences between male and female bloggers by Stuart
• Entrepreneurs Developing Web Sites Must Address These Top 5 Potential Pitfalls by Dan Chase
• Top 5 reasons to start a Blog by Madhur Kapoor
• Top 5 new Mega-Casinos coming soon to Las Vegas by Mike Evans
• The Top 5 Things that Hinder me from Internet Income by Robert
• Top 5 Things Learned So Far In 2008 Presidential Race by The Anon Guy
• 5 Q’s with Allison Winn Scotch by Susan Johnston
• Top 5 Secrets To Smoking Salmon by Seth
• My Top 5 Types of Residential Home Architecture by Karen Rhodes
• How To NOT Sell Your House by Kathleen Couch
• Top 5 Group Dance Fads by Busy Mom
• The Top Five Reasons NOT to Read This Blog by Kathy
• Top 5 Ways To Go Broke by Nirav Desai
• Five Things I Hate About Blogging by Matt Elliott
• Top 5 Depressingly Beautiful Love Songs by Jennifer Anderson
• Pleasure Island~Top Five by Bella
• How to Gain An Additional 5 Hours a Week by Lorraine Pirihi, Australia’s No. 1 Productivity Coach
• Top 5 Signs You Have Morphed Into A Blogoholic by Angela Betts
• Five Reasons to Love Ubuntu by Noumaan
• Top 5 Joys Nepal Offers by Ujjwal Acharya
• Top 5 Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools by Tac Anderson
• Top 5 Reasons The 2008 Election Will Break All The Rules by J-Ro
• SEO Plugins For Your Wordpress Blog by David Culpepper
• Top 5 Things I Am Doing to Lose 100+ Lbs by Tricia
• Second jobs: top 5 reasons to pick up a second job by Andrea Coutu from Become a Consultant Blog
• 5 People Who Could Save Lindsay Lohan From Herself by Nathaniel R
• Top 5 Reasons the Bay Area Rocks the Wine World by Farley Walker
• John Chow is not like you Darren!! by Jack
• Fly Fish Fanatics Five Favorite Flies by Rick Passek
• What’s your vacation plan this summer? by Siva Rajendran
• Top 5 Paths to a Million Dollars by Lazy Man and Money
• Top 5 Reasons to Vote For Me As President - 2008 by Darlene McDaniel
• Top 5 Steps for Choosing a Blog Theme by Meg
• Top Five Reasond Real Estate is like "The Young and the Restless" by Cari McGee
• 5 ways to get your kids to talk about school by Mike
• Top 5 Science Experiments On Cats by Markk
• My Top 5 ways to reproduce a "Hard to Reproduce" Bug! by Debasis - The Bug Hunter!
• Goodbye Losers - 5 Practical Trading Journal Steps by MrMike
• Top 5 ways of increasing RSS subscribers by Steven Aitchison
• How to make bloggers hate you by Grace
• 5 Things to Put In Home Videos So Your Friends Say, Play it Again by SusieJ
• The Cookin 5 C’s Of Success by Joseph Bernard
• Top 5 Tantalizing Blog Title Techniques by Jonathan Franzone
• Top 5 Reasons to Adopt A Needy Pet: A enternetusers Writing Project by MsDanielle
• Top Five Neighbour Complaints by Eric F.
• Top five ways to kill your retirement dreams by mbhunter
• Top 5 Joys Of Using Linkedin: "B.L.O.G.S." by Vincent Wright
• 5 Questions you never thought but wanted answers to. by Ray Johnson
• Top 5 Willie Nelson Political Causes by Liz
• Be a Good Guest: five tips to master before knocking on the door by Jummy
• The Top 5 Least-Considered Reasons To Homeschool by Carrie Bartkowiak
• Top 5 Must-Have Blog Monitoring Tools by Chris Burdick
• Top 5 objective tips for Mac Switchers by David Wang
• 5 tips for getting better photographs by Mike Panic
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