The Search Engine Journal is once again hosting their annual Search Blogs Awards. Nominations are now open for blogs to be included in this years awards in the following categories:

* Best SEO Blog
* Best SEM Blog
* Best Search Agency Resource Blog
* Best Link Building Blog
* Best Social Media Blog
* Best Search Engine Corporate Blog (owned by the search engines)
* Best Contextual Advertising Blog
* Best Affiliate Marketing Blog
* Best Search Engine Community/Forum Blog
* Best Web 2.0 Blog
* Best Search Linkbait of 2006

All you have to do in order to nominate a blog is head over to the site and leave a comment on the post with the category and the name of the blog. There is no limit on how many blogs you can nominate, but try to see if someone has already nominated a blog before you make a nomination. Nominations will remain open until December 12th and the voting begins on December 14th.

Originally posted on December 9, 2006 @ 10:15 pm

I’m sure every writer has wondered at one time or another, what will it take to get that huge traffic breakthrough to my content? copyblogger answers that question:

In order to produce a single piece of content that brings in dramatic amounts of traffic, you should aim to fulfill an existing psychological need.

The site points out 21 psychological triggers that you can use to increase the chances of your content being spread around through social media and bringing incredibly amounts of traffic back to your content.

Originally posted on December 12, 2006 @ 3:54 pm