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One of the most popular ways to calculate the success of a blog is to look at the RSS subscriber count. Many bloggers try to find creative and innovative ways to increase this number, but this is always a challenging task. There are plenty of tips online related to that topic. In goes from the RSS button above the fold to the face to face contest.

In this article, I would like to present rssHugger. rssHugger is a website developed to help bloggers promote their blogs, and to help visitors discover new blogs. Collin LaHay, the owner of rssHugger, claims that the website is spam free and that it only hosted quality blogs. In fact, each blog is manually reviewed before being officially introduced in the system. I personally think this is an essential process for the success of this venture. In fact, it is probably one of the first values for any visitor.

Here is a screenshot when browsing in the Internet Marketing category:

Here is a preview of site in rssHugger. In the following screenshot, you’ll see the page of the popular blog Mashable.com:

The Goals and Benefits

Joining rssHugger is easy and may be free if you submit an honest review about the service. If you don’t want to do this review on your blog, the alternative is to pay 20$. No matter, what you choose, your membership will than be active for 10 years!

According to Collin, rssHugger gives you:

- a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic;
- an opportunity for building backlinks for search engine optimization;
- an effective way for attracting new rss subscribers.

Both the blog owners and the blog readers may benefits from rssHugger. Still according to Collin, blog owners get the following:

- Raise awareness of your blog;
- Send tons of visitors to your blog;
- Share traffic with the community;
- Be part of a viral/buzz marketing campaign;
- Build deep-links for your blog posts to help with search engine optimization;
- Get new interested RSS subscribers who view your content on a regular basis.

Now the benefits for the readers are the following:

- Find blogs that interest you;
- Easily subscribe to many blogs;
- Skim over hundreds of blogs to find what suits you.

My opinion

rssHugger is yet another RSS directory, but I think it worth the try. As an indicative information, the following graph compare rssHugger.com with search4rss.com and rss-network.com in term of traffic:

We can see that rssHugger seems to be in a good shape when compared to those 2 competitors.

I would be more than happy if you could let me know about your own experience with rssHugger; this would be great for everyone here!

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One of the most challenging elements when trying to be profitable online is to get a maximum of visibility to get the most important volume of traffic possible. There are several ways to reach that goal and one is to buy traffic through a professional advertising company.

TNX.net is a text link advertising business that quickly gains more popularity on the market. They offer professional services for both webmasters (publishers) and advertisers. As a webmaster, you may take advantage of unique TNX features to accumulate TNX-points and get an additional income channel for your websites. As an advertiser, TNX provides you an innovative way to get a high volume of non-reciprocal links from thousands of relevant websites for a very low price.

How it works

The first step is to register with TNX. I was very impressed by the simplicity of the registering process. In fact, it’s nothing more than a simple 5 fields form. No complex process, no sensitive information required! The account is then immediately available.

Once logged in, you will have access to your main dashboard which is well design and very clean. The whole interface is quite intuitive and easy to use. All your account information is available on a single page.

There is a sidebar on the left side of the page that gives you access to all the tools you may need to use. The sidebar is divided in 3 different sections. A section for the webmaster related features another one for the advertiser related features and the third one for the affiliate program information.

For Webmasters

The section for webmasters presents a button to get the TNX code which only requires a simple copy-paste to be installed on your web pages. The code is fully available in PHP and in Perl. It also seems to be available in ASP in an experimental form. The webmaster section also presents 2 buttons related to your sites management. Note that adding a new site is very easy, but you will need to wait from 1 to 3 business days for approbation.

Moreover, a button to sell your TNX-points is also available. There are 2 different ways to sell your TNX-points. The first one is to sell it to other TNX members and advertisers. The second is to sell it to TNX itself. Currently, TNX is doing a buyout at 0.88$ per 1000 TNX-points. Note that this price is increasing every week due to growth of the TNX network and its effectiveness. In addition, it is actually not allowed to transfer more than 500 000 TNX-points per day.

In term of unique features, TNX offers to webmasters the opportunity to sell links on every page of their websites. According to TNX, this method could be up to 10 times more profitable than selling sitewide links. As a webmaster you may also choose their advertisers by your own. In fact, this means that you may exclusively place relevant links on every page. You can get more details concerning this feature on the DP Forum.

Note that the price of every link is calculated automatically. More precisely, it is mainly based on the Google PageRank (PR) of each page, the website category, the link popularity, and the number of outbound links. Actually, there is a tool available on the TNX website to calculate your potential income.

For Advertisers

The section for advertiser presents a button to create a new campaign. This brings us to an intuitive interface that let us choose the different characteristics of the targeted websites to publish your ads. The possible characteristics are the web category, the geo-targeting, the Yahoo! Backlinks and the Google PageRank. According to those different parameters, TNX estimates the number of backlinks you may expect if you spend a given amount of TNX-points per day.

Another button brings you to your campaign management page. Among other things, the management of your campaign allows you to freeze a campaign in the case it has not enough link placed.

The two last buttons of the sidebar are related to your campaign statistics and the acquisition of additional points. Actually, TNX quickly gains more traction on the market and this is mainly due to their low prices. In fact, for as low as $11 a month, TNX claims that you may get up to 10 000 static links that will point to your website.

A New Text Link Perspective

We may not underestimate the value of getting well-targeted traffic from relevant websites. TNX has based their system to offer the best services possible in term of efficiency and relevancy. TNX offers unique and valuable features and this is another reason why they increase their popularity. In fact, TNX combines the benefits of contextual advertising, text link brokers and relevant exchange of permanent non-reciprocal text links. TNX gives another perspective of paid link advertising.

In addition, TNX offers a free tool to make link looks more natural. In fact, this tool aims to avoid any penalization from Google. According to TNX, the variety is the key to success. The TNX link generator is, therefore, focus on generating a wide variety of the same link. For more details concerning this tool, you may consider visiting the DP Forum.

Also, you may be aware that TNX published some simple tips which help their advertisers to rank #1 in Google for highly competitive keywords. These tips are mainly some guidelines you may follow to be successful in terms of Google ranking. You may want to get them on the DP forum.

The Affiliate Program

TNX is offering an affiliate program that allows their partners to earn some TNX-points by referring new webmasters. In fact, as an affiliate, you will receive 13.3% of all TNX-points that are generated by the websites of the webmasters your referred. TNX allows 3 ways to refer webmasters. The first one is with direct link on your own sites. The second one is by using referral link. This could be done with a text link, a 125×125 banner, a 468×60 banner or a 468×49 banner. The last one is by direct link to other sites. TNX invites their partners to gently use this method because it could be disapprove by forum moderators.

In Summary

TNX is getting more popularity and more traction into the current market. Their unique features, their effective network and their low prices give them a lot of leverage on the market. No matter if you plan to use it as a webmaster or as an advertiser, TNX definitely offers good opportunities to earn additional income and to get more visibility online. Note that TNX currently have a limited offer to get links from 5000 quality websites for free! You’ll find the link by visiting the TNX website. It’s a good opportunity to give it a try for free!

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