Have you noticed an inflated number on your Feedburner counter lately? Don’t worry. It is not a technical problem. Feedburner has recently started to count your FriendFeed subscribers. Previously it was counting your normal RSS subscribers and Aweber opt in subscribers. All in all it has started to count normal RSS subscribers, Aweber opt-in, and FriendFeed subscribers.

Probably this change will increase the  gap between the most popular bloggers and normal bloggers in terms of social proof. Most of the bloggers still take the number of RSS subscribers as the key element when deciding about a blog’s performance. As popular bloggers have quite a lot of  subscribers in FriendFeed (if they use it since very long time), their FeedBurner counters will also increase a lot.

This change also explains why all of a sudden John Chow joined FriendFeed. He regularly adds new subscribers these days. The idea is simple: once you subscribe a member, he or she will probably subscribe back.

So if you are also obsessed about the number of your RSS subscribers, do the same. Join FriendFeed, and subscribe to as many users as possible. In the end you will be able to increase the number of your RSS subscribers.

While doing so, don’t forget to subscribe me: http://friendfeed.com/merkal2005

Bloggers care about their metrics. For majority, the number of RSS subscribers is one of the biggest indications as to whether your blog is worth reading or not. However, due to a special deal with Feedburner and Aweber email autoresponder, Feedburner counts email subscribers as RSS subscribers.

Hire a few people, let them create fake email accounts from various email services, and ask them to subscribe your blog via email form. I guarantee 1000 RSS subscribers in a month with this technique.

Last summer Aweber launched pop-up email sign up functionality. Every time a user visits your blog, a pop-up appears and asks you to subscribe. Quite a lot of bloggers, including the very popular ones, liked these pop-ups.  A few months later I noticed significant increases in their RSS subscribers.

Do you think it is ethical or unethical? Assuming you did not aware of this before, do you feel cheated by these bloggers?

The PRWeb is worldwide known with its effectiveness on online promotion and marketing campaigns. They have recently  launched RSSPad, a free service for RSS feed promotion for websites/blogs. RSSPad provides a tool that will allow you to syndicate your content through the power of RSS.

What is RSS and How Do You It?

You use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to syndicate or subscribe to the feed of a website, blog or almost any media content online (not just articles, it can be music, video or almost any digital media). By syndicating you subscribe to the feed of the site which means you do not have to go visit the website to read the latest content. Instead you use feed reading software or a website to read the latest articles. Instead of going to each of your favourite sites individually you can collect all the feeds of the sites (provided they make them available) in one place. The purpose of syndication is to therefore make it more efficient for you to consume your favourite content. For more details about RSS please refer What is RSS and How Do I Use It?

How Can You Use RSSPad.com?

• You need to have a free PRWeb access to use the service
• Go to RSSPad.com
• Click on “Register Free” button on the right sidebar
• Fill the form, and register your account
• Login your account, and then Import your RSS feed
• You need to manually categorize your RSS feed at the beginning
• That’s all! Now everytime you logon to RSSPad, you will be taken to quick stats page, where you can monitor your RSS feed’s popularity at RSSPad.

Here is my RSS Feed address at RSSPad: http://www.rsspad.com/SearchForBloggingcom.xml.If you find the information helpful, you may want to take a minute and subscribe to My RSS so you do not miss any great articles.

Since a very long time I have been telling you that the Bloghology is not just a blogging magazine. It will become one of the largest blogging networks of Blogosphere. I have very good news for you this weekend. The long-waited Bloghology community site is up and running at beta stage. We are looking for 100 lucky beta testers at the moment.

The Bloghology community site looks somewhat similar to today’s popular social networking sites, but with some extra functionality for bloggers and blogging related issues, like affiliate marketing. It is going to be a social networking site mainly for bloggers.

A few hours ago I announced to my mail list that we were looking for beta testers for the Bloghology community site. Honestly I did not expect so many people to reply me back so quickly.

We still have some seats left to meet the 100 limit. If you want to be one of the lucky 100 beta testers of Bloghology community site, then all you need to do is  join my blog tips newsletter (signup form is on the header above). First come, first serve. Hurry up!

Beta testers will use the site before it is available for every blogger in the blogosphere. We expect them to tell us honestly what is missing on the site today. So that we can make a superior social networking site for bloggers.

If you believe you can contribute the Bloghology community site with your suggestions and innovative ideas, please join my blog tips newsletter now.

Did you know that Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year? Google is celebrating this event with project 10 to 100. It is a call for the ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. You may join with your own brilliant ideas. I will also join.

I remember the first time I used Google for searching something related to my previous company. It was a milestone for Internet search. Google also helped blogs spread like a virus in the last three or four years, not only with its blogging platform Blogger, but also with its free marketing tools for bloggers. Here you may find my most useful free  Google marketing tools for bloggers list:

Google Analytics

Analyze your traffic, where it comes from, and what it does in your site. It is free up to three sites for an account. One of the best free products I have ever used as a blogger.

Google Alerts

Are you interested in “making money online”? Set it as a keyword in Google Alerts, and let it notify you when another site or blog mentions it. It is a great way to keep track of your online activities as well as your online business interests and products. Set your name as a notification, and see who says what about you in Internet.

Google Trends

It lets you search popular trends, and hot products to promote. Also a breakdown for different regions is possible. Find the most popular blogging related trends, and post about them in your blog. A smart way of increasing your blog’s traffic.

Google Docs

It is full featured online writing editor with some great collaborating features and spellcheck. In addition it lets you publish your content directly to your blogs. You can also save your files in PDF format. You can write your own ebook with it, and spread it online.

Google Blogger

Google’s blogger is a simple free blogging platform. Blogger can be used to promote yourself and self-hosted blogs. It has some built in functions like Google Blog Search bar.

Google Groups

Every blogger knows the importance of having a large community with a similar interest. Social networking is one of the most important factors in your success on the Web. Google groups is a form of business and social networking that every blogger should be aware of.

Our aim is to make Bloghology all in one resource for both start-up and established bloggers. Bloghology team is working for this purpose every day and night. Soon we are going to make some big changes to Bloghology site, and it will become a social networking platform for bloggers. Did you know that every week Bloghology team post blogging related articles at Bloghology.org? You are invited to read, and rate them. As Bloghology team consists of bloggers who are experts in their fields, you will be able to find delicious food for thought at Bloghology. Here are some good articles from Bloghology site:

• Free Keyword Reseach Tools to Explore Your Blog Niche by Ann Smarty
• Top 10 Blogs For Writers by Miguel Wickert
• Bloghology at Cebit Bilisim Eurasia Turkey! by Mert Erkal
• Advanced Security Procedures for Your Blog by Louis Liem
• My Reasons for Attending Blog World Expo, Before and After by Stephan Miller
• Zemanta Just Got Better by Stephan Miller
• Building Blogging Relationships: the Power of Feedback by Ann Smarty
• Getting Visitors to Read Your Whole Post by Stephan Miller
• Make Your Blog Comment Friendly by Stephan Miller
• Testing Your New WordPress Theme Using Sample Posts by Louis Liem

Have you checked our Blog World Expo special digital edition? You may go to Bloghology digital site, and register a free account. Digital version can be tracked with a free account every month. We will also have five printed editions within a year. One edition in every quarter plus a Blog World Expo special edition. You can also subscribe for our printed edition at Bloghology digital site.