If your submissions at BlogEngage still get 6-7 votes max.. or if you want to hit the front page of BlogEngage every time you submit a new blog post, just follow the tips below and take the full advantage and potential of your submitted articles on BlogEngage.

I’m writing this not because I’m bored and not because I feel like there are no competitors nor too few of them…

No.

I’m writing this, say, guide, because of the inner sincere desire to meet new active bloggers, to get know them.. or maybe you!

Before I’ll reveal the tips, let me remind you the most important benefits of getting to the front page of BlogEngage.

Benefits of the Front Page

• Quality or Not – After you hit the front page of BlogEngage you’ll be able to understand, whether your article is quality or not. This is simple – if your submission gets ~20 votes or even more, then you better start some additional promotion (beyond BlogEngage) in order to reach the full potential of your work.If you have barely got 12-14 votes, then there are 2 possible explanations of it:1. It’s sad, but your article is not quality or it’s too different from what BlogEngage users are used to read. Try to figure out what articles get lots of votes, use what you’ve noticed.2. You’re barely visible for others – follow the tips in this article to improve your visibility within the BlogEngage community.
• More Comments – It’s natural and simple. If you are on the front page, people notice you and go to your blog posts. If it’s interesting or you have some known features to encourage comments(ComLuv plugin, DoFollow comments, a contest for commenters etc), you get comments.
• More Retweets of Your Own Blog Posts – BlogEngage users are extremely active bloggers and lots of them appreciate quality articles and they, actually, retweet them.
• More Traffic – Of course, the front page of BlogEngage also equals more traffic. Not too much for one successful submission, but if all of your submitted articles get to the front page during a month, you are able to receive more than 1,000 visits. Although it depends on the total number of your submissions. You’ll get ~1,000 visitors for approximately 8-10 successful articles, which is extremely cool for a beginning blog. Don’t forget, that all these 1,000 visitors are mostly bloggers, which means, that you’re dealing with very precious traffic.But remember, that BlogEngage has very fast growth. Who knows – maybe in half a year your single submission will be able to get 1,000 visits.
• Better Search Engine Rankings – No doubt, that BlogEngage improves your search engine rankings. At least, because it’s DoFollow and it has already PageRank 5.
• Faster Indexing by Google – That’s a fact. Although, I believe, that you don’t need to hit the front page for faster indexing. The submission itself would be enough.
• New Subscribers – Getting new subscribers is a “science”, where BlogEngage is a tool for it. Use it for your sake
• New Online Friends – Say “Hello” sometimes, thank for votes or for single comments. Reply and retweet. Try to help and ask for help. You’ll get friends this way.

Now the tips.

7 Tips to Hit the Front Page

1. 1. Vote actively and wisely – Voting for each and every submission is crucial, but time consuming. There’s another way.Make a list of those BlogEngage members, that voted for your latest submitted articles. Vote back for all of their articles.But there’s a “but”.How would you get your first votes for your submissions? No worries, some of your first votes you’ll get just like that.. from truly active members. But, you know what.. it won’t work just like that. I mean, that you won’t be able to get to the front page and though even if you did.. believe me, this time you were lucky. And in this case there’s no 100% guarantee, that you’ll do that again. I’m revealing the following tips to make it 100%, not 95% or less, but 100%.

   What you want to do, when you’ve just signed up, is to vote, vote and vote. Vote for 1000 other submissions during your first day. This will not take you more, than one hour, though you’ll feel like you are a zombie after that. Repeat that on the next day, submit your article and track all the voters you get. Make a list of links to their submissions’ pages. Now you can relax, because from this very moment all you’ll need to do is to vote for those, who voted for you.. plus, try to vote for new members and the articles, that get to the front page. This is it. Very simple and fair.

2. 2. Leave Grammatically Correct Comments – This is the number 1 way of being visible… after, of course, voting. It allows you to reveal your personality as much as it shows, that you are active and you deserve to get votes. Even Brian (BlogEngage owner) always leaves comments, which is, actually, unusual for me. I haven’t used to see such site/forum administrators ,who are so active within their own community (I’m speaking about popular communities).Why “grammatically correct” comments?You’ve got to be careful with your first comments. Your future authority depends on any of your first “social steps”.One of the most important reasons of leaving comments is also the fact, that latest comments are displayed on the sidebar, which increases your visibility.
3. 3. Stick to Active BlogEngage Users – Active users always vote first for those, who they know. And I bet, that most of them also have their own “must-vote-for-them” lists.Don’t rush with this tip. It takes time to become recognizable. It takes time to become a friend. Being natural and polite is the greatest key to success in this case.
4. 4. Use Catchy Titles And Images for Your Submissions – It does work – all the time.The good news for you is also that descriptions don’t really matter for getting votes. Though they do matter for SEO of your submissions.Why do you need to optimize your submissions?Don’t you want some additional SE traffic? Those visitors, that come via search engines will have no choice, but to click your link to read full article.

   Though.. I must admit, that right now the numbers of such traffic are very poor.

   One more reason is that you don’t want to compete with your own submissions, which is rather possible, if your submitted articles have the same title and description.

5. 5. Submit Your Submissions to BlogEngage Groups – Joining groups definitely increases your chances to get more votes.Join more, than 1 group. Get the most out of it.
6. 6. Not on the First Page After 1 Day? – Don’t get upset. Just ask some of your friends from BlogEngage to vote for your submission. This is why you should also consider adding your BlogEngage pals to Twitter, which makes it very easy to contact them and ask for help.Don’t be shy asking for help. Everyone needs it from time to time. Be the first one to ask now, and believe it or not – next time you’ll be the first one on the list of that person, who to ask for help.
7. 7. Install BlogEngage Button – I’m still testing, whether it helps or not, but it definitely makes it easier to vote for your submissions. Not sure what’s the actual percentage of efficiency of having BlogEngage button on your blog, but you can share your thoughts and observations on it in comments.Anyways, install BlogEngage button and test it.

2 Bonus Tips: How to Stay Longer on the Front Page of BlogEngage?

1. Before Submitting – Simply vote for all the recent submissions, that have 7-9 votes. They now will get to the front page faster, than you.
2. After Submitting – After you hit the front page, vote only for submissions, that have 1-5 votes. This will increase your chances to get more, than 10 votes and to be a little bit more visible.

There’s Even More, Than the Front Page

All the published submissions are divided into:

• Recently Popular;
• Best of the Week;
• Best of the Month;
• Best of the Year;
• Best of All

Following the mentioned tips above will surely help you to have at least one (or even more) great submission, that will become the best of the year.

Moreover, I’m sure, that in the nearest future the necessary number of votes to get to the front page will be increased by Brian. Now it’s only 10. The more number of members, the bigger the necessary number of votes will be.

Not having some strong strategy will make you weaker, than others.

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Share your additional tips in comments! Let’s help our new members to rise and shine within the BlogEngage community.

I’m not sure if you have seen our Blog Forum yet but it has potential to be a really great environment for blog traffic.

We have created a nice and easy to use blog forum for all our members to join.

For the record I am considering moving the forum off site and purchasing it’s own domain name but for now it’s still in a sub folder here at blog engage.

I think the best way to get you interested would be to walk you through the benefits of joining our forums community.

I’m going to discuss all the forum with you and hopefully by the end of the article you would have already signed up.

The first thing I would like to confirm true is we are unlike any other blog forum. We not only promote marketing and promotion but it’s the main reason we in the first place.

We allow you to requests diggs, comments, exchanges, stumbles and much more within the forums community. We are do follow and profit sharing blog forum.

Alright let’s discuss the forums shall we?

The Blog Engage Forum Chat – This can be used for promoting your latest articles. It’s simple you log in post a little comment with your url and our forum members will go visit it.

General Discussions and Introductions – This forum is used to meet one another. To build relationships and have general discussions with one another.

Blog Marketing and Promotion – This forum is for marketing and promoting your blogs. It’s also used for advice on how to market and promote your blog. You will find social network discussions and much more with this forum.

Search Engines and Optimization – This forum will be great for new and advanced bloggers. If you have questions about specific Search Engines or need help with SEO this is your one stop deal.

Blog Revenues and Income - if you’re looking for ways to earn money on your blog this is the forum for you. I have many links linking to the most popular affiliates and publisher companies you simply cannot go wrong.

Buy Sell or Trade Forum – looking to sell links? looking to buy links? This is the place if your selling, trading or buying. Don’t be shy but do be careful who you sell to or buy from. Ensure the member has a lot of reputation and has been a member for some time.

Comment Exchange – This forum was inspired by a member of our. Tho it hasn’t really picked up I’m sure we will find a good use for it eventually. I’m assuming the more members we get the more it will be used. It’s definitely a great way to get comments.

Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017

Subscribe to my blog as well

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Thanks,

Brian

I wanted to do a video allowing me to show all our members how I developed the majority of blogengage’s traffic. I’m a  big fan of webmaster forums here’s the original article,

Believe it or not I actually used webmaster forums and took advantage of all sub forums that would allow me to leave a website url because it was relevant to.

Remember there is a way to do this while remaining ethical. Enjoy my tips as they are what got me to where I am today.

You will also see as your traffic increases over the next few weeks. Be sure to let me know how it works out by commenting below.

Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017

Subscribe to my blog as well

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Thanks,

Brian

Alright sit down, grab a coffee because this is going to be a filled and entertaining article on how to use our social community to build your personal network and meet new friends. Blog Engage offers many unique ways in order to market and promote your blog.

The first thing I would like to discuss is adding friends to your profile and becoming an active community member. Blog Engage allows all members to have a personalized profile section. This allows you to add a link to your blog and personal information about yourself

Within your profile page you will have the ability to see all the friends in which you added and all your friends status updates. Please remember if you don’t add the members as a friend they will not see your status updates.

After you start adding friends and being active within the community you will see status updates start appearing on your profile page. Again in order to see status updates you have to add members to your friends list. You can add a friend my visiting their profile and selecting the “add to friends list” button.

Why is adding friends so important?

if you’re asking this question right now then perhaps you need to read some articles on the importance of social media networking and marketing. Adding friends to your blog engage profile allows you to do the following,

• Easily track friends activity

• Keep up to date on the latest submissions

• Send personal messages to like minded bloggers

• See who’s commenting on blog articles

Submitting articles helps too

Many members miss out on this amazing opportunity to market their blog. When you submit your articles take a look at who’s voting for you. Don’t be a fool go and thank them for the vote! Visit their blog and heck leave a comment. Trust me lazy bloggers don’t do well at blogengage. You get out from the community based on what you put into the community. I’ve always said this from day one, you don’t get something for nothing.

Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017

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Thanks,

Brian

I logged on to blogengage today to see something that is very rare to me. Articles on the main site that had been published without my votes. This is big news people!

This means blogengage to a certain point could possible be self sufficient. I was so surprised to see my hard marketing work pay off. I swear there’s been nights I sat in front of my pc and blogengage wondering how I can take our community to the next level. Marketing in webmaster forums, blog commenting and leaning has brought me to the stage we are at today.

I stand here again wondering how I can take our community to the next level. Do I have the right resources? Will the community be able to continue growing and will there be a day when we reach our maximum growth. To answer my own question I would have to say no. We will not stop growing and no we will not reach a max growth potential.

As our community grows so does the general knowledge base about blogging. New bloggers from all over the world are joining our community. Currently our biggest traffic sources are USA, Canada and India

I really think the members here within the community that have been blogging about deserve some recognition. I’m safely assuming much of our new traffic and visitors are other bloggers within their community. I send a big thanks out to you all that started blogging about us. If anyone else can spare an article about blogengage please let it go and write it up. On our FAQ page we have videos you can add and much information to help you put together an article.

Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017

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Thanks,

Brian

Alright I’m going to try and make this article as easy as possible to comprehend. See I know I have been confusing people regarding our contest so I want to ensure we all have a good understanding of what’s happening. First things first the official contest thread should always be referred to when discussing or looking at the available prizes.

What I would like to do today is update our contest prizes and at the same time look at who’s winning and what they can expect to win assuming the standings remain the same. We got some great prizes for everyone and I’m really excited to see how it turns out. So without waiting any more let’s have a look to see who’s holding the top winning spots for our contest.

This first prize offered at Blog Engage is given to the three members that have submitted articles and received the most votes. So in general this prize is awarded to the top three articles on the entire website.

Currently winning members

1. gautamhans with his article, 75 Beautiful Free Social Bookmarking Icon Sets

2. BlazingMinds with her article, WordPress Plugins I find useful for Blog Posting

3. aks2008 with his article, The Google Page Rank Disaster

Top Engaged on the Year

#1. First Place Prizes

Prize $100.00 USD via paypal Sponsor, bbrian017

Prize 1 Free Premium WordPress Template Sponsor, “Abhinav Sood and Mohit Aneja” from CSSJockey.com

Prize one month featured advertisement Sponsor, Adda4u

Prize 125 125 ad spot (1 month) and 1000 Entrecard Credits Sponsor, Nishadha

#2. Second Place Prizes

Prize $50 USD via Paypal Sponsor, ExtremeJohn

Prize 1000 EC (Entrecard Credits) Sponsor, DiTesco

#3. Third Place Prizes

Prize $20.00 USD via PayPal Sponsors Famous Bloggers Club

Prize One free social spotlight on our community blog. Sponsor, bbrian017

Our second prize offered is for the members in our community that have taken the time and voted the most on random submitted articles. So the top three members with the most votes in the community will be awarded the top three prizes. I think this award is the most important because without votes we would have no top articles.

Currently winning members

1. loupdargentonline with 1419 votes

2. sugarbaby aka Sassy with 1015 votes

3. hishaman with 959

Most Votes on the Year

#1. First Place Prizes

Prize 1 Free WordPress Template from Sponsor Studio Press and bbrian017

Prize Header Design $50 – $100 Sponsor, Wchingya (simple package)

Prize 125 125 ad spot (1 month) Sponsor, Michael Aulia

#2. Second Place Prizes

Prize 3000 Entrecard Credits Sponsor, Simply WP Blog Design

Prize 1 month 125 ad space Sponsor, Wchingya

#3. Third Place Prizes

Prize Blogger Review Sponsor, DiTesco

Prize 125×125 ad for 1 month Sponsor, Free Famous Quotes

Our Third prize is based on community comments. The top three members with the most comments will be awarded the prizes. Like all the other categories we award the top three members.

Currently winning members

1. Geoserv with 83 comments

2. michael.aulia with 27 comments

3. abhinavsood with 26 votes

Most Comments on the Year

#1. First Place Prizes

Prize $10.00 USD Link Submission Sponsor, Yawoop Links

Prize 125X125 (one month) Sponsor, DiTesco

#2. Second Place Prizes

Prize 125 125 ad spot (1 month) Sponsor, Gautam

#3. Third Place Prizes

Prize 125×125 ad for 1 month Sponsor, Interpersonal Communication Skills

Finally our last award is given to the three members who have submitted the most articles to the site for the entire year.

Currently winning members

1. sugarbaby aka Sassy with 986 submissions

2. Geoserv with365 submissions

3. Jennifer with submissions

Most Submitted on the Year

#1. First Place Prizes

Prize One main site blog engage banner for advertising. (6 months) Sponsor, brian017

Prize 125 125 ad spot (1 month) Sponsor, Developer Holic

#2. Second Place Prizes

Prize 125×125 ad for 1 month Sponsor, Gift Reviews

#3. Third Place Prizes

Prize 125 125 ad spot (1 month) Sponsor, Karen

Rules and regulations

• All my articles will default to not acceptable

• You can and are allowed to ask twitter friends and or followers to vote on any given article

• Self promotion is allowed and is recommended to have a good chance of winning

• You cannot under no circumstances win more than one prize

• Perhaps another rule will come to mind

As the contest grows over the next few months I can only imagine the prizes getting bigger and bigger. I open for any contributions so if interest please get into contact with me.

Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017 and if interested you can join my social group.

Twitter, bbrian017

Thanks,

Brian

Seeing the majority of my readers are bloggers I wanted to touch base today and discuss the most important tools to have as a blogger in today’s competitive blogging environment.  This list will be a compilation of websites, plug ins and other unique things I personally think are important to have as a blogger leading into 2010.

Lets face the truth about blogging and marketing. We need to take advantage of all the tools available for us as bloggers. I’m a huge fan of social networking and communication so anything I can use to help market or promote my blog I take advantage of immediately. (more…)

I know as much as the next blogger our daily mission is to find new places or communities to market our blogs. As the months pass by this seems to be a never ending and difficult task. That’s why today I decided to put together a list of places all bloggers should be marketing their blogs or websites. I’ve been marketing online since 2007 and if you look around I think you will admit I managed to do a pretty good job. I use many webmaster forums and blogging communities in order to develop my consistent traffic and blogger following. Today I would like to take the time and share these communities with you.

These are not in any specific order so don’t think the first is my favorite because it’s not, you’re on my favorite right now. I  will add a personal comment to each of them letting you know the benefits. I will be honest so there is no worry about mislead information.

Top Blog Forums

Bloggeries – Bloggers Blog Forum is very unique as it’s one of the most popular blog forums communities that belong to the blogosphere. As your blog grows so will your questions and need for knowledge. I would strongly suggest joining the community and becoming a regular daily visitor. I’m very good friends with Rob the owner and also a share a forum moderator with him named Jessi which most of you probably know.

The Blogger Forum – I’m relatively new to this community but I have had a very positive experience with most of the replies to my threads. The community is growing fast and is do follow for you page rank lovers. I would strongly suggest looking into this community.

The Blog Experiment – I don’t use this forum much but it’s a personal preference. None the less if you’re a blogger it’s a must use for your marketing and blog educational needs. It’s a great community owned and operated by a very well know blogger in the blogosphere. Be sure to check it out as it’s most beneficial to you as a blogger.

Blogger Hub – I’m actually really new to the blogger hub. I’m so new I haven’t even made a post yet… I think. None the less ti’s another great looking community for bloggers and a great place to build back links.

Blog Engage Blog Forum – Our forum is new guys and it’s starting to pick up so if you are thinking about joining any of the forums listed here you dam well better come join and visit us or I’ll be extremely offended. I’ve worked hard at making it fun and interactive so take a moment sign up and join us in conversations.

Social Networks for Bloggers

My Blog Log – I’ve always been a fan of the networking possibilities that are available at my blog log. At one point in time it was easier but still the website has much potential. I would suggest suing it to meet new people but don’t over spend your time as it may be wasted efforts.

Blog Catalog – Alright this is a tuff one for me. I don’t suggest adding your blogs to blog catalog but creating a blog group is a great idea. Normally blog catalog will out rank you for your own topic titles but not if you create and market using their groups. This allows you to still meet friends and network without losing page rank or search engine traffic.

Twitter – Above all said and mentioned you must use twitter guys. As an example all bloggers that join blogengage (since I started using twitter) I follow. I go to their website and click the follow us link. This helps me build relationships with my users and grow my network. As you can clearly see my methods are working great.

Facebook – FaceBook offers excellent marketing opportunities but I currently don’t use it all that much. Only because I sue twitter for my real life networking and do not spam marketing my friends. Assuming you created your FaceBook account with marketing intentions this is fine. Use at your own risk and will. I have no further suggestions for FaceBook.

Blog Engage Blog Community – This is a given, I mean hello if you’re reading this you’re already using our service. Don’t be sure you can create a lot of traffic using blogengage. Socially Share, add friends submit article links and more.

Blog Serp – Blog Serp is owned by me and is a submission site to submit your blog website once. This is not used to submit your article is only for your .com name almost like a directory of blogs if you will. Simply put it’s another backlink for you.

Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017 and if interested you can join my social group.

Twitter, bbrian017

Thanks,

Brian