Darren Rowse recently shared the secret of anticipation to get new RSS feed subscribers. Now I'm sharing some of the methods I use to write great content.

Great content will fuel the anticipation because readers will subscribe to your feed because of what you may write, based on what you have already written.

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Blogging Tip: Use feed scrapers to your advantage.
Feed scrapers are a source of frustration to all bloggers. We may not be able to beat them, but we can certainly take some benefit.
Two bloggers, Stephen Cronin at More Than Scratch the Surface, and Vic at Blogger Unleashed offer some solutions to your feed scraper woes.
If you offer full

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After a short hiatus, I'm back with my thoughts on themes, RSS feeds and splogs.

I've noticed a lot of bloggers changing their themes and I'm sure some of it was unnecessary work.
I've also noticed, while re-subscribing to feeds after clearing out my Google Reader account, that the buttons and links for feeds were eith

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RSS Feeds still provide headaches to many new bloggers. Even though some understand what an RSS feed is, they are lost when it comes to setting them up on their own blog.

Hopefully this post will help these bloggers to get started with

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Up until recently, I’ve been more focused on the content of this blog and not as much on the promotion side. I haven’t done much to help get the word out, other than to find some similar blogs and try to forge some relationships with them.

But a few weeks ago Jason Clark at Inner88 introduced me to BloggingZoom, and it’s been an invaluable

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Are you a subscriber, or just a casual reader? Do you bookmark your favorite blogs and check them regularly, or do you subscribe in a reader and get the articles delivered right to you?
I believe that there are definitely some advantages to being a subscriber. Whether you use an online reader like Bloglines, Pageflakes, Yahoo!, etc. or a sta

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Social media traffic is not entirely useless. In fact, without social media sites, many blogs wouldn’t have reached the level of authority and credibility they now enjoy. And many new bloggers wouldn’t have the motivation to continue blogging.

To make use of social media traffic, you have to understand your social media visitors. You have

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With Google acting like a bully and slapping everyone around with their PR a lot of people are thinking about getting away from all things Google. I personally don't know how to get through a whole day without Google, but I support those who wish to try.

This is a great "how to" article for switching your RSS feeds from Google reader t

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Believe it or not but a lot depends on your returning traffic. What happens if all of a sudden Google banishes all your pages to the Supplemental Index just like Shoemoney’s Blog? You can’t rely on Search Engine traffic therefore you need to make th

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The more I use Wordpress, the more I come to view it as one big goody bag of useful functions. While working on my Wordpress-powered article directory, I discovered a very useful capability of the wp_list_categories() function. That capability being the ability to automatically list an RSS feed link (with optional icon) next to the category.

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If you blog, then you must be familiar with feeds and RSS. It is a must-stuff for bloggers. To get your news to blog, we usually dig through some feeds which we have subscribed too. More the feed you subscribe, more the idea and stuff you get to wri

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There’s a reason why WordPress is so popular (well over 1 million installations, according to WordPress.org), and aside from the fact that it’s user-friendly, it is also set up to help you optimize for the search engines easily and effectively. Adam McFarland gives you some great tips in this article -- a real taste for why WordPress has beco

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I've recently had a temporary weak spot for the rss icon.rnrnVista has new styles of icons underway so I guess the standardisation of the RSS icon's look might be platform-specific, whilst /meread that IE7 has been using Firefox's design. Vista's will have its icon displaying activities relevant to the feeds.rnrnYou can choose fro

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. They can have a lousy shop without any worthy stocks but still they get thousands of customers. That’s because when people are looking for something, they ask Mr G where these things are available. Mr G will direct them to their shop even if the shop is an empty shop or even if the shop is selling imitation and low quality products. All bec

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A lot of bloggers belong to at least one social media network and use it (them) regularly as a way to meet new bloggers and bring more traffic to their websites. Some bask in the attention they receive while others are struggling to make friends and grow their audience.

If you are one of the latter, it probably doesn't have

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In our regular overview of all things WordPress we examine six new themes (thumbnails and screenshots give you a quick review), the latest upgrade, WordPress resource sites and examine WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS). You'll learn a fast way to install themes and plugins, where to find WordPress jobs, plus some favorite WordP

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RSSOwl gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface,
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