Posts Tagged ‘bloglines’

Blog Site Promotion

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Blog Promotion strategy that is often overlooked involves locating blogs with topics somewhat similar to yours and placing relevant comments in their comment box area.
This can be effective especially for those blogs that let you create your own online identity with the main Web address or URL of your blog included as a link to [...]

Feed Reader Popularity Stats

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Hitwise has released some statistics on the popularity of various web based feed readers.

The market share of US visits to Bloglines was 3 times greater than Rojo, its nearest competitive web-based feed reader. The chart below shows the traffic trend over the past year for the leading web-based feed readers. You can see that [...]

Ask’s Blogsearch

Monday, June 5th, 2006

The smartest move Ask could make right now is to heavily invest in Bloglines’ brand, and it appears they are doing just that. Their new blogsearch will draw from Bloglines ’subscribed’ blogs, rather than indexing content across all blogs.
The fact that splogs are rarely syndicated in a blog reader has not gone unnoticed, and [...]

Business Blogrolls

Monday, May 1st, 2006

That is the question from Des Walsh. He wants to know if businesses should be blogrolling?
I’ve heard it argued that having other people’s links on your blog
could be detrimental to your business, in that people are in effect
being encouraged to leave your blog and visit elsewhere. On the other
hand, some would argue that a [...]

More Technorati Woes

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

After Monday’s Technorati story, and the latest gripes, Technorati is feeling the heat of their users:
Randy: I’m asking for zero new features. All I want is the existing features to actually work. Without my results being infested with splogs. Without bogus results from months past. You know, current non-spammy results.
Bloglines as well is weathering a [...]

Bloglines Scheduled Maintenance

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Bloglines, my favorite, easy-to-use news reader will be performing routine maintenance today. If this is your reader, you may want to prepare for outtages.
Bloglines is the most popular reader on the web. I’m just not sure why they have chosen the busiest web-reading and news-making day to do scheduled, routine maintenance.
This is [...]

Bloglines Releases Mobile Reader Update

Friday, October 28th, 2005

If you’ve been using Bloglines to read your feeds on your mobile, like I have, you’ll appreciate the addition of several new features, like being able to create a mobile feeds list, so that your graphically heavy feeds and those that don’t need your immediate attention, don’t end up on your mobile device.
Mobile Do you [...]