Get Into The Hugging Mood
I discovered this new website called rssHugger in early November but wasn’t all that convince back then that its strategy would work to garner global attention through the power of internet and viral marketing.
In their own words:
“rssHugger is a unique website that aims to bring bloggers and readers together. rssHugger aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimization, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the content is interesting to the reader. rssHugger aims to help visitors be able to easily find blogs that write about subjects they are interested in.”
Previously, to own a rssHugger page for 10 years, you either pay a one-time fee of $20 or get $10 off when you review the website and the service it offers.
That was basically where my grouses with it lie, previously. In my opinion, it is essentially a web listing of RSS feed and why would anyone want to pay to list their RSS feed on an attention-starved new website when you can get listed for free at established site like Technorati or Facebook and get a ton more exposure? And when no one, or very few, join the site, how then can it harness the power of viral marketing?
Fortunately, founder Collin LaHay, realized the need to tweak his business model and has since changed the rules by removing the $10 registration fee associated with signing up. You can now get your own rssHugger page for 10 years for free (blog quality standards apply) when you blog about the service. Alternatively, if you don’t want to review it, you can still own a page for a one-time fee of $20.
This continuous learning (via feedback) and improvement bears the hallmark of a successful Internet marketer. Speed is of the essence when we are dealing with online business. Now that Collin had shown glimpses of his pedigree, it is time we do our part in contributing to raising awareness of this website.
I’ll not go through all the details of this website which you can read from its about page. As I said earlier, it is basically a RSS feed directory where it will pull your blog’s feed to your own rssHugger page. Visitors can access your page by browsing “Top 100″ feeds by viewing popularity, “Random Blog”, or “New RSS feeds”.
Again, I find such general and un-focus categorization not meeting their sales pitch of “rssHugger aims to help visitors be able to easily find blogs that write about subjects they are interested in.” If there are dedicated categories listing related feeds, it would provide better navigation experience for visitors, and incoming traffic would be so much targeted for blog owners.
I sense a slight similarity of individual page listing to that of BlogRush in that page owen would do well to write attention grabbing headlines to improve click-throughs.
With these observations made, I conclude this review from the point of a visitor. Obviosuly, I wasn’t able to offer my thoughts and opinions as a page owner…yet. After publishing this review and submitting my blog for consideration to get a free rssHugger page, I may follow up with another post about my views of ther service as a page owner and also what benefits my blog gain from it.
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