My 50 Most Linked To Posts

January 5, 2009 · Comments

links I was just looking at something on Yahoo! Site Explorer and realized that I could pluck from it the 50 most linked to posts on my site without a lot of heavy lifting.

It’s interesting what you chose. I don’t agree with some of them, but when I read the titles, I know what was going on at the time, and I can see how things went the way they did. By the way, what’s your favorite post to link? Turns out, mostly numbered list posts. Like this one.

So here they are, My 50 Most Linked To Posts:

  1. When Google Owns You
  2. 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business
  3. 20 Free eBooks About Social Media
  4. 50 Ways to Take Your Blog to the Next Level
  5. Free eBook on Personal Branding
  6. 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing
  7. 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media
  8. 50 Steps to Establishing a Consistent Social Media Practice
  9. 50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider
  10. Twelve Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss
  11. A Sample Blogging Workflow
  12. Etiquette in the Age of Social Media
  13. Best Social Media Advice From This Site
  14. 50 Blog Topics Marketers Could Write For Their Companies
  15. My Best Advice About Blogging
  16. Nine Ways to Promote Your Blog Posts
  17. How to Do More With Less Time
  18. On Managing A Community
  19. Write Your LinkedIn Profile for Your Future
  20. Is Your Community For Sale?
  21. Five Tools I Use for Listening
  22. Ten Secrets to Better Blogging
  23. Essential Skills of a Community Manager
  24. What Social Media Does Best
  25. My Best Advice About Social Media
  26. My Best Advice About Personal Branding
  27. How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool
  28. Starting a Social Media Strategy
  29. What are Some Social Media Marketing Best Practices
  30. Develop a Strong Personal Brand Online Part 1
  31. How to Create Business From a Blog
  32. Cuil Misses Me
  33. Social Media Starter Moves for Freelancers
  34. Thinking About Trust Agents
  35. How I Tamed My Inbox
  36. You Can Do Your Job Without Twitter
  37. Make Your Blog Design Work For You
  38. How Content Marketing Will Shake the Tree
  39. Advertising and Trust
  40. What I Want a Social Media Expert to Know
  41. Workflow- Social Media for Marketers
  42. How to Listen for Opportunities on Twitter
  43. Thinking About the Negatives
  44. Threading Some Trends Together
  45. Google Gets Back to Nick (related to this).

  46. Social Media Does Not Replace Marketing Strategy
  47. Cherp is a Twitter-Flavored Agency (why?)
  48. Share Share Share Share Share
  49. The Vital Importance of Your Network
  50. Is Your Blog For Rent?

I’m not sure I agree that these are my best, but they’re what people linked to for whatever reason. Maybe this is useful to folks who are new to the blog? Let me know.

And thanks for your attention.

Photo credit David

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  • What a great list of resources - thank you! I'll be sending more people your way (instead of attempting to answer their questions the hard way!)
  • That's a wonderful list of posts. I particularly liked "Etiquette in the age of social media" and "Vital Importance of your network". I personally feel that its very important to understand the finer nuances of socially acceptable behavior before
    jumping right in with a loud speaker.

    A nice round-up of cool posts. Bookmarked
  • hey thats really a huge list. i would say all listed posts are a gem. one would surely want to go through all of them at first visit only.
  • What a fantastic list of resources! thanks for compiling them for us.
  • I probably haven't worked out how Yahoo Explorer works properly. I'm assuming it shows all links to your posts not just links from blogs. However will also be influenced by your own linking?

    How differently does it work or is it more effective at analyzing your post than using Postrank.com where you can compare Delicious Saves, Google Blog Search links etc?

    Linking via Delicious, twitter, other blogs depends totally on the type of posts. Have to say need to spend more time pondering your lists and impact on linking :)
  • That Yahoo! Site Explorer is a great tip, Chris. Thanks. Even though Google obviously has market share, it's important to be able to figure out which pages of yours are in demand on other search engines.
  • Chris, great list! Maybe you should do a post on the top 10 blog posts that you think should have been in the top 50. I'd be interested in scanning those archives too.
  • I tried it with my blog, but I'm on the old version of blogger and all the posts show up as my blog title. If someone could point me in the right direction on how to edit my HTML to make my blog post title show up on the permalinks of my posts, I'd appreciate it.
  • Ed
    I think the 'list' or 'numbered list' posts get an extra bump because
    in this rush rush world of limited minutes, they give a sense of
    condensed information.
    "Give me the bottom line in 2 minutes" type juice.

    But it also depends on the blog/blogger.
    I see hundreds of "concentrated" posts I didn't link to all year.
    Since the trust factor is already established here, when I want to give
    a friend an authority run down on a subject, I'm linking here instinctively.
    I'd probably do it more if the Lijit search didn't SUCK.
    Just sayin'
  • Chris

    I echo somewhat what Sue says above. Does this change if you count other measures of 'influence'?

    Also I think the high traffic and high conversation posts identify how others see us. On my personal blog (yes, please do not ask why it is separate but it is http://laviequotidienne.wordpress.com), my most read posts are about challenging fallacies about Indians and Hindus, followed by the only negative review of a book that claims to explain Indians through game theory (and fails), and a post on Indian mythology. I did not try to be that person but somehow an Indian well-versed in her own culture, history, mythology as well as commerce just emerges.

    Now I must work out how to link it to my work blog and create a joined picture. Guess I did not start my web life (in the early 1990s) with a social media strategy, eh? ;-)
  • I am still in awe Chris, I could read you all day and all night! So much value, great list. I was not even aware of Yahoo Site Explorer, so thanks for that too. Insightful.
  • Thanks a lot for this very useful list. I have to learn a lot...
    Have you never wrote about niche blogs such as foodblogs? I have some difficulties in promoting mine foodblog in the Italian market
  • Chris, as you've said in another post, people like blogs with numbers in the title. Linking may a bit different. I think there are alot of blogs out there just reblogging others' content. A 5-ways or Top Ten list is always a good one. Personally I prefer numbers with $ before the number or % after it. I'm a whore for solid facts and figures. I can write content on conclusions I draw from the data pretty quickly. My most linked to blog (about marketing for a movie) mentioned Kate Beckinsale something like 10 times. I purposely overused her name, and linked each mention to a fabulous picture (as if there are any that aren't) of the actress. My suspicions were correct, it got alot of activity and linking.
    I'm trying new strategies for my new site, some based on your suggestions, some I've conjured with my own twisted mind.
  • matthewcornell
    Chris, it would help a lot if you'd detail how you used Yahoo to do this. I really like the idea (I'd done it manually via delicious a few times - uhg), and I couldn't get Yahoo to jump through the hoops. It either shows pages (I know these already ;-) or Inlinks. Sorry if it's obvious.
  • Thoughtful and sensible. Reading your work always comes with a reminder of how much there is to learn in this field which is heartening.
  • Just goes to show none of us should put ALL of our eggs into the Google basket. Thanks for the tip on Site explorer and the lesson on creating linked to posts!
  • Google and Twitter rule the day. Says a lot about Twitter.Thanks for all the links.
  • This will definitely teach people the kind of content that gets linked to you. Everyone wants backlinks to their Blog so write this kind of content if you are wanting them.
  • Thanks for posting this nice list. I'm going back and rereading all your older posts. Such a wealth of great knowledge here!
  • Now this is a post that should have a Digg widget in it.
  • I'll be referencing this for myself and others for years to come. What list would you make, Chris?

    - John
  • I did a review of this based on the metrics provided by postrank - in its widget which is some combination of most linked, comments, bookmarked, diggs, and twittered -

    http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/12/best...

    Some debate as to what is the number one metric to use for value of the blog. I think it depends on the type of post, don't you?
    Comments for conversational
    Outbound links for influence
    Bookmarked saves for value of content
    Twittered - for velocity

    Do views matter?

    B
  • @Beth I think the concept of breaking apart the posts based on those categories are good; with the blogger using their own personal knowledge of the posts. For example some of my posts with high comments indicate great conversations while I have a classic post that if an outsider looked at sheer numbers of comments would think it must be good.

    Similar not all posts with high twittering necessarily indicate great posts.

    Still not totally convinced on high page views - especially when trying to analyzing posts from different dates.
  • The titles say alot and the whole Cosmo magazine approach seems very effective. Perhaps b/c it's to the point and people know what they are getting in terms of numbered or bulleted blog, which is perhaps easier to read and for scanning over purposes.
    Good job!
  • Love this. Thanks for taking the time to pull it together.
  • Great list - how's your finger?
  • @Mary - finger's better now. Thank you.
  • Thanks for the link back/photo credits.
  • Sasha Kane
    As Always-Ever thinking about your readers.
    Thank-You so much!
  • Fabulous list of resources...I am sure this will become, or should become, your most linked to link..

    Happy New Year and thank you for a wonderful collection of blogs, ideas and inspiration.

    I continue to remain your inspired fan and reader...

    Maggi Carstairs
  • This is an amazing list of social media marketing articles, extremely useful for small business marketing. Thank you so much, Chris :)

    Willy Lim
    Small Business Marketing Expert
  • Wow...this is a great list! Plenty of good reading for me to get on with. Thanks a lot Chris.
  • Pretty good list and a clever way to come up with a new post. There is a lot of articles which you have that are related to some of my articles on my blog.
    Will be spending some time to read what you have to say on some of these topics.

    By the way, I came by through the means of Twitter.
  • How do you recommend engaging visitors to comment on blogs and on twitter?
  • Hi Chris

    I'm fairly new to your blog, thanks to Jack Humphrey. So I really appreciate
    this awsome list of archives. I'll let you know when I come up for air.

    Gary McElwain
  • "I was just looking at something on Yahoo! Site Explorer and realized that I could pluck from it the 50 most linked to posts on my site without a lot of heavy lifting."

    Really? To do this correctly with Yahoo, I think you need to take each individual URL for every single blog article and then put each URL into Yahoo one at a time and see what the results are. Is that what you did? You probably have 100+ articles, you put each URL into Yahoo one at a time? Wow. You have much more tolerance for heavy lifting than I do!
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