Everybody loves some free promotion and traffic for their blog, and one way to go about getting some for your site may be to use Blogrush. Blogrush is responsible for that little widget you see on the bottom of my right sidebar, and it supplies headlines from other sites who are also members of Blogrush. [...]

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Further to my earlier reported problems with Google Reader, I’ve narrowed it down to this: In Firefox 2.0.0.4 Google Reader is NOT loading FeedBurner feeds. I’ve checked this with each of my 80+ feeds: If the feed is run through FeedBurner it will not load, but if it’s direct from the blog it will load [...]

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I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll probably keep blogging about it as long as people keep doing it: I HATE PARTIAL RSS FEEDS. Really, what is the point? If somebody subscribes to your feed, it’s because they want to read it, not just the headlines or a usually pointless 1 paragraph excerpt. I am a [...]

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This video is everywhere right now, and rightly so. If you haven’t seen it yet, please spare 3 minutes to watch a very informative and extremely simple clip on why reading via RSS makes so much sense. WPvideo 1.10 Video: RSS in Plain English Download! Now you can see the benefit, why not read Blog-Op [...]

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I’m interested to know your thoughts on blog directories: When I first started with Thermal, I dutifully signed up with every (free) blog directory going, and had a sidebar about a mile long with all the chicklets in it. Upon changing theme, I removed all of those I never got a single hit from, and [...]

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This poll certainly picked up the most votes of any so far, so thanks to all 29 people who voted -it’s nearly half my RSS subscribers The poll asked what was the minimum posting frequency needed to keep you subscribed to a blog. I was thinking along the lines of a blog you had no [...]

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This could prove interesting: The Good Blogs. The concept is simple. Join TGB, add your blog or blogs, and then install their widget code as I have below ‘Recent Comments’ on my right sidebar. You can set various tags for your blog, and TGB will (apparently quickly) assign your blog to the relevant category or [...]

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Although it is essential that you publish an RSS feed for your blog, as it is one of the most popular ways for people to view your content, it is also an unfortunate fact that people can use your feed to steal your work. There are many blogs out there, which use simple methods to [...]

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There is some debate as to whether you should publish your RSS feed as a full feed, so that your reader can read the whole post without visiting your site, or as a partial feed which forces the reader to visit if they want to read the whole article. I choose to publish a full [...]

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Do you know what an RSS feed is, and why you should have one? No? Read my article here. Next, have you got a FeedBurner account for your feed? No? Read why you should, and how to get it. You now know (or knew) what RSS is, you have a FeedBurner account which pulls it [...]

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