Put yourself in your readers’ shoes…
…and think about what will make them want to share your blog post. It is much like the news, really. You have to find something that will encourage talk, talk, and more talk. I like to think about this as something similar to what goes on at my office. We do tend to talk a lot and when we do, we find stories that we like to share and that others would like to hear AND share with other people as well. That is how you should approach your post. Think about making your readers want to talk about your post and share it with their readers.

Market your posts
Sometimes, your link bait success just might need a little push. You can do this by targeting particular blogs that you think will be interested in your post. You can send the bloggers a short e-mail letting them know about what you have written and saying that they might be interested in sharing it with their own readers. I know that this very much like shameless plugging but hey, as long as you do not do it all the time (once a month or even less would be acceptable in my eyes), it should be alright.

There are basically four things you can do when using Bloglines.

1. Subscribe to blogs, email groups, and websites.
2. Publish your own blog.
3. Search billions of articles.
4. Share your favorites (subscription favorites) to your friends.

However there’s much much more that Bloglines has to offer. According to their website this is the list of their key features:

* All-in-one Blog and news feed search, online subscriptions, news reader, blog publishing and social sharing tools
* Available in 10 languages
* Mobile version optimized for hand-held computers and cell phones
* Email subscriptions help manage your e-newsletter traffic
* Package Tracking (UPS, USPS & FedEx)
* Custom weather forecasts
* Quick Pick Subscriptions get new users started quickly and easily
* Personalized recommendations to find new subscriptions
* Bookmarklet for single-click subscriptions to any source
* Notifiers for all browser types to remind you when new articles have arrived
* Bloglines Saved Searches deliver future articles matching your key words and phrases
* Most Popular lists show the days hot topics and which blogs are getting the most noticed
* Handy add-on tools for bloggers such as automated blogrolls, subscription buttons

In a recent survey by Return Path, nearly 79 percent of consumers admitted to having hit the “spam” or “junk” email button to get rid of an email message they don’t want. And nearly 37 percent do it as a way to “unsubscribe” from emails they have opted in to receive.

This number is up slightly from a January Return Path survey that had 34 percent of consumers reporting marketing emails to be spam just because they did not want to receive the emails any longer.

One reason often cited is that consumers are simply overwhelmed with the amount of email they receive: Most consumers get at least 100 emails a week (with 35 percent getting more than 500) – half of which tend to be commercial emails.