I was thinking a lot about what kinds of things I’m going to discuss on this blog over the next few months. I have about 7,000 articles floating around in my head, so there is no lack of content here. It’s more an issue of narrowing down all these thoughts into the most valuable things I can discuss.

Then I realized the most obvious way to focus my efforts is to just ask you what you want to read more about. Earth shattering breakthrough I know!

So, I found this handy dandy WP-Poll plugin a little while ago, fumbled around with it a bit and it just wasn’t working right. I’m sure it was user error on my end, but I never got it right. So, I’m using a free polling script from polldaddy.com instead (even though that website sounds like an “adult entertainment” company).

Go ahead and place your vote for your favorite topic of interest…

(Note, you can check up to 5 boxes below if you can’t decide on your favorite)

After you place your vote for your favorite (or 5 favorite) topics, please leave a comment below and elaborate exactly what you would like to see. The more detailed you are, the more likely I can develop content that is exactly what you need.

To thank you for your time, I’ll randomly pick one of the comments below and send that person $25 via paypal. Be sure to use your paypal email address when leaving the comment in case you win so you can get your cash.

(BS comments like “Thanks” or “Nice post” won’t be part of the drawing, sorry. Drawing will be done via recorded video so it’s 100% fair using this random drawing program to pick the winning comment number).

I’ll pick a winner on Monday evening (March 31) around 8pm est, so make sure you leave your comment right away…

Thanks for your help!

“Taking the time to create a plan for your blog and it’s success, or carving out a period of time to schedule a strategy session with yourself, is often all it takes to help make sure you know where you and your blog are headed.”

Don’t get me wrong, the goal of this blog is to make a full time income with it in one year’s time. I even recently had a week long break that included several hours of strategic thinking and planning. However, as increasingly more and more of you have asked, what happens when this experiment is over? To be perfectly honest, I have no idea.

When I started this blog, I didn’t really know what to expect and therefor had no real ideas as to what would happen at the end of the year. As things progressed and the blog became more and more popular, I began focusing on more and more ways to monetize and reach my goal. It’s a bit hard to believe considering the fact that I have a daily counter staring me in the face at the top of the blog, but the end of the year really snuck up on me a bit. As of this writing there are just over 100 days left in the experiment and as my dad recently pointed out, the time to plan what’s next is now.

I’ve been thinking about this for the past few days and the ideas I’ve come up with ideas that are all over the map. I’ve thought of everything from just discontinue posting to combining all the content into a book and trying to find a publisher for it. I’ve learned a ton over the past 8 (almost 9) months and I think the fact that the blog has gained roughly 1,000 subscribers means that there’s an audience for this kind of information.

One of the Proverb says that “Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed” So, rather than limiting myself and this site to only the ideas that my mind can come up with, I’d like to ask a favor of you, the readers that have made this blog successful. Over the next few days, please answer the following question either through a comment, or using the handy dandy contact form.

The question is “What would you do with BloggingExperiment.com once the year is up?“

And, just in case that wasn’t incentive enough, anyone that sends in a question will be entered into a drawing for a vintage FireMartz tshirt! (I knew those would come in handy at some point.) How’s that for a prize eh?

The plugin I’m using is the Got Banners plugin created by GotChance.com. According to their website, “Got Banners is a simple banner rotating plugin for wordpress. Unlike other banner rotators, Got Banners displays all the banners provided simultaneously. But, in a different random order each time.”

Basically you upload the plugin, create a text file containing the code for the banners or ads you want to have rotated, and activate the plugin. While that part was quite simple, I did have some trouble with the plugin. When I originally installed the plugin the ads were displaying one on top of the other rather than a 2×2 box. Not exactly what I was hoping for. After fighting with it for about 15 or 20 minutes I finally tracked the problem down to a class tag in the plugin code which was causing problems with my style sheet. Granted I’m no great designer or coder but that seems like a problem a lot of blogs would have with the plugin. Other than that issue, the plugin works wonderfully. Every time a new page is loaded, the ads are displayed in a random order. Normally the ads would rotate on each and every page load, however, since I’m also using the WP Cache plugin, pages are only loaded once and then served up via a cached copy of the page. To be honest though, I’d rather have my site hold up to a spike in traffic from a front page Digg.com story than have the ads rotate on every load.

All in all, if you’re looking for a way to randomly rotate the ads on your site, I’d definitely recommend the GotBanners plugin. It should help combat ad blindness and will also make sure all your ads are given the same amount of screen time and positioning. At the end of the month, I’ll report back and provide some statistics to show whether or not the plugin accomplishes these goals. Until then, there’s still one 125×125 ad available for $60 per month. Drop me a line if you’re interested.

Are you using a WordPress plugin for the Friday Phrase auctions? If so, which one?

Here’s your answer… Link a Dink!

Many of you have asked if I’m using the WP Affiliate Pro plugin that was featured on Dealdotcom and mentioned on a few websites. The truth is, I wanted to, in fact I have a copy of the plugin, unfortunately it does not create search friendly URL’s. I was told that they were aware of this limitation and planned to address it in a future version. But for now, I was forced to look elsewhere.  I also found a plugin called aLinks but that looked more complicated than what I needed and I wasn’t really interested in the Amazon, eBay, etc links.

Finally I found Link a Dink which not only created search engine friendly URLs but it also was simple to install and just as easy to use. Also the update notes answered a couple of the questions I had such as would it interfere with existing links (it won’t) and will it affect the text in the comments (it does). Link a Dink is far from perfect, and there are a couple of features or options I’d like to have (the ability to limit the number of links on a given page etc.), but it certainly gets the job done for now. Who knows, after a couple of months of Friday Phrase Auction income maybe I’ll hire a programmer to write one to my own specifications.

Another plugin that I’ve not yet played around with that looks like it might very well work for this type of thing is Smart Link by Semiologic. Had I come across this option before Link a Dink I might very well have used this one. It’s free and appears to offer a bit more advanced options. If any of you readers out there try it or have used it in the past, be sure to let us know what you thought of it. Also, if you know of any other plugins that would do the same type of thing, please share that as well. The more options we have to choose from, the better.

Before I get too far into this explanation of how I do things, I’d like to mention that on something like this, there really is no wrong way to do it. Some methods may take a bit more time but in the end, it’s all going to be about testing so going about it in a slightly different way will probably net you the same result. Having said that, the first step I take when looking for offers for my site is to check out the more popular affiliate offer sites. Places like Azoogle Ads, ClickBank, or CommissionJunction offer the widest arrays of affiliate programs and chances are one or more of these sites will have an offer that fits your site. However, at this stage in the game I find it useful to have as many options as possible so let’s not stop there. The next sites I’ll check are what’s known as CPA (cost per action) sites. My favorite of these is CPAempire.com but there are plenty of them out there. Anyway, much like the larger sites mentioned above, the CPA sites have thousands of offers that all pay you when a visitor from your site completes a certain action. This can be anything from simply entering their zip code in a form, to buying a high dollar product and everything in between. Simply search for offers in your topic area or that would appeal to your site’s audience and pick out a few that you think will work the best.

Of course you don’t have to rely on just affiliate offers or programs. AdSense has several direct competitors such as Bidvertiser, AdBrite, Yahoo Publisher Network and many more. While these programs don’t have the sheer number of advertisers that Google has in it’s AdWords program, they can almost always offer up ads relevant to your site and your visitors.

Once you’ve found several AdSense alternatives, everything hinges on testing. Plug one of the new ads into your site and see how it performs. I usually try to give things a few thousand impressions to really get a clear picture but depending on the offer or your traffic, your mileage may vary. Once you’ve tested one, plug in the next one and give it the same test and so on and so on. I usually like to calculate the value per click each offer gives me, as well as the value per thousand impressions (the eCPM value reported Google AdSense). Some ads are going to attract more clicks or generate more curiosity than AdSense ads and that can skew your results. If you are making $0.50 per click from AdSense, and get 100 clicks a week, you might think an ad that pays only $0.30 per click would be less productive for you. However, if that $0.30 per click ad attracts 200 clicks a week, you’d be losing 20% a week! Obviously that’s just one example but the point is you should test everything and gather as much information as possible. The beauty of this is that you can test all the offers and ads you can find and in the end, if AdSense still performs better, you can always go back to it.

So there you have it, my process for finding ways to monetize my sites. If you have any questions or other suggestions on how to find ads/offers to run on your site, feel free to let us know in the comments below!

Initially google has become a threat to many advertising agencies. Its adwords and adsense search engine marketing can generate money for its clients while sitting at home, if only they know how to locate their niche market. Google adsense is one of the most popular internet marketing program to monetize the blog, but there are times when it is worth considering the alternatives like adbrite, yahoo etc. These alternative internet marketing solutions also capture huge market share for their clients. In this context seo reviews can tell lot about these alternative advertising techniques and methods for better optimization and visibility of your website.

“I was wondering, why don’t you use Google AdSense in your blog?”

 
Well, to be honest there are a few reasons. The first one being that my AdSense account was banned more than a year ago for reasons still unknown. Now I realize that if you ask the inmates, there are no guilty men in prison, but in all honesty, I never broke their terms of service or participated in any type of click fraud or anything like that. I simply logged into my account one day and poof, it was gone. I of course appealed but Google would not provide me any information (even such basic things such as which domain the fraud occurred on, or a date range for me to pull my log files) about why I had been banned and denied my appeal. Now it appears publishers often receive warnings before being banned but I guess I just wasn’t that lucky.

I guess the silver lining of getting banned was that it opened my eyes and for the first time I looked more critically at the AdSense program. When I did, I saw several things I saw that would keep me from running AdSense ads on this blog, even if I hadn’t been banned.

Vulnerability

Obviously the first issue that would worry me about using AdSense is the vulnerability factor. If my account could be banned for actions that I had no control over (and if you do some searching you’ll find I’m not alone), why would I want to put my earnings at risk? When Google bans you, they don’t pay you the balance you’re owed minus whatever clicks they have decided were fraudulent. They keep every dime that’s left in your account, whether it was earned honestly or not. Luckily for me, I had only a few hundred dollars in my account. While that most certainly wasn’t a pleasant experience, it could have been MUCH, MUCH worse.

No Accountability

How about this, you send me as much targeted traffic as you can, and I’ll pay you for it. How much? Oh, whatever I think is fair. And actually I’m going to resell that traffic at a profit. How large a profit? Oh, whatever I think is fair.

Now how many of you are going to sign up for that offer? When it’s presented like that, probably not many. However, when you sign up for Google AdSense, that’s essentially what you’re doing. You’re agreeing to let Google determine how much they should pay you for each click. Of course, they don’t disclose what percentage they pay you, so they can actually change your share at any given moment. If they’re paying you $1.00 a click, the next day they could pay you $0.50 for that same click and you’d never know it.

As if that weren’t enough, Google also get’s to decide which clicks they pay you for! Think hitting the front page of a popular social media site will increase your AdSense earnings? Not so fast. Steve over at Ramblings of the Marginalized has some pretty solid evidence that Google is discounting any clicks when your site gets a surge in traffic. That’s on top of the fact that Google could count only 8 out of every 10 clicks and you’d have absolutely no idea and no recourse. So, after all that, if you’re still interested in running Google AdSense, I’ve got one final reason you shouldn’t.

Poor Earnings

The best reason NOT to run AdSense ads on your site is a simple one. You’ll be losing money. Over the years webmaster after webmaster has realized that they could earn more money by running affiliate ads, offering private ad sales, or even running ads from other programs. One sports site I developed used Google AdSense (preban obviously) was doing pretty well and earned an average of about 35 – 40 cents a click. I thought that was just dandy until I came across an affiliate program that would pay me a flat fee of 50 cents per click for running their ads on my site. Now I don’t know about you but I’d take a 25% raise any time I can get it. The worst part of it was when I realized just how much money I had thrown away over the time I had been running AdSense. While that’s just one story, I’m not alone on this either. John Chow recently gave up on AdSense, and it’s no coincidence that none of the top dogs run AdSense on their sites.

To sum it all up, I don’t use Google AdSense because not only could you be banned at any time, you also have no idea how much you’re going to be paid per click, or how many of the clicks you generate will be counted and, last but not least, you’re probably not making as much as you could be off those clicks in the first place! If you’re currently using Google AdSense on your blog, I’d challenge you to take some time and research a few other ad sources. You’ll thank me for it later.

4. Reward Them: Someone once said that to get anyone to do anything, you have to show them the benefits. I’m probably butchering some great marketing genius’ advice but the point is, if there’s a benefit to the action, people are a lot more likely to do it. So, applying that idea to blog commenting, it stands to reason that if you openly reward those who comment on your site, you’ll generate more comments! This can take all sorts of forms, but the easiest and most obvious is the Top Commentators plugin. The plugin has been covered at length on several different blogs so I’m not going to get too far into it but basically you reward your most frequent commentators with a link on your site.

Another method of rewarding comments, and something I try to do on this blog as often as possible, is to highlight a comment in your post. Whether you’re answering a question directly, or a comment inspired you to discuss a certain topic (This post itself is an example of that. Thanks Zane!), it’s a chance for you to openly thank and reward someone that leaves a comment. The more ways you can display this type of behavior, the more likely people will be to comment on your posts. Why? Because they can clearly see the benefit in doing so.

3. Bait Them: Take a quick look at the list of “Most Commented Posts” for this blog and you’ll see two examples of posts that inherently elicit responses from readers. Any type of controversial post or topic is a fantastic opportunity to generate comments on your blog. Not only does controversy generate more traffic and more links, but it almost always generates more comments. Whether people agree with you, or disagree with you, most will feel the need to weigh in on the issue. Once that happens, just sit back and watch your comment numbers grow. Not only will people begin to support or argue your point, they’ll also begin to engage each other and spawn whole new conversations and topics for debate. Despite what you may think of his blog, John Chow has been a master of this. He’ll throw a post out there and then some idiot like myself will decide to weigh in. Before you know it, you’ve got a handful of people attacking your point, and (hopefully) a handful of people defending you! Bottom line? If you can touch a nerve, you’re guaranteed to get a comment (or 20).

2. Respond To Them: This point seems fairly obvious but you’d be surprised how many bloggers seem to forget about it. If you want to attract more comments on your blog, you absolutely MUST let people know that you’re hearing them. If someone leaves a comment on your blog, respond to it! Thank them for it, answer their question, or just simply continue the discussion. However you go about it, let them know you read and appreciated their comment. Personally I try to respond to as many comments as I can, but I make it a point to interact with someone the first time they comment. The Comment Relish plugin helps with this by automatically generating a response to a new commentator, but I try to take it even further and respond on the blog as well. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve commented on a blog and come back to find absolutely now acknowledgment of it. Did the blogger see it? Did they not like my comment? Are they not actively blogging anymore? All those questions usually lead to me not commenting again and I’m not alone in that. If you want more comments on your blog, be sure to respond to the ones you do get.

1. Ask For Them: Once again a fairly obvious point, and yet, still the most effective way I’ve found to attract more comments is to simply ask for them. At the end of a post, ask for your readers’ feedback. Let them know their input is appreciated. If you can also highlight the benefits of commenting that we discussed in point 4, even better. This doesn’t have to be some big long plea for comments, it can be something as simple as “What do you think?” or “If I missed anything, let me know!” Darren Rowse of ProBlogger and Chris Garrett of Chrisg.com are experts at this. At then end of most posts they have some sort of call to action prompting their readers to comment and it’s easy to see the results of their efforts. I think of it kind of like a speech or a presentation. You write your post which presents the idea or the concept or your opinion, and once you’re done you open it up for questions or comments. If you never turn over the floor so to speak, you’re not likely to get nearly as many comments.

So there you have it, 5 Ways to Attract More Comments. As you saw there’s not some secret sauce or special formula to it. In fact, many of these things are common sense, but I’ve found a lot of times it’s the simple things we struggle the most with. For example, I’m sure other bloggers have written on this subject and I’ve probably read one or all of these points before. However, while writing this up I realized I’d done a poor job in a couple of these areas recently and the number of comments reflects that. So even if you’ve heard it all before, I hope you benefit from this little refresher as much as I did in writing it.

If you have any tips or suggestions for other ways to attract more comments, let us know in the comments below. After all, not only do I make use of the Top Commentators plugin, but you never know when I’ll turn your comment into the focus of a whole new post!

How’s that for practicing what you preach?

This article has been submitted to both Digg and Sphinn. If you enjoyed the post, please consider voting for it.

Let’s start of with the same question I asked Muhammad yesterday, what do you think of the recent changes on Digg? Do you think the changes to the profile system are having any effect on which stories are made popular or how they are promoted?

It seems to me Digg is trying to capitalize on the recent trend that Facebook has been enjoying lately, the whole making social connections movement. Ultimately it might be one of their goals, have Digg users interact a lot more thanks to new shout feature and probably a much better messaging system in near future.

This new change also stripped the users’ ability to digg their friends’ stories within the profile page. [Editor's note: To me, this is the most frustrating and annoying change they made. Anyway...] I believe Digg wanted to get rid of this “Digg gaming” feature for the longest time. It is a lot harder to digg your friends’ stories now, thanks to the new update you must now click on the story and hopefully read the content before you can digg it.

Are you an avid user of any other social media sites?

As far as social bookmarking, I only use Digg because I’ve been a member since almost day one and haven’t really found a good alternative yet. Most of the content is recycled among these types of websites, so it doesn’t really matter where you find it. The only other social media site I’m really active on is Flickr. Since photography is one of my hobbies, I really enjoy sharing my photos there and see what my contacts post there.

A lot of bloggers seem to put a lot of effort into appearing on Digg but most don’t ever succeed. What advice would you give to those of us looking to attract some attention from social media users?

One of the main things a lot of bloggers/writers don’t understand about Digg users is that people who use the site have a really short attention span. So you can’t submit huge essays length stories and expect them to be popular. All the user really wants to read is the main details about certain technology story, world event, product, movie, video, picture and etc. The content you are covering must be new or at least relatively new, something that has been in the news recently. Have a catchy title and interesting description, many of the Digg users might vote on your story just for the title alone.

Ok, but once we have that type of content, what then? I asked Muhammad about whether it was ok to try and contact a top user to submit the content. He was of the feeling that if the content was high quality and something Digg users would enjoy, he didn’t mind. Does this sort of thing happen to you a lot and if so, what is your opinion of it?

I get a lot of emails and IMs with links from people who want their content promoted on Digg. I really don’t mind submitting stories for websites that don’t get a lot of exposure because I feel like I’m helping small guys get recognized for the hard work they put in their sites.

So in the event that a blogger does end up getting their content on the front page of Digg, what then? How can we best capitalize on that wave of traffic and attention?

I think just continuing posting great new content on consistent basis. The top diggers have a habit of adding noticing sites like that and adding them to their RSS feed readers because they know stories coming from that say have a good chance of hitting homepage once again.

Alright, Karim, thanks for your time. I really appreciate it. Now Bob from ChristianPF.com wrote in yesterday asking about StumbleUpon. Since Karim hasn’t used the site before, I figured I’d field this one. Bob writes, “I have been toying with Stumbleupon trying to figure out more about their algorithm – I have gathered that the amount of Stumble traffic you get is based on # of thumbs ups, how active you are in the Stumble community, and (hurts traffic) the amount of self promotion you do – Do you have any other ideas, thoughts, or facts about how it works?”

There are a few other factors that play into your success or failure. The first is making it to the buzz page. This is sort of the equivalent to hitting the front page of Digg only on a slightly smaller scale. The second factor that can really help your submissions is the number of reviews it gets. The little speech bubble on the SU toolbar is a link to review the page you’re on. The more reviews you get, the better your story will do.

I also seem to remember seeing a collection of posts about SU around earlier this week. I’ll see if I can’t find that and post a link as well. That’s it for now though. Thanks again to Karim for taking the time to answer my questions. For the rest of you, I hope this provided some more insight into how you might be able to leverage Digg and other social media sites to your blog’s benefit.

After having one of my posts hit the front page of Digg, several of you began asking questions about social media and how a blogger could leverage sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon. While I’ve participated in social media quite a bit, and even had some success, I figured I’d better serve you, my readers by going directly to the source. I contacted Muhammad Saleem who is currently ranked #6 among Digg members, and has written about the subject of social media on high profile sites such as Pronet Advertising, 901am, and CopyBlogger. Basically, I found one of the top social media experts to answer the questions you had (as well as a few of my own).

Muhammad, thanks a ton for taking the time to answer these questions for us. I know you’re busy so I’ll just jump right in. What do you think of the recent changes to Digg? Do you think the change to the profile stystem will have any effect on how or which stories are made popular?

Over all I really like the changes. We now have the much needed social networking functionality which allows us to better connect with our fellow Diggers and paves the way for a friend recommendation and story recommendation engine. This will certainly have a huge impact on both the way and the speed with which stories are made popular because Digg has removed direct access to stories from certain areas (i.e. direct Digging from friends’ profiles) and has increased the number of steps required to Digg a story (i.e. you can’t Digg the story directly from certain pages; you have to click on the story to go to single story mode and then Digg it from there).

Ultimately I think this will improve the quality of content on the front-page and add diversity to it too. While I love 90% of the content from the top Digg contributors, not all of it deserves to be promoted (including from myself). By making it harder for content to be promoted and by limiting the blind-Digging of friends’ stories, the new system ensures that only the creme of the crop rises to the top.

You’re very active on all sorts of social media sites, which are your favorites?

My favorite social media site as of this moment is without a doubt StumbleUpon. The community is one of the friendliest and most appreciative ones that I have had the chance to engage with. Furthermore, I enjoy the environment on SU because it truly is more about sharing content than trying to promote content to the front-page.

A lot of advice to bloggers and writers hoping for social media success centers around how to create content that will succeed on the various sites. Once you have something that you feel is worthy, how should you go about getting it the attention needed to succeed?

There are several ways, and unfortunately submitting it yourself is not one of them (social media sites have an unnatural hatred for own-submissions). What you can do is reach out to the community leaders (without spamming of course) and see what they think about your content.

That’s interesting you mention reaching out to community leaders… do top users mind being contacted like that with submission suggestions? Does this sort of thing happen often?

Top users that I have talked to generally don’t mind being contacted. However, too often I (and some of my fellow top social contributers ) get contacted by spammers and people whose content is either not suited to a particular site or is not of great quality. It’s people like these that are most frustrating to deal with because they don’t understand social media and aren’t willing to listen.

Zane from KungFuCabbage asked, “Are they really worth it in terms of turning visitors into long term recurring income generating readers? They often come see what they want to see and leave.”

The short answer is that unless you have created a service, it’s hard to monetize direct social media traffic (i.e. from advertisements). Where it does help is in the following:

1. Getting exposure for your site so that it is on people’s radars and will get submitting repeatedly.

2. Over time you will build both link popularity as well as a substantial RSS readership.

Social media can help you fast-track those two things, which are what will bring in the money. Of course being popular once on a social media site will not have long-term effects and that’s why you need to have a social media strategy that goes hand-in-hand with excellent content.

Zane went on to ask another great question and one that I feel a lot of people overlook when they think of social media and their site. He asks “What makes a site sticky for the various social sites?”

1. Good content.

2. Relevant content.

3. Good design.

4. Minimal advertising.

Jason Peck, our blog contest winner, asked a similar question a while back that I think fits in well with this conversation. He asked “How do you actually get Digg/Reddit/Stumbleupon love? I have the buttons. I have done a couple of submissions. I have yet to cross that magical threshold of tons of traffic love. What’s the secret?”

There are a couple of ways. First of all, write consistently good content (this way you’re not just a one shot wonder) and content that is relevant to your site and the community you are targeting. Second, participate in the sites. Yes, content is king, but in social media, community is just as royal.

I couldn’t agree more. While I haven’t had quite the success you’ve had, I’ve found the best way to sort of “figure it out” is just to jump in and become a part of the community. If you approach it as a learning experience rather than trying to exploit the community, I think you’ll be surprised at the success you’ll have.

Shifting gears a bit, I’d like to finish up by asking a question about blogging. You seem to have had a LOT of success guest blogging, appearing on lot of high profile sites as I mentioned earlier. What advice would you give to someone hoping to follow the same path? How did you land such high profile spots?

Honestly, there are no ‘tricks’. If you blog about your passion, and keep at it, the opportunities begin presenting themselves. I was contacted by both Neil (for Pronet) as well as Brian (for CopyBlogger) because of the content on my own blog. The most important thing is to blog your passion, regardless of whether it is the latest trend or not, and do it because you enjoy it not because you feel forced to.

Thanks again, Muhammad for taking the time to answer those for us. If you have any more social media questions, there are two things you can do. First of all, leave them in a comment below. Not only am I going to try and talk Muhammad into commenting, but I’m also going to interview another top Digg member! Also, if you’ve not subscribed to Muhammad’s blog, go do it. He really is a wealth of information about all things social media.

I hope that was informative and worth the slight delay for the Reader Question Session. Be sure to either check back in tomorrow for that second interview or subscribe to the blog either by RSS feed or by email so you don’t have to worry about ever missing another Blogging Experiment update.