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Disclosure: WordHugger and rssHugger have been acquired. Read about it here.

In an hour and a half (Midnight CST), It will officially be the 1st of December, and every month rssHugger will have the Top 100 blogs reset to give everyone a fair and equal chance at all that extra promotion. If you have not yet joined rssHugger, now is the time to join! If you already have joined, now is the time to make a blog update and get as many readers as possible to your blog page on rssHugger! This is a win/win situation because you help rssHugger by creating the buzz, and rssHugger sends hundreds of new readers back to you!

A new video was just released on Youtube from the wildly popular Tay Zonday, who is a local Minnesotan resident. His first video (Chocolate Rain) was an accidental internet success when it was made wildly popular from the 4Chan forums, and ultimately led him to be one of last summers largest internet memes. The video grew so popular (11.5 million views at the time of this post), that it now has been featured by national TV networks, as well as giant ringtone networks. Tay Zonday is taking his Chocolate Rain publicity to the next step now, because Dr. Pepper has just funded him to make a viral video supporting their new product (Diet Cherry Rain Dr. Pepper).

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.