Submit Your Blogging Questions Using the New Google Moderator!

Google has just released another fun yet useful tool, Google Matador Moderator. Google Moderator was internally used to allow Google insiders ask any questions and others vote up the questions they would like answered. Here’s how Google Moderator looks like

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On the left pane, you can see the list of the topics which in this case, the names of world leaders. Visitors then ask questions and they can also vote for another questions they would like to be answered. The questions with the most vote end up on top of the list on the right pane.

That’s it? Of course not! What good is a question without anybody answering them ? As a series administrator, you can provide answers and manage questions. You can also add topics to expand your… well, topic.

Here’s how Google Moderator works for Matt Cutts

My team uses it often at Google, e.g. it’s great for prioritizing which questions are most important.

Now what does it have to do with blogging tips? Good question! Move it to the top !

We may have been reading the same blogging questions over and over and over again and that’s why Google Moderator can be a brilliant solution. The voting system allowed by Google Moderator can put questions (heard too often in the blogosphere) at the bottom of the list and move “bright” questions to the top. While answers will still be given to questions in the lower rank, bloggers who are interested in knowing deeper about blogging can directly skim the top lists and find new ideas.

The system works perfectly for both start up bloggers and A-lists. Blogger noobs may not understand yet about advanced blogging tips provided at the top of the list, but can still getting suitable information to their blogging experience through the questions at the bottom of the list.

Similar things go for probloggers since the blogosphere keeps expanding and there are always new discoveries, questions and answers on the top index will provide something fresh for their brain.

There’s also a big chance that you will encounter a simple but useful question you never thought of being featured. That’s why whether you consider yourself a problogger or a bloggernoob, you’re always welcome to visit the series of “Blogging Questions You Don’t Know You Have“. Add your questions! As new contributrs will be added continuously, you’ll never know who’s going to answer your question

PS: Google Moderator was internally called Dory (a fish who asked questions in “Finding Nemo”)

Overcoming Feedburner’s Ping Service Limitation

By default, Feedburner limits ping services to 11 maximum. They are Technorati, My Yahoo, Bloglines, Newsgator, Google’s Ping Service, Ping-o-matic and 14 more options. What if you want to use them all instead of just the 11 services allowed?

I recently realized this when I made a separate feed subscription for each category in HomeBiz Recource. For each category, you can have each 11 ping services. So let’s say you have 2 categories with their own feeds and 1 main feed for the main blog, you can have more ping services!

Here’s some example:

http://www.homebiz.bukiki.com/feed —>11 services, 6 default + 5 optionals (service A, B, C, D, E)

http://www.homebiz.bukiki.com/category/blogging/feed —>11 services, 6 default + 5 optionals (service F, G, H, I, J)

http://www.homebiz.bukiki.com/category/quicktips/feed —>11 services, 6 default + 5 optionals (service K, B, H, D, A)

So if you post an article in the blogging category, Feedburner will ping to the 6 default services plus A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J. Am I right?

The Best and Free Internet Marketing Ebook

This article falls under a new category of “Quick Tips” which contains shorter posts than regular ones. Sometimes in the future, I may talk further about posts from this category.

There are numeruous sources of internet marketing related ebook out there. If you’re looking for any, you can browse through these free ebooks I have on my reading list. They are categorized according to the topic they’re written on.

You will probably need to opt in and be asked for an email address, but don’t worry, you are free to unsubscribe anytime. You will also find some affiliate links and related product offers, but they’re not intrusive and you can skip them to go straight to download the ebook.

Blogging, Traffic, SEO, Monetization

• Blog Monetization Strategies, Matt Jones
• Blog Profits Blueprint, Yaro Starak
• Blog Your Wage, Tony Shepherd
• Creating a Blog, Jim Regan
• How to do Everything With Feedburner, Shane Higginbottom
• How to Start a Business Blog, Michael Martine
• How to Write SEO Press Releases, Christine, O’Kelly
• Killer Flagship Content, Chris Garret
• The Easy SEO Report, Josh Spaulding
• Web Traffic Orgasm: A Case Study, Dean Hunt
• The Traffic Tips Report, Justin Michie

Analytics

• ABC of Google Analytics, Althaf Ahmed

Advertising

• Google Adwords Made Easy, Brad Callen
• The Quality Adwords Guide, Google Lady

Niche Marketing

• How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress, Caroline Middlebrook
• The ‘Make Money Online’ Niche Exposed, Josh Spaulding

Others

• Buying and Selling Domains for Profit, Joel Comm
• The Internet Money Tree, Joel Comm
• Search Engine Myths Exposed, Jonathan Leger
• The IM-Myth, Russel Brunson
• PLR Secrets, Nicole Dean
• Social Media Daily, Michelle Macphearson
• Keyword Research Guide, Wordtracker
• Authority Black Book, Jack Humphrey
• Instant List Profits, Fabio Marciano
• The 4 Phases of Internet Marketing, David Bain

Feed Error! Source Feed is Too Large…

…maximum size is 512K. This is the error I was getting when I noticed that my feed wasn’t updated with my latest post. At first, I thought that it was due to the blog security precautions I implemented earlier. But when I was done rolling back all the changes, the feed error still occured. Actually, the error itself was pretty self explanatory. But the first thing came up in my mind was the changes I committed the day before. Second was, I didn’t know what to do to troubleshoot the issue.

Now, after figuring out that undoing all the changes didn’t work, I started to look for help at the FeedBurner Help Group. I learned that there are two ways to reduce your feed’s size.

1. Through your feedburner account
2. From your dashboard options

 

Through your feedburner account

You can add a variable after your original feed address. Here’s from the group directly:

1. Sign in to your FeedBurner account.
2. Click the title of your FeedBurner feed on the My Feeds page.
3. On the feed management page that appears, click the Edit Feed Details… link just below your feed’s title.
4. In the Original Feed Address field, change the address listed there from an example like the following:

   Code:

   http://myblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml
   OR
   http://myblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

   to the following format:

   Code:

   http://myblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=3

   (Note that max-results sets the number of posts you want to have appear in your FeedBurner feed. Any integer value between 1 and 500 is permitted.)

5. Click Save Feed Details. Your changes are immediately applied and FeedBurner re-burns the newly shortened (or lengthened) feed.

Unfortunately, it didn’t work for me. But try it, maybe it works for you.

The other way to the feed troubleshooting is by reducing the number of items displayed under the “Publicize” tab, in the “BuzzBoost” section on the left. If it fails, change from displaying full feed to just summary feed.

 

From your dashboard options

If you prefer to stay with full feed to give the most to your readers (or if the above doesn’t work either), go to your WordPress dashboard, head to “Settings”/”Options” | Reading. Look for the setting labeled “Syndication feeds show the most recent” and reduce the number. Mine was 50 and currently I set it to 25…Thank God IT WORKS!

How feeds do you display? Have you got any feed problems? Hoh did you solve the problem?

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