As near as I can tell,

Here is the formula to become an A-List blogger in your chosen field of expertise:

• BE an expert in your field, or at least fake it very well.
• Work your ass off fingers raw from the time you decide to move forward, until, well, until you have thousands of readers at your blog everyday.
• Write with a consistent voice that shows your authority, knowledge, brilliance, skepticism, balance, emotion, foresight, leadership and personality. Your voice must resonate with a large group of people.
• Read daily what the A-List bloggers are writing about. Study how they write. Study their ‘voice’. Understand what it is that people like to read. Opinion is good. Attitude is good. But, what makes it good? How can you go overboard?
  
• Read the A-List bloggers’ comments by readers. What more do they want to hear about? Can you see a niche that needs filled based on the comments?
• Know search engine optimization inside and out or give that part of the puzzle to someone that does.
• Understand the power of the TITLE not just for SEO but for grabbing readers attention.
• Short, information filled posts seem to be more widely read… however, Steve Pavlina’s 10,000 word posts also hold their own…
  
• Copy exactly some A-List blogger’s template until you have strong ideas about how to personalize your blog layout.
• Pick a focus for your blog and stick with it – closely to it. The closer you stick to it, the better.
• Read tirelessly other A-List blogs in your niche and leave very well thought out comments everyday on A-List and B-List blogs. Personalize your comments. I use, “Vern at Aim for Awesome” and I’ve rarely had my comments nixed because of that long line. You can probably do it too.
• Provide value with every post. When I’m reading a new blog I’ll read 2 or 3 articles that look interesting from their recent posts section. If I don’t see something of value in the posts, something unique and something I can use TODAY I don’t return to that blog. I don’t grab the feed. I don’t care what the blogger did last week. If he/she cared enough to post 2 or 3 articles that didn’t give any value then I don’t have the time. Ideally a good blogger gives a post filled with value every single time the “publish” button is pushed. Otherwise, don’t publish. Write.
• Help other bloggers out whenever you can. Bloggers that are helped will help you back. Help first and you’ll see it come back two or three-fold.
• Link to other blog posts about your subject with every article you write. If you think you have the only important thing to say on the subject then don’t, but you’re wrong. Not everyone sees the world as you do. Someone coming to your blog to read your article about, say, “Seth Godin’s Bald Head Moisturizer Cream”, may also be interested in WHO Seth Godin is. Provide a couple links to help your readers find out more.
• Credit the source if you got the idea from somewhere other than your own gray matter.
  
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This is an open list – anyone can add something here, if I agree of course…

Anything you want to add?


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