Nothing super long and crazy today, just 14 simple ways to get more Blog Engage votes on your submitted blog posts. If you are not familiar with the Blog Engage WordPress Plugin please read my post, “What is Blog Engage?”
14 Ways to Get More Blog Engage Votes
- Make sure your Blog Engage button stands out
- Ask your guests to vote your article up
- Display the Blog Engage button after you ask for the vote
- Vote for other bloggers articles
- Become an active part of the Blog Engage forum
- Connect with bloggers in your niche
- Leave comments on other other blogs
- Leave comments on Blog Engaged posts
- Retweet other bloggers articles through Blog Engage
- Don’t be afraid to display the button in more than one place
- Educate your readers on how the button works
- Write a Monthly Blog Engage Recap
- Mail your email subscribers announcing the new plugin
- Review the Blog Engage plugin
If you found something helpful in this post please take a second to to vote it up on Blog Engage , or leave a comment and let me know what tip was most helpful. I post blogging tips along with all kinds of other stuff, you might want to consider taking a moment to subscribe to my rss feed.
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Gotta have my blog ‘Blog Engaged’ then. Now, where’s that plugin download link.
James Moralde´s last blog ..Bugs Bunny Poster
@James Moralde, I’m sure it’s stuff somewhere in this post
Number fourteen was the most of help for me. I didn’t know blog engage could help your Alexa rating so much. The blog engage traffic tripling is another intersting part of it. Seems fast to a newbie like myself.
Thanks, more great info
‘Ask your guests to vote your article up’… absolutely, if you don’t ask you don’t get. Vote, leave a comment, subscribe, etc are all ways of giving your readers a call-to-action, something to do as they hit the bottom of your post.
Great tips John.
Karl
Karl Foxley@SEO Company´s last blog ..5 Time-Tested Tactics To Boost Your Christmas Sales
@Karl Foxley@SEO Company, thank you Carl. All things that should be linked in posts.
Short and straight to the point there John or should I say to the 14 points, since becoming a member of BlogEngage my traffic and blogging as improved quite a bit
Big thanks to Brian and everyone who participates via voting on BlogEngage 
Karen @ Blazing Minds´s last blog ..Blogging Tip: Save Drafts for a Rainy Day
I’ll start with number 3, sounds easy and fun.
I’ll let you know.
Oh, I better get some readers first.
Great ideas! I’d love to add the button but can’t get my wordpress.com acct. converted to wordpress.org. When that finally happens I’ll be sure to add this plugin. Thanks for the great tips~
@Angela,
Angela, just download the vote image and add it to your post as an image. After you submit the post, get the url of the vote page and send your image to that page. The vote count won’t change on your blog but the link will get you some votes.
@Ileane
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@ileane, you really don’t have to do all of that. If you visit the Blog Engage promo tools section there is a code for a hardlink version, just slap that in to place.
@Extreme John, John, I don’t think that code works on WordPress.com blogs, maybe I’m using the wrong one. Which one are you referring to?
Thanks.
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@ileane, not sure it’s going to show here but it should work in any HTML page or blog.
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Great Advice and it works. Blog Engage is a great place to connect and meeting other bloggers. I think it might be time to change my buttons these look a little cleaner.
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Awesome post John,m this is what we do on BogEngage
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I joined and voted… now I need to read all the ins and outs of this to make it really effective. Looks like I’ll be taking up residency here and at iBlogZone, and I’m sure there are a few others, too. Who needs sleep anyway?
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Thanks for the tips bro. BE is heating up which is very cool and I always see your stuff on the front page too which is awesome because we all appreciate the cool tips you share with us. Have a good weekend!
Alan @ Glass Pipes´s last blog ..Tiger in 2012
Hey John, great tips…I saw another post on your blog with some sportbike action. Do you ride? I’m a two-wheel fanatic myself.
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Another way is to always make an effort to reciprocate those that vote for your post.
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I only display the vote button in the post and no more promotion after this. I’m only able to get an average of 5 votes on each post, I’ll try all your tips here and see whether it helps to increase the vote.
So few still don’t realize the power in just asking.
Dennis Edell´s last blog ..3 Days Left – MaxBlogPress Christmas Deal Expires
@Dennis Edell, so few.
I’ve yet to ad the button to my blog & until I read this I didn’t know you could. lol
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@Rose (Bloggertalk), give it a test run and be patient with it, check a few of my other Blog Engage posts for some more tips on getting your votes jump started.
I joined the forums. Made an introduction on Sunday. Still waiting for replies. lol
I’m also commenting on blogs, tweeting links etc.
I guess it takes time.
Rose (Bloggertalk)´s last blog ..Family Holiday Traditions Around the World
Hi John,
All nice tips – and I really like number 12 … the monthly recap.
But my own personal favourite method right now is something that I just started a few days ago ( and so, of course, I’ve no real evidence to support it as a fantastic strategy yet!). Anyway what I’m actively trying to do much more of is to recruit quality blogs into BlogEngage.
Method – when commenting on a new blog that (a) I like & (b) I think could definitely benefit from BlogEngage membership …. I simply leave a short (P.S.) at the bottom of my comment such as
“P.S. Do you know about the fantastic BlogEngage community at http://www.blogengage.com/ ? I’m sure it would be great for your site to join there – and, if you do, please remember to add me – whatawebsite – as a friend ”
As a short-term vote getting strategy perhaps not the most efficient – but in the long-term it could help a lot …. ( thinking outside the box often does)
Cheers
Will
P.S. Hope you’ll want to join in my festive fun BlogEngage contest below ….
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@Will, hey Will thank you for taking the time to leave a comment and share some of the things your doing to increase your Blog Engage network, I like that idea a lot all though I am curious, have you seen a lot of your comments get grabbed by the spam filter?
@Extreme John, Hi John, Glad you liked the idea – but how can I notice if my messages are getting grabbed by a spam filter?? ( and I’m not sure why they would as I personalise each message) Ok – great if you could answer this – and sorry for not being 100% internet savvy
… but I’m learning slowly!
Cheers
Will
Will´s last blog ..Brianwave – The Alexa Ranking Contest
@Will, not a problem. I enjoy answering questions when I can.
A lot of blogs such as mine use the Akismet Wordpress plugin, it catches spam or things it feels might be spam. Placing links into comment fields can trigger the plugin to toss the comment in the spam comments section, if a blogger doesn’t check his/her spam comments and they simply delete, the comment is lost.
The fact that you leave a detailed comment with some length is what allowed it to get through on this blog. It’s also important to note that many bloggers don’t like commenters leaving links in the comments field, even if it makes it past the spam filter.
@Extreme John,
Joining in on this, how about leaving an inactive link? just blogengage.com with no http:// – I think that may go through?
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@Extreme John, Hi John, Thanks a million for the good advice, I think I’ll forget putting the BlogEngage link (or any other) in future messages. I’ll just write about BlogEngage in the future… Sorry, by the way, for taking so long to reply here but my computer has totally crashed on me (I’m now on my girlfriend’s) – and it’s a case of trying to recover things. Bit of a stressful situation but will visit you here a lot more as soon as it is sorted out ! Cheers, Will
Great tips from the master! I am only doing about half of what you mentioned. I need to ask more, I have no problem asking for comments, follows, tweets, but I have not been asking for blog engage votes. I will take your advice and start asking…
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@Tycoon Blogger@promote your blog, thanks Dan and be sure to let me know how it works for you.
It’s amazing how many people don’t simply ask for people to vote/leave comments/join as members.. it’s as though so many bloggers think its cheap, or rude to ask… But simply asking will always massively increase response
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@Hard Rocking South African@Music Judge, those bloggers might want to rethink things a little bit, asking for a vote serves as an excellent reminder for people to contribute.
If the Post is outstanding then there is no need to ask for votes or doing any thing.
Reader will vote the post. (Quality is important)
Thanks for sharing the tips.
Tech Maish@Blogging Tips´s last blog ..10 Killer Tips and Tricks to Increase Twitter Followers
@Tech Maish@Blogging Tips, thank you for taking the time to comment. I will say however that the proof is in the pudding, asking (reminding) people to vote increases votes in a big way.
But all the popular bloggers are not asking from any one to tweet the post, or digg it or vote it.
Because they are providing quality and which attracts the readers.(In return they will vote)
@Tech Maish@Blogging Tips, everyone has their opinion, large blogs also have a lot more readers and I would be willing to bet if they did remind readers to vote or digg an article they would get even more than they already do.
What does the word “Vote” means.
It means to tell some one that you did good job and keep going on.
But if we will ask from some one to vote us.
Then it means that we are trying to say that “Please appreciate my work, whether it is good or not”
Blog Engage has come a long way, i remember when it was first set up
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Good, common sense guide to BlogEngage. It’s a great service and a good way to connect.
Alison Moore Smith@Blog in 1 Week´s last blog ..6 Steps to Startup with WordPress: The Guide for the Wannabe Blogger
nice tips, now that the blog engage button is available on the sexy bookmarks plugin, i don’t see any excuse for anyone… not to have it,
will follow your other methods too and see if i can get more votes
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How do you place several BE buttons? I guess it’s time to look into the code, as I don’t recall any quick way to do this in the plugin settings?
Anne from B6S.net´s last blog ..Adding Plugins to Your Wordpress Blog
“Vote for me or else I spank you 1000 times in your dream!” Will this help?
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Great tips. I have been wondering how to get more votes. I started doing some of those tips on my own, but as for 8-14 I have not had the chance to try those out. So far, the ones I have done, I noticed my votes started going up.
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I just signed up for Blog Engage a couple of days ago, haven’t been in the forums yet, but try to remember to vote up on articles I like (like this one
) and have already made a few friends (I am @keithbloemendaal ) and installed the button. The funny thing is, I created a new site over the weekend, and the post I got the most comments on was also the only one I got votes on so far, maybe a hint on blogging that topic more???? 
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Those are great advices John. Your posts seems to be always on the first page, that’s awesome. I will learn from your experience for sure ;-)
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Hey, you have a great blog here! I’m definitely going to bookmark you! Thank you for your info.And this is sexy tips site/blog. It pretty much covers sexy related stuff.
You have nailed it down with this list John.. I don’t really know how I found it but a great list anyway so it was worth digging
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I’ve been using BlogEngage recently and I really like the community.
I had an account for a while but never really got into it. After playing around with other blog places, I found that BlogEngage generally had better people to talk to.
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All the points are good and produce good results.
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