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How many dollars is your site worth?

Surfing the Web I accidentally found a very nice tool that allows you to estimate the sell value of any Web Site in dollars or euros. The engine of the site takes into account several factors including the flotation of the financial market, but not at all.

Important factors are:

• Top Level TLDs are more than exploit Regional or Local TLDs;
• Real Sells;
• Web Factors including page rank, backlinks, etc ...

The site also contains a monthly ranking of the higher value Web Sites. Of course Google is the master! According to Stimator the Google home page is worth $ 1,156,988,215. The second is Yahoo, followed by Amazon and last.com. In the highest 10 appear also the New York Times Web Site, Youtube and Ebay.

At this point I wondered what goes on my Web Site (http://roxblog-trends.blogspot.com)? The result shocked me: $ 5,025,999!

If you are interested I would menage to deal with. Contact me ....
Do you want to know how much is your site worth? Go to Stimator and check your link.

Are RSS Subscribers Worthwhile if they Don’t Visit Your Blog?

Today I present you a post from problogger.net discussing on RSS subscribers and its correlation with Blog traffic

“Why do bloggers put so much focus upon growing RSS subscriber numbers to their blog if most of them only ever read your content in Feed Readers and don’t visit your blog?”

This question (or variations of it) hit my inbox 3 times in 24 hours from different people so I thought I’d tackle it as a post instead of individual replies.

Let me start by saying that this problem can be frustrating. You see your RSS subscriber number growing by your actual visitor numbers remain steady - as do your comment numbers.

However all is not lost.

There are a number of points that I’d like to make in responding to this question about RSS subscribers not visiting a blog. I hope that they give those facing this problem a little hope, encouragement and also a few ways forward.

1. A subscriber that never visits is better than a one off visitor who never returns

I had one blogger recently tell me that he’d removed the option to subscribe to his blog via RSS from his blog because he didn’t want to ‘give away’ his content. He wanted people who read his content to ‘pay’ him by visiting his blog (and earning him money from his advertising) and he saw RSS subscribers as ‘freeloaders’.

My response to him was that I’d rather have a subscriber who rarely visits my actual blog than a one off visitors who never returns because they have no way of keeping in touch.

While a subscriber might not actually visit your blog they are a powerful connection to have. My reasons for this will hopefully become evident in the points that follow.

2. Every post you put in front of a subscriber is an opportunity to reinforce your brand.

RSS subscribers are opting in to receive your content. When they hit ’subscribe’ they are putting themselves inside your sphere of influence and are asking you to teach, inspire and communicate with them.

Each time you hit publish on a post and a subscriber sees something that you’ve written you have the potential to deepen the relationship, trust and influence that you have with your subscriber. While this might not have an immediate pay off in terms of advertising revenue - it can have a long term ‘pay off’.

3. RSS subscribers are Influencers

RSS is used by a smallish percentage of the population (around 11% at latest reports).

While the percentage may be smallish - I have a suspicion that they are a reasonably tech savvy and influential bunch of people. I’m guessing here - but I suspect that those who use RSS are also likely to have blogs themselves, they’re more likely to be into social networking, messaging and bookmarking tools.

This makes RSS readers a potentially very influential audience - capable of spreading news of your posts and blog throughout the web very quickly.

4. Making the Mind shift from Traffic to Influence

When I started blogging one of the main indicators that I looked at when measuring the success of my blog was traffic. If I had a day with lots of visitors I was happier than if I did not have anyone visit my blog.

While traffic is still important to me - I’ve noticed lately that I’m checking my visitor stats less than I used to. These days I’m increasingly interested in ‘influence’.

I don’t mind so much if someone reads my content on my blog, in an RSS reader or in some other tool - what matters to me is that people are reading it, that in doing so they interact with me, that they are drawn into some sort of ‘relationship’ or ‘community’ around the content.

My reason for this is that I’m finding that while traffic can be monetized directly - influence is actually a more powerful (and potentially profitable) thing. Let me explain more in my next point.

5. Influence can Lead to Profits

More and more bloggers are discovering that while direct income earners like advertising are great - that there’s also incredible potential for bloggers to earn an income through other more indirect income sources. Making money ‘because’ of a blog rather than directly ‘from’ a blog is possible in may ways including consulting, writing books, running training and workshops, selling products, landing other paid writing gigs, speaking at conferences etc.

The more people that you have some kind of influence with the increased chances of being able to monetize that influence in one of these indirect methods.

A subscriber might not be visiting your blog each day but if you provide great content on a daily basis to them you can bet that the day they decide that they need to hire a consultant on your topic that they’ll come knocking on your door.

6. Other Monetization Models for RSS

Indirect income is not the only possibility for RSS. There is also RSS advertising - this industry is still in its infancy and while isn’t hugely profitable using tools like AdSense I’m hearing bloggers reporting that it’s a growing income source for them.

The other great opportunity for income from RSS subscribers is affiliate programs. This taps into point #5 above - when you have ‘influence’ or trust established with readers an affiliate program can be very profitable.

7. The challenge of drawing subscribers into your blog

Just because someone subscribes to your blog does not mean that they’ll never visit it. In fact RSS subscribers can be among your most regular visitors to your blog if you draw them into actually visiting it.

I won’t go into a lot of techniques for this in this post but using techniques like asking questions, running polls, interlinking posts, writing ‘best of’ lists and more techniques can draw subscribers into visiting your blog on a daily basis.

Creating A successful Blog In Eight Simple Steps

Knowing how to filter, select and repeat content is as important as creating new ones.

The recipe to open a successful blog is not complicated. This post is dedicated to those who would like to open a blog and do not know how to get started, and who fails to take off on their own.
Under the assumption of knowing a little of English and starting in the most simple possible way without necessarily produce original content, here's how to create the conditions for a successful blog.
Open a blog with Wordpress
The platform of the blog is important because it allows you to automate links to blogs that link to your post and vice-versa (trackback).
The dilemma is between Wordpress and Movable Type, but if the criterion of choice of platform is to generate as much traffic as quickly then you must open a blog on Wordpress for a simple reason: it is the most widely used and provides a higher level of customization thanks to countless plugins and templates for all needs.

Select few but authoritative sources in English
  Almost all bloggers on the planet do not generate content, but merely comment / translate  the same news coming from the same sources (called background noise, Law 1% etc etc). It 'important that you draw directly to original sources skipping the intermediate ones.
Here are 5 sites that are a good package of essential source from new media, web 2.0 etc:

• Mashable

News and articles on Web 2.0 and social media

• Lifehacker

Excellent source for useful programs and tips on your PC

• ProBlogger 

Specific recommendations for improving the quality of your blog and monetize traffic

• Techcrunch 

The best site to know the background and the rumors in the start-up and new media. Very often the news, first to become news, appear on Techcrunch as rumors...

• Killer startups

It 'a social media for specific web applications and start-up. All the new web based services go from here, and users love the blog reporting the new web services
If you wont to trait other topics of course you will need to find sources relevant to your interests.
Metabolize the process of acquisition of new news  Monitoring and evaluating new post from various sources must be an easy process but it could cause considerable stress from information overload.
It should be as simple as .... open the browser. It is 'what I advice you; 

• Create a home page to iGoogle

If you have any Google account you can customize your home page by adding many contents, including of course the RSS feed sources of the sites that I have previously mentioned.

• Use your iGoogle page as your home page in your browser

In doing so each time you open your browser you'll have an eye on the abstracts of the most recent posts of your sources.
Select and publish the post more interesting
Choose a daily news from your sources and post to your blog;

1. add your comments and your views
2. link and always mentions the source without any fear or hesitation
3. always post a relevant image (possibly use a creative commons online resource as Flickr)

You should also include links to other in-depth articles, or perhaps other posts. Incomink generates links with automatic trackback and offers a useful service to your readers.
Share and Spread the post more interesting to social services news, but wisely. There are many social media that allow you to share content (including itself) and attract visitors. Use a strategy that allows you to achieve maximum results with minimum effort.
Use:
    1. Digg
       Allows you to post and share news that are rated by users. Top rated videos are shown on the home page and can attract thousands of visitors in one day.
    2. OnlyWire
       It 'a service that allows you to save and share their links to dozens and dozens of social bookmark services in a single stroke 
  
A recommendation not to post indiscriminately all but spread only the post that you will find interesting even if they were not written by you. This little strategy will you allow to gain authority and get the attention of the users.
Filtering, selecting and testing the new news is disseminated every day and it is becoming an important process almost as generate original content.
If no one bothering to filter, select and propose again, how many people will lose original news into the global information without targeting those who are addressed? 

Slowly learn to understand what your readers are trying to learn more about your inclinations. In this way you will learn to better target your searches, and to select other sources, to focus on creating original news and generate new kinds of content (audio, video, etc.).
Feel the need to refine the tools and use RSS aggregators as comprehensive and effective. Find more specific social network and learn how to use best those which already uses.
However go good job.
(italian source)

Blogumus: fluctuating label clouds for blogger

This beautiful widget to add to your blog has so successful that I am not surprised if over time it will forever supplant the old static label cloud. Blogumus is a widget for Blogger that allows you to view the labels of your post in a three-dimensional sphere that will react to the passage of the mouse.
The plug was produced by Roy Tanck for Wordpress and Blogger Buster has found a way to display it on Blogger. It is fully customizable and its installation takes just few minutes.

Find the following code line:

 
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>

Just below, paste:

<b:widget id='Label99' locked='false' title='label' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
  <b:if cond='data:title'>
    <h2><data:title/></h2>
  </b:if>
  <div class='widget-content'>
&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/tagcloud.swf" id="tagcloud" name="tagcloud" bgcolor="#ffffff" quality="high" flashvars="tcolor=0x000000&amp;mode=tags&amp;distr=true& amp;tspeed=100&amp;tagcloud=&lt;tags&gt;
<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
<a expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' expr:href='data:label.url' style='12'><data:label.name/></a>
</b:loop>
&lt;/tags&gt;" width="250" height="200" allowScriptAccess="always"&lt;/embed&gt;

</div>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

You can customize the following parts:
     * label: is the name of
     * 250 and 200 respectively, width and height of the object, change it to fit your template
     * Ffffff and 000,000 respectively, the background color and text labels, according to the RGB coding 
     * 12 is the font size
Once done, you can save the template. In Layout-> Items page, you'll find a new element that you can place where you prefer.

Adsense Gain 4 Tips to Improve

Adsense gains can be improved in many ways and with hard work. 
Here are 4 tricks that I think to be very powerful in helping to improve AdSense performaces.