WidgetBucks is a relatively new way to monetize your blog. It was launched in the latter stages of 2007 and at the time got alot of criticism for its slow loading times and hidden link tactics, that many bloggers disliked. Several months have now passed, and many issues appear to have been resolved, So I put them to the test.
After reading ‘40 Effective Methods To Build Your Loyal Army of RSS Subscribers‘ over at Etienneteo.com. I decided to pick out the 8 that I believe to be the most effective, and bring them to your attention.
Etienneteo.com is a blog about making money online and if you have not done so already I would suggest that you take a look, there are some great posts.
These are the top 8 tips for increasing your RSS Subscriptions that I found on Etienneteo.com:
- Have a large RSS button near the top of your blog.
- Allow readers to subscribe via Email.
- Use Feedburner to reduce the number of steps your visitors need to take in order to subscribe to your feed.
- If you have more than 200 subscribers, show off your subscriber count.
- Write a guest post on a blog with an RSS subscriber count higher than your own.
I have now decided to remove the BlogRush widget from my site, I had the widget on my site for around a month, and as a follow up to my post ‘BlogRush: The Visitors Experience‘, where fellow bloggers have also said goodbye to the widget, I have followed suit.
I was sat looking at my website earlier today, thinking to myself what could I do to make it better, to improve the usability of my site, and I found myself looking at my BlogRush widget. I thought, does my website/blog gain from having it here?, what do my visitors think about it?, that is when it hit me that the only way to truly know what effect the BlogRush widget has on my visitors is to ask them.
If you run a wordpress blog and someone links to one of your posts, you will notice that you get something called a trackback. These are often embedded into the comments section of the post, this can be a bit annoying, this tutorial will teach you how to separate the comments and the trackbacks, to make it look a lot smarter.
