Several weeks ago, I read Matt's "How I Got 283k Feed Subscribers in 1 Day." The way he did it was to take TechCrunch's FeedBurner FeedCount chicklet and put it on his own site. By changing the link on the image to point to his own RSS feed, though, few would realize that he didn't actually have that many subscribers. I found it very interesting, but that was about it since I knew I'd never have any reason to fake my feed count. Over the next few weeks, though, I found myself repeatedly coming back to this statement: I can see the logic behind someone wanting to use a more popular feed image. Showing a larger subscriber count than what your blog has naturally makes your site seem more popular which unfortunately makes new visitors more likely to stick. Keep reading »

Back in February, I mentioned that the MyBlogLog widget could possibly be something that would generate traffic to your blog all by itself just by virtue of you using it. Well two and a half months later, MyBlogLog (MBL) becomes more and more valuable to me every day so I wanted to revisit it and talk about why I've developed such a fondness for it. Keep reading »

Torie writes... i was just wondering if you had any cool free add ons that i could put on my blog to make it get more traffic. Hmmmm...free add-ons that lead to more traffic..let's talk that one through. "Widgets" (those cool little add-ons) are all the rage these days because they allow you to add some really cool functionality to your site with very little effort. Sites like Widgetbox list thousands of different widgets in a variety of categories, and ... Keep reading »

I made my reservations yesterday for Blog World Expo, exclusively because of who else is going. If you're going to be there and would like to meet up, ...

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I love this post by PixelRN, and this thought from it in particular: It's like the childish "me" has always wanted to do something creative but then my childish ...