Getting more visitors and subscribers is any blogger’s dream. There are countless services whose sole purpose to help you attract more traffic to your blog. Some of them are good, some of them are still struggling to deliver what they promise. New ideas to achieve that goal are coming up all the time.
rssHugger is one such idea.
Here is how it works, quoting from their own website.
rssHugger is a unique website that aims to bring bloggers and readers together. rssHugger aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimization, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the content is interesting to the reader. rssHugger aims to help visitors be able to easily find blogs that write about subjects they are interested in. These subjects include: internet marketing, making money online, charity, sports, gambling, and many more. If the visitors find a blog that they had not previously heard about, they can easily add it to their RSS readers or bookmark it.
So, basically you register your blog (and its RSS feed) in their directory and hope that people will look at it and visit your blog, or subscribe to it.
There are two ways to join, one of them is very simple. All you have to do is write a review of rssHugger on your blog, and you are entitled to have your blog listed in ithe directory.
In case you don’t want to review the service (for whatever reasons), but still want to get listed, you have to pay $20 for the service. I have no idea why someone would go for this option.
So what do I think about it? I think it can work well in the long run if they manage it properly. They are essentially creating a huge list of blogs, which can be used for a vareity of purposes later on. If your blog is in there it can attract visitors. Off course, it also depends on your blog topic and content quality (isn’t that what really matters at the end of the day?).
So it won’t cost you anything to give it a shot (other then a blog post). Who knows, it might work wonders for you. No harm in trying, no?
RSSHugger doesn’t seem to have a large user base at the moment. If generating traffic is your primary objective, writing content that gets slashdotted or dugg gets the job done.
“I have no idea why someone would go for this option.” - A number of people wouldn’t blog about a service in order to use it. In many circles its considered unethical to publish a review of something in return for some sort of gain. A number of bloggers have gotten flamed for doing that.
In the end, the content is all that matters. Driving users to a site is easy, retaining them is the important part.
Your blog has been approved. Also, for the $20 option response, 124505’s comment is correct. It is also for big commercial blogs who want innovative ways to further market their blogs, but do not want to go “off topic.” For example, a highly trafficked Golf blog may not want to make a blog post about promoting blogs.
“124505’s comment” - for a second there I thought I actually entered that number as my name… You should remove those numbers from the design Umar as they provide no value, and can cause confusion.