Viper Chill

JULY 5, 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!" Personal Update We’re coming to the end of the Fifa World Cup which is being held here in South Africa, where I live.

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 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!" You definitely don’t want to build them so fast. Yep; that’s my attempt at a teaser Happy 1st of September.

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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

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. Thanks Glen!

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

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"> 37 Comments Henri says: November 30, 2009 at 2:59 pm Woo, exciting stuff. Considering how transparent you are this will definitely be something I can learn a lot from.

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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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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. I have tried alternatives like Gimp , which is free, but I definitely prefer Photoshop.

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Viper Chill

JULY 19, 2010

I never said that ranking highly for these big phrases is easy, but it’s definitely possible. 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!" A gap you can fill. Thanks Jeremy.

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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. I also love that having multiple accounts in one place means that I can easily share blog links on Twitter and Facebook or save them if I wish. I’ll definitely try this out and let you know how it works.

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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!" I’m definitely sharing this on Tw & FB.

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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). In my monthly posts I often say that I don’t have any goals for the site, but if I’m totally honest, hitting the 10k subscriber mark was definitely one of mine.

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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

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! I definitely made the right decision to come back.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

A Definitive Guide to Blog Content Scraping & How to STOP It! This is the definitive guide on how to handle that, from proactive stances to applying rel=”author” (plus full instructions on how to implement that) to finding out who is stealing your content altogether. Notorious S.E.O: This is a really creative piece.

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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. 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 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

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

DECEMBER 13, 2009

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"> 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&#. You deserve it. Great advice.

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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! At least there’s a definite upward movement though!

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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. I don’t share the text version as I’m not a fan of spambots.

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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’re going to focus on just one or two, then definitely work to build up your own audience and gain a list of affiliates who would like to promote your product. And yes, they really are this long.

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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

MAY 20, 2010

He covers a number of case studies in the book and I can definitely relate to this on a personal level. Women are (Mostly) Emotional While Men are (Mostly) Logical This is a huge stereotype but it is definitely true of most males and females. Just don’t let them stop you. Not the point in itself. Thanks for the wishes!

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 18, 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"> 63 Comments Oscar - freestyle mind says: February 18, 2010 at 11:05 am Thanks for another great analysis Glen. Always good to see you here, Andres. Viperchill [.]

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 27, 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"> 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. Thanks so much!

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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. Although the growth of this blog hasn’t directly correlated with more comments and tweets, it’s definitely had a large effect.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 18, 2010

I have deactivated my Facebook profile (this is probably temporary) as it steals far too many minutes in my day. I decided to edit my Mac hosts file (you can do this on Windows as well) to block myself from websites that distract me (Twitter, Facebook (when it was activated), Get Clicky, etc). I will definitely try it out.

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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

JUNE 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"> 64 Comments Dev | Technshare says: June 1, 2010 at 11:10 am Wow. awesome stats man.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 15, 2010

My aim with this post is for you to see that you don’t have to be a great writer to succeed at blogging or selling online, and you can definitely advance from the situation you’re in now. Staff Blogging You definitely don’t have to build a blog in order to make a considerable amount of money through blog writing.

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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 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. That’s awesome Glen.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 30, 2010

Because of the way the deal was structured I can’t reveal the exact amount but it was definitely fair for both parties. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" Definitely going to implement that. You definitely have to be careful.

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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

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

MARCH 15, 2010

If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" Reply Adem says: March 15, 2010 at 1:24 pm Hi Glen, That was a really interesting post and definitely useful to someone if they were looking to hire a model for the first time. What do you have to lose?

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