Consolidating Feeds on Blogger and FeedBurner

On July 11th, Google’s Blogger announced a deceptively minor update that allowed users to reference a 3rd party feed for their blog. For veteran Blogger users the importance of this update may be obvious but for others let me explain. Then: Blogger only had its...

How Much is Your Blog Worth?

Well I have no idea how this algorithm based on Technorati’s API is but according to this nifty widget created by Dane Carlson, StepForth’s SEO Blog is currently worth $83,551 buckaroos. Hmm, now if we could just get that kind of money from our blog 🙂 My...

FeedBurner is Now Totally FREE

FeedBurner’s previously for-fee services are now free after its relatively recent acquisition by Google. This is great news for the blogging community which is probably why it is getting some serious publicity (#1 story on TechMeme). So what is all this bruhaha...

StepForth Tutorial: Blogs 101, Part 3

Blogs 101 is a resource to provide our clients and readers with a clear concept of what a blog is, why a blog might be a positive addition to their website or marketing campaign, and how to implement, optimize and promote a blog. In Part 1 of this series I discussed...

So Google Has Feedburner, What Now?

According to TechCrunch.com today Feedburner is in the final steps of an acquisition by Google for $100 million – with little or no chance of the all-cash buy going south. What is Feedburner? “FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and...