Viper Chill

JULY 5, 2010

I do this as I want ViperChill to be a case study for all of you on how to grow a website and make money online. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! Would make for an awesome case study IMO. June was quite a quiet month in terms of updates and activity on other sites. I am grateful.

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I said from day one that I would do a case study of this sites’ traffic for one year, and that’s what I’ve done. If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing! What about your million dollars case study? I hope this month is a great one for all of you! Is it still going on?

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Viper Chill

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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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In this study which both shocked and surprised me, I reveal this anomaly and many more. Attractionhowto.com is a really terrible website and doesn’t even have the six pages I counted unless you include their RSS feed. Reply Ian says: September 14, 2010 at 7:31 pm Hey Glen, thanks for the study!

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

I thought Google had added a nofollow algorithm for article directories and that it wouldn’t count those links because the idea is to get your links from publishers who use your articles rather than to rely on links from the directories. » Should We Continue To Trust Google? You must be logged in to post a comment.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 15, 2010

You are here: ViperChill » Business » $1M Case Study: Hiring an FHM Model $1M Case Study: Hiring an FHM Model Written by Glen, this post has 64 Comments I haven’t written about my $1M case study for quite a while so I thought now would be as good a time as any to give an update. Home What the F ?

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JANUARY 9, 2012

The delightful Kristi Hines digs deep into Twitter, explaining how to do things like deleting a “Recent Image,” create customized RSS feeds from Twitter, use Twitter’s Advanced Search, search Twitter results using Google, get the most out of your Twitter bio and more. ” Twitter’s New Look and Feel.

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 28, 2010

Once I left a comment I saw that it had grabbed a feed from my site of the last post and added it. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Use CommentLuv for better comments I just finished my daily ritual of reading my favorite sites.

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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

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. I believe quality links ARE better, but I’ve never seen someone prove in a case study that directory submissions are not worth their while. This is gold.

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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. to the RSS feed. As for Feedburner: every day my feed count changes by 1-2k. Here’s how.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

The newsletter, which was sent within the first week of the month, would include new research findings from surveys conducted by research groups such as the Pew Research Center, new discoveries from a marketing firm’s eye tracking study, or data that was recently culled across a multitude of SEO agency case study reports.

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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

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. They simply read it because they like seeing a big blog case study unfold before them. I’ve made most of the blogging mistakes you can think of.

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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! Especially if I’m only doing them for 12 months.

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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. Great study. Reply Blogger Den says: February 23, 2010 at 8:46 am Dude you put a ton of work into this study, I really appreciate it! Why bother? I enjoyed the insight. Viperchill [.]

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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. If you can’t tell, I really love this lifestyle. What do you think?

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Viper Chill

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Only focus on things like my $1m case study if you’re actually trying your own methods to make money. 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&#. Although I would love it to be one.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 23, 2009

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! If you have a computer you can be building an online empire that can make money in a few months and pay huge dividends in just a couple years. What sites do you like that talk about making money online?

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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

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 1, 2010

However, June is a new month and I’m ready to get back into work-mode and see where I can take this blogging case study. 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. awesome stats man.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 1, 2007

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! With more than 20 years of experience working with executives in various industries, he’s an internationally recognized author, keynote speaker and consultant on key management and leadership issues.

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Viper Chill

MAY 10, 2010

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. If you go by RSS feed subscribers and Technorati rank, you might think they still are. My next case study? Last year TechCrunch were a much bigger blog than Mashable.

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Viper Chill

MAY 20, 2010

Your Social Circle is a Huge Gauge To Where You’ll End Up Numerous studies have shown that people are not only highly influenced by their social circle but you can also estimate how much money someone is making based on how much their friends are making. Not the point in itself. Reply Glen says: May 20, 2010 at 1:48 pm Thanks Oscar.

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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!! Great 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 18, 2010

Buying Websites The last website I built from scratch was in November 2009 for my million dollar case study. 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? I like it because: 1.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

A recent case study of Dessert Gallery illustrates just how powerful it can be. 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.

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Viper Chill

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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Viper Chill

JUNE 8, 2010

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 170 Comments Dev | Technshare says: June 8, 2010 at 11:09 am Woww. Reply Steve says: June 8, 2010 at 11:55 am Hey Glen Another great post, all of the mini sites seem a good idea, maybe after one event one has run its course you could do a case study on setting it up, monetizing and following through its life.

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Viper Chill

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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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. You could even make a case study out of how much you were able to donate from this site for ABC charity (or whatever organization you deem appropriate, if you personally don’t need the money).

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Viper Chill

MARCH 30, 2010

Please note that I haven’t studied this website in full or spoken to the owner so there may be hidden costs I don’t know about or something I’ve overlooked. Just by looking at it do you think you could tell what feed they are using? I opened up Flippa this morning and picked a website that looks decent.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 4, 2010

First of all, I have been studying SEO day and night since I was 16 (almost 5 years ago) and I’ve ranked on the first page of Google for some of the most competitive keyphrases in the world. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 160 Comments Carla says: February 23, 2010 at 6:37 pm Excellent article as always.

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