Find the Real Subscriber Count of any Feedburner feed

feedburnerI know so many people fake around the internet saying that they have like 100K subscribers while in reality the don’t even have about 100. So i found a great way to Find out what their real feed count may be. So Fakers beware! 

Here’s my little tutorial - 
  • First find the feedburner url of the feed for example Etiole’s Feedburner url will be feeds.feedburner.com/etiole
  • feedburner feed countJust copy the the feed name in the url like “feeds.feedburner.com/THEFEEDNAME
  • Now after doing that simply replace the bold word in the url i am giving – “http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/THEFEEDNAME?bg=99CCFF&fg=444444&anim=1
  • After replacing THEFEEDNAME with the name of the feed you want to find out the subsciber count copy the url into your browser window and then press enter. 
  • That’s it. You have the real feed count!

WTF? : A Commercial spamming tool for twitter to gain unlimited followers?

tweettornadoI hate Spam. Thats what most people say, right? But now a commercial spamming tool for twitter is available for download for spammers to gain unlimited followers with just a click!

The results are quite adverse. You “MAY” land up suspended. But the software works. You can see a proof here – “Twitter.com/AarensArbita“. 
You may see that the person has a large number of following and followers but with only about 2 updates. 
What this tool uses is the simple flaw present in twitters registration. It Accepts any email id you give out with even requring a verification email. So that’s it. One Flaw and thousand spammers wainting to promote their products. Let’s Join hands to finish Spam! If you see any such account than please do report it to twitter.

10 things to make sure before you tweet

twitterTwitter is breaking records. In a little time it has gained great exposure. It is being targeted by many people may be for true social networking or may be social marketing. Well the main thing is how to gain something good from this. 

If you have a good number of followers then you really know the skill of tweeting but then if you don’t really know than you need to improve on it. Here are few tips for you to follow before you tweet -
  • Make sure what you tweet is the truth.
  • If you tweet a reply be sure to make it a positive one because that may help you make a good new friend.
  • Try not to hurt anyone’s sentiments in your 140 characters or this may lead to suspension of your account
  • Never add more than one link in your tweet or else people will unfollow you thiking you are a spammer!
  • Try not to publish more than 3 tweets a minute (or else you will end up being unfollowed simply for the reason that you publish too many tweets)
  • Try to make your tweets family friendly or else some people would not like it.
  • Whenever you tweet make sure your tweet is interesting (this statement is common but it really works to get more followers)
  • If someone answers to your tweet be sure to publish a reply to it. May it be a thanks message or a “I Agree”. This shows your interest in the conversation.
That’s it. You want more or what? I think so tweeting is actually writing something in your mind but it should not hurt anyones sentiments. So Go ahead tweet it out!

Why do people use Google?

Google LogoEver wondered Google, one of the (#1 according on alexa) best search engines is used for what purposes? Actually i also had the same question and after reading a post i finally got an answer. Actually people who come on Google to find info (to be true, useful info) are only about or maybe even less than 7% of the Total Googlers.

So for what is Google used for? More than 60% of total Googlers use it For Spell Check! 
Here’s a complete list why it is used (commonly)
  • Your too lazy to type “.com”
  • Finding Useful Information
  • Spell Checking
  • Just see the image below to Know more.Uses of Google

Win a Watch with Cellphone Features for free at Etiole Contest

As i had promised in my previous posts here’s a great contest. So here’s something quite interesting for us! Etiole (Monik) is holding a contest where you can win a watch with numerous Features!

Here are some of them -
  • Supports Triband
  • Supports Gsm
  • Works with any Sim card
  • Touch Pad
  • Bluetooth
  • Memory Card upto 2Gb
  • Supports MP4 Video
  • 1.3 megapixel Camera with Video Recording
  • All functions included just like your cellphone – Phone Book , Games , etc.
  • Headphones with awesome Clarity

This is the Merlin M50 GSM watch which is only available at Merlin Soft Magic Systems.

Here’s a video which will tell you more about the watch -


How to Participate in the Contest?

Simple Rules – Simple Game – Heavy Prize!
To participate you must atleast fulfill any one of the below conditions. You can Compete more to increase your chances of winning!
  • Post Updates on your Facebook account or Twitter account about this contest to get 5 points for each.
  • Give a review about the Merlin Watch on your Blog to get 20 points. (more details about the watch here)
  • Join the Merlin Group on Facebook to get 10 points.
  • Follow MerlinDigital on Twitter to get 10 points.
  • Subscribe Etiole to get Email Updates to get 10 points.
Contest Will be live till the 1st March so lot of time for you guys to Complete tasks!
That’s it. After you complete any one of the task above just post it in the comments or mail me at monik@etiole.com so i will include you in my participants list.
Special Thanks to Hiro from Merlin Computers for sponsering us.

Etiole : Redefined | Welcome to Etiole 2.0

Welcome Everbody to Etiole 2.0. You won’t possible believe it took me around 13 hours (not continous but 2 days each around 6 hours) to design this template. This template is originally from the Mad Max template.

This time I have Made Etiole’s Loading Speed much faster than the previous version as my visitors were complaining of Slow Loading Time. I have also added Google’s friend connect and i have alloted Ad Slots in Places which won’t disturb the readers from Reading. I have also made it easy for Readers to subscribe to Content Via various Sources.

I have also added Video Commenting for those readers who love their webcam!

I have redesigned the Logo also. I love it! I have also reduced the post limit per page to 5 because less posts on homepage = Fast loading time. Total Loading time via Tool’s Pingdom = 1.7 secs (here is the Detailed report)

In the Next 24 hours will be working on Fixing Bugs with this theme. So if you come accross a bug please be sure to post it here in the comments or mail me at monik@etiole.com

Thanks!

Use this simple Blogger hack to increase Google Traffic!

BloggerMany Bloggers who use Google’s Blogging service often complain about the url od the post. Unlike WordPress Blogger Users cannot edit the Url of the post. And also one more disadvantage is that you can’t add more than about 6 words in your url. This makes it very hard for a blogger to insert a appropriate title into the url. So what shall we do?
Learn to cope with Difficulties! I also thought the same and then I came up with a solid idea which I use for every post and this helps me to gain a lot of Google’s Juice (traffic). Follow few steps and then you can get good traffic!

Blogger Title

  • Write your post as usual but this time don’t fill anything in the Title
  • Now if you are writing a post like. “Microsofts lays off 5,000 jobs in 6 months” then choose keywords which would be appropriate for the post like (here), “Micsroft five thousand jobs and so on…”
  • Make sure the Keywords you choose do not excede 29 letters (including space)
  • Now Publish your Post
  • Now again edit your post and give a suitable healine.
  • You have made it!

Please Note : Once you Publish the Post then you cannot again change the url of your post by any method so choose your keywords wisely.

Wowzio the free widget service is going into Beta

wowzio widgetsRemeber Wowzio, the Widget Service? It used to create Great widgets for your websites. Like all other websites this one has also gone into beta.

The widgets which were available for free are now only availale if you have an invite which they send every 24 hours , about 25. But what’s good is this that now the widgets are ad Supported in which there is a revenue sharing program. Yes! you can earn something for it.

They are also offering Paid services which will cost around $1 per month for a professional widget.
But i don’t think it’s quite helpful for a blogger as this may slowdown your blog load time which may cost you your visitors. But if you are still willing to take the risk go ahead!