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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Attractionhowto.com is a really terrible website and doesn’t even have the six pages I counted unless you include their RSS feed. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 153 Comments Oscar - freestyle mind says: September 14, 2010 at 9:12 am I’ve started an SEO experiment recently and I’m having some nice results.

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APRIL 1, 2010

If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 63 Comments adamquean says: April 1, 2010 at 11:21 am Great to see the site doing so well glen. If this continues the site should reach 10,000 subscribers well before the end of the year, which is a huge milestone.

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MARCH 1, 2010

You can see how many people are subscribing to your RSS feed and from which sources, and if you use the new Google Analytics integration, you can see how many clicks each individual post is getting from feed readers. Around two years ago I had over 350 feeds in there as I was a total information junkie.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! August 1st : 8,174 August 31st : 8,814 Change : +640 I picked up about 300 subscribers in the last few days which are yet to register, so expect the count to tip past 9,000 very soon. I hope this month is a great one for all of you!

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

If you’re sick of all the slimy marketers out there and want to get updates from someone who is actually going to show – for free – how they make money, then make sure you subscribe to the RSS feed. I am keeping up with the RSS Feed. I look forward to watching you make it happen! Very ambitious, I like your style.

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JULY 5, 2010

If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 88 Comments Joshua Noerr says: July 5, 2010 at 10:54 am Wow, I believe this is the first time I didn’t have to scroll down to leave a comment! The pictures with the white tables are the VIP area of Cape Town stadium.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

When I wrote the most important blogging analysis ever , I found that the average length of popular posts was 1,600 words. I’m not a blogger who will guess numbers and just throw stats out there, so I decided to do an in-depth analysis. If you want to use this data for your own analysis of sorts, feel free to take it.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Don’t tell me something I know : If your headline says something like “Why exercise is good for you&# or “How to increase your feed subscribers&# then I probably won’t read it. A year or two ago I did this for a popular topic – how to increase feed subscribers – but in a way that was new and promised value.

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JULY 19, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 126 Comments Dan says: July 19, 2010 at 8:24 am Too cool Glen, I find myself copy and pasting every article to all my web guys. Look at all of the top sites ranking for phrases like internet marketing, car insurance, seo and you’ll find that they aren’t just basic information sites. This is gold.

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JUNE 24, 2010

I’m actually writing this sentence (not the post) on March 11th 2010 sitting on a feed count of 4,717 subscribers (I’ll explain this later). My feed jumped from 8,500 to over 11,500 according to Feedburner. to the RSS feed. As for Feedburner: every day my feed count changes by 1-2k. Here’s how.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Page 3 My third and final tab on Netvibes is used for reputation monitoring: Here I have simply added RSS feeds from places like Twitter Search and Google Blog Search. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 52 Comments Anthony Feint says: January 4, 2010 at 11:43 am I’ve setup feeds in Google blogsearch, alerts etc that monitor my brands.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

How User Generated Content is Changing SEO : This is an analysis of how search results changed in the last year alone and how it impacts your business. The future sees copywriters as having more responsibilities in analysis, since writing content nowadays just isn’t enough. Here’s an analysis of the impacts of doing so.

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MAY 26, 2010

I ran a DJ blog which I later let die due to other interests and I even ran ViperChill for a year (a long time ago) without getting one single comment or feed subscriber. Naomi Dunford at Ittybiz doesn’t show her feed count (though it’s high) but instead shows the number of monthly visitors she gets in a nice graphic.

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

It’s common though that when someone puts images in their post and they align nicely, things won’t look as pretty when you get the post in a feed reader. This plugin aligns images in your RSS feed so they are exactly where they would be on your site. By default, the Wordpress title tag is backwards.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Besides sharing how many new feed subscribers I’ve gained and how many pageviews this site has had, I also reveal the top traffic sources and referring keywords to ViperChill. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! Some visitors do click around and subscribe to your RSS feed.

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MAY 6, 2010

I went from having over 150 blogs in my feed reader in the last few years to just 12, purely because I was seeing the same content over, and over (and over) again. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 66 Comments book says: May 6, 2010 at 11:11 am Glen, I think, you got the idea for this post from your personal experience. BTW, nice post.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 9, 2010

July 1st : 7,543 July 31st : 8,174 Change : +631 For writing so little, and having a lot less traffic than most months, July didn’t turn out too badly at all in terms of feed growth. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! The rest of this year is going to rock!

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

This, of course, is why so many bloggers care about their feed count. Subscribers are the life and soul of a blog and if you can get in front of an audience on another site, it’s likely that they’re going to subscribe to your feed. More on this later). They had great results at first, but this quickly died down.

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MAY 10, 2010

Analysis In order to learn how to build a Superblog, we must first look at factors that have helped the success of other top blogs out there. I’ve already performed a similar analysis across different industries , but never one for the biggest blogs in the world. Last year TechCrunch were a much bigger blog than Mashable.

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 31 Comments Pat says: December 14, 2009 at 10:37 am Hey man – I love the line “ignore 99% of the people who make money online&#. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!"

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

If you are desperate to get your feed count past 1,000 subscribers then, this is also for you. First of all, I made my feed subscription options the first thing anyone sees in the blog sidebar so that they get a lot of views. And finally, I made sure to show my feed count. This post is for you as well.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

January 1st : 3,284 January 31st : 3,814 Change : +530 Last month the site grew by 260 subscribers so it’s nice to see that doubling traffic has almost directly doubled feed subscriptions. I want to help you live it too, so make sure you grab the feed. If you can’t tell, I really love this lifestyle.

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JUNE 21, 2010

I remember the days when traffic from the service would only have a 30% bounce rate, and while it’s around 80% now, a percentage of visitors still leave comments and sign-up to your RSS feed which is what most people want them to do. Reply Mars Dorian says: June 21, 2010 at 11:10 am I don’t have any advanced tracking on my RSS feeds.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 58 Comments Anthony Feint says: January 27, 2010 at 11:42 am I had the “block search engines&# option enabled on one of my affiliate blogs too. Make sure you grab the feed. I can’t wait to help more of you quit your day jobs. It caused me a lot of stress for a couple of weeks.

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Viper Chill

MAY 17, 2010

First, if you look at their traffic stats with Compete you can see that they have traffic spikes and dips at around the same time: Then, looking at feed subscribers , despite the large difference at the start of the graph, their growth rate is on a very similar consistent rise. This isn’t just some coincidence.

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JUNE 1, 2010

If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 64 Comments Dev | Technshare says: June 1, 2010 at 11:10 am Wow. I just sold a blog that was solely about personal development and had 6,600 feed subscribers. Otherwise, here’s to a successful month ahead!

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Viper Chill

MARCH 11, 2010

That may be in the form of subscribing to the RSS feed and getting future updates or clicking on a post in the right sidebar. Finally, there was something about his feed subscription box which just didn’t look right. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 65 Comments Diggy says: March 11, 2010 at 11:05 am Hey Glen!

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Viper Chill

JUNE 3, 2010

And I don’t even do this manually; the process is automated thanks to RSS feeds. At the top of all ViperChill posts ( click through if you’re reading this in a feed reader or your inbox) you will see a large button which shows how many tweets this post has and encourages other people to tweet it as well. That’s it.

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MAY 20, 2010

This week I closed my biggest business deal, turned 21, and was interviewed by a blogger with over 110,000 feed subscribers. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 127 Comments Oscar - freestyle mind says: May 20, 2010 at 1:12 pm Happy birthday again Glen. Not the point in itself. I’m sure you’ll make it in these twelve months!

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JANUARY 19, 2010

If you’ve made it this far, I have to try and tempt you to subscribe to the RSS feed (or get free email updates ). target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 125 Comments Steven Aitchison says: January 19, 2010 at 12:47 pm Wow! Articles like this one are posted at least once per week. And yes, they really are this long.

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MARCH 18, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 57 Comments book says: March 18, 2010 at 11:17 am Thanks for this post Glen. Reply Glen says: March 20, 2010 at 7:58 am Maybe try the RSS feed? Now I’ve shared how I do what I do, I want to pass the mic over to you : how do you do what you do? I like it because: 1.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 135 Comments Alex Tong says: August 25, 2010 at 8:23 am sofa Reply Glen says: August 25, 2010 at 8:25 am I can’t tell if this is spam. Reply Ian says: August 25, 2010 at 10:41 am I’ve been going through my feed reader this week and getting rid of all the junk. jojo is neutral territory.

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JUNE 8, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 170 Comments Dev | Technshare says: June 8, 2010 at 11:09 am Woww. I am using Google India trend to track the visit and have subscribed the feed in my outlook. Reply Paras Dahal says: June 18, 2010 at 11:04 am Hi Glen, Your feed has just rocketed up but no post in 10 days???? Awesome work.

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APRIL 15, 2010

The title is the most important part of your blog post as it gets shared on social media and helps feed readers decide whether a post is worth clicking through to read. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 69 Comments Benny the Irish polyglot says: April 15, 2010 at 11:23 am Excellent and inspirational post once again Glen!!

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APRIL 19, 2010

Their list posts have gone hot on StumbleUpon and they may even have had a big-blog mention and suddenly their feed count looks impressive. Great stuff here, I will be checking your rss feed regularly. If this post helped you, please help someone else by sharing it using one of the links below. Just 5 months for the newly bought blog

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Viper Chill

MARCH 15, 2010

I also subscribed to your RSS feed and that’s saying something because I am extremely picky about what blogs I subscribe to. What do you have to lose? If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" And I am now following you on Twitter.

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APRIL 26, 2010

Master the news feed algorithm. Because Facebook filters what appears in a user’s news feed based on comments, shared friends, recent interactions – the more hands you get on something, the more likely it is users are seeing your brand and content. Offer discounts exclusive to Facebook fans and engage them in discussions and chats.

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