Joop Dorresteijn, a contributing editor at The Next Web, has found a painfully easy way of artificially inflating the feed count of a blogs FeedBurner chicklet. Basically, all you need to do is create an OPML file with the same feed copied and pasted as many times as you want and then import this into your NetVibes account.
This video explains how it works :
Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo.
I applaud Joop for exposing this hack and I hope that FeedBurner fixes this soon. Personally, I wouldn’t advise anyone…
There has been a lot of discussion regarding blog networks recently and the challenges that arise from running multiple blogs. David Peralty, one of the co-founders of the blog network Grand Effect, wrote a great post about a week or so ago entitled ‘Blog Advertising Difficulties: Blog Network Doesn’t Mean Big Money‘. In his post David explained the difficulty in getting a good advertising rate from ad networks. Just 2 days after David wrote this post it was announced that the popular blog network Know More Media was closing shop.
Jeremy Wright, CEO…
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Ever felt very low or lost confidence in blogging and achieving success? Have you ever had a feeling that you are not good at blogging just because you didn’t earn enough money in the first few months? Many people come across this situation in their blogging career. If you are looking for a few ways that will help you to get over from this and gain confidence, take a look at your blog and do one of the following things:
1. Celebrate A Mile Stone
Let it be…
Everyone has their own way of gathering and sharing information. It differs a great deal from person to person how you collect and use the information to your advantage. With more and more people taking up blogging full-time or otherwise, the quality and the frequency of the content is improving by the day.
I think, a blogger should be a supreme absorber, conductor and disseminator of information. Finding the right information is something we should all spend time doing. Following is the list of resources I use to find the information…
Do you sometimes feel that you’re the only one reading your blog. Ok, perhaps your cat is number two. We all start out with no readers, no traffic and the unknown factor of “what might happen”. But if you have been blogging for some time without getting a hike in traffic and readership it starts to hurt. So much so that many just give up. They don’t see the need to keep blogging for a phantom crowd and I can’t really blame them either.
Blogs have been created with you…
