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In an hour and a half (Midnight CST), It will officially be the 1st of December, and every month rssHugger will have the Top 100 blogs reset to give everyone a fair and equal chance at all that extra promotion. If you have not yet joined rssHugger, now is the time to join! If you already have joined, now is the time to make a blog update and get as many readers as possible to your blog page on rssHugger! This is a win/win situation because you help rssHugger by creating the buzz, and rssHugger sends hundreds of new readers back to you!
Clinton Campaign Calamity
If you have not yet heard, an armed man with a bomb on his chest took the Clinton Presidential Campaign Office hostage today. The story is still unveiling, and a conclusion has not been reached (at the time of this writing).
Cherry Chocolate Rain – A Viral Video Case Study
A new video was just released on Youtube from the wildly popular Tay Zonday, who is a local Minnesotan resident. His first video (Chocolate Rain) was an accidental internet success when it was made wildly popular from the 4Chan forums, and ultimately led him to be one of last summers largest internet memes. The video grew so popular (11.5 million views at the time of this post), that it now has been featured by national TV networks, as well as giant ringtone networks. Tay Zonday is taking his Chocolate Rain publicity to the next step now, because Dr. Pepper has just funded him to make a viral video supporting their new product (Diet Cherry Rain Dr. Pepper).
The month in review, as well as my thanks
In response to my earlier post about getting rid of Kontera, many of you either hated it or said that I should keep running it to give a good analytic review of it. I have decided to remove it all together, because of a few reasons. The first is because I received about 50% of your comments saying get rid of it, and 50% saying keep it to do a review. I do not believe I should lower the quality of my blog just to provide a case study or a testimonial, since I am writing for quality, not for money. After testing Kontera on and off, my pages seem to load around 2 seconds faster each (this adds up fast!). I may try Kontera again after my blog is larger, but for now they are just a nuisance.
Should I get rid of Kontera?
Kontera is an advertising program that I wanted to test run on my blog. It is the double underlined words that you see after the entire site loads. I started using them on November 7th, and so far I have only made about $2 from them. Now obviously, with the growth rate of the blog, I will eventually be making a decent income from them, but I do not know if the extra $10-50/m is worth annoying my visitors, and adding a little extra delay in the blog loading.
John Chow Case Study
A lot of people were asking me for information regarding how much traffic John Chow sent rssHugger.com when I ordered a blog review, so I have decided to make a public post about it. For those who do not know the background, the first review was quite negative (because my site charged money to join), but after I changed the site’s business model, John Chow made an updated post about the new features and the site received a lot more publicity and many blogs did their own reviews about it.
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