Viper Chill

APRIL 1, 2010

If you’re new here then each month I share the exact keywords and referring sites that sent traffic to ViperChill in the last month. Top Referring Keywords There were a total of 2,967 visits via 874 keywords this month. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing!

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Viper Chill

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! Why not just refer to the link?

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Top Referring Websites Here are the top referring traffic sources for the month of August: Direct: 15,253 Google (organic): 6,284 StumbleUpon: 5,136 News.YCombinator.com: 4,858 Lifehacker.com: 3,380 Google.com: 1,712 Twitter.com: 1,328 Smartpassiveincome.com: 828 Facebook.com: 763 Retireat21.com:

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

NoFollow Certain Pages I did say there may be some tactics that people frown upon in this post, and this is the first. The Nofollow attribute was first introduced by search engines to help stop spam on the web from ranking in search results. Similarly, I nofollow links to my about page, my category links and my RSS feed.

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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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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. Comment Redirect , upon submission of your first comment on this blog, points you to a thank you page while that comment lies in moderation. Got a question about plugins?

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

Here are others: HubPages Buzzle Associated Content Articles Base Find Articles These are all sites that can be referred to as “article directories&# under the traditional definition of article directory. And for the record, EzineArticles was not the only article directory affected by this algorithm change.

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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. This plugin turns off that line of code.

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Viper Chill

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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Viper Chill

JULY 19, 2010

For the rest of this section I’ll either refer to the links as being good for building home (homepage) or internal (your longer phrase “category&# pages). 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.

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Viper Chill

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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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! You could say that we prefer signal over noise.

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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. Guest posting is one of my goals for 2010 and I will be bookmarking this post for reference.

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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. 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

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

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. You could say that we prefer signal over noise.

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Viper Chill

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. Do you have a guide or reference that you would recommend? I just sold a blog that was solely about personal development and had 6,600 feed subscribers.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 63 Comments Oscar - freestyle mind says: February 18, 2010 at 11:05 am Thanks for another great analysis Glen. With these posts I try to get extremely in depth so they can become that “ultimate&# reference for people. Reply maren kate says: February 19, 2010 at 7:01 am Great content Glen!

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 19, 2010

I now regularly see people refer to making money online as “Cloud Living’ and a number of “make money&# blogs now exist with Cloud in the title. I allow people to promote the product and if they refer a sale, I will give them 51% of $37, which is $18.87. This alone shows me the big influence that some people can have.

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Viper Chill

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Ignore 99% Of People Who Make Money Online It’s probably very stupid of me to say this as I’m a blogger who would like a bigger audience, but I am still referring to myself in this section title. Unless, of course, you have a genuine, no-bullshit excuse for quitting.

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Viper Chill

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

The Complete Google Panda Reference Guide : Google’s Panda update has left site owners and SEOs confused and befuddled, but this guide summarizes the history and explains how you can be successful despite this algorithmic update. When do updates disappear from news feeds? Notorious S.E.O: This is a really creative piece.

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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. Twitter is consistently a top 10 referring source of traffic to this website. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 79 Comments Glen says: June 3, 2010 at 7:43 am Of course, in the ultimate blogosphere irony, nobody will tweet or comment on this post.

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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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Viper Chill

MARCH 11, 2010

– but by keeping it clean I’m referring to your design. 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. That’s it.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 8, 2010

Just look at some of the top referring keywords to one of my sites for that month: Vancouver 2010: 41,270 Super bowl 2010: 32,836 Olympics 2010: 6,216 Valentines day ideas: 5,688 This is just a small sample of a report which contains thousands of different phrases. Not sure what you’re referring to about letting the cat out though?

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 25, 2010

When I started freelancing at 17, I had a company website and would constantly refer to my “team&# and our “enterprise&# when I was just a one-man operation. 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.

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Viper Chill

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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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. 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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Viper Chill

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. I’m not referring to banner networks here or utilising pop-ups; I’m referring to privately selling ad-space on your website to relevant parties.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 15, 2010

Reply Oscar - freestyle mind says: March 15, 2010 at 11:57 am For secrecy I was referring to domain names. 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? I’ve read about 10 posts so far and all of them have been awesome.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium. As a friend recently said to me, “I’m tired of my Twitter feed being a [private] conversation between person X, person Y, and person Z.&#

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 18, 2010

Zen Habits , with over 190,000 feed subscribers, is a blog with emphasis on productivity and minimalism. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 88 Comments Onibalusi Bamidele says: August 18, 2010 at 11:18 am Really great post Glen, Exactly! Referring to their battle where they test brand x vs brand y. “Good luck!&#

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Viper Chill

MARCH 4, 2010

Leave Blog Comments Most blog comments are nofollowed (this means search engines aren’t supposed to give weight to the link, though I believe Yahoo and Bing still do) so they don’t provide much link juice directly. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 160 Comments Carla says: February 23, 2010 at 6:37 pm Excellent article as always.

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