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10 tips to increase the number of subscribers to your blog June 21, 2009

Posted by Petras I. Florin in articles, blog, others.
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so surfing the web for something useful about my blog I stumbled upon this post and I hope nobody will mind if I share and link the original source corectly.

The biggest problem most of the bloggers have is that, they don’t know how to convert their first blog visitors into loyal readers and how to motivate them to subscribe to their blog feeds. When any of your blog reader has subscribed to your blog feed in his/her feed reader, then he/she will most likely visit your blog on regular basis to check your latest posts. Every blogger wants high number of RSS subscribers to their blogs. So here are some tips bloggers can follow to increase the number of subscribers to their blogs:

  1. Quality content – Update your blog with quality content on regular basis. Provide your blog readers valuable and meaningful content. When you are able to update your blog with quality content, then the loyal readers to your blog will surely increases.
  2. Easy Subscription - Subscribe to RSSOnce you have good content on your blog, now you need to place your RSS Feed Icon or link on the prominent position on your blog. The best places to show your RSS feed link are header, Sidebar header and in between posts. Subscribe to my SFM blog RSS by copying the link given in your RSS readers.
  3. Show your RSS feed count – When you start getting some decent traffic and respectable RSS subscribers to your blog, share your RSS feed subscribers count with your blog readers. Suppose your blog have around 100 RSS subscribers, share this count with blog visitors to increase this count further. Feedburner is a service where you can create the feed for your blog and use their ‘feed count’ code on your blogs to show the exact number of subscribers your blog have right now.
  4. Guest Blogging – Guest blogging is also a great way to get more exposure for your blog. This way you will be able to get more valuable visitors and subscribers to your blog. When you contribute content on someone else’s blog, post original content with a link to your blog in byline.
  5. Forums contribution – Spend some time on the forums related to your niche and offer helpful information to the participants there. When the people find your advice helpful, they will surly visit your blog and subscribe to your blog RSS to know the latest posts on your blog.
  6. Stay focused – With regular content addition, one need to add content related to their blog topic. If a blogger jump from one topic to another, then the readers on that blog will not be interested in subscribing to that blog RSS.
  7. Full RSS Feed – Offer full RSS feed to your blog readers instead of partial RSS feed. People are more interested in subscribing to a blog RSS feed that is full and not partial.
  8. E-mail Subscription – There are very few people who use RSS readers but e-mails are used by everyone these days. So to get these people to subscribe to your RSS, ask them to subscribe to your E-mail RSS feed where they will get your latest posts via e-mail.
  9. Submit to RSS directories – Submitting your blog RSS to RSS directories will help more people to find your blog RSS and subscribe to it. One can get a list of best RSS submission websites here.
  10. E-mail signature – Use your blog RSS along with your blog Address in all of your outgoing e-mails.

you can find the original post here.

happening in iran now, violence June 20, 2009

Posted by Petras I. Florin in news.
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this is what is currently happening in iran
it’s so sad… great changes come with many deaths…

See video here

iranviolence

comment taken from another video from youtube. that’s just… cruel. bastard.
imagine that woman being your wife, how does that feel ?

android G3 to take down iPhone 3G S June 20, 2009

Posted by Petras I. Florin in articles, critics, phones.
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2do you know what that is ? that’s the third phone to be release by Google.
first there was HTC Dream (G1) then there was HTC Magic (G2) and now it’s the Huawei G3.

anyone of them is better than the iPhone but nobody noticed, well this phone will be release in the Q3 of this year (2009) and it’s going to be a serious blow to the iPhone 3G S.

even though we don’t know any specifications what we do know is that it has a 3.5″ touchscreen, a better camera than the iPhone 3G S, and that it’s powered by the Google Android.

Have you seen the interface of the Google Android ? No, I didn’t think so.
I was thinking to buy a Samsung Jet (because even that it’s way better than the iPhone 3G S) but now I’ve changed my mind, I’m going to wait for the Android G3 and get that one. That’s gonna end this iPhone 3G S madness.

Not that I don’t like the iPhone, I love it, it’s a very good product, but half of it’s price is it’s advertisement and it’s agressive marketing strategy.

Let’s talk a bit about that, Apple has always had an agressive marketing strategy and I guess that why they survived, but they broke the records with the iPhone, I mean, iPhone was getting advertisements 3 months before it’s release, people actually stood in line the whole night just to be amongst the first ones who get the iPhone.

That’s pretty crazy if you ask me, you stay in line to give a shitload of money just to get phone that’s not even close of being a leader of the market in the touchscreen phones industry. For instance, in Italy an free cleareance iPhone 3G S from Vodafone costs 719 Euro. That’s just mad. Imagine that a better phone like Samsung Omnia 2 or the Sony Ericsson Idou (Satio) is half the price and twice the fun.

Samsung Omnia 2

SE Satio

56 ways to increase your blog traffic June 20, 2009

Posted by Petras I. Florin in articles, others.
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  1. Use lists.
  2. Be topical… write posts that need to be read right now.
  3. Learn enough to become the expert in your field.
  4. Break news.
  5. Be timeless… write posts that will be readable in a year.
  6. Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic.
  7. Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you.
  8. Announce news.
  9. Write short, pithy posts.
  10. Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list.
  11. Don’t write about your cat, your boyfriend or your kids.
  12. Write long, definitive posts.
  13. Write about your kids.
  14. Be snarky. Write nearly libelous things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog.
  15. Be sycophantic. Share linklove and expect some back.
  16. Include polls, meters and other eye candy.
  17. Tag your posts. Use del.ico.us.
  18. Coin a term or two.
  19. Do email interviews with the well-known.
  20. Answer your email.
  21. Use photos. Salacious ones are best.
  22. Be anonymous.
  23. Encourage your readers to digg your posts. (and to use furl and reddit).Do it with every post.
  24. Post your photos on flickr.
  25. Encourage your readers to subscribe by RSS.
  26. Start at the beginning and take your readers through a months-long education.
  27. Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself.
  28. Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.
  29. Highlight your best posts on your Squidoo lens.
  30. Point to useful but little-known resources.
  31. Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers–like gadgets and web 2.0.
  32. Write about Google.
  33. Have relevant ads that are even better than your content.
  34. Don’t include comments, people will cross post their responses.
  35. Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you.
  36. Run no ads.
  37. Keep tweaking your template to make it include every conceivable bell or whistle.
  38. Write about blogging.
  39. Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
  40. Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction.
  41. Post on weekdays, because there are more readers.
  42. Write about a never-ending parade of different topics so you don’t bore your readers.
  43. Post on weekends, because there are fewer new posts.
  44. Don’t interrupt your writing with a lot of links.
  45. Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger.
  46. Edit yourself. Ruthlessly.
  47. Don’t promote yourself and your business or your books or your projects at the expense of the reader’s attention.
  48. Be patient.
  49. Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful.
  50. Ping technorati. Or have someone smarter than me tell you how to do it automatically.
  51. Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive.
  52. Write in English.
  53. Better, write in Chinese.
  54. Write about obscure stuff that appeals to an obsessed minority.
  55. Don’t be boring.
  56. Write stuff that people want to read and share.

just something funny June 20, 2009

Posted by Petras I. Florin in funny.
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so, i’ve been searching the net about vampires and such just for my curiosity and look what i’ve come across.
now, I know this is hard to believe, but girls are evil !
why ? well… take a look at the following mathematical proof, it’s indisputable !

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