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In case you haven’t noticed, i have not been updating the blog these past days.

Unfortunately, my internet service provider suspended my internet connection due to the lack of payment.

I share an apartment with a couple more friends, and one of them, is responsible for the internet contract, and he forgot to pay the last 2 months despite the constant rememberings of the companie.

Last june 2nd, they cut the service leaving us with no connection to the world. lol

The payment has been made, and only today they re-established the service aleluia!!!

About 2 months ago, Ahkong made a proposition in where he asked his visitors to subscribe his RSS feed by email, and in exchange he would do the same. He had a great feedback and managed to get a good increase in his rss subscribers count.

So i will try this method here.

So here is how we are going to do:

1. Subscribe to my RSS feed by email;
2. Place a comment here about your subscription;
3. Remember to place your email used to subscribe, so that i can confirm it;

All kinds of business are made on the internet, and due to the value of RSS subscribers, it is no surprise that i see business like rssxplosion appear on the web.

Current RSS subscribers market price is arount $27 to $35 they say.
Rssxplosion promises to deliver you the amount of subscribers you pay for a promotional price of $1 each only… And delivered weekly or monthly.

It seems they have already made some big sells:

BloggingFingers: USD$6,000 / 204 RSS Subscribers
Ryan Shamus: USD$2,500 / 94 RSS Subscribers

Truth or not…..

I haven’t done any contests lately on this blog due to several factors, but i have decided to sponsor one. In case you haven’t heard, netfool’s blog is having a contest with over $4,500 in prizes.

The winners will be selected on June 2nd, and it is so easy to enter. You just need to subscribe his rss feed, and if you want to increase your chances then Jim has some tasks for you.

I am sponsoring the contest with:

1. 2 125×125 Ad Spots
2. Full Blog Review
3. 5000 Entrecard Credits

Here is the complete list of prizes:

A few weeks ago i found an interesting post about “Anti marketing design“.

Anti marketing design are sites that use ugly designs, but manage to be very successful.

The example used was Plentyoffish.com, a site that makes more than $10000 each day with google adsense. According to the founder, Markus Frind , one of the main reasons of this success is exactly the ugly site design.

He evens gives examples of other ugly sites that are very successful such as myspace, craiglist, google.

Markus Frind says that sites with an ugly design tend to generate more revenue, build better brands, and are more fun to participate.

when i visited the blog i noticed a drop on RSS readers. Although i don’t have many RSS readers the drop was considerable.

I logged in to my account at feedburner to check what was wrong. And with no surprise, the google feed readers where not being counted. Again!!!!! This is not new. It happened sometimes before. I don’t know the reason this happens, but for bloggers like me, with few rss readers it will look bad. Yesterday i had 30 readers and now it is 19. That means a drop of 37%. Ouch! lol