Do You Want to Get Featured on the Bloggers Face-Off?

by Daniel Scocco

Readers have been asking for the return of the Bloggers Face-Off column, so I will give it a shot. I can’t promise we will have them weekly as we used to, but I really want to release a new face-off at least every month, if not every fifteen days.

Thinking about that, I figured that perhaps we could also strengthen the Daily Blog Tips community by featuring some of our own readers on the face-offs.

So yeah, if you would like to be matched with another blogger in a ~~deadly cage fight~~ cool double interview just let me know about it.

There is just one requirement: your blog must have 1,000 or more RSS/email subscribers.

I need to add this requirement for two reasons: first of all without it the number of applications would be unmanageable. Secondly, the purpose of the Bloggers Face-Off series is also to expose successful bloggers to our readers, and 1,000 RSS subscribers is a good mark to consider a blog successful.

What are you waiting for? Drop me an email on danielATdailyblogtips.com.

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29 Responses to “Do You Want to Get Featured on the Bloggers Face-Off?”

Guillermo on March 27th, 2009 12:42 pm

Hey! Dan! Here! Here! I just passed mark a few days ago!
Jerry Thomas on March 27th, 2009 1:06 pm

I have 30 RSS subscribers. I still feel pretty successful.

Do you have a plus-or-minus-97% clause in your rules?
Daniel Scocco on March 27th, 2009 1:11 pm

@Jerry, no clause .
Rarst on March 27th, 2009 4:21 pm

Interesting twist. I am hovering around ~350, remind me in a year or two.
Nate @ Debt-free Scholar on March 27th, 2009 4:41 pm

I will be back in a year or two. I have 51 subscribers.

Thanks,
Nate
Hesham on March 27th, 2009 11:12 pm

It seem that lots of people here got upset!
cheer up guys.. this opportunity is not for us!
TheWeblogZone on March 28th, 2009 4:22 am

I still need about 110 subscribers to meet the requirement… I’ll work on it this week… Expect me email soon…
mickerlodeon on March 28th, 2009 5:13 am

Why not focus on good bloggers instead of successful ones. I can think of dozens of successful bloggers who aren’t really that good at what they do, but the number of good bloggers is much smaller. I think it would be wise to highlight bloggers that are more like John Gruber than bloggers that are like Michael Arrington.

All I’m trying to say is to put less focus on the success aspect of it and focus more on uncovering bloggers that are good at what they do.
Justin on March 28th, 2009 8:17 am

Totally off the subject…but i was just curious is the theme you are using for this blog a custom theme or is it any one of the ones you list under your wordpress themes tab…looks very similar to some of them…just curious if anybody knows thanks!
Daniel Scocco on March 28th, 2009 8:22 am

@Mickerlodeon, that problem with that approach is that “good” is a subjective parameter.

What may be a good blogger for you will not be for someone else, and vice-versa.

Success is also somewhat subjective, but at least you can quantify it more easily.

Secondly, if we run a poll with the readers asking them what kind of bloggers they wanna see featured on the Bloggers Face-Off series, I am sure most would say “successful ones.”
Jamaipanese on March 28th, 2009 11:25 am

i really don’t like how almost everyone use rss subscribers as the only measuring stick for whether a blog is successful or not
Daniel Scocco on March 28th, 2009 11:43 am

@Jamaipanese, I am open for other suggestions.
Muse Creighton on March 28th, 2009 6:55 pm

I actually really don’t like the RSS as a metric either, however I do agree with Daniel that there are few other reliable metrics. Traffic and Google position can be manipulated, but RSS is more reliable as a reader metric. If you use RSS that is…
Harsh Agrawal on March 28th, 2009 7:39 pm

Hey Daniel
Seems like I have to wait for a while to get the 1000 feed subscribers..
meanwhile which plugin you use for showing direct link to URL in feeds?
Gloson on March 29th, 2009 1:29 am

@Daniel Scocco

What about number of comments or alexa rank?
Melvin on March 29th, 2009 2:07 am

Cool! my rss count is 100, i need another 0 =p
Daniel Scocco on March 29th, 2009 9:42 am

@Gloson, number of comments is a good metric.

Alexa is terrible though, in my opinion. Check this out: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/a.....worthless/
Bronx Baseball Daily on March 29th, 2009 11:14 am

Damn, I thought I was getting some success, but I’ve got a while to go before 1,000 subscribers.
Tom | Easy Googler on March 29th, 2009 2:22 pm

@Justin – I am pretty sure it is just a custom theme. It definitely incorporates some of the elements of the free themes though. I thought I read once that he had paid a designer for it, but I can’t remember… Maybe he just took a free one and modified it…

I think Daniel didn’t answer you since you posted your comment right before he answered someone else’s, so he didn’t notice it.
Daniel Scocco on March 29th, 2009 8:08 pm

@Justin, yeah sorry for missing your question.

Our theme is a custom one yeah, designed by Brian Gardner.
Gloson on March 30th, 2009 6:00 am

@Daniel Scocco

You are right. Recently, I read John Chow’s post on why Alexa is worthless.
- http://www.johnchow.com/index......worthless/

Which proves that Alexa really is inaccurate.

Here are some other suggestions:

1. Compete Rank
2. Google Page Rank
3. Technorati
4. Advertisers?
5. Guest posts?
6. Popularity?
Glen Allsopp on March 30th, 2009 8:10 am

I would love to be featured, almost at 2,000 subscribers now.

BTW, I started my own type of series like this in the Personal Development niche and it has really taken off, I gave you a link as thanks in the original post:

http://www.pluginid.com/face-off-1/
Daniel Scocco on March 30th, 2009 10:26 am

@Glen, thanks for that.

I like the way you formatted it. Do you mind if I try to format mine in the same way?
Glen Allsopp on March 30th, 2009 12:51 pm

Yeah I had too because it was taking up too much space with the questions on the left.

Sure, just use colspan = 2 for the TD
Rahul Bansal on March 31st, 2009 7:22 pm

Hi Daniel,
I am little late to email you. I hope that will not ruin my chances!
Best Software Developer on April 3rd, 2009 12:11 pm

Hi. I’m late to comment here.
By the way a very informative and nice post. Thank You.
Ari Lestariono on April 7th, 2009 4:40 am

I thin it’s everyone wish to be on blogger face-off to get the right exposure.Looking forward on what they can come up with this new idea.
Tech @ InkAPoint on April 20th, 2009 10:45 pm

Well. Everyone is keen to be in the list. I wish you all the best.
Mikey on June 8th, 2009 7:26 am

Ya all just need to be happy, a face off? hmmmm