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Oct 29 2007
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Top 15 Stars of the Week, October 29

Chipseo Starred Items Oct 29Looking back over this past week, it was overwhelmingly dominated by posts on the Page Rank update.

It seems everyone found some way to be touched by this in one way or the other, even if it was just to read the rantings and ravings about Google’s Page Rank update. Especially over the weekend when page rank updates seemed to be just flying in every direction.

I did try to read as many of these posts as I could, and I even contributed to the mayhem myself in, What Happened to My Page Rank, Another Goal Reached?, when my Page Rank actually went up to my surprise. Being at a PR0 I didn’t have any place to go but up, so a PR2 was a welcome thing to me. One of the funniest posts I have seen so far was posted over the weekend, Google PageRank algorithm leaked, it is certainly worth a quick read, and was quite funny.

Because there were so many starred items on that particular subject, I am just going to leave out all posts having to do with the page rank update. If you want more information about that issue just do a quick blog search for page rank update and you can find more than enough to read. A quick housekeeping note. The winner of the favicon for one month is The Computer Zone, so send me a quick email with your preference for a large or small icon and the url you want linked to and I will update it asap. If you want or need me to create a 16x16px or 26x26px icon just let me know. Contact me through “chipseo [at] gmail dot com” and if I don’t hear from the winner by the end of the day I will get in touch with you.

If you didn’t catch the top 15 of last week just click on the stars tag, and if you are unfamiliar with this post, each week I collect a top 15 of my Google Reader Starred items from the previous week and post them here. You can also subscribe to the starred feed if you like.

Top 15 Stars of the week of October 22-29th

30 Things I want to do now I’m 30

via Dan Wilson by Dan Wilson on 10/21/07

I cannot pretend that I face and regard my 30th birthday today with unfettered glee, but as a man wiser than…

10 Tips to Improve Your Writing Mood

via News Notion by Casey on 10/23/07

In addition to experiencing a writers block, bloggers just can’t seem to get into that writing mood!…

Top 10 US Social Sites and Blog Sites Rankings Issued

via Search Engine Journal by Pablo Palatnik on 10/23/07

Nielson/NetRatings has put out a report on the top 10 social sites and blog sites…

Using Google Analytics to Boost Traffic

via Blogging Tips by kelbycarr on 10/23/07

Google Analytics is a great free statistics tool that provides comprehensive statistics on your site…

20+ Free (and Useful) SEO Tools

via The Cheap Revolution by Team and a Dream team on 10/26/07

The Web is full of free SEO tools that you can do yourself. We’ve been bookmarking these tools as we come across them…

CPC Ads Earn 50x More Than CPA

via W Revenue dot Com by Scott on 10/22/07

Which model is better for publishers? Should you use an affiliate link to send traffic to a retailer, hoping that the person buys and earns you 5% of the sale price…

The Curse of the Daily Post

via Pronet Advertising by David Chen on 10/23/07

When faced with the myriad Content options that users have when they surf the web, many bloggers feel enormous pressure…

How I Made My First $2,000 In Affiliate Marketing – A Step By Step Guide

via Day Job Nuker.Com by DayJobNuker on 10/24/07

I hate ebooks about how to make money online. You see them everywhere and they range in price from single digits all the way…

20 Must-Do’s When Selling a Dot Com Business

via W Revenue dot Com by Scott on 10/24/07

I could probably write a book about this but I’m going to touch on the finer points of what to do when someone says “hey, I want to buy your site”…

BlogRush bans 10,000 blogs from its system

via AdesBlog.com by Ades on 10/24/07

BlogRush had removed over 10,000 blogs from its system. This is one of the many measures that has been taken by Reese…

3P the New Ecommerce Buzz Word!

via My Blog Utopia Feed by Randy Smythe on 10/24/07

3P stands for third party sellers. They used to be called “eBay sellers” but oh how times have changed. 3P sellers are…

13 typefaces every graphic designer needs

via David Airey :: Graphic Designer by David Airey :: Graphic Designer on 10/24/07

With thousands of different typefaces on offer, it’s vital to have a select few that act as pillars in your collection…

5 Essential Time Saving Tips For Bloggers

via Blogging Tips by Mohsin on 10/24/07

We bloggers have funny lives. Blogging means so much to us yet people think we waste time on blogging…

Kijiji Growth Accelerates

via Only EBAY by ONLYEBAY on 10/23/07

If Kijiji US was already on fire two weeks ago, then somebody must have added a bunch more wood. I now estimate over 175,000 concurrent live ads…

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Oct 01 2007
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Find New Blogs Using RSS Search Feeds Readers

Google Blog Search I have read several blog posts here and there that suggest that there aren’t many good ham radio blogs (or insert specific topic here), and certainly not many that are updated very frequently. This may be the case, the old 80%/20% rule where 80% of the blogs on the Internet are just junk not worth your time need help, and 20% actually have good, updated content.

I thought this was the case until I started utilizing my feed reader in a search format, then I found out that it wasn’t that there were no blogs that had good content, it was that I couldn’t find them. Of course some good SEO would help, but that is a topic for a different post. I am sure everyone has their own list of blogs that they look at, but this is a good way to find those blogs that don’t have such high traffic ratings that everyone can find them, (perhaps because it is a new blog on a new topic [like this one] and it just hasn’t built up a subscriber list yet), one ones that could be just slightly off topic of what you normally read, (and there are tons of those) in any subject or combinations of subjects.

If you look at the screen shots shown here it gives you an idea of a search feed on a reader. I used Google Reader here just because that is the one I happen to use but I have seen other examples of this search function being used and might post some others when I get a chance.

If you are not familiar with a feed reader, or an RSS feed, (also called an ATOM feed) you can visit the Google Reader link above for an explanation. What is different about a search feed than just a normal rss feed you would get off a website or blog is that you would normally subscribe to a specific blog’s url not a search string. For example, this blogs url for the rss feed is http://www.scottfillmer.com/feed (you can also just type in the main address line url and paste it into your reader as well and that usually works).

In stead of a specific url, you subscribe to the search term, and the results are all blogs you haven’t subscribed to before and many you probably haven’t even seen.

Here is a short step by step below using Google’s reader and blog search function as an example.

  1. Get Google Reader if you don’t have it and subscribe to a few feeds from various blogs using the add subscription link on the left side
  2. Go to Google’s Blog Search and put in a search term of interest (like ham radio <—- see results from link)
  3. Do not use the term blog in the search, it will narrow the results to far
  4. If you like the results scroll to the bottom of the screen (if not start over)
  5. At the bottom, click on the link that says “Subscribe to a blog search feed for [ham radio] in Google Reader“
  6. It will then take you to your Google Reader with the option to subscribe.
  7. It is a good idea to create a folder for the search feeds to keep them separated from your other feeds too.

If you look at the two screen shots here, they show the link at the bottom by the red arrow, and the other highlights the top results where it says related blogs. The red arrow is where you want to subscribe to that feed search term. The results at the top are good blogs to start with if you want to check out the results of the search term before adding it to your reader, but you can always removed it at a later date.

Google Blog Search

Google Blog Search Results

I hope that helps explain how to subscribe to a blog search term in your reader. There is much more to the blog search and I will try to highlight some more features in upcoming posts.

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