Entries from December 2007 ↓

What is RSS?

December 9th, 2007 — Uncategorized

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

If you are interested in blogging, Internet news, social media, and Internet marketing, please subscribe to my RSS feed. If you don’t know about RSS, here is an explaination.

What is RSS?

RSS is a signal that comes from a favorite blog or site, telling your computer that it has been updated with a new article or post. If you have an RSS reader (and they’re free and easy, and I recommend Google Reader), whenever a blog is updated, it shows up in your reader and you can catch up on the news. If there’s nothing new, it doesn’t show up and you don’t have to waste time surfing around.

Why should you use RSS?

By using RSS and an RSS reader, you can view new articles from your favorite blogs any time the authors publish a new post. You can view all of your favorite blogs by visiting just one website.

Why you should subscribe to Newest on the Net’s RSS feed?

By signing up for Newest on the Net’s RSS feed, you will never have to worry about missing any of my posts. Becoming a subscriber (remember it is free) you will get every article that I write delivered directly to you RSS reader.

I use Google Reader to read about 200 blogs. I can skim the titles of each blog article written by these 200 bloggers and read the articles that interest me the most. I can read through about 100 new blog articles in about 20 minutes.

How to subscribe to Newest on the Net?

All you have to do to subscribe to this blog is ONE of the following:

a. click on this icon on the home page of Newest on the Net.

b. Copy the text in red below into your RSS reader.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewestOnTheNet

c. Easiest of all, just click the link below:

Link: Subscribe to Newest on the Net.

Where to find an RSS Reader?

If you want an RSS reader, just go to google and search on “RSS reader” and the name of your computer OS. You’ll find a bunch. Like I said above, I use Google Reader.

That’s it. You’re done.

Free, easy, permanent until you undo it and it’ll save you time.

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Matt Cutts Images Video Tutorial

December 7th, 2007 — Blogging

Matt Cutts, Googles head of webspam, has created a great video describing how to use ALT text to describe your images. While nothing in this video is earth shattering, it is one of the best beginner descriptions of ALT text.

If you put images into your blog articles, make sure that you are complete the ALT text field. Matt suggests that you should keep the text to around seven words.

Matt’s description is great because it clearly describes how you can help Google find your images. This is an excellent way to bring in more search engine traffic.

Enjoy the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbuDpB_BTc

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Digg Adds Images

December 3rd, 2007 — social media

Digg users rejoice!! Kevin Rose today announced the starting tonight Digg will be adding image submissions and new categories.

Digg logo

Digg users have been demanding for a long time the ability to submit images and video.

Users will also find several new categories. The “Offbeat” category will become its own category and there will be a new “Lifestyle” category. The Lifestyle category will include subtopics like autos, food & drink, and travel.

It is about time that Digg adds photos. This is a great feature of StumbleUpon and Mixx.

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How to Create Favicon On A WordPress Blog (One more time)

December 3rd, 2007 — Blogging

It seems that lots of people are interested in creating favicons for their Wordpress blogs. The response to my guide on how to create favicons was great. Recently, Terrence provided another greating resource for creating a favicon.

1favicon is this other great favicon resource. 1favicon has many great resources for favicons.

I encourage you to check out these guides:

I encourage you to create your own favicon. www.1favicon.com seems like a great tool to create a favicon.

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Let’s Look Back At November Here at NOTN

December 2nd, 2007 — Newest On The Net

I am very please with the growth of Newest on the Net. And November was a huge growth month. My goal for Newest on the Net is to become an important voice in social media niche and blogging market.

Here is a recap of November:

Most Popular Articles

Blog Stats

There are several important stats that I use to measure the growth of Newest on the Net, including RSS subscribers, unique visitors, page views, Technorati rank, and Alexa rank.

RSS Subscribers

I am very please with how many new people have subscribed to NOTN in November.

November 1 - 90 RSS subscribers

November 30 - 210 RSS subscribers

That is a 122% increase!! My goal for December is to be at 300 subscribers. Increasing my RSS subscribers is my most important goal.

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In my recent article on how to increase RSS subscribers, point number one was produce good content. As a case in point, I wrote 3 pillar articles in November. After each of these articles, my RSS subscribers jumped up significantly. Therefore, while I will continue to try to write at least one article a day, I need to make time to write more pillar articles this month.

Feedburner Stats

Unique Visitors

Like my RSS subscribers, unique visitors also went up.

October’s Unique Visitors - 8,137

November’s Unique Visitors - 31,253

That is a 284% increase in unique visitors.

Page Views

October Page Views - 37,654

November Page Views - 119,603

That is a 217% increase in page views.

Technorati Rank

I am currently sitting at number 20,986. I am not quite sure where I was at the beginning of November, but I think that I have gone up about 100,000.

Alexa Rank

Not too shabby at 75,597

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So Where Did this Traffic Come From?

While most of my traffic comes from social media sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Sphinn, Bloggingzoom, and Mixx, I have also received a lot of traffic from some great bloggers. I would like to thank each of them for linking to me.