Alex Jeffreys Student Blogroll, How I Create An Updated List Of Active Alex Jeffreys Student Blogs On This Website.

By Stephen On January 25, 2009 Under Alex Jeffreys Coaching

The other day I was ‘bounced’ by Blip T.V. It occurred quickly and although Blip sent a very friendly e-mail explaining why my channel was dropped and stating that if I thought I was being wrongly treated they ‘would try to work things out’, this clearly had been written by someone different from the department that deals with appeals.

The video in question was the same as the one featured below. In it I explain how Kotobot won the $1000 prize offered by Alex Jeffreys to the student acquiring most traffic. I also reviewed a free resource called ‘Real Link Finder’, which Thomas Northrop more recently wrote about it for Garry Parkes Profit Pulling Platform.

It was this software program that led to me being removed from Blip T.V. They thought I was attempting to ’sell’ a product, rather than recommend what I still believe to be a valuable resource.

The incident got me thinking however, what if Google took a dislike to the Alex Jeffreys’ Student Blogroll, they could penalize me horribly, indeed the site might not recover for months, if ever?

My first remedy was to go to Dave Dunn’s website and use the Yahoo Pipe he set up. In the post about how he set up the Pipe Dave says that it took about a day of ‘Grunt Work’ to get the job done. This is simply parsed in my WordPress RSS Feed Reader, something you can set up in the ‘Widgets’ Page in the ‘Appearance’ tab of WordPress 2.7, (and labeled Design in earlier versions of WordPress).

Yesterday the Pipe was down, and today still hasn’t recovered so I am using a different method to keep up to date with all the latest student blog posts, and I am letting Google help me

I’ve gone over to http://blogsearch.google.com and run a search for the phrase: ‘Alex Jeffreys Student Blog’. This is a broad match search phrase, (i.e. without any quotation marks). Google then locates the latest blogs it identifies as belonging to any of us and returns the search criteria.

But it gets better, you see Google also provide an RSS feed for that search phrase. All I needed to do then was to copy the feed details, I chose an Atom Feed, and paste this into my WordPress Theme’s RSS reader, replacing Dave Dunn’s Google Pipe.

Voila, a dynamic student blogroll in which every student making posts is rewarded for their effort by being mentioned on all my pages

But what of all those students who were on my static blogroll, what will happen to them. Fear not kittens you will be rewarded ~ more soon!

Dave Dunn posted a blog entry
How Have I Been Generating Traffic For My Blog? I have been using a few different methods to get some traffic to my blog. One of the first I used was to register at the… davedunnonline submitted by Dave Dunn.

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