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RSS Feed Subscriber Campaign

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Jimmi from over at JMH Techtronics has started this new RSS Feed Subscriber campaign.

Every blog, no matter what platform it’s on has an RSS feed. Right? As you might realize there are feed readers out there such as Bloglines, Google Feed Reader and many others that people use to read all the sites that they enjoy in one place.

In order to read those RSS feeds in a feed reader a visitor to a site must subscribe to the RSS feed. My rss feed subscription area is located in the lower portion of the right sidebar if you are looking.

Jimmi created this RSS Feed Campaign so that those on the list could get more subscribers to their RSS feeds. When the list is copied and added to, more people end up getting RSS subscribers and thus more readers of this site.

Having subscribers is a great way to get return traffic to your blogs. If readers use their RSS Feed Readers frequently you should get more traffic than you have ever had before.

What can you get out of encouraging others to subscribe to your rss feed? Well, if you monetize your site you might end up getting more money for your advertising as many of the places that allow us to monetize our sites base their payout/price calculations on our Alexa rank, our sites Page rank, our Technorati rank, and our RSS subscribers!

Now I know that many of the people who read my sites monetize their sites in some form or another. Whether it’s through Google Adsense, Adbrite, Yahoo ads, Text Link Ads or other forms of advertising … the more readers and the more traffic you have the better.

Are you with me?

Ok. The most basic thing that all of us want is more readers. No matter how they read our posts it’s great to have readers isn’t it?

If you want more readers and want to raise your standing with some of the sites that help us monetize our blogs join the campaign.

Here’s the rules:

***Start Copying Here***

1. Create a post and link back to the person that put you on the list in the first paragraph with a brief thank you and description of why people want to use the campaign. DO NOT copy their paragraph. Write your own unique one and link to their site.

2. Copy the ENTIRE list of Feeds and create an OPML File to import into your feed readers so that you can subscribe to all of the blogs on the list. You will want to read my post entitled Mass RSS Feed Subscribing with an OPML so you understand how to do it. (You will want to copy this link over to your post so those you add know how to do this too.)

3. Copy the ENTIRE list of Feeds AND blogs and put them into your post like they are here. Move the “My Adds” from the blog that added you into the “Originals” lists for each. This list is unique because I want you to be able to copy the feeds with out having to delete the blogs before making the OPML file so I separated the two links into 2 lists.

4. Add any blogs you want to the list with whatever keywords you want. Then get their RSS Feed and add those to the list of Feeds in your “My Adds” section.

5. Publish your post.

6. Comment on the post that originated the list here so that new additions can be subscribed to as well by the lists before yours.

My Blog Adds:

LifeCruiser
Pointless Drivel
Ramblings of an Undisturbed Mind

Original Blogs:

Whatever I Feel Like
Tricia’s Musings
Ugh!!’s Greymatter Honeypot
A bit of this and a bit of that
Wordpress Plugins
Internet Serious Business
Julie’s Journal
Utterly Geek
jon lee
Pencil Thin
No Average Mom
Marisa’s Dandelion Patch
Scribble on the Wall
The Sovereign Journey
Digital Nomads
msdanielle
Mr. Gary Lee
Windows Tips, Tricks, and Hacks
Get a First Class Degree
SiteLogic Web Development
Geeky Speaky
Little America
As the Garden Grows
Celebrity Scoop
WebStyle
Odd Planet
Guitar Licks
Breath of Life Photography
The Web Files
My World
Celeb News
John Chow

***Stop Copying Here***

If you have any questions about how to do any of this just leave me a comment and I will answer it for you as soon as I can. Remember to come back and comment once you put the list up as well so that I can subscribe to your feed and others can too.

Also, if you want to promote your site and get more readers check out The Do Follow Blogroll, The Technorati Fav List, BumpZee, the Mybloglog Community exchange and Truth Laid Bear.





Don’t forget about the Do follow blogroll!

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I just wanted to remind everyone that if you are an I follow or do follow blogger that you are eligible to join the Do follow blogroll that I created about five weeks ago.

There are close to 160 blogs listed on this blogroll already. It’s going to be huge!

How do you become a do follow blogger? It’s pretty easy really. Simply remove the nofollow tags from the comment area of your template.

Most blogging platforms come with nofollow tags built into the comment area. This was originally thought to be a way to deter spammers because their links wouldn’t be picked up by the search engines when they had the nofollow tag immediately placed on them.

Today, most blogging platforms have plugins or modules that can be added to them that catch spam and stop it before it gets into your blogs comment section. Blogging platforms that don’t have the ability to add these special modules or plugins can still put comments on moderation to prevent spam from reaching the blog.

So that kind of makes the nofollow tags obsolete doesn’t it.

I removed my nofollow tags about a year ago because I wanted to allow anyone who left me a comment a real link. By this I mean, without the nofollow tags the search engines would be able to find the link that the commenter left when they created their comment and they’d gain a backlink to their site on the search engines as a result.

If you aren’t sure what a backlink is please click on the link I just included for the word Backlink above.

So, if you are an I follow blogger that means you are rewarding those who stop to leave you a comment.

As I was saying, to qualify for the do follow blogroll, nofollow tags must be removed from your comment area, and your comment section should NOT be closed to only registered members. Visit the Do Follow blogroll page to learn more about the blogroll, then, if you are interested leave me a message and I’ll send you an email that includes the blogroll code and further instructions.

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If you are already on the Do follow blogroll, or if you’ve come across it in some of the D-Lists that are going around, please do not abuse the sites you visit by leaving poor comments.

Comments such as “nice post”, “funny ha ha” and so on do not really add to the post, and when a person goes around to 50 or 100 sites leaving short little comments such as that it looks like they are doing it only to gain the back links that we, do follow bloggers, offer.

Yes there are times when short one line comments are appropriate, but I see too many of them, especially on all my sites on the same day, by the same person? Sorry, I delete them.

I enjoy valid comments on my site. By valid comments I mean ones that actually add to the posts conversation in some way. Share your own experience of what the blogger is posting about in your comment, add facts, or opinions, but please don’t just say “Nice Post”.

If I were stranded on a deserted island …

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My friend Skeet just wrote a post Not quite Gilligan’s Isle and she picked five people that she thought she might be able to survive with on a desert island for a year.

I was one of the lucky people she thought she might be able to tolerate for that long. Of course, she enlisted me as the groups gardener in the hopes that I’d grow veggies and keep them all fed. I know she wrote her post late at night so I’ll forgive her for forgetting that I’m a nurse. I’m sure having a medical professional trapped on a desert island with you couldn’t be all that bad, now could it? I also make a mean lean-to if I do say so myself.

Now, if I were trapped on desert island with five other people I wonder who else I might most want to be trapped there with me?

I certainly think I’d like to have Mr. Fab on the island. I’m not really sure how good his survival skills might be, but I’m pretty sure he’d be able to cheer us up and keep us amused for the year. Once whatever survival related work was done each day we could just gather round him as if he were a television set and let him babble away about lemurs and other crazy things that pop into that wild mind of his and it would be entertaining.

Mrs. Lifecruiser would have to be there too. She’s a world traveler and has gathered knowledge from all the areas she’s been in. I’m sure she’d use her experiences to help us survive. Plus she’s becoming an experienced Ship’s Captain so she might be able build us a boat and help us navigate off the island before the year was through.

I think Brian would also be a good person to have along. He seems to be a bit of a philosopher and I think he’d end up being the realist of the group and help keep us on track.

Now, I don’t know Kahea as well as I probably should, especially since she comes here and leaves me nice comments ALL the time, however, she seems like she’s a very resourceful person and you always want someone like that along for the ride when you’re stuck on a island!

Heather, as in Heather from Beautiful BC and her dog Hugo would be the final person that I think I would pick, especially if I could only have five other people on the Island with me. Believe me, I’d pick more if I could! Heather and her pup Hugo love British Columbia, and since that’s an area of Canada that is quite rugged and full of outdoorsy people I’m pretty sure that Heather must have some survival skills up her sleeve.

Now that I’ve chosen my fellow stranded islanders I wonder who they might choose if they were stuck on an island for a year? Would they take me too? Or do they know other people who might help them survive for a whole year on a deserted island? Keep an eye on their sites, maybe they’ll tell us soon.

What are Pointless Directives?

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I’m beginning to get a very good idea what Pointless Directives are after reading Fabs newest blog. Yes it’s called Pointless Directives and it’s … well … full of directives that are kind of strange.

You really have to read a few posts to understand what I mean.

Fab is a humorous guy and his posts will make you giggle. At the end of his Directive posts you’ll find a directive – some silly little thing that you should do that’s tied into whatever the topic of the post was about. He often tells his readers to do some pretty strange things.

If you like a good laugh head on over to Pointless Directives.

Linky Love – Skeet’s Stuff

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My friend Skeet, a fellow postie, just took the big plunge and moved her site from blogspot over to her brand new domain. She’s a domain virgin but she’s learning quickly.

I always enjoy reading her site, and just about any thing she writes on the forums. She’s a good hearted soul and it shows in her writing style.

On Saturday I was visiting her site and after reading one of her recent posts re-confirmed all of the reasons why I don’t like eating peanut butter. My regular readers should know by now that I dislike peanut butter and her post added another reason as to why I won’t eat the stuff. You should read about her experience as it does contain some important information.

You’d think that having worked in an all male field when I was a jeweler, and now working as a nurse in one of the busiest Emergency departments in Canada that I would have heard all of the dirty words ever invented, but there’s one that my new friend is very familiar with that I had never heard before. Perhaps it’s just not as popular in Canada as it is in the US.

So what’s the word? Well it’s Skeet. Yes, my friends nickname just happens to also be a dirty word in some circles. She actually just found out that skeet is used as a dirty word recently (just Google it), and was quite surprised since this is not only her childhood nickname, but a very common name in the Southern States. To understand how she came to be called Skeet you should read “Skeet is not a dirty word”. It’s a good read, and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.

Please do give Skeet a visit and tell her that Tricia sent you. She’s a great writer and I’m certain that many of you will enjoy her writing style and outlook on life.

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