There doesn’t seem to be a day goes by now that I’m not trying to find ways to improve the Lots of Freebies website or find new ways to encourage new visitors and today is no exception. Today, I happened to cross a site called rssHugger which is aimed more at bloggers, or at least websites that also include a blog.rssHugger aims to bring bloggers and readers closer together and provide the blogger with good backlinks provided the content is useful to the reader which is a good for both the blogger and the reader as there is enough junk floating around out there already.
The rssHugger website has some useful features like being able to browse through the blog directory to find blogs which are relevant to you, although I personally would like to see free text search option as well, and in addition there is a random blog option which works similarly to Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” or StumbleUpon.
On top of all this, and my personal favourite thing about this site, is that it has a Top 100 but with a twist. Normally if you see a top 100 on a website the list is pretty much static but rssHugger implement this with a Top 100 Reset. What this means is that on the first of each month all the rankings for the RSS feeds are reset giving everyone a level playing field to achieve a Top 100 position.
Now I imagine the long established bloggers will not be overly happy with this as they will have to battle it out each month to get one of the Top 100 spots but it does give a lot more opportunity to the smaller bloggers who may not have the time to sit and solely promote their blog.
I think we need to see more of this type of system and help give the little guy a fighting chance, especially if he has something useful to contribute.
Tags: get traffic, get visitors, rss, SEO
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