Have you heard about 9rules? It’s a blog community which contains quality blogs. Bet it controls the quality better than other blog communities like MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog. The admins of 9rules will manually review blogs and approve blogs to be listed in the 9rules community.

Nice slogan, eh? However, 9rules do not open for submission all the time. Hence, I call it the “Big day” for bloggers who wish to submit their blogs to the 9rules community.

Question is “How to let your blog has the ?”

• Sign up an account for FREE in 9rules.
• Submit your blog today! (5th November, 2008. EST 12.00am)
• Wait for approval.

Read more about how to join 9rules here.

If you want to join 9rules, remember that it only open for submssion at certain time. Now is the last chance for you to submit your blog in this year. If you miss out this day, you’ll have to wait for the next round, probably next year.

9rules do not accept submissions outside of the 24 hour submission period.

Once the submission period closes, 9rules do not accept submissions. The submission period opens at midnight Eastern Standard Time on 5th November 2008.

Are you in the different time zone? Check out the actual date in your country with Time Zone Converter.

For those in Malaysia, the submission period will start from 1pm of 5th November 2008. I’m going to try submit Blogging For Novice to 9rules and lets hope it got approved.

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Tags: 9rules, traffic

I was in the middle of writing a new post for Blogging For Novice, but I suddenly saved and hold that post as I think there’s a breaking news with higher priority. As the post title suggested, yes, BlogRush is shutting down. (Thanks Lax for the information)

I’m a BlogRush user. I joined BlogRush as early as November 2007 when it just started launching. Few months ago, I removed BlogRush widget in my personal blog, as I think it’s not performing well for a mixed content blog. I kept the BlogRush widget here in this blog as I thought it could attract readers with more similar topics or bloggers from similar niche.

Sad to see that BlogRush failed its objective. Here is a quote from BlogRush.

BlogRush didn’t grow without its fair share of problems — from security issues to abusive users trying to ‘game’ the system to much lower click-rates than expected. We also had some problems with trying to fairly control the quality of the network, and in the process made many mistakes in deciding what blogs should stay or go. All of these issues, ultimately, limited the service’s full potential.

Our team worked very hard to try and build a service that would truly help bloggers of all sizes get free traffic to their blogs. This was our primary focus. Not once did we ever try to monetize the service with ads or anything else. BlogRush never made a single penny in revenue. We wanted to be able to help our users FIRST and then worry about monetizing the service later. Unfortunately, the service didn’t work out like we had hoped. (It happens.)

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Tags: traffic

Do you know Twitter can be a useful tool to help promote your blog (or online business / products)? Twitter is part of Micro-blogging. You can post updates of your blog via Twitter, and also include the Twitter widget to your blog to show your updates.

What is Micro-blogging?

Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually 140 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, email, MP3 or the web. [ Source ]

Other than Twitter, there are several similar services such as Pownce, Plurk, Jaiku, etc… [...more]

Tags: micro-blogging, traffic

Another way of getting some traffic is through blog review. Get your blog reviewed by someone (with higher PageRank) can help improve your blog traffic and also to gain potential readers. IMHO, it has higher chances of gaining readership than using EntreCard.

Idiot’s Guide to Blogging (IGTB) is offering a FREE blog review to those who wish to expose their blogs to more new readers as well as to get tips to improve their blogs.

Your blog has to fulfill some simple requirements: [...more]

Tags: traffic

Early this year a lot of bloggers were discussing and trying BlogRush, a network that might draw traffic to your blog. BFN (Blogging For Novice) has added the BlogRush widget at the right sidebar. Base on the statistic, not all posts from BFN attracts readers. To bring BFN’s traffic to another level, I have decided to add the EntreCard widget here.

EntreCard is really a great tool to generate traffic and also a chance to gain potential readers. Other than that, through the EntreCard network, you can find out more blogs that share the same interest. I have found several nice blogs via the EntreCard network.

What is an Entrecard?

Entrecard is your business card 2.0. It’s a 125×125 image which represents you and your blog. Its part advertisement, part business card. It comes with a widget you place on your blog, so that others can leave their Entrecard for you. You can also use Entrecard to promote your blog and launch free advertising campaigns. [directly quoted from EntreCard]

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Tags: traffic