Blogging Sueblimely

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The things we do to entice visitors to our blogs! Now I am hugging RSS feeds in an attempt to get some link love. I only give my affection to those who deserve it though.. I have never been paid for it!! I have not yet to sold my blog body. (I did lend the sidebar of my old blog to Google Adsense for a while - does that count? I say ‘lend’ because of the pittance I earned). If there are any spammy kerb crawlers reading this please take note.

Ok enough puns, back to the topic (I think I have just broken the SEO rule of ensuring your post topic is included right at the start of the post too. Looking back over what I wrote, I do have some reasonably good keywords in the first two sentences - pure luck).

I have joined rssHugger in an attempt to entice more subscriptions as well as to find out more about the service; so that I can let you know if it may be of help in promoting your blogs. Their aim is to

” bring bloggers and readers together. rssHugger aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimization, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the content is interesting to the reader”

By writing this post I am now eligible for my feed to be considered for promotion by rssHugger. If and when accepted my RSS feed headlines will be displayed on my own page on RSSHugger.

I would normally try something out longer before introducing you to it but there is a good reason to join up right now. At the moment, at least, it is free to get a permanent RSS page on rssHugger if you write a review like this. Otherwise it costs $20 for a ten year listing.

It was not easy to research rssHugger as it is something new and of course many blog posts are being written to qualify to join. However, because the aim is to only include quality content and not to allow spam blogs, I do think it has potential. It could be of more use than the other RSS directories and probably more so if you join up before the membership becomes too large and your blog gets lost in the crowd. One good feature that does help get round this problem is that the top 100 list is reset each month in order to give everyone a fair chance. As you can see some of the ‘bigger’ blogs are members which can be seen as a good recommendation. Mashable has posted a review at rssHugger Avoiding Technorati’s Pitfalls?

Of course it does not matter how many visitors these linking schemes generate, your blog needs to have quality content, of interest to at least some of the visitors. This way they will want to link to you and and return again to become readers who are a part of your blogging community.

I will keep you up to date as I find out more. I will be checking to see if my trusted guru in such matters, Andy Beard, posts on the topic. Andy always strikes me as being honest and objective. I mention this here because of his recent post Do You Trust My Advice? and the animated comment discussion that ensued.

If you have joined any RSS directories that have proved useful please do let us know about them. I am off to hug something real now - it is nearly time to get my son up for school.

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