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Discovered Faves and Reviews

Dunn — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:53:41 +0000

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

Is Performancing Ads A Scam?
If you are a member or planning to join Performancing Ads, Mig’s post about Performancing Ads is a must read for you, based on her experience with the service.

The Troubles with Google Feedburner
I found many posts that wrote about Ads for Feeds, migrating Feedburner to Google Account and how you can monetize your size by adding ads in your feeds. But does anyone realize the troubles you’re gonna face after the migration?

Unexpected WordPress Database Table Error
If you experience the same problem,such a particular table in WordPress went corrupted, hongkiat wrote a great post for WordPress Fix for unexpected WordPress database table errror. Check this out for the solution.

SnatchVid
In this site, you can search for videos on the popular media sites then download them by pasting the URL in the download box.

Exchange Links – How Do You Make Sure They Still Link To You?
When you have exchanged link with another blog, make sure that the link to your blog stays for as long as you keep the link to your exchange link partner. There are several ways that you can use.

How To Speed Up Your WordPress Blog
Aside from running your WordPress blog with a very healthy database, there are still some things that you can do to help speed the load time of your blog, especially if your blog gets a lot of day to day traffic.

Nice Firefox 3 Compatible Themes
Firefox 3 may be new, but theme designers already have their muscles all flexed up. Here’s 30 Firefox 3 compatible themes to make your browser a little bit different from the rest.

Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong
Move the mouse up, you will get Sunrise. Move the mouse down, you will get sunset. Try it out!

Keep a Record Of All Things You Do On the Computer & the Web
Here are some free software programs / web tools that help you know exactly how you spend time in front of the computer. They record all computer activity including the websites you visit, the applications you run, etc.

Discovered Faves and Reviews

Dunn — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:28:43 +0000

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.

Transfer Feed feature from FeedBurner

Dunn — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:57:03 +0000

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.

RSS Feed

Dunn — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:10:14 +0000

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.