Day four #31dbbb: analyze a top blog in your niche: rain check, please

I’d originally signed up for this topic specifically because it fell on the US holiday of Independence Day, and I didn’t want to ask anyone else to spend the day inside on the computer. Then life happened, hospice happened, and I ended up attending a family funeral out of town yesterday. If no one objects too strenuously, I’d like to reschedule today’s topic for day 29. We can analyze our blog statistics and those of the top blogs at the same time. It’s a fairly intense topic, so consider reviewing the 31dbbb workbook section in the next couple of weeks.  Thanks for understanding.

Meanwhile, the yeah write #116 challenge grid is open for voting. Everybody is invited to vote

Challenge grid voting

The challenge grid crowd favorite and top row five winners will be determined by popular vote.

Everybody gets five votes

Click on the thumbnail to read the post before voting. Click on the heart in the upper right corner of the thumbnail to vote for the post after reading.

Read the posts before voting

We are responsible voters here at yeah write. Read, evaluate, vote on merit. We’re still writing the yeah write way, and we want the votes to reflect it.

Voting is open until Thursday, 10:00 p.m. EDT

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• If it’s after 10:00 p.m. EDT [-4 GMT] on Thursday when you’re trying to vote, voting is closed. There will be no more hearts or voting icons on the thumbnail and voting will not work.
• Once you’ve voted for your five favorite posts, you’re done voting. The hearts will show as red for your faves, and, depending on your browser, hearts on all other entries will either disappear or show as gray.
• Voting for your own post should be disabled. If it’s not, please don’t vote for your own post.
• Once you’ve voted for the five best on the grid, you are then free to campaign for votes for your favorite entries.
• If you’d like to see the current vote tallies after you’ve voted, refresh the page.
• If you ask your people to vote for your entry, please let them know they have five votes, and they should vote for yours only if it’s one of those five best on the grid. Campaigning for your own targeted votes is highly discouraged.
• Yeah write and the Inlinkz app allow only one round of five votes per IP address. When campaigning for votes for your favorites, please ask outside voters to read this section before voting. It will lessen their confusion and curb their clicking enthusiasm.
• Don’t make Erica M’s kids have cold cereal for dinner because she’s ignoring them while tracking people driving from hot spot to hot spot to vote nine different times. So uncool, no matter how much her kids like cold cereal.

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Winners’ post published Friday by noon EDT

Once the voting ends, the challenge grid will sort itself from highest number of votes to the fewest. Ties are broken by number of page views. Until the winners’ post is published, none of the sorting will be official, but you can still get a good idea of where everyone ended up until the votes are validated.

Also on Friday, yeah write editor Flood G. will host #31dbbb day five: email a blog reader.

Yeah write #116 voting is open…

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