Viper Chill

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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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

For example, I sometimes recommend guest blogging as a great way to build your authority in your niche and will then link to my guide on guest blogging. For example, if you head on over to test.com, you will see it is both accessible at [link] and [link] Try this on your own site and see if it is the same.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 12, 2010

Steve Pavlina is an example of an exception to this rule by becoming a destination on the subject of personal development and making over $1,000 per day with Adsense. An example of the latter could be a Rapidshare search engine, a blog that offers MP3 links, a free PDF resource, or anything that offers users downloads in some form.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 1, 2010

If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 63 Comments adamquean says: April 1, 2010 at 11:21 am Great to see the site doing so well glen.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 3, 2011

Feed Pauser halts the syndication of a new blog post for up to 20 minutes to let me ensure there are no typos and that the published appearance is how it was intended. For example, writing Stephen @ Custom WordPress Plugins in the name field results in Stephen from Custom WordPress Plugins.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Feed Pauser allows me to publish a post but pause its feed publication up to 20 minutes. If you are like me and usually make typos, or don’t like how the final content is displayed, pausing feed publication is useful. You can view it by scrolling to the very bottom of this page. Let me know if it doesn’t work for you.

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Viper Chill

JULY 19, 2010

Health, gambling, forex and gaming industries for example, are very competitive online. The phrases in the example above are considered to be long-tail phrases as they contain more words and have a much smaller search volume, but they’re also easier to rank for. Let’s look at ViperChill as another example here.

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Viper Chill

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. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" What did you get out of the post?

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 4, 2010

When there’s over 20 links to sites like Gmail, Facebook, Digg and Twitter, it’s hard not to be distracted. The Twitter integration in Netvibes actually includes the very same functionality of Tweetdeck. For example, if someone purchased Cloud Living and wrote a negative review, I want to know about it.

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Viper Chill

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. They’re just one example of me putting my ideas and my creativity into the finished result of this blog.

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Viper Chill

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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Viper Chill

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. 7 months of producing the best content I could, utilising Twitter, commenting on other blogs and everything else you can think of hadn’t produced results.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You are here: ViperChill » Social Media » Bloggers: This Is How Long Your Posts Should Be Bloggers: This Is How Long Your Posts Should Be Written by Glen, this post has 63 Comments When I analysed the most tweeted blog posts ever, I found that Twitter users like posts that are around 1,100 words long.

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Viper Chill

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. You can find ideas in literally any niche, with some examples being their marketing , finance , gadget and humour sections. BTW, nice post.

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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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Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

Here are some examples of popular avatars in the social media space: It is up to you whether you want to use an ‘avatar’ style picture like this or a picture of your face. I’ve made some great relationships through StumbleUpon and turned many of my ‘friends’ on the site into blog subscribers and Twitter followers. Want proof?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

This is a post that looks at some of the high performers and gives examples on how you can do the same. 9 Ways to Start a New Local Business Using Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, and Google : These easy (and mostly affordable steps) can put your local business on the map. Geography, for example, comes into play here.

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Viper Chill

MAY 17, 2010

I’ve seen so few examples of this that I wonder actually how many people know about it. To really cement this idea in your head, allow me share an example from the personal development niche. Blogging Duo Example in the Personal Finance Niche Two of the biggest blogs in the world can be found in the personal finance space.

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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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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 23, 2009

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Making money online is so easy… a 15 year old can do it and they are making more money than you. (or If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! I was looking around at some make money online sites and saw an interesting trend.

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Viper Chill

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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Viper Chill

JUNE 3, 2010

and right now my response is simply “I share links to it on Facebook and Twitter.&# And I don’t even do this manually; the process is automated thanks to RSS feeds. Twitter is consistently a top 10 referring source of traffic to this website. That’s it. The reasons why are quite simple.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 27, 2010

I don’t want to reveal my exact niche just yet, but to give you an example of the content being posted, let’s just say that if I was promoting a Forex (foreign exchange) product, then my blog would be covering forex related industry news. If you could forward me an example to hq AT viperchill.com I would appreciate it.

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Viper Chill

MAY 20, 2010

I like to use an analogy with having a boyfriend or girlfriend to explain this example. He uses an example where he asks readers to think about their income levels over the last few years and notice that there will be highs and lows, but you’ve probably returned to a similar wealth level time and time again. That’s it.

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Viper Chill

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I don’t work on the site now and I’ll spare you the long story of how that happened, but it is another example of a site that I loved working on and became successful. 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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Viper Chill

MARCH 18, 2010

On a personal level you may have noticed that I recently deleted all of my tweets on twitter. Maybe nobody cares about the short nuggets that I share (example 1 and 2 ) but I guess I’ll find out. I don’t game Twitter or Delicious to make that happen. that cured it. I like it because: 1.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 19, 2010

My Own Example When I had the idea to create Cloud Living, I had just finished giving away a free eBook on blogging. Look Around Your Niche – Sites like StumbleUpon, Facebook and Twitter can be an absolute goldmine for product ideas. I use some nice covers ( example ) on my eBooks so that they look like real physical products.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 1, 2007

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS How to Tell an Employee He Smells As a business owner, you’re going to have to deliver bad news every once in a while. For example, let’s say that a worker comes to a team meeting unprepared and you want to say something about the situation.

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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. For example, any article here tells you that I write about internet marketing. Finally, there was something about his feed subscription box which just didn’t look right. That’s it.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 8, 2010

For example, I picked a totally random date from 2009 – August the 8th – and found these to be the most popular searches that day in the United States: Imagine you could predict what someone was going to search for in the future. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 170 Comments Dev | Technshare says: June 8, 2010 at 11:09 am Woww.

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Viper Chill

MAY 10, 2010

TMZ, for example, was a robot hobby site up until December 2005 when it started to cover celebrity gossip as it still does to this day. Decide on a Brandable Name Because these blogs write so much, they don’t have as many people coming to their blog via feed readers as you would expect. How did they do it?

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

For example, you might not know that I helped one newspaper go from a limited social media presence to helping them hit the Digg homepage over 40 times. Master the news feed algorithm. Twitter is a great way to bring a personality and voice from your company out in the open. Use Twitter as your company office hours.

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Viper Chill

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. For example, I’m currently writing this on a Sunday and plan to schedule it for Thursday. Spending a lot of time crafting your title is certainly not time wasted.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 19, 2010

The last point is also something important to remember if you launch a product, for example. 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. Feeling bad about making money is silly because people will only buy something if they want to buy it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Considering the above example, I pose a question on Facebook etiquette: Is it appropriate to let these requests sit in pending mode or to reject the friends outright?? Twitter Following a user and then unfollowing them before they have a chance to follow back. Twitter is also about real relationships. Was it something you said?

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Viper Chill

MARCH 15, 2010

You can see how videos play a part in universal search with this example for Cristian Ronaldo below: Instead of just making one long video (the main one is around 4 minutes long) I also cleverly asked Sarah to introduce different sections of the video whilst we were recording. And I am now following you on Twitter. Keep it up man!

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Viper Chill

MARCH 30, 2010

For example, if I find a site on Flippa that is ranking well for a certain keyphrase in Google and it’s making a lot of money, I might not always be able to purchase it for what I consider is a fair price — some bidders are happy to wait over 3 years for a return on their investment.

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