I am participating in MacBook Contest

Bloggin-Ads is having a contest and is giving away 2 Macbook Airs + 10 $100

Prizes: 3 prizes, but there will be 12 different winners

• 2 x MacBook Air (a value of $1,799 each)
  1.6Ghz Intel Core Duo
  2GB Ram
  80GB Internal Drive
  13.3″ Display
  Built-In WiFi and Bluetooth
• 10 winners x $100 (a value of $1,000)

How to join

Subscribe to Feed ( 1 ticket )- This is the simplest entry method that seems to be very popular. All you have to to is subscribe to my feed via E-mail. I will be able to check the e-mails, but not the feed reader sites. E-mail will just guarantee you an entry.

Participate In Forums ( 1-10 ticket per day ) - Participate in 2 of my forums and you will get entry methods depending on how much you partcipate. The first forum is here on my blog at the top and the second is my EntreForums.

Participate On Bloggin-Ads ( 1 ticket per comment / 5 limit a day ) - As long as you comment on the latest posts and just participate, you’re guaranteed 1 entry per day

Write About It ( 10 tickets ) - Write about this contest and link to me with the anchor text, “blog reviews”. If you don’t use a anchor text, you will still receive 5 tickets.

Stumble / Digg / Propel ( 3 tickets ) - Just Stumble or Digg this post and you get 3 tickets. The DIGG link is here and this is the Propel link.

BONUS ENTRY - May 24th ( 5 tickets ) - Post the contest banner on your blog’s sidebar/blogroll and you will gain these bonus entries. Please use any of the 2 following banners and link it to the contest:

Make sure you leave a comment with what you did and use the same e-mail/website everywhere.

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Do better without NoFollow

NoFollow is an HTML attribute value used with links to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s search engine rank. It is used like this: rel=“nofollow”. In all blog platforms, links in comments are set to NoFollow by default. You can remove this by deleting rel=“nofollow” from the template code or by using DoFollow plug-in. Removing NoFollow is a favor for the commentators. This will encourage the readers to put comment as they can increase their search engine rank by just commenting. You can put a badge in your blog to inform the readers that you have removed NoFollow.

You may think “who want a link in an unpopular blog”. There are people who want. What you have to do is, remove nofollow, go to the link exchange part of the forum you participate and put a post like “exchange links for comments”. So if anyone wants to exchange links they will put a comment in your blog with a link to their blog.

This trick works in another way. You can increase your search engine rank by commenting in popular blogs without nofollow.

Blogs linking to you in posts will be linked back. Those links are called backlinks. You can disable backlinks. You can encourage linking to your blog by removing NoFollow from backlinks. This may not work with a newly established blogs.

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10 Top tricks to increase comments

People consider the comments in a blog as an indicator of quality; so increasing comments are essential for better blogging. I found some useful tricks that can be applied to your blogs.

1. Remove NoFollow-NoFollow is an attribute used in links that prevent search engines from counting them. In all blog platforms links in comments are set to NoFollow by default. You can remove this by editing the template code. Removing NoFollow is a cup of juice for the commentators. This will encourage the readers to comment on your blog. Read this to learn more
2. Invite comments- You may ask your readers, friends or relatives to post a comment.
3. Give a question- Giving a question in the post will attract comments as the readers may like to answer them. This may not be applicable if your blog has a very low traffic
4. Highlight top commentators- Most of the people like to be highlighted before the crowd. You can do this by putting a ‘Top Commentator Widget’ or something like that. You may link to the commentator in it.
5. Ask for opinion-You may ask the reader’s opinion in a debate or discussion post. Readers will always tend to comment when their opinion is asked for.
6. Display recent comments-This will remember the readers that there is a comment form there and a conversation is going on.
7. Make it easy- People don’t like to waste their time. They don’t want to register an account for commenting. You should remove all barriers like login, registration, filling long forms etc. for commenting
8. Provide links to the form-You can encourage your readers to put a comment by providing links to your comment form.
9. Reply to the comments-Replying the comments increase interaction with the readers. if you are not replying, that is enough to decrease your traffic and comments
10. Comment on other blogs-If you comment on a blog, then the blogger will tend to visit your blog and post a comment. This may be wrong if you are posting an irrelevant comment or in a blog with tons of them. But it is sure that this will increase the traffic

Do you have any more trick post it here. Don't be too shy to post a comment, I have also removed NoFollow.

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In the beginning

The featured post on problogger this time was really for Newbies (you may think I have started reading problogger now. I am really thankful toDarren Rowse who promotes everyone through his posts).

"In the early days you’ll feel like you’re talking to yourself (actually in the very beginning you probably are) - but don’t give up because it’s a feeling that will subside. The key is to keep blogging through that awkward beginning because if you do you’ll find people will begin to find you and the memory of talking to yourself will be a distant memory".

If you are a real Newbie, you will feel like that. Even when I post this, in mind there is a feeling- "all this vain hardwork"-praying it is not.