Blogsperiment #392: RSS Hugger

by Jay Thompson on March 10, 2008 · 8 comments
Written by: Jay Thompson

in Blogging / Social Networking

Mary McKnight over at RSSPieces wrote about rssHugger.com today.

Now Mary would be the first to tell you that she and I don’t see eye-to-eye on everything. (My wife is the only person I’ll agree with on everything. Mostly because she’s usually right and partly because, well…. she’s my wife.)

But Mary’s a pretty sharp cookie and she uncovers nuggets-of-goodness on a regular basis.

RSS Hugger is a newish “blog directory” that looks pretty slick. And they have a brilliant “viral” marketing campaign. Just write a review (such as this one) and you get your blog listed for 10 years, for free.

They’ve got a “Top 100” list (that resets monthly) and a “Random Blog” link — both good ways for finding new blogs to read and write about (which is just what I need, yet another blog in my feed reader — it’s a sickness folks).

Seems like an easy way to get what could amount to a quality backlink. Who knows if it will drive traffic — that remains to be seen. They are currently tracking 1219 feeds, with lofty goals for many more.

Can’t see anything wrong with signing up. If you prefer not to write a post about RSSHugger, the cost is only a $20 one-time fee.

Something tells me you’re going to see a few RSSHugger posts popping up across the real estate net shortly. 10 of the latest 11 additions are real estate blogs.

Note to Collin – the RSS Hugger guy: You should add a category just called “Real Estate”. Not every real estate blog is about “Real Estate Investing” (the one pure RE category in place now).

[tags]RSSHugger, viral marketing, Miss Mary McKnight[/tags]


 

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Charleston Real Estate Blog : rssHugger, a new blog directory
March 11, 2008 at 2:35 pm

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1 Cyndee Haydon March 10, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Jay – lol, you think we’ll see a few more? It’s funny how viral RE bloggers are – it’s like wildfire – love your suggestion to for Collin – hope he hears you!

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2 Monika March 10, 2008 at 1:14 pm

“Just what I need another blog in my feed reader”… LOL I have the same thoughts but of course I’ll need to go check it out.

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3 NikNik March 10, 2008 at 3:32 pm

Thanks for the tip! I registered and it looks “golden” to me! :)

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4 Carl Minicucci March 10, 2008 at 9:00 pm

A rarity, but I actually beat you to it Jay.

So it turns out the brainchild (literally) behind the site, Colin, built and sold that site (along with a sister site) in about 3 months and netted a cool 13K on the sale in January.

I was born about 20 years too early me thinks.

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5 Sevierville Real Estate March 11, 2008 at 5:45 am

Listing for 10 years! That’s pretty good. I love the rsspieces blog. The random blog page is pretty cool. Almost like a “stumble” for just blogs…would be really cool if the page reset each time it was refreshed.

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6 George March 12, 2008 at 4:05 pm

I can’t beleive the number of ways there are to promote a blog. The mind boggles. I seem to spend my whole life promoting my various blogs.

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7 Fort Lauderdale Real Estate June 14, 2008 at 6:57 am

It’s a bright and sunny Saturday morning here in South Florida and as I drink my morning cup o’ joe, I am reading about things here that can help my business. Now it seems I will be tied up for the next two hours writing a post about rsshugger. Thanks Jay!

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