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The RSS Link Train
May 4th, 2007 | 
Author: Thanks to Nia for putting me on to Bob’s new Feed My Feed game, this will help increase the estimated RSS feed on ReviewMe.com.
So here is how the game is played:
The Feed Link Chain is a blog Link game that is gaining in popularity within the blogosphere. Unlike other blog games which focused on getting backlinks, this one is going to help you increase your Feed Readers.
All you have to do is
(1) Add your name and the feed link to the chain along with the names and feeds of three blogs that you would like to include.
(2) Simply publish the new list to your blog and allow your readers to participate in the game by continuing the chain!
(3) Link back to me in your post and make a comment HERE with the three sites you’ve added; I’ll add them to the list on my site so that others, when copying the list from my site will be propagating your three as well!
All the blogs mentioned in the chain are worth reading so do add them to your feeds and spread the word around.
Visit Feedburner for a URL feed for each site if you don’t already have that.
The List:
A new variant on the Technorati favourites scheme: MyBlogLog
Just when you were thinking that the work is all over, here comes another variant of the favourites scheme.
This one seems a little simpler at first sight, if that’s any relief!
OK, the steps:
- Signup at MyBlogLog, if you haven’t done so already. Recommended anyway as that lets you add things like the “recent readers” widget that you see on this site.
- Join my community by clicking here, then “join community”.
- Write a comment here to let me know you’ve done it.
I will in turn join your community ASAP. If I’ve not done that within two days, post a reminder as a comment to this post.
New entrants:
- AnitokidJoin the Community
- Tech Lock-RahulJoin the Community
- Technix UpdateJoin the Community
- Techno Diary
- Foreign PerspectivesJoin the Community
- Julies Journal – Join the Community
- Nathan Drach – Join the Community
- the.[ED]ition – Join the Community
- Wireless LAN Security – Join the Community
- Make Money with a 13 year old – Join the Community
- Allaedin´s Blog – Join the Community
- Bob Buskirk.com – Join the Community
- Jon Lee – Join the Community
- Everyday Weekender – Join the Community
- Bryan’s Rants – Join the Community
- Shawn Knight – Join the Community
- Kelly Cho – Join the Community
- Reformat This – Join the Community
- Ms. Danielle – Join the Community
- The Man of Silver – Join the Community
- Nate Whitehill – Join the Community
- Leo Chiang – Join the Community
- Garry Conn – Join the Community
- Samanathon – Join the Community
- Mr. Gary Lee – Join the Community
- Feats of a Chilean Dot Com Entrepreneur – Join the Community
The originals:
Technorati lessons
As you may know, I am a participant in the Technorati favourites exchange which was thought up by DoshDosh as a means of getting loads of into the front rank of Technorati and indeed a growing number of the participants are turning up in the top 100 favourites list on Technorati.
However, what I found most instructive was the number of ideas exchanged across the last 10 days amongst the various participants in this programme. For one thing, a considerable number of those participating fall into the “techie” or “make money online” groups of blogs worldwide and the number of lessons I’ve picked up in that time has been enormous.
Some of the first fruits of those lessons has been in the new ad format that you can see throughout the blog. I figured that if the square adsense format was used by almost all the “making money” blogs, it was bound to be a “good thing” so I’ve adopted that. Also, you’ve seen from a few days ago the little underlined popup adverts which is also used by them.
Funnily enough, although I was adding all the blogs to my favourites just to get into that top 100, I’ve found a number of the articles on the favourited blogs quite interesting. I’ve even picked up several relevant backlinks from blogs which I’d not otherwise have seen.
Now, if only I could up the traffic on Foreign Perspectives and/or get ‘yall to click on the adverts for me, I’d be able to give up the day job… Funnily enough, I’d not really have thought that possible a few weeks ago but there does seem to be a whole lot of people out there living off their blog income so apparently it is possible.
Copyright © 2004-2014 by Foreign Perspectives. All rights reserved.The Expat/WE List – bloggers living in Western Europe
Everyone and their dog seems to be running up lists of blogs these days, so I thought it was time us expat bloggers got in on the act. Why though? Well, it helps everyone on the list get a few more links for their site and thereby improve the visibility and hence traffic of their blog.
The idea is a simple one and was pinched from the idea of the T-List which lists travel blogs itself copied from the Z List, originally launched by Mack Collier of Viral garden. I shamelessly pinched the original of this from Ministry of Propaganda.
Coming soon are the rest of the world… there are wayyyyy too many expat bloggers to put in one list!
What you do is:
- Write a post titled “The Expat List”
- Copy the links below into it
- If you’re an expat blogger not on the list, add yourself
- Add any additional expat blogs that you know of (English language only please for the moment)
- Notify the blogger you got the list from in a comment to their post.
Note that cut & paste doesn’t always work with links ie check that the list you have has clickable links.
Austria
Novalas Europa
Life as it happens
Metamorphosism
Nerd’s Eye View
Belgium
Tomato And Basil Sandwiches
A lawyer’s dream of heaven
My Boyfriend Is A Twat
Denmark
Observations of a globalite
Desirable Roasted Coffee
Moron Abroad
France
An Australian Lass, a Frenchman & a Burmese
Textism.com
Les filles in Glasgow (oops) Paris
Non Tibi Spiro
Anders Jacobsen’s Blog
Petite anglaise – lost in france
Foreign Perspectives
Peregrinations
Blethers.com – Weblog
Perso.fraise.net
Home in France – News for family & friends –
Wicked French Kiss
From my French Window
Dispatches from France
Germany
Bits and pieces
Mausi
Rancuret abroad
Rainy Day
PINAYexpat: In Deutschland
I am a doughnut
Bowlerised
Broke in Berlin
Flip Flop Flying
London Dan
Transblawg
Greenhaddock
The Silent Penguin
Murray’s Diary
Keys Corner
Savory’s Blog
That Queer Expatriate
Stringbean abroad: the Xpatriate files
LawPundit
German Joys
AGITPROPOLIS
Schokolade Mädchen in München
My Euro-American Life
Daily Dose of Dave
Greg’s World
American in Dusseldorf
HeisseScheisse
Germany Doesn’t Suck
Chicagokarl
Moore’s Radio Free Mike
JeweledConcrete
Notes from Germany
Culture Shock and the blondelibrarian
German Diary
Raskal trippin
PapaScott
Holland
Suze Abroad
A Canadian Girl’s Just Dazzle
Dutched Pinay on Expatriation
Reluctant Nomad
Thinking Aloud
Italy
Ben Hammersley.com
A Welshman in Milano
With a Rebel Yael
Il Blog Enogastronomico di Brendan
At Home in Rome
Luxembourg
EuroYank: an American Alien in Europe….
Portugal
The Weblog
Tim Worstall
Spain
Brain Tags
Trevor’s k’alebøl
The Spanish Cockpit
A wandering woman writes from spain
kellycrull.com
mylifeinspain
Sweden
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Herring
Shazzer’s ShazzerSpeak
Switzerland
Ms. Mac’s Meanderings
GLOG: A Genevan Log
UK
Anthonyjhicks.com – weblog
I live on your visits
Michael Jennings
Speedysnail
What’s new, pussycat?
Bloggerheads – the weblog of Tim Ireland (aka Manic)
Christof.Meerwalk@blog.www
Anna Overseas
Trailers and dirt
blog from a broad: Lisa’s nonsensical ramblings
Knitting on the Cam
A Canadian Postgraduate in London
The Dustless Workshop
Ministry of Propaganda
I can do waffle in my sleep
FlorianDargel
Beans on toast
Hiya
A Student’s Life
Cartside
dotFAF.com
The Earth Beneath Her Feet
Lost in Thought
J+B=Us
Not as lame as the JediKid
A Tennessee ex-pat’s The Vol Abroad
Adam Curry’s Weblog
Dùn Èideann Wayfaring
Towering intellect
The Misadventures of a Jersey Girl that crossed the pond
Neurotic Traveler
Jackie Danicki
Yankee Fog
Cambridge mba blog
Occasionally, something happens
An American in London
Expat Yank
Grey’s Journal
Wanderingz
A wrist slapping from Technorati
As you know, I was one of the first to repost the 2kbloggers list last Thursday and in common with Bob and Chino had my blog suspended from Technoratis listings temporarily (Angela by chance didn’t make the list clickable). It would have been rather more than a temporary suspension but for the words of wisdom from Bob.
Now, Technorati have gotten around to replying to us as to the reason for the suspension in a comment on Bob’s site. Seems that were a substantial number of the 2kbloggers to have similarly reposted the list, their whole ranking system would have become worthless. Their reasoning is that their system is intended to give high rankings to blogs which get a lot of relevant links.
Emm, guys€¦ if that’s the case, how come you allow the growth of blog reviews’ as a side-line to the likes of John Chow? For that matter, how come you allow the growth of blog review blogs at all? After all, the link that I have on this blog to bloggyaward is hardly a relevant outbound link to me, is it? (Although the words of wisdom from Mr Bloggy will be getting acted on in due course).
This isn’t to knock John Chow who, after all, is only out to make a buck online as are most of us. I’m just asking, how come it’s OK for him to run a long series of blog review’ competitions for his blog and thereby gather up hundreds if not thousands of inbound links, yet it’s not OK for those on the 2kblogger list to do the same?
To my mind, it highlights a severe weakness in the Technorati system. If they want the system to rank blogs on the basis of relevant links then those are the only links that they should count. They’re probably going to turn around and say that it’s impossible to distinguish a relevant link from an irrelevant one but that’s not the case. At a simplistic level, it would be relatively easy for them to only count links from site A to site B where A had more than one link to B. That in itself would exclude any irrelevant cross-linking that might happen from a spread of the 2kblogger list and the like.
After all, how long is it going to be before some awkward sod like myself decides to set up several thousand one page blogs all pointing to their main blog? For that matter, what will happen when (and it will be “when”, not “if”) someone runs up, say, 25,000 one page blogs and thereby ends up in the top 10 on Technorati?
All this, of course, aside from the freedom of speech angle. Actually, knowing bloggers, I’d be quite worried about that particular angle being taken up if I were in Technorati at the moment. There’s a LOT of support for freedom of expression out there in blog-land.
Ironically though, that 2kblogger post has actually attracted a growing number of relevant posts to my blog. So, yes, almost 1800 people now have a link from me that’s not too relevant but I correspondingly have links back which are relevant. In fact, I’ve found that looking at irrelevant’ blogs often turns up relevant links for me, hence all the click-throughs from me to those that look at my site.
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