April 2007 archive
A key metric typically used to measure blog popularity is the number of bloglines subscribers or feedburner subscribers. These measures give an idea of the number of subscribers you have to your RSS feed.
In theory, this represents your “subscriber core” and indicates how ‘sticky’ your content is.
You might think this blog fares abysmally, according to Text Link Ads “Blog Juice” calculator. 
A 5.4 out of a supposed 10 ranking?
Let’s look at the components of the score:
- Bloglines: the number of Bloglines subscribers (accounts for 40% of score)
- Alexa: ranking determines 15%
- Technorati: 30%
- Links: Inbound links 15% (determined fromTechnorati).
From the example above, the low number of bloglines subscribers (32) has hit my rankings hard.
De-emphasizing bloglines subscribers and feedburner subscribers (also a set of RSS subscribers) would be detrimental to your rankings.
Why would anyone want to do this?
In that case, why would a blogger deliberately aim for low RSS subscriber numbers?
Simple. (more…)
Pat McCarthy over at ConversionRater has released updated blog rankings for “Web Revenue Blog Rankings“.
What’s a “web revenue blog”? Pat defines it as:
Blogs that focus on affiliate marketing, display advertising, contextual advertising, and actually helping people generate revenue in these ways by running their own site
Pat’s compiled a list of 28 blogs and as an inaugural participant, landed in a #10.
The top blogs include the usual suspects like:
As well as other notables like WickedFire malcontent Jon “aojon” F, Jon Warass, Scott Jangro, Carsten Cumbrowski, Sam Harrelson, TylerCruz, Andrew Johnson, Stuart (Earners Blog).
Awards are nice, though I don’t place much emphasis on going out to land them.
The publicity always helps if it bring more people who might get something from the content I post.
Peer recognition is something (more…)
Great podcasts are a combination of stellar performances from both:
- Presenter
- Podcast content
In this edition, I look at the components of a successful presenter.
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I was somewhat happy (in a perverse way) when I saw this message in my MyBlogLog message center. It read:
I am the granddaughter of the General Abirudhdklf and recently $20 million has come into my possession…
A-ha! Had the MyBlogLog guardians fallen asleep?
Granted it’d fallen into my “Messages from Everyone” box (which is less filtered than regular messages).
And I’d been about to highlight this infiltrator which had slipped through the spam detection cracks when I noticed that the message has mysterious vanished when I checked the account.
I believe the profile has been deleted.
So kudos to Eric and the MyBlogLog development team.
I wonder though, clicking on the “Report Spam” button to report a spamming MyBlogLog user results in a “mailto:” command which pulls up your email client to send an email to MyBlogLog’s customer service. (more…)
Ben Yoskovitz over at Instigator Blog has kicked off his Ultimate Guide to Producitivity Meme. The criteria of this meme?
Write a post on your best productivity tips. Challenge yourself by picking your single best productivity tip (although this isn’t a requirement; you can give us more if you want!)
Here’s my contribution:
- Take 5 minutes out at the start of the day
- List down the critical tasks you need to accomplish today
- Figure out the most important task you need to finish
- Ensure you finish it today
- [Keep the rest of the tasks handy, it might contain the ‘must finish’ task tomorrow]
Propagating this meme, I tag:
It seems like common sense, but if your blog carries your name or your businesses’ name, then the weight of monitoring or moderating the blog lies on you or a representative you name.
A tactic among spam marketers seems to be placing innocent comments on blog posts to do a recon on the comment procedures on a blog.
It typically involves a generic comment like “Hi” or “Nice blog”, and it may have an originating domain, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Which seems innocent and you might be tempted (more…)
