9 Little Known Traits of Successful Bloggers

We all know the “rules” of blogging. Produce consistently high-quality content, position yourself as an authority, cultivate relationships with your readers and other bloggers.

But some of the best and most popular blogs have traits that might surprise you. Here’s how being negative, angry and stupid (in the right ways) can create breakthrough success on your blog...

9 Little Known Traits of Successful Bloggers

Negative writing works!

See here for an interesting article about how negative writing grabs more attention than positive.  I can vouch for this, it's true!  Write two articles, one with a positive headline and one with a negative headline.  I'd be willing to bet the negative one gets more traffic.

When Citizen Journalism Attacks: CNN Gaffe Causes Stock Drop

Apparently a bogus story on CNN’s citizen journalism site iReport this morning, which claimed that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a massive heart attack, “spread like wildfire” across the web, causing Apple's share price to drop.  See here.

How to Get Featured on the New York Times, CNN, CNET and Newsweek

Did you know that you can get your site featured on major news sites like CNN, CNET, Newsweek, USA Today, and even the Wall Street Journal. It’s one of the best kept secrets in the blogosphere and Kim Roach reveals it in this article.

Making it easier to submit your content to Google

From Google: "We've talked a lot about our mission to organize the world's information and make it readily available to all, but we haven't spent as much time as we could helping others understand how they can participate in this endeavor. Last week we took two steps to address this: we updated the Submit Your Content site and we launched our Content Central blog. The goal of both of these resources is to inform and help the many organizations that distribute various types of content via Google Web Search, Maps, Product Search, Book Search, YouTube, iGoogle and more."