Here is a little love from my feed reader, a small selection of favorite posts on my favorite blogs!

Over at Problogger there is an article titled, 7 Dark Truths: Why Readers Really Become Subscribers with some great tips and creative ideas on feed subscribers.

eMoms at Home has a great Series about Organize Your Home Office Paper: A Crash Course; here are parts one, two and three in the series. Some great tips and information!

Wake Up Later published a post titled 8 Reasons to Redesign Your Blog that was very helpful in my current redesign project.

Thats all folks! :-)

Popularity: 12% [?]

Pay per Post has recently introduced IZEARanks.com, a new and improved ranking and stats site. While it does not show as many details as feedburner or google analytics, it ranks your blog amongst all the other blogs in the system traffic wise.

I have had it tracking my second blog, Caffeine Overload for a while now and it has done amazing, with a rank of only 53 (weekly average) it is awesome to know that that blog is 53′rd out of all the other blogs! See the screen shot for details. That blog has done well every since the 3rd day, it is a hit! While it is not monetized in any way yet, I will be offering up advertising in banners and 125×125 buton ads once the design is finished.

They are giving away 1,000 every week in feb to the blog with the number 1 RR, I am not close enough to get that though! :-( The options are simple, it is definitely easy to use. I like that you can choose what shows; pageviews and visitors or just your RealRank. This blog is not doing as well, it’s real rank is only at 230 or so right now. :-( Once I finish the redesigns and get the network started I will have some major advertising happening.

Popularity: 11% [?]

I have been hard at work with some big changes to my blogs. The biggest change is a new updated and more organized template design for both. I will also be creating a new blog network, starting with 2 blogs, my own, but shortly adding in several other blogs. When the time comes to hire new bloggers I will be posting it here. Be sure to subscribe to my feed to keep updated as to when everything will happen.

I have some big things up my sleeve and I am hoping with the new network and designs will come more organized and easier to navigate. Anything special you want to see added or changed? Feel free to let me know in the comments!

Popularity: 8% [?]

I had to transfer my domain and sites over to HostGator this weekend. Startlogic went down AGAIN and I spent approximately 5 hours on hold waiting to talk to a tech support person, I was hung up on 5 times because the person didn’t want to help- I was extremely nice, too nice in fact- I was transferred around a good 2 times. I never did get a hold of anyone.

I am extremely happy with my move to host Gator, it was simple and the server is soooo much faster, no lag at all. I still have to transfer http://caffeine-overload.com/ to the new host, and once I do that I am canceling StartLogic. I have been with them for over 3 years and the last 6 months or so have been nothing but trouble. HORRIBLE customer service, slow servers, and my sites went down several times a week.

I use to do nothing but praise them, now I feel they have disappointed me to the extreme. I used this coupon to get signed up, and got my first month for only a penny “1st month for a penny with coupon code “b2evo”. The HostGator cPanel management is so much better and has a TON more features. If you are with startlogic I would switch ASAP, there is no reason to take that, since HostGator also allows you to pay monthly, about 7 dollars a month, no upfront payment needed aside from a single penny.

If your with startLogic, have you had similar problems with them lately?

Popularity: 8% [?]

The new monetizing channel that says you can earn from every visitor is getting more and more attention. With the option to earn as an affiliate and add the ads to your site the blogosphere is a buzz with the ultimate question: To do it or not to do it.

One theme I have seen is that there are not many people on the fence, most people are either for it or against it. I personally have chosen not to sign up, after research and discussions with my readers, like you, I determined this is not a method I plan on taking. But, to each their own, this business model may work on your site or blog, I would recommend interacting with your visitors before you make the choice.

Even doing something as simple as visiting polldaddy.com and putting a poll in your sidebar (like the one to the right) asking if you should add the audio ads to your site would be a great way to gauge how many readers have an opinion on this. Whatever you decide, be sure to research your options and come at it with knowledge, knowing what will play and for how much is an important piece of information you should know before putting it on your site.

Popularity: 12% [?]