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.
Entrecard – Fantastic Idea or a Flop?
Today I have signed up for Entrecard after getting an email from the CEO, Graham Langdon. Entrecard is the square widget (the 125×125 button on the top right of my blog [or at the bottom of this post]) that is like a virtual business card. webmasters can install them on their blog, and then when you visit another website using Entrecard, you can “drop your card” much like you would in real life meeting a new business acquaintance. Every time you drop your Entrecard on another blog, or every time someone drops one on yours, you earn a credit. Credits can then be cashed out by advertising you 125×125 button on other websites running the widget. I have installed Entrecard to give it an official case study to see how well you can network with other bloggers, and how well the advertising system works. I want to see if the idea actually benefits everyone, or if the theory is only good on paper (Communism anyone?).
rssHugger Removes Registration Fee – Promote Your Blog for Free
After the soft launch of my new startup rssHugger earlier this November, I have been receiving ample amounts of feedback from the community. I have finally responded to the popular vote by removing the $10 registration fee associated with signing up. Now if you own a quality blog, and make a blog post/review about rssHugger, you can get your own blog listed in rssHugger for 10 years for free. The same quality standards still apply, and I will still be manually approving blogs, but now you do not have to spend any money to promote your blog. If you do not want to make a blog post about rssHugger, you can opt out by paying a one time fee of $20, which runs down to only $2 per year making rssHugger the biggest bang for your buck in terms of blog advertising and promotion.
Free PR2 .edu blog posts
This is the fourth post in The Link Building Cookbook series of finding the easiest and best places to build links for your websites.
UPDATE: This offer has expired
I own a personal blog on a .edu domain. The blog has a pagerank of two, and a few categories have a pagerank of 1. If you want a FREE .edu blog post, just reply here in the comments or email me (through the contact page at the top), with what you want the blog post to say. You can have up to two links, and links to the deep pages within your website are allowed. It must be family friendly links though. The blog posts will be permanent (or as long as the university stays intact!).
Business idea of the day donated a $400 laptop in my name
When I launched rssHugger yesterday, one of the first bloggers to register his site was Business Idea of the Day, a website that creates a daily blog post about a business venture that any entrepreneur may take into consideration. While I was browsing my rssHugger site, I got really interested in this website and donated an idea for a website I had never had time to start. (It will be published November 18th). I had just received an email reply stating that my idea was more developed than most of the submissions, so Myvesta Foundation will be donating a free laptop from Laptop.org in my name.
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