BlogRush = Awesome!

After reading through several of my favorite blogs and websites about a wonderful new blogging tool, I had to share it myself.

BlogRush is an RSS syndication tool that allows you to add a widget to your blog that displays updated blog entries from other blogs similar to yours. Depending on posts, keywords, labels and tags, this particular tool makes it easy for you get your blog out there by basically posting on another person's blog!

I would highly recommend this tool for anyone that wants to see some increased traffic, new subscribers or just bigger numbers surrounding your blog. The link above will take you to the site and the set up is easy. Just enter your blog name, URL and RSS feed address and add the widget and you are done!

You can see my widget on the left hand side. Feel free to click through any of the blogs that sounds interesting. That's what it's there for!

Give it a try and prove me wrong that this isn't one of the best tools out there for bloggers!

Have a great day!

A Quick Blog Shout Out!

Over the past few days I've come to realize that I need to take advantage of the beautiful weather and the wonderful company of my girlfriend, my family and my friends while I am still at home and have some time available. This is why my blog has not had an entry for a while.

I also realized I was getting a little too wrapped up in the blog and, in turn, I wasn't letting myself just find new stuff and write about it. (The surge in my readership mixed with some helpful tools online can be attributed to this.)

I decided to do a revamp of the site appearance. If you hadn't noticed, the site was looking almost old-fashioned and not very modern. With that, I decided to research a lot more into some different formats to make my blog reflect me a little better.

Luckily, I just happened to stumble across THE BEST Blogger/Blogspot tweak blog I've ever read and it will blow your mind if you are a Blogger user.

My new appearance can only be accreditted to the author(s) over at Tricks for New Bloggers. This blog is wonderful and really brings my enthusiam back to Blogger after trying out WordPress.

This blog will help your blog look better, run better and overall just ROCK!

Look it up and prove me wrong in my opinion that this is THE BEST place for Blogger help!

Thanks and don't forget to link up, subscribe, read and just enjoy!

Prove me wrong!

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Confusion of Feedburner

As I've been getting back into my blog and working to develop strong posts that spark some interest, I've noticed something that had me baffled but not has me delighted about a service I used called FeedBurner.

FeedBurner is an RSS service provided that is really the whole package of everything that a blogger could ask for. I can see how many subscribers I have. How many readers each day. What the most popular blogs. What RSS services everyone uses and what the top clicks in and out of the blog are.

This service is just AWESOME!

My concern at the start extended from the fact that I found that quite a few of the subscribers are actually search bots for most of the major RSS blog sites such Feedster, Google, Yahoo, Bloggster, Blo.gs, Technorati and FeedBurner itself. I thought this was something of concern because I didn't have actual people reading my blog, but rather a bunch of bots that scan the Web for updates in blogs and then posts them in their central webpage.

Then I realized that this was great because now my blog is getting posted on ten other sites with no work at all. All I have to do is work on strong titles for my posts, have a solid content within the body and make sure my keywords stand out well.

Because I've done that, I've watched my hits climb to 20 hits a day and my subscribers grow even further! It's great! I love it!

Thank you FeedBurner! You are a great service and I can't thank you enough for the amazing product you have published!

Let's keep the momentum going: if you like my blog, subscribe, link up, leave comments and just read.

Thanks and have a great day!

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Is Technorati Slipping?

After hearing that Technorati is having a bit of shake-up at the corporate level, I'm beginning to wonder if the online's best search engine and directory of blogs is beginning to slip.

My reasoning behind this pondering is a simple fact that is based around my blog and the fact that no one has said anything about anything!

Over the past few weeks, I've noticed that my Authority on Technorati has not increased as my blog has been linked to in several entries. For users who don't know how Technorati works or what Authority is, it's the basic concept that the more people that are linked to you and your blog, the more Authority you have in the online world of blogging! Simple and ingenius, right? Right, until now evidently!

I've just noticed that my Authority has not changed in the last three months and I know, for a fact, that I have been linked to by different bloggers and sites on at least 5 different occasions.

What's the deal Technorati? Am I not good enough to upgrade my Authority? Do I not meet some unknown standards? SOMEONE EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO ME, PLEASE!!!

This post is openly directed to anyone that can help explain what is going on here. Is there a fault in the system? Am I slipping through the cracks?

There are millions of bloggers out there and I take pride in knowing that I rank well in the huge world of blogging but it seems as though something is inhibiting this. If anyone has any suggestions for me, let me know. I'm open!

Thanks for the help in advance, link up and subscribe!

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Two computers + one monitor + one keyboard + one mouse = BIG Problem??? Not Anymore!

Just a quick entry before sleep. I just received a computer from my girlfriend's gracious father. On my trip home, I thought I was going to be stuck in a dilemma of trying to figure out a way to use my LCD television as a monitor and manipulate my laptop keyboard and optical mouse to utilize the new desktop PC.

The fact of the matter is that I don't have an extra keyboard or mouse laying around my home. My office at school is a different story but that is a few hours away and drive up there would not be very cost effective for a simple mouse and keyboard. What is a guy to do?

The answer: Follow the guidelines set up by the technology article within a wonderful news site that I've been trying out for the past few weeks. Associated Content (AC for short) is a great site that is completely user written and seems to function along the lines of independent papers throughout Europe. There is no political influence and my overall consensus is that this site seems to be more or less a collection of professional blogs/ journalist articles.

The technology article is found here and gives fairly clear directions on how to set up a dual computer connection with the help of a simple connection piece known as KVM micro switch.
I've had an entry similar to this one that can be found here that utilizes a program known as Synergy but requires multiple monitors (which I unfortunately don't have).

Give the article a read and please check out Associated Content if you are interested in finding a lot of news articles without the political left wing and right wing influences of some of the major news sites.

Enjoy and I'll let you know how it works!

Have a great day!

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