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A lot of people were asking me for information regarding how much traffic John Chow sent rssHugger.com when I ordered a blog review, so I have decided to make a public post about it. For those who do not know the background, the first review was quite negative (because my site charged money to join), but after I changed the site’s business model, John Chow made an updated post about the new features and the site received a lot more publicity and many blogs did their own reviews about it.

Today I have signed up for Entrecard after getting an email from the CEO, Graham Langdon. Entrecard is the square widget (the 125×125 button on the top right of my blog [or at the bottom of this post]) that is like a virtual business card. webmasters can install them on their blog, and then when you visit another website using Entrecard, you can “drop your card” much like you would in real life meeting a new business acquaintance. Every time you drop your Entrecard on another blog, or every time someone drops one on yours, you earn a credit. Credits can then be cashed out by advertising you 125×125 button on other websites running the widget. I have installed Entrecard to give it an official case study to see how well you can network with other bloggers, and how well the advertising system works. I want to see if the idea actually benefits everyone, or if the theory is only good on paper (Communism anyone?).

This is the 12th part of The Link Building Cookbook series showing you the best places to build links to increase website traffic.

A great way to build backlinks is from related blogs. The problem that most people run into is the blogs do not have a “Top Commentators” plugin, or do not have search engine friendly blog comments. I have run across a blog search engine that lists only blogs that have dofollow enabled. So far, the list is pretty small, but I feel it has potential and should not be overlooked. The site is called CommentHunt.com.

After the soft launch of my new startup rssHugger earlier this November, I have been receiving ample amounts of feedback from the community. I have finally responded to the popular vote by removing the $10 registration fee associated with signing up. Now if you own a quality blog, and make a blog post/review about rssHugger, you can get your own blog listed in rssHugger for 10 years for free. The same quality standards still apply, and I will still be manually approving blogs, but now you do not have to spend any money to promote your blog. If you do not want to make a blog post about rssHugger, you can opt out by paying a one time fee of $20, which runs down to only $2 per year making rssHugger the biggest bang for your buck in terms of blog advertising and promotion.

Happy thanksgiving everyone! Today I have an extra reason to be giving thanks… I am one of the top 8 finalists competing for the best business idea of November. IdeaBlob and the entrepreneurial community has nominated me, and I need your help to win!

I previously asked for support, and I received the few extra votes I needed to make it to the finals. For the finals, all votes are reset to zero, and you can only nominate the final 8 ideas. I really need everyone’s help! If I win, I will be putting thousands of dollars back into contests, as well as continue my ongoing marketing campaign for rssHugger.

A flaw in Digg that needs to be patched:

Update: As far as I can tell, it has been patched.  =) 

A little birdie on the syndk8.net blackhat SEO forum posted this and I thought it was worthy of public disclosure.

Early November I submitted my website rssHugger.com to IdeaBlob. IdeaBlob is a website that entrepreneur’s submit great ideas to in which the community as well as your family and friends vote on the best ones.

The final 8 will be chosen on November 21 (less than 48 hours!!), and I am currently ONE SPOT away from getting into the finals, which I will then compete for $10,000 for the best business idea of November!

The $10,000 will be used to actively promote rssHugger.com, as well as feature many contests I will be running, which ultimately means lots of money will be coming back to my readers!

This is the first post in The Link Building Cookbook series, helping you find the best places to add links to your website to help you increase website traffic.

Update: The links are all loaded via an Iframe. It is not 400,000 unique links so it does not provide you with an ungodly amount of search engine optimizing, although you can still use this technique to increase your website traffic.