ProBlogger is hosting a group writing project/contest for writing Killer Titles for your blog posts. I am participating, and submitted 9 Super-Sexy Betas to Crave Right Now. I'm a huge fan of helping people blog better, and this group writing project is all about people coming up with creative "Killer Titles," reading other bloggers' work, discovering new sites, making friends, and having a virtual kumbaya around a campfire. ProBlogger will randomly select a participant, and award them with a $2000 identity design (logo) from logo designer David Airey, but they've challenged all of the participants to select their favorites, and post their winners.

The first group of participants was released today, and as I was reading through the titles (some really great ones), I decided to pull all of the lists and post them here in a four-part series. The cool thing about this project is in teaching people how to write "Killer" titles, using a list is always near the top of the....well, you get the point. It should provide you, the reader, with plenty of content to keep you busy for the week. ProBlogger will be announcing the winner (randomly selected) on Friday, so wish me luck!

Monday's Lists

• 9 Of The Best Ways To Present A Website To A Client by Jacob Cass
• Top 10 Ways To Save Money Building Your New House by Todd
• 5 reasons to be Canadian and definitely forget that you were ever Latino (In Spanish) by Guillermo
• 17 Ways To Increase Advertising Income On Your Website by Rob Malon
• 12 Things to do in Denver Besides the Democratic National Convention by Mary Jo
• 10 Ways To Grow Your Senior Photography Business by Lori Osterberg
• 2 Reasons Why Women Should Vote for Obama by Trisha
• 5 Title-Writing Lessons You Can Learn from Naked Beds by Susan Payton, The Marketing Eggspert
• The top 5 bands that I would erase from history by Roberta
• 5 reliable wineries that can help you learn about wine by Bill Wilson
• 18 sites that pay you for writing by Suzanne Roman
• "F*ck Martha Stewart" 11 Lessons from the Movie "Fight Club" by Joe Lucas

Check back tomorrow for the next group of participants, and keep in mind, there's still plenty of time to participate. If you think you can write a post with a Killer Title, head over to the group writing project page for more details, and to sign up. If you write a list, you'll be added here!

One last thing....I'd love to know what you think about these titles. Killer? Lame? Tell us what you think in the comments. We always love hearing your opinion.

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From Pajama Market:

So you're cruising through life, carefree, sipping a Coke, and then I slam this title on your screen. Sorry to break it to you, but you're going to die.

I know you spend most of your time denying this fact. You've got your new red convertible, you've added ten friends on MySpace in the past week, and you get all the jokes about Smallville. But someday, you're going to drop like a rock and your soul is going to pass its time somewhere else.

Before that happens, think about your blog, and how completely unsatisfying it would be if you hadn't written these 5 world-changing posts:

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From ProBlogger:

1. Create link clusters within your blog

A link cluster is a group of links that you can point at a post or page to improve its search engine ranking. Let’s say you have a post that’s ranked for ’stupid business ideas’. Edit 10 of your other posts to create links (using ’stupid business ideas’ as the anchor text) to the ’stupid business ideas’ post and you will surely move up in Google for that keyword. This process can be implemented in about 10 minutes and can be used for any keyword your site ranks for or is trying to rank for.

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Submitted by Brian Brown:

1. tons of traffic
2. tons of repeat traffic
3. tons of content
4. Google will love you
5. promote products
6. advertise sales
7. ask for feedback

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From ProBlogger.net:

This is a guest post on improving blog traffic from Courtney Tuttle. Courtney writes about marketing online at Court’s Internet Marketing School.

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From the Site:

There is no way to accurately put a value on blogs and blogging companies. All are privately-held and, as is true with many content businesses, the value of the company is based on what a buyer will pay. The figures we have put together look at advertising revenue and income from related businesses like conferences. We have not included blogs affiliated with larger media companies. It is too difficult to break-out what their traffic may be and how their income is divided with the parent. Some blogs are fronts for other businesses like O’Reilly Radar Those have been left out. A lot of big blogs do not make the list because they bring in very little commercial revenue. Treehugger probably falls into that category.

We looked at unique visitor and page view measurement services when possible: Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast. These services are often criticized for estimating website traffic too low. We have tried to take that into account. We also looked at data at blogs which gave their own ad rates and page views. Our estimated page CPMs are based on quality of ads and number of ads on each page. We looked at margins based on headcount and our opinion of how may of the people are full-time. Current growth rate based on our measurement sources was also taken into account. A site with traffic doubling year-over-year was give a higher multiple than one with flat traffic. Because not all blogs make money, we looked at multiples of operating income and revenue. These are completely estimates because of the tiny number of blogs which have been sold and lack of information about what the multiples may have been.

Finally, large blogs with big “moats” got higher multiples than smaller ones. Blogs with one founder who contributes a substantial amount of the content got lower multiples than those with several good writers. Blogs which appear to be well-funded or have operated for a long time got better multiples than newer sites or ones where it was not clear that there was a big pool of money behind them.

In short, the task of valuing the largest blogs is impossible. That makes it much more interesting than writing about the P/E at General Electric.

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From the Site:

It's true, I hate your chiclets almost as much as I hate your blogroll... and not surprisingly, for almost the exact same reasons... the reciprocal linking, the ego stroking (AKA industry circle jerk), lack of usefulness to visitors and large on-page link count. Now, don't get all sensitive, you can be reformed. Even the best of bloggers succumb to the occasional chicklet or two, but 10, 20 little icons in your sidebar or footer, it's a little excessive, don't you think?

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