September 16, 2010

• How To Be Number One

  You have to be awesome, like me!! Hahaha, jk!!

  Seriously…

  So, I’ve seen some people asking questions about Top Bloggers, Top Blogging, how to get there, and some people that may be jealous of these mysterious ones that are TB’s. Really, it’s not that hard to get there. TB’s are the top 100 blogs in any given 24 hours on xanga. However, the envy of the people is to be on the front page

  First, you can’t be on lock. What I’m talking about is your privacy settings.

  -Sign-in lock. If you want to be on the front page, you can’t have this lock on. For the simple fact that if someone who isn’t signed in or even have a xanga account, they won’t be able to see your blog. Have you ever not signed in right away but see an interesting blog on the front page and clicked on it, only to have Xanga tell you you need to sign in or else you can’t view the page?

  -Footprints lock. This one I’m actually not too sure about. Basically this lock is to only let people who leave footprints on your site see your posts. You may or may not be able to get into TB’s with this lock, I am unsure.

  -Friends lock. You can’t be in TB’s if you have this lock on, for the simple fact that TB’s are for traffic on your site. Have you ever clicked on a post on TB’s and have it tell you you have to be a friend of the person in order to see their post?

  However, you can have your cake and eat it too on xanga. If you want to stay private and still get traffic and comments on your site, just get a lot of new friends!!

  Now that the privacy is taken care of, now you need to work on getting traffic. How do you do this? Well, you need to leave comments and footprints all over xanga. Stomp the shit out the bitch. When people see your comments, they’ll be all like, “Who’s THIS guy (or, who’s THIS chick?)? Send friend requests. However, that’s not the only thing that’s required…. kick ass posts are a must as well.

  What kinds of posts grab the attention of people? 3 things, for sure: write about another blogger, write about xanga, and boobs.

  -Write about another blogger. Now, I know that people love drama and hating on other xangans can be a popular way to do this…. but I advocate for the like/love/lurve/<3 posts. Why? Because I am a nice person, and I don’t like seeing others disrespected, especially publicly. (By the way, I <3 Courtney, Nani, Dan, Stephen, Matt, Rob, Tukha, Amber, Chris…. and more people

  -Write about Xanga. These kinds of posts tend to get a lot of attention too. Posts on why you love xanga, posts on why you hate xanga, posts on how xanga could be improved…. not much else to say on this one.

  -Boobs. Well, any nudity, really. NSFW posts are very popular. Why? Because xanga is filled with perverts. Well, not really perverts, but we love nudity, sex, and masturbation. We also love the illusion of perverseness. If the title of your post is BOOBS, then you post a photo of a kitty, we love the humor of this. It will be rec’d and commented, no doubt.

  Other topics

  -News. What’s in the news today. Now. Be the first to post someone about a controversial happening, and people will flock. True story.

  -Bandwagons. Xangans are total bandwagon jumpers. If there’s a certain day someone posted their happiest memory and told everyone else to do it, they will. If you do this, your post for the day will be rec’d and commented. Another true story.

  -Life lessons based on personal experience. This one can be touch and go, depending on the topic. If you post about everyone is beautiful no matter what and you once didn’t feel pretty but went through a life changing event, this will normally get a good response. Again, it depends on the topic. Deeply personal posts can go either way.

  -Humor. If you have a sarcastic sense of humor, xangans love this. However, conveying this through words only can be difficult, and word choice is very important. If you attempt this, you may end up with an epic fail.

  A word of caution: Everything in moderation. People will get irritated if you continuously write about the same things and get over it quickly. I use a mixture of these topics.

  Another thing that can be useful in your quest to TB’s is timestamping. There are those who hate timestampers, and will tell you so. The thing is to do it at the right times, and not too often. Since your inbox only goes back 7 pages, for those with a lot of friends, that does not even cover a 24 hour period of blog posts written. So if you want your blog to be seen by the masses, timestamping a blog post about 3 hours later is about right. Depending on how busy xanga is, you may get away with an hour and a half or 2 hours.

  There are more tricks to the trade, but I can’t tell you everything!!

  The most important thing is to mostly blog for yourself. I know some people may think I’m just an attention whore because I supposedly write only about blogging and other bloggers, but this is not true. Diva_Joyt has said in her blog that I am never boring because I blog about so many things. This is true. I post entertaining stories too, yo!!

  I understand that for a lot of people, TB’s aren’t very important, but there are those trying to get in there… and I’m just trying to help them do that.

  Happy blogging

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