Yes!!!! You knew it!!! It’s time once again for Uncle Arthur’s Super Bloggers to meet on the threshold of the fourth dimension. We will take one more full step today toward becoming the Super Bloggers of the Future!!!!

We have no time to waste - ironically - we must reach the future before it just gets here on its own. I prepared you for this day by a precognitive dream sequence - and now you are ready! Today we discuss two most important areas for Super Bloggers 1) Ranking 2) FeedReaders. Why are they important??? You ask a very good question, anticipating my direction. Let’s start with Ranking.

Being at the top of rankings makes your blog site very strong against competitiors. Knowing how you stack up to the wannabes is a necessity if you you want to pass them strategically. So, here are some very good tools by which you can measure and track changes in your rankings: Technorati - is an internet search engine for blogs, it gives popularity and authority ranks, BlogTopSites - is a directory of the best blog sites, Alexa - gives traffic rankings and graphs, Live PageRank - will display your current pagerank Value in the Google index.

To establish a growing readership you need a feed reader. Feed readers allow you and your readers to get headlines and excerpts of important articles - hopefully they can read yours. Here are some first rate feddreaders: Google Reader/Homepage - a web-based RSS and News Aggregator, Bloglines - the web-based news aggregator set to your personal interestes, Newsgator - a free online RSS reader, NetNewsWire - an award winning RSS for the MAC crowd, Socialist - a social bookmark manager using del.icio.us and RSS feeds, FeedDemon - an RSS reader for Windows Desktop, NetVibes - a personal news aggregator using RSS and Atom, NewsFire - a MAC RSS with style, Omeo Pro - an all-in-one feed reader service.

These should help you quite a bit. I am here to teach at the request of Oprah after a chance encounter in the fourth dimension. Uncle Arthur will deliver parts 6 & 7 for you, tomorrow’s Super Bloggers, soon. ( Part 1 or 6 )

Use time before it uses you,
Arthur Browning