Get Popular with "Spicypage"

Spicypage is a social online community where anyone including blogger shares, review and talks about what websites or blogs they discover on the net. Founded in September of 2006, It is a friendly community that allows everyone to find easier ways to spread the notable sites or blogs when stumbled upon them.

SpicyPage lets you post, comment on, vote on, and share your favorite's sites or blogs with your friends and others like you. You can post not only your blog but also an article or story about anything you are interested in. Even you can create or start a group to make your private or public community.

You will quickly build your network when you vote on other blog that listed in your spicypage account main page or you can choose by categories listed on the left of the page. Besides that, you can grow your network by inviting your friend by email. Just click "invite friends" and input your friend email accounts to the form up to six accounts. More blogs you vote on, more network and friends you will have. It means more traffic would come to your site. Usually, spicypage member will vote you back if you vote on their web/blog. If you wish, you can ask them to vote your web/blog by sending them a message while you ask him/her to be your friend. There are some another tools which can help you to be popular in spicypage community. It's easy and fun.

Recently, spicyage become a new way of web-ranking solution to determine the best sites or blogs, 100% powered by its members. Discover and bookmark the new and the best sites/blogs out there and connect with people of the same interest as you.

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Why should we join TECHNORATI?

Technorati [ http://www.technorati.com ] was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. As of August 2007, Technorati indexes over 94 million weblogs.

[from: wikipedia.org]

Now, Technorati currently tracking more than 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. They search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”

[from: technorati.com/about]

Even there had been some explanation about technorati as mentioned above, but the author itself never explained exactly what Technorati is, as he's stated in his private blog in January 21, 2004:

What is Technorati?

If you're one of the tens of thousands of people who use Technorati every day, you'll notice that most of our changes (on the new beta site so far have been under the hood. Changes to the body have been minimal. As a result, we've been scratching our heads because we've never explained exactly what Technorati *is*. For that matter, we've never explained much about what a "cosmos" is, either -- even though that's what Technorati finds in its searches.

So I thought it would make sense to ask you what Technorati is. Is it a search engine for blogs? A conversation engine? Or something else again?

Same with "cosmos." Is there a more self-explanatory word for what Technorati finds? Or a better way to say exactly what "cosmos" means?

Let us know. We'd like to hear from you. Thanks!
Posted by dsifry at January 21, 2004 2:56 AM

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The Tehcnorati founder lets the technorati users to describe what technorati really is, because I think he still do not know what technorati will be in the future. What he did is to give the bloggers a place to communicate, share, organize and another activity which can help the bloggers each other to develop their blog better and more profitable I think.

Beside all of those things, technorati now become such an important thing that bloggers must have in order to popularize their blog. By join technorati, we can at least:

1. Submit and claim your blog in technorati directory.
2. Linking each other with other bloggers.
3. Track and record our blog activity.
   
4. Search and to be searched by other bloggers.
5. Many others benefit that you can find in technorati.

Thats all my opinion about technorati for now, I think It's good for bloggers especially new bloggers to join this community. We can learn each other to make our blog better. Salute to technorati.

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About Dave Sifry, Technorati founder. Click here!

What is Blog Feed?

Feed or in general term called as RSS feed had being used by bloggers in order to get popular in the net. More popular you are in the net, more traffic you have in your blog. It's make sense, isn't it? Here I try to bring you about feed definitions that I find from the net. I hope this is useful for you and bring to you the benefit of using feed.

These are some definitions about feed and RSS:

"A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an Internet aggregator. A web feed is also sometimes referred to as a syndicated feed."
[source & read more here: wikipedia.org]

"RSS (formally "RDF Site Summary", known colloquially as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually."
[source & read more here: wikipedia.org]

"RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. RSS is an XML-based format for content distribution. Webmasters create an RSS file containing headlines and descriptions of specific information. While the majority of RSS feeds currently contain news headlines or breaking information the long term uses of RSS are broad."
[source & read more here: rss-specification.com]

After we read about feed definition above, It is important for us to update our blog everyday, poorly at least once a week. How we build our blog feed so the others can read our updated blog? For this question, I suggest you to use FeedBurner as I write in my previous post. Why? Because It is easy to be done and it has many features that useful for publishing our blog. One of those features is we can build "Headline Animator" as that appear on top of this blog. It is interesting, isn't it?

Here is the snapshot of my "Headline Animator":

More than that, you can place it ("Headline Animator") to your personal profile in MySpace.com, Friendster.com, Facebook.com, Perfspot.com and others.

Boost Your Blog Traffic with FeedBurner

What is FeedBurner? Why should we use FeedBurner?

Before we talk about FeedBurner, it's good idea if we talk first about what can we do with FeedBurner?

With FeedBurner, as a blogger we can promote our blog contents, build & measure audience and make money finally.

This is what FeedBurner say about their service:

"FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web."

"FeedBurner also offers the largest feed and blog advertising network that brings together an unprecedented caliber of content aggregated from the world’s most recognized media companies (e.g. Wall Street Journal Online, Wired News, Ziff Davis), A-list bloggers and blog networks and individual publishers from around the world."

This is a sketch how FeedBurner works:

and These are some facts of FeedBurner from their "Fast Fact and Stats":

• According to Nielsen/NetRatings, FeedBurner is growing faster than MySpace and Digg with 385% traffic growth.
• Total feeds: 1,209,996
• Number of publishers: 681,932
• Number of podcast and videocast feeds: 168,966
• Number of subscribers across all FeedBurner feeds: Too many to fit on this page. Email us for the most recent stats and pretty graphs.
• Percent of FeedBurner employees using Macs: 39%, PCs: 58%, Other: 3%.
• Number of made-up words on this site: 4

It's undoubtedly that FeedBurner become new trend for blogger to be popular. Get more understanding and benefit about FeedBurner by Register to FeedBurner for FREE.

Visit and register with FeedBurner.com here!

Blog Traffic

How popular is your blog? Why your blog must popular? What happen if your blog isn't popular?
These question are often become attention for the bloggers particularly for new bloggers. Blog popularity is one of parameters how success is a blog. Blog popularity is usually determined by how much traffic does it has in a time span such as daily, weekly, monthly even anually.

Blog traffic or generally called web traffic means the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site. It is a portion of Internet traffic. This is determined by the number of visitors and the number of pages they visit. Bloggers should monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic to see which parts or pages of their blog page are popular and if there are any apparent trends, such as one specific page being viewed mostly by people in a particular country.

Blog traffic can be analysed by viewing the traffic statistics found in the web server log file, an automatically-generated list of all the pages served. A hit is generated when any file is served. The page itself is considered a file, but images are also files, thus a page with 5 images could generate 6 hits (the 5 images and the page itself). A page view is generated when a visitor requests any page within the web site – a visitor will always generate at least one page view (the main page) but could generate many more. Tracking applications external to the web site can record traffic by inserting a small piece of HTML code in every page of the web site.

There are some types of information are often collated when monitoring web/blog traffic, these are the example:

• The number of visitors
  
• The average number of page views per visitor – a high number would indicate that the average visitors go deep inside the site, possibly because they like it or find it useful. Conversely, it could indicate an inability to find desired information easily.
  
• Average visit duration – the total length of a user's visit
  
• Average page duration – how long a page is viewed for
  
• Domain classes – all levels of the IP Addressing information required to deliver Webpages and content.
  
• Busy times – the most popular viewing time of the site would show when would be the best time to do promotional campaigns and when would be the most ideal to perform maintenance
  
• Most requested pages – the most popular pages
  
• Most requested entry pages – the entry page is the first page viewed by a visitor and shows which are the pages most attract visitors.
  
• Most requested exit pages – the most requested exit pages could help find bad pages, broken links or the exit pages may have a popular external link
  
• Top paths – a path is the sequence of pages viewed by visitors from entry to exit, with the top paths identifying the way most customers go through the site
  
• Referrers; The host can track the (apparent) source of the links and determine which sites are generating the most traffic for a particular page.
  

Those are a little explanation about blog traffic and I'm sure that you understand why your blog must popular and what happen if your blog isn't popular. I think It's not too hard to be understood.

[reference : wikipedia.org]