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BuzzBoost - Free RSS to HTML Transformation Tool

 

BuzzBoost is a simple service that allows you to cross-promote the content of your feed — be it a blog, podcast or commercial newsfeed — any place where you can display HTML. For example, you can display the latest headlines from your blog on your Web site, your forum, a podcast site, or on a friend’s site. BuzzBoost is FeedBurner’s answer to RSS-to-HTML transformation.

BuzzBoost is really ideal for anyone who wants to use their feed content to gain exposure on the net. As you know, more exposure can often lead to more subscribers. So if you have several blogs or other sites that have their own feeds, BuzzBoost provides a simple way for you to cross-promote them to your non blog websites. Today, if you want people to see the latest entries from your blog, they need to actually read your blog or be subscribed to your feed. BuzzBoost provides other means of communicating and promoting content to your target audience and helps your content go further.

What are the technical requirements to use BuzzBoost?

BuzzBoost’s job is to redisplay your feed content anywhere you can copy and paste a short snippet of HTML code. The actual BuzzBoost code is just a short line of JavaScript that displays content items and information from a FeedBurner feed according to settings you provide. You get to control how BuzzBoost displays the following elements:

• Feed Title
• Item publication date
• Individual item headlines, headlines and plain text, or headlines and original HTML
• Plain text item excerpt length
• Your original site’s favicon, if it has one
• Link to download podcast or videoblog enclosures (if available)

To get started simply sign in to (or create) your FeedBurner account, select the feed you wish to “boost” from My Feeds and then configure the BuzzBoost service from the “Publicize” tab. The service is completely free.

As bloggers, we all want to know where we rank in the blogosphere and in search engines. Is your blog growing? Are people reading your content? Are you getting natural backlinks? About once a week you should do a little research to find out, because there’s nothing worse than working hard on a blog or web site without knowing you’re consistently making progress. To help you get into a routine on what and how to go about tracking your blog’s progress, I’m recommending that you head over to JT Pratt’s site and read the indepth articles he provides. While he discusses some mainstream techniques that we can’t use in Adult, the basis of what he shares is still relevant for the Adult webmaster.

5 Key Google Analytics to Watch for Blog Progress

Here’s installment #1 in the Tracking Your Blog’s Progress series. He will show you five specific things that you should be watching for in your google analytics web site statistics over the long haul. Tracking these items will help you follow blog growth in the best (and worst) areas.

AddThis has Bookmark Analytics

In Installment #2 of Tracking Your Blog’s Progress he’ll talk about how to figure out how many people are bookmarking your site using the AddThis service.

Tracking Sitemap Changes for SERP Pages

For installment #3 he is going to talk about your blog XML Sitemap, including why you should have one, what they do, how to read yours, and making sure that your sitemap contains everything necessary to get your pages indexed right in search. If you’re not doing the right things your entire blog could be sent to google’s “supplemental index hell” without you even knowing about it. This installment is an essential regular part of “tracking your blog’s progress”!

Increase Traffic with MSN, Yahoo!, and Google!

In installment #4 you’ll learn what to do with your XML sitemap now that you have it ready to go, and we’re going to make sure that you are getting indexed in google, Yahoo!, and MSN Live Search every time you post or update your blog. Each of the the 3 major search engines has a “webmaster console” for you to register your url and xml sitemap with - make sure that your blog is setup for maximum indexing and traffic!

Show off your live traffic with Feedjit widgets. The widgets are all free and you don’t need to register to get them for your blog or website. You’ll find that the widgets are also extremely lightweight and won’t slow your site down.

If you’re a Blogger or Typepad user you can install any of the widgets with one click. If you use a different platform or if you’re installing Feedjit in a website, then simply cut and paste the script they provide into your blog template or website HTML. Feedjit will appear in the position you paste the script.

Feedjit’s mission is to provide high performance real-time widgets for the blogging community that are free and easy to use. FEEDJIT is founded by two serial entrepreneurs whose previous businesses include a search engine and a blogging platform.

Four types of FEEDJIT widgets are currently available for immediate download.

1.  Feedjit’s live traffic feed shows statistics on your website in real-time. It shows:

• Which city and country your visitors are in
• Which website they arrived from, if any
• Which page they visited on your website
• Which external link they clicked to leave your site, if any

2.  Feedjit’s live traffic map shows the geographic locations of the last 100 visitors to your blog or website on a small map. If you move your mouse over any point on the map the city and country for that visitor will be displayed.

3.  Feedjit’s Recommended Reading Widget suggests other pages on your Blog or Website that may interest your readers. It does this using a sophisticated algorithm called Collaborative Filtering.

For example, a visitor to your blog may view one of your blog entries about coral reefs. Feedjit knows that 10 other visitors to your blog who liked this blog entry visited 2 other entries you wrote about coral reefs. So it suggests these 2 pages to your new visitor.

4.  Page Popularity. This widget shows the most popular pages on your blog or website by analyzing your recent traffic patterns. It constantly updates as new visitors arrive on your website and maintains an up to date list of popular pages. This widget does not require a minimum amount of traffic for you to use it. Simply install it and you’re all set.

This widget draws new visitors into your blog or website by showing off your best content. If you have pages with a high bounce rate, displaying your most popular content in a prominent position can help draw new visitors into your website and grow your regular reader base.

Click HERE for downloads and more information on where these FEEDJIT widgets will and will not work.

Keeping up with ping errors from the sites you’ve added to your ping urls service list can be a bit of a pain, especially since you can’t really tell if it’s just an occassional problem or whether the ping site has actually gone offline.  Crappytools provides a daily list of known working ping sites, as well as listing questionable returns for the day. A quick print out and a comparison to your active list can help you weed out some dead url wood.

On another related note, for those of you looking for a current version of the Smart Update Pinger, a new revised version has been undertaken by another author at Ultimate Plugins, as the original plugin has been discontinued by its creator.

“The Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger replaces the standard Wordpress build-in ping functionality and makes many improvements to it. It is based on, and an improved version of, the (now discontinued) “Smart Update Pinger v2.00” by Christian Davén.”

 Features:

1. Works for all wp 2.0+ releases
2. For future posts, services are only pinged when the post has appeared on your blog
3. Reverse (newest entries first) logging
4. More detailed ping & error logging
5. Auto-selects whether to do an extended or normal ping depending on server capability
6. For extended pings, it uses the new URL instead of just the homepage URL to ping

Click here to download the latest version of Smart Update Pinger* from Ultimate Plugins.

*note: the site requires registration to access the free plugin

Here’s an excellent tip from GTP on the GayMainStreet.com board about only trading links with adult approved domains.

“Don’t trade links with blogger.com, blogspot.com, wordpress.com or other mainstream free hosted blogs. In their Terms of Use you can read where people can’t open a commercial adult blog on this kind of free hosted blog service. I strongly suggest you do not trade with these kinds of blogs because of how often they are banned and/or deleted by the hoster without notice. I suggest that you trade only with blogs using their own domain or using a well known adult-only free blog hosting service. And of course never open an adult blog on mainstream hosted blogs services.”

That’s an excellent tip GTP about keeping your link trades with adult approved or privately owned domains, thanks!

 Submit Your Gay Blogs to Multiple Gay Blog Directories with GayBlogSubmitter

The multiple gay blog directories the submitter lists you with, (there are currently 5), are setup to be clean and free from junk links so that those of you that submit your sites to Gay Blog Submitter will get better quality traffic and SEO.  They don’t just list your site in their directories, they also send out a crawler to add other valuable pages from your site to their database. That way, you not only get deep searches that find and list your individual blog pages, but you also get the added benefit of better SEO deep linking. Once approved, your site and its pages will be listed at multiple gay blog directories from just one submission form.

Get your site(s) submitted to GayBlogSubmitter.com today!

Here’s a relatively new free adult blog hosting site for you to check out and possibly setup some new blogs at: www.AdultBlogSpace.com

AdultBlogSpace provides you with free hosting, WP SEO and RSS Plugins, in-house tools such as AdultBblogSpace Bookmarks and AdultBlogSpace Backlinks plugins, and ongoing technical support for your high-quality adult blogs. AdultBlogSpace will save you time, it will help you create better blogs and it’s FREE!

Highlights:
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So head on over to AdultBlogSpace and get your FREE account today!

I know we’re all always looking for more places to submit our adult blog site links, so when I find new directories and link lists, I’ll share them here.

 Here’s one I found a few days ago: http://www.pornyblogz.com/

If you have a webcam and a microphone, LockerGnome’s Chris Pirillo shows you how to easily stream a live show to the internet … for FREE, using Ustream.tv for live, interactive broadcasting. While I didn’t read up on the terms of useage, I’d bet you can’t stream nudity, but there are certainly a ton of creative ways to use a live show feature to promote traffic to wherever, just juice up the imagination tank and go for it!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atBGCZ700Oo[/youtube]

In this excellent article on www.mainstreamwebmasters.com, Priya Shah lists the features she feels will ensure you a steady stream of traffic to your blog.

How to Build Traffic to Your Blog

by Priya Shah

With the growing interest in blogging as a means of online promotion and branding, a lot of marketers are starting blogs to promote their opinions, products, books and services.

But a blog is like a website. “Write and they will come” isn’t exactly a magic formula to bring in traffic by the boatload.

If you need to promote your website in order to build traffic to it, you need to promote your blog as well.

Here are some ways you can become a well-read and influential blogger.

1.  Write Posts That People Will Want To Read

This should be common sense, but many marketers tend to forget that their readers are real people and that you need to use the principles of online copywriting to make your headlines and copy interesting to your readers.

If you write posts that people enjoy reading, they will reward you by returning to your blog regularly.

Make your posts conversational, pithy and topical. Keep them short and stick to one topic per post.

Write often and regularly so that both readers and search engines visit your blog more often.

2.  Optimize Your Posts for Search Engines

I cover this topic in detail in my article on “Search Engine Optimization For Blogs”

But here are the most important rules to follow to get your posts listed for keywords of your choice.

• Make sure your blog URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize for

• Use your primary keywords in the title of your post

• Use your secondary keywords in the body of your post

• Use your keywords in the anchor text of links in the body of your posts
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