Blogger$ of The Month
“Blogger$ of The Month” is new initiative by rtBlogs to encourage good blogging standards and ethics among newbie bloggers.
Under this new initiative, our editors’ team will rate guest author posts based on various parameters discussed below. Separate rating table’s would be maintained for three of our network blogs namely: Devils Workshop, Facebooknol and crictalks. The guest authors who accumulates maximum point in each of these tables, will be awarded as “Blogger$ of The Month” awards which is $150 in total with a breakdown of $50 each.
This prizes are bonus one in addition to Google AdSense revenue you will continue to receive from your posts published on blogs in our network. Apart from this you will also get backlinks to your blog, if you have any.
More about rating system…
Editors will give points based on many factors.
- English – be kind enough to run spell-check atleast. Use windows live editor for blogging.
- Presentation – Use headers like h2/h3 to highlight sections of your articles. Add screenshots wherever possible! Break posts in small paragraphs. Things like this will be considered.
- Ethics – Spend some-time on linking back to other sources you may use in post. Do not excessively promote anything particularly. We hate links that open in new tab or window. Do not force or irritate visitors!
- Tools - Use blogging tools that generate nice markups and respect web-standards. We recommend using online wordpress post editor or windows live editor. Never use Microsoft word!
Post Topic
This is one factor that will be considered most. A user posting a tutorial or nice post like posts in ‘featured’ category will definitely gets more points. Do not look at my announcement posts in featured category.
Important thing to consider is that, write quality article! One article like this will definitely get more points than 10 news or product review posts. So spend time on writing good, quality and original article. Let me repeat.. “Original articles please!”
Actually there is nothing wrong in covering news as long as you add your analytical views to it. Lazy people copying news with copied screenshots will not get any points!
Comments and accountability!
Many time we notice people just come on DW to write one guest post and get a backlink to their blog! Well, we do not have problem with giving link juice and whatever else we can give to our fellow bloggers but what hurt us that some guest bloggers do not answers comments and queries asked by visitors.
So we made our ranking algorithm consider accountability while answering comments. So always answer a question asked on your post. If you don’t know the answer, let your visitor know. Don’t keep them waiting!
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