Taking On The Feedburner Big Boys

Or not.

The above image is a graphical comparison of the feedburner subscription numbers of four awesome websites;

1. Mashable
2. 43Folders
3. SmashingMagazine
4. and erm., Third World Geek (hehehe)

There’s no competition really, I just want to share this cool little Feedburner comparison tool called Feed Compare. This baby does not just to show how you stack against your competitors, it can also be used to call the bluff of those shady sites who claim to have oodles of subscribers.

Commented On

Commented On is a new application that you folks may be interested in. This is a bookmarking application that keeps track of all the sites where you have placed a comment. Oftentimes we just place a comment on a blog we may have just stumbled on and then forget all about that comment.

This has been a nagging problem with me before, especially during my rampant bloghopping days. I’d just comment away and forget all about it as I move to another blog. Sometimes I feel really frustrated because some of those blogs that I’ve visited are really good and I would have really wanted to visit them again. So much so that I was contemplating of creating some sort of a mash-up that would allow me to store all my comments and the related sites where those comments were submitted. Thankfully, with Comment On, I didn’t have to create one. Not that I would be able to create one anyway.

I think the only thing here is if you have a lot of blogs and you use a lot of pen names or aliases. I haven’t really tried creating multiple accounts but I believe it should be possible.

Check this one out, it would surely be worth your while.

Backlink Builder: Pinoy Blogs With CommentLuv Enabled

If you are looking for pinoy blogs that sport the commentluv plug-in, look no further. I have listed below some of these blogs for your convenience.

My criteria for including blogs here is of course, they’re pinoy blogs, they’re current, and they have the commentluv plug-in installed. I hope that when they see their blogs here, they would be moved to linking mine as well (I wish).

To the uninitiated, commenting on blogs with commentluv plug-ins is one of the easiest way to build backlinks for your blogs. Backlinks (in case you do not know yet) boost your rankings, higher rankings significantly improves your paid post opportunities, paid post opportunities lead to more money, and of course more money leads you to the dark side of the force. Kidding.

But seriously, if you are thinking of improving your traffic via a commenting strategy, then you might as well hit two birds with one stone by commenting on blogs with the commentluv plug-in enabled. You not only fulfill your goal of introducing your blog to others (thereby gaining potential visitors), you also get backlinks to your blog. What the commentlub plug-in does specifically is, when you comment on one of these blogs, it will seek out your blog and display a link to your last blog post right under your comment. Sweet isn’t it?

Aboutmyrecovery| Chuvachienes| Makimeji
Alphadf| Conradmiguel | Mawesadobo
Amorfrancis | Ebooktechie | Modpinoy
Annie-thejourney | Entrepreneur | Mon-bric-a-brac
Archon-digital| Fengguillermobrum| Naptimerocks
Atmaxplorer | The Quickstop Project| Niftygaloot
Babyface | Jaypeeonline | Noeesnook
Babyrambutan | Jessie-simbulan | Pinoybizblogger
Balutpress | Jpsimbulan | Pinoyconsole
Bendzg | Jrocas | Pinoyinsingapore
Blog2learn | Kabalyero|Pinoytechguy
Bloggingmix |Knoizki |Pinoytek
Bloggista | Laurganism | Pinoytux
Bluepanjeet| Leandroarban| Promdiliving
Chartherct| Lloydlopez| Radiantview
Raketscience| Sesantos.ph| Toni.marikit
Romelo | Silkenhut | Untwistedvortex
Sasha-says |Simplydeelytz | Websaytko
Serialgirlfriend | Techathand | Yevka

Just a friendly advise though, while the commentluv plug-in is one very cool widget, please do not comment just for the sake of making a comment. In other words, do not SPAM. Plain vanilla comments such as “Nice post!”, or “Nice article!” are too spammy if you ask me. Relate to the article, share a common experience, criticize! Don’t be a lazy commenter with your ‘blog hop’ or ‘was here’ comments. That’s ok when placed on tag boards or chat boxes, but when you pass these things off as comments just so you get a backlink, that’s just wrong. Most of the time, blog owners would just delete them so if you don’t have anything to share, move on to the next blog.