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Here the posts I found these past weeks that I think interesting and I would like to share with you :

How To Triple Your Feedburner Subscription Count in 30 Days
Tips from Garry Conn about increasing your FeedBurner subscriber. I use this trick only when I want to leave comment in the blog that NoFollow.

How To Improve Your Alexa Traffic Rank
An accurate information about Alexa and tips to increase your Alexa rank that came directly from Alexa Internet Customer Service, posted by Rocky John.

Pregnant Man : First Interview
Strange story about a Female person who transformed herself to become a Male, and now he/she is pregnant.

ADster is a Scam?
If you are a publisher, or looking for other option of advertising network, Qumang had posted related posts regarding ADster. Honestly I never heard about it until I stumbled her post.

Jerusalem Virtual Tours
Never ending virtual tour about market place in Jerusalem, which keeps going round and round and round and round…

Check Who is Invisible/Online on Yahoo Messenger
It’s a tutorial about finding out the invisible user in Yahoo Messenger. No more buzz out of nowhere..

The Most Time Saving Firefox Features That We Often Overlook
Useful and time saving feature in Firefox that will help you access your favorite sites faster.

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If you are using FeedBurner to handle all your feeds, this new feature might be useful for you. It’s the new, self-service Feed Transfer capability, and only feed owners may initiate transfers from their own accounts to others. So if you own a feed, you may now transfer it to anyone you like simply by using the Transfer Feed link, which is listed on your feed’s details page.

You have to provide the email address of the person you wish to transfer your feed to and FeedBurner will send them a transfer request email. Then the recipient needs to click a link in the email and then creates or signs into a FeedBurner account and accepts the transfer. The transfer itself will be completed immediately, moving the feed from your account to theirs.

I don’t have any feed to transfer for the moment, so I couldn’t share the result with you. If one of you intend to try this new feature or already did, please share your experience by leave your comment here. Hopefully this update makes the process of moving feeds around much simpler for all of us.

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What is RSS? RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. It allows your readers to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from your site.

That means, if your reader likes your contents, they will likely subscribe to your RSS Feed cause they don’t want to miss any of your articles and they want more from you. So at the point when your readers want to subscribe, make sure they can find your feed button. So you don’t lose the opportunity of recruiting a new reader. That’s why if you starting with the new blog, the first thing you should set up is the RSS Feed.

The orange button has become the most recognized icon for RSS Feed. You also can find it in different colors, but I prefer the orange button cause it’s easier and faster to be recognized by the readers. The great place to put it is above the fold, cause people are more likely to see anything that you put above the fold. And don’t forget to put the option for email subscriptions as well, cause some readers would prefer to subscribe by email.

The service that I used to handle all my feeds is FeedBurner. It’s simple to use and easy to set up. All you have to do is subscribe your site with FeedBurner, put a tracking code in your site, and let Feedburner do the rest for you. Once you are set-up with Feedburner, you can activate all the cool functions, such as allowing your readers to subscribe via email, and also the FeedFlares. FeedFlares allow you to add functionality to your feeds, and there are a couple of good ones that you will definitely need to drive more visitors to your blog such as Stumble Upon, Digg, Delicious, etc. Once you’ve activated the FeedFlares, they will appear in the bottom of your post. And since Google bought over FeedBurner, you can now display Google Adsense in your FeedBurner RSS Feed.

For the best results using FeedBurner with self-hosted WordPress site, I’m using the FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin by Steve Smith. The plugin will detect all ways to access your feed and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed, and optionally your main comments feed as well. And for that, all you have to do is download the plugin and then follow the instructions to begin forwarding all Wordpress feed traffic to your FeedBurner feed.

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