Life Evolver is currently accepting guest bloggers. It’s a great way to get your name in front of the personal growth community.
If you’ve got a great idea for a post and would like to build a little momentum for your own site or blog, then feel free to contact me.
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Life Evolver launched on July 4th, 2008. Since launch, traffic has quadrupled month-to-month (7,070 unique visitors in July, 29,768 unique visitors in August). Now that Life Evolver has a decent amount of subscribers and return visitors, I’d like to ask you a few questions to make this blog even better.
If you support the spirit of this blog and have gained anything from Life Evolver, then I’d really appreciate your taking 30 seconds to complete this quick questionnaire:
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I am a contributing writer for Stepcase Lifehack, the popular Productivity, Getting Things Done, and Lifehacks blog. Here are some of my recent posts there:
The George Costanza Lifehack for Overcoming Fear and Anxiety
3 Ways to Stop Living Vicariously Through Technology
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Several weeks ago, I announced that Life Evolver was added to Alltop, a popular news/blog aggregator. If you haven’t visited Alltop yet, I’d encourage you to do so… Here are three reasons why:
1) They “help out underdogs and undiscovered gems”
Check out this graph- I’ve plotted the Alltop sites/blogs listed under the Lifehacks category, by their Alexa (popularity) ranking:
Compared to other methods of getting attention/building traffic, there just aren’t a lot of options for new bloggers. Google largely bases search results on the number of sites linking to your site, so this makes getting traffic from Google with a new blog very difficult. Getting to the front page of Digg requires that you have 1) A Digg-worthy post (usually a list of some sort, or a somewhat sensationalized story) and 2) A strong network of other Diggers to help you make the story popular. Again, this is very difficult for new bloggers.
2) The sites and blogs listed on Alltop are hand-picked, with feedback from the micro-blogging community
The Alltop about page explains, “The Twitter community has been the single biggest factor in the quality of Alltop. Without this group of mavens and connectors, Alltop would not be what it is today.”
Alltop is basing the sites they list on the wisdom of the community. This gives them a much higher-quality selection of sites than any automated algorithm could produce.
3) The diversity of the content under each category gives you a macro view that you can’t find elsewhere
This ties in with reason #1, but when you have super-popular websites, alongside brand-new unpopular websites, it creates a whole new perspective that you wouldn’t traditionally see. One reason for this is because the writers of those different types of sites usually come from very different backgrounds and write about very different topics.
Google couldn’t get away with putting brand-new unpopular websites at the top of their search results, because part of the algorithm for determining relevance is the number of sites linking to a site. But Alltop can put unpopular sites next to super-popular ones, because they are hand-picked by the community.
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I just wrote a guest blog post for LifeDev. This was my very first guest blog post, and I’d like to thank Glen Stansberry (author of LifeDev) for letting me contribute to his great blog!
Here’s a link to the post- Brighten up your life: 3 Tips from Thomas Edison on Living Optimistically
LifeDev Readers: Welcome to Life Evolver! Since you are a first time visitor to Life Evolver, you may ask- What is a Life Evolver? A Life Evolver is any individual who makes positive, sustainable changes in his or her life.
Getting around Life Evolver: You can find some of my more popular posts using the navigation on the left. If you like Life Evolver, you can subscribe by clicking one of the subscribe links in the upper right.
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Life Evolver has been added to the Lifehacks section of AllTop- a popular news/blog aggregator! Alltop describes themselves as a “digital magazine rack”, which I would agree with. They have a very useful site, and I recommend you go check them out. AllTop covers diverse topics from gaming to photography.
Each person uses the site differently, but here is how I use AllTop: I have several topics that I’m really interested in, and Alltop aggregates all the best news/blog posts from those topics for me. I still use Google Reader to subscribe to my favorite feeds. But I also like using Alltop because allows me to have a macro level of a topic of interest, showing content that I wouldn’t see otherwise, and I can zoom in and browse that content if I find it interesting.
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