MelvinBlog

A blog that chronicles my journey on online marketing, blogging, social media, technology and life.

Archives for June 2008

The RSS FEED

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Ok everyone knows what an rss feed is right? And I’m sure most people have different ways on how they would increase their subscribers from feed. Actually I have really invested some thoughts about feeds. Why? Because if you work hard on getting rss subscribers and end up getting more from it than from your site itself, then I guess monetizing your blog would be somehow difficult or maybe earnings maybe lesser than what you should get.

So looking at techcrunch’s rss subscribers a year ago, I was amazed how they are getting so many readers to their site especially most coming from their feed. And I am even more amazed when I learned that an ad spot on techcrunch costs $10,000 per month.
So getting back to rss, to be honest I was not really trying to focus much on promoting my rss for some reasons:

  • Because there are tons of feed scrapers out there
  • I would rather have people visit my blog’s page rather than an RSS.

I don’t really know why but my basketball site before only an rss button because it’s pretty much included in the theme. Though I have never ever promoted its feed I was surprised to see that I got at least 30 subscribers for about 6 months for not even asking them to subscribe. Then through my analytics I have realized that most people who comment and visit there came from feeds So that’s the time that I have really seen the importance of getting people into your rss feed. Right now, my plan for this month is to increase my rss subscribers and hopefully get into a hundred before this year ends. That’s a pretty realistic goal I must say…

I Don’t Just Get It

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I just don’t really get why people are so much obsessed of making money online if they can make more money offline. Sometimes I hear people who say that if they can make a stable living online then they wouldn’t go for the job. Though it sounds good I don’t understand why people don’t want to go out and work and socialize and have friends and have great experiences and tons of adventures.

For me I would really love to have a job outside the internet or offline so I can really test everything and develop myself. Because one thing that an online venture does not develop is personality. Why? Because you’re just in front of your computer. Oftentimes you’re working alone and you’re talking to no one and just like you’re becoming so paranoid because you’re just alone! Yeah, I know working with the comforts of your home is awesome, but I think going outside, meeting different kinds of people and diving out and learning from experiences is just superb. It is something that no other website can teach us.

Right now I’m just 18 and is currently in college. After finishing my studies, of course I won’t leave affiliate marketing, but still I would feel elated to have a job. Having a job is a one thing that I am looking forward in future. I mean a GREAT highpaying job.

Do you sign under affiliate links?

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So being in affiliate marketing for about close a year now, I can say that I really have learned a lot. From cloaking links, redirecting, or hiding to API’s and some programming and PHP skills.

So getting back to affiliate links, we, internet marketers are tech-savvy enough to know whether we are signing under a refer string or not. On the flipside, we are doing everything to make people believe they are buying things directly not knowing that they are on an affiliate link. How about you do you sign under affiliate links? Well, I just am very somehow disappointed about those who do not sign under links. Why? Because I always feel that a person has to always get compensated for giving put something really really useful. I have a feeling that sometimes those morons are arrogant to say “do you think I don’t know that’s an aff. link? I’m not gonna sign under you” Wtf, who does not know what’s an affiliate link?

For me, if I really feel that information has helped me so much then I would gratefully sign under the link. After all what’s the cost of signing under a person?