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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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