Viper Chill

JULY 5, 2010

Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. 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!"

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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

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

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. Sell it, give it away, whatever you like, but please continue to communicate.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 3, 2011

The blog platform, as an open source community, is collectively shared by anyone and everyone who contribute code and provide feedback about what works and what needs improvement. Connect: Twitter | Facebook | Email | 978.558.0008. Plug photo by Adam Mulligan on Flickr. One of the neat aspects about WordPress is nobody owns it.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 9, 2012

Twitter users are twice as likely to purchase from companies they follow than are Facebook users. Community manager Jen Lopez explains how SEOmoz increased its total Twitter followers by 250% to over 27,000 people. Hint: it helps to have a community manager. Twitter gets new, Facebook-like feeds & features by DevBeat.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 12, 2010

Similarly, if I see content posted on Facebook or retweeted on Twitter, that same headline will determine whether I click through to your website. 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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Your strategies must employ content creation, community management, local/maps optimization, among others. Here are 99 ways, from giveaways to community building to media connections to offering discounts and so much more. The Responsibilities of SEO Have Been Upgraded : SEO is not the same today as it was 6 years ago.

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Viper Chill

JULY 19, 2010

Here is the data from this post as a visual representation: If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" SuzanneVara Reply Glen says: July 20, 2010 at 8:57 am Thanks Suzanne, It’s great to have you as part of the community.

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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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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

DECEMBER 21, 2009

I’ve been interviewed about marketing using guest posts over 10 times, I’m mentioned on the homepage of a guest posting community and I’ve written far more of them than I care to remember. This, of course, is why so many bloggers care about their feed count. More on this later). Your support is appreciated!

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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. Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor.

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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. Hint: read the intro) If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" BTW, nice post.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

Facebook After recently surpassing Google as the most popular site in America and closing in on 500,000,000 monthly unique visitors, Facebook has huge amounts of traffic that you can ethically leverage to grow your business online. Leverage Facebook advertising to gauge the audience opportunity. Master the news feed algorithm.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 9, 2010

Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. 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.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

With StumbleUpon, it’s all about the users and the content that the community enjoys. Either way, it’s good to take full advantage of all the features available and become a genuine, helpful user of the community. Define Your Interests When you sign-up to StumbleUpon you will be asked what topics you are interested in. That’s it.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Instead of dwelling on the sale, I want to praise the growth of such a big community and share the steps involved in duplicating my success. If you are desperate to get your feed count past 1,000 subscribers then, this is also for you. And finally, I made sure to show my feed count. This post is for you as well.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I of course like seeing the traffic go up, but I’m more focused on building a community than seeing some nice spikes in my Google Analytics account. I want to help you live it too, so make sure you grab the feed. I reiterate each month that I like to look at these stats but I don’t have goals for them.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 1, 2010

Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. 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!"

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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

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. Now his content is far more targeted to his community and people are getting a lot more value out of his writing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Facebook Adding users as friends without proper introductions. And if they don’t accept, don’t send the group request more than once by asking them to join via email, wall post, or Facebook message. Turning your Facebook profile photo into a pitch so that you can gather leads through your Facebook connections.

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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. Anything that shows community on your site is also a good thing in my eyes. That’s it. It makes no sense not to. Great post man!

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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. Unless you or other readers have nothing else to do each day, then probably not.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 25, 2010

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"> 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. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" But i recently the community of Flickr. Not the point in itself.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 19, 2010

Look Around Your Niche – Sites like StumbleUpon, Facebook and Twitter can be an absolute goldmine for product ideas. 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 ). I have over a thousand on Twitter, and 60 on Facebook.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 8, 2010

They were in Google News, naturally, and one day received 8,000 visitors from Google for the term ‘Facebook’ The reason why is simple: Google integrate news results highly on the page for that search query and my client just happened to write an article about Facebook that day. his feed is on steroids. I dig it, man.

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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. In order to get mentions on other blogs then you need to be focusing on being involved in the communities for that industry online and providing the very best content that you can.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 30, 2010

Some of the most common you’ll find for sale are: Blogs Clickbank ready affiliate sites Popular Clickbank products & sales pages Niche content sites Dropship product sites Forums Paid Membership sites Niche communities The ones I have highlighted in bold are the ones that I usually go for.

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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. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" And remember, you are a writer.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 18, 2010

The numbers don’t lie: We can even look at their social media followers to see a huge difference: Mashable Twitter : 2,052,946 TechCrunch Twitter : 1,417,305 Mashable Facebook : 254,691 TechCrunch Facebook : 79,716 The things that helped Mashable experience this growth and dominate their market can also be applied to your endeavours.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 4, 2010

Facebook lets you keep in touch with friends and family. 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. Google lets you find awesome websites.

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