Shankar Ganesh

FilterMyRSS is a pretty neat and useful service for bloggers. With FilterMyRSS, you can filter information on an RSS feed, and cut it down to get only what you want.

Consider that you’re reading a popular blog that publishes tens of articles everyday. Not all posts might be of value to you, but all posts fall right on your RSS reader since you just can’t customize what comes through the feed. Information Overload.

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Google caused lots of confusion among bloggers this time, with the PR update penalizing blogs that were selling links on their sites. Thankfully, this blog got PageRank 5 this update.

Quality posts, participation in group writing projects, support from fellow bloggers helped in achieving this PR

Some of my friends’ blogs had a PR drop, I’m sorry for them. Traffic wise, I noticed a slight increase in traffic a few days before the PR bar turned green here.

Good keywords usage is very often essential to drive traffic from search engines, and using the right terms naturally in your posts brings in quality organic traffic for your blog.

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Apparently, the amount of RSS readers a blog has decides its status

It’s highly important that you concentrate on increasing the number of RSS readers of your blog, so here go three little, yet highly efficient tips to build your RSS subscriber base:

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Blogging has become your hobby, or is your profession. You’re loving it, yet you’re getting too little time to focus on content. Time management is a good thing to do, and here go some time saving tips for you:

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Readers’ comments matter to every blog on earth. Why not you enhance the comments layout on your blog with these plugins?
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If you’ve built up a huge amount of quality articles on your blog that are worth preserving, and reading offline – you may want to give your readers a choice to print out content. It isn’t that tough to do that, so here goes a list of three tools that let you integrate a print functionality to your blog posts:
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Recently, I participated in Daily Blog Tips.com’s Project Three (you can read my entry here). The contest got 115 entries in total, and here goes a list of my favourites:
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You’ve started blogging, and you’re writing good posts. Your blog could get even more better with a lot of free, cool stuff available online. Let me list some cool, general resources that will surely help in spicing up your blog.
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You’ve seen ReviewMe, SponsoredReviews and other services that pay bloggers for reviews you write on products.

Here comes another one with a really cool concept: ReviewBack

Here’s how it works:

• All blogs that have signed up with ReviewBack network are listed in this page.
• Sign up, add your blog and contact the other blogs in the network for mutual reviews using the same page.
• Once they agree – you review that blog, and that one reviews yours! Simple and lovely.

Great news for bloggers who cannot afford paid reviews.
Share your thoughts on ReviewBack in the comments.

Exchange reviews at ReviewBack.com [Via Hongkiat]