Alltop – Alltop is a directory that showcases the RSS feeds of hundreds of blogs.  Leave me a comment and tell me where you find your best ideas. Headlines are bloody important. The best blog authors nail headline/titles. Magazines with millions of subscribers fill every issue with juicy headlines.  Top Gun copywriters spend hours brainstorming hundreds of headlines BEFORE they write. My buddha at Copyblogger says… “On average, 8 out of 10 people will read headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest. Headlines are that important. You should too. MORE >>

Blog Comments 1. Using a plug-in like CommentLuv allows your commenter to share their most recent post. If you see a comment that really resonates and offers a great viewpoint, ask the poster if they’d like to guest for you and expand on the original comment. Similar to above, if you see a comment you disagree with, expand your own view into a post and offer reasons why your viewpoint is different. So click through the URL of someone’s comment and see what they’re writing about, to see if you can gather ideas from there. Here they are. MORE >>

” NM Incite doesn’t indicate any peak and the number of blogs continually added to Alltop is not waning either. Please continue reading The Death of Blogging: Part 271 and leave a comment if inspired. Recent comments Recent comments. It seems that every month there is a newspaper article about the death of blogging. Editors talk. Verne Kopytoff wrote a sensationalist headline in the New York Times in February 2011 entitled, “ Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter.” ” As if. It’s Kopytoff all over again. MORE >>

Let your readers pimp their own blogs in your comments section. Use  StumbleUpon  and  AllTop  to increase your readership. Comment on other blogs and news articles to show your thinking/expertise, but also link people back to your blog. Comment on industry news. Comment on industry trends, where it’s going, and the emerging trends. When people write a comment, take the time to email them directly and thank them for the comment and if they ask a question, then answer it. Take readers comments and include and promote them in your blog. MORE >>

Adam Vincenzini reviews 10 tools that he believes “MUST be part of a modern communicator’s arsenal&# including AllTop (for finding the most influential bloggers in any space), Social Mention (social media monitoring tool) and SWiX (an interesting tool though it appears to be no longer free). Subscribe to the comments for this post? Social media has fundamentally altered the practice of public relations. Of course, there’s more to (successful) blogger outreach than just pitching, and there’s more to the new practice of social PR than just blogger outreach. MORE >>