Blogging Tips

7 Practical Tips to Increase Your Feed Readers

Nowadays the feed subscribers has become the new identity and proof of how popular or successful of your blogs are in the blogosphere. While the Alexa rank and Technorati authority are no longer be the standard as they are both tricked and damaged by link trail and paid traffic. TechCrunch currently charges $10,000 per month for a 125×125 ad spot not only the grand authority but also it owns 587,000 incredible feed readers base.

1. Niche Is Everything!

There are more than thousands bloggers write about “make money online” and “blogging tips” daily, so it is very difficult to stand out from the crowd and achieve success while you are not Darren Rowse or John Chow. Frankly, why people would subscribe your blog feeds if you are not an expert or superstar at the field you blog. Therefor, try to focus on a specific topic …

Written by Wallace from CSS Juice
Posted on September 18th, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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Killer Startups for Blog Promotion

One aspect to success online is staying a step ahead of the trends, and a great way to do that is to see what’s just about to get hot. Killer Startups is a site that states its mission is to discover the next YouTube. They do that by allowing visitors to submit sites, which they review and visitors vote on the most promising startups.

The cool thing about this site is simply the ability to scour the new startups (about 30 posted daily) for new methods of promoting your blog and getting incoming links. Just a brief scan of yesterday’s “killer startups” revealed a few promising tools for blog promotion. In fact, most of the startups reviewed have some level of Web 2.0 to them, with categories like social networking to user-generated content.

Just yesterday’s list of startups included a few sites to use now or keep an eye on. Keep …

Written by kelbycarr from Kelby Carr
Posted on September 18th, 2007 and filed under Promote your blog
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BlogRush update

I spoke the other day about how BlogRush was launched way too early.

If you log into your control panel you will not see your stats but you will see this message from the owner John Reese.

TO: All BlogRush Members
FROM: John Reese, Founder of BlogRush

Hi,

I am sending you this urgent message to give you a special news “update” about several things happening with BlogRush.

Firstly, I want to sincerely thank you for joining BlogRush and for your interest in our service. Please know that our primary focus is to continually improve the service to help you generate more targeted traffic.

The first 60 hours since we launched the BlogRush public beta has been nothing short of EXPLOSIVE. We knew that we were developing an exciting tool that many bloggers could benefit from, but we had no idea how fast the ‘word’ would spread across the Web.

With this explosive growth has …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 18th, 2007 and filed under Promote your blog
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Links Roundup – September 18th 2007

How to Manage Your Blog for the Long Term – Think like a Gardener – Michael Martine shows you how to manage your blog.

You’re NOT a Z-Lister! – Jayne gives tips on how to move from the Z list to the A list.

How to Protect Your Blogger Blog From Hackers? – A good post from Blogging Mix which shows you some simply steps to protect your Blogger blog from hackers.

How to Set Up a Domino Effect of Traffic – Steven Snell writes a very good post showing you how he got a massive 34,000 visitors in 2 days.

Xfep Podcast: Episode 0 – David from Xfep does his first podcast. It’s about 12 minutes long. Definately worth a listen

Top Ten Blog Posts that Guarantee Stumbles – I found this post by stumbling!!

SEO-sanitizing a WordPress theme in 5 minutes – Some good SEO tips …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 18th, 2007 and filed under Links
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Use images to increase the size of your short posts

Here’s a quick tip for your short blog posts : Use images to buff out your post and increase the size of it

This is a technique which I use a lot, if my post is very short I’ll simply add an image or a screenprint to increase the height of the post.

There are a few reasons why I do this :

Images brighten up your posts
I don’t like posts which are just one or two sentences long
To make sure the site design is not messed up

The last point I mention is one of the main reasons I use images in short posts. Post pages on Blogging Tips currently have two 125 pixel high banners at the right hand of posts therefore any posts with just a few sentences will mess the design up a little. Obviously, I want to avoid this and that’s where the images come in.

Check out …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 17th, 2007 and filed under Blogging, WordPress Plugins
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The Evolution of Blogging

I have been blogging since late 2004 and the changes in the blogosphere has been enormous and its very hard to keep track of these changes.

Before, words were only the means of communicating that bloggers had alongside images that were supposed to help but free images were hard to obtain and the joy of having a digicam were only for the priviliged ones.

Alas! The blogging evolution began which caused the development of blogging which has not looked backed since then. Here are some of the “highpoints” in the blogging evolution:

Wordpress and Blogger
Who would have thought that blogging would be easy as 1-2-3? The different options which are offered from Wordpress and Blogger enabled blogger to literally personalize their blog thus adding their own designs and styles in their blogs. Before, having a clean space and host would just be enought but they have now taken it to a …

Written by Elaine Ramos from Good Recruits
Posted on September 17th, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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Simple Ideas to Increase Your Feed Subscribers

Every blogger is on the lookout for different ways to increase their feed subscribers. You should be no exception. A common misconception is that just because you have more traffic you have more subscribers, this is not completely true.

What is true is that more traffic gives you more people to promote your feeds to, but if you are not successfully promoting you will not reach potential subscribers as you should be. If you take a look at the Technorati Top 100 you will find that even the most successful bloggers relentlessly promote their RSS feeds to their readers. So the big question is, what can you do to increase subscriptions for your blog?

Don’t be shy, just put it out there and recruit. Ask your readers to subscribe to your feeds, let them know you want them to. Include something catchy at the bottom of …

Written by Patric Herber from Real Estate License
Posted on September 16th, 2007 and filed under Promote your blog
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