What do you get for the person who has everything? Freebies!
Today is your first of 12 warnings not to be last person to pick up all the free stuff from the 12 Days 2008 special going on over at Mark Hendricks’ site. If you’d like to contribute gifts to thousands of people, go on over to the same 12 Days 2008 link and follow the instructions.
Don’t make me tell you every day!
I JUST turned the page back on for more Traffic Reality memberships, with immediate access to the site and the last two newsletters. And some people must have those notifiers turned on that tell them when a page has changed, because the first 12 are already gone! I was preparing to announce it in the newsletter in a few hours, but okay – go get ‘em if you want ‘em!
(And if, by chance you really don’t know what I’m babbling about, you can click the link. 
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My name’s Tinu, and I’m a feedaholic.
I love the sophisticated surfers I get to my site via my own feed, I love how much the search engine spiders love my feeds, and I simply adore reading sites via their RSS Feeds. I do the majority of my research for my column that way.
If your site doesn’t have one and you want to be featured in one of my daily columns, you’re out of luck. It isn’t that there aren’t great sites out there with great tools out there that aren’t feed-capable, it’s just that now that I use web feeds as my primary source of news, unless your site was featured in someone else’s feed, it just wouldn’t occur to me.
To folks like me, your site is effectively invisible, unless you happen to come up on the first page of a search, and since I know where to go to find the information I want quickly, I don’t use a search engine on a daily basis.
True story.
I was too tired to do the extras day yesterday, and I’m still pretty much feeling the effects of adjusting to this new medication for my back. But I promised I would do another day of fun free feed tools so here it is.
To get you started, you can read the article I wrote this morning: Fun Free Feed Tools for Both the Publisher and the Reader They’re more for the Puublisher than for the Reader, but they’re still fun all the same.
The News
If you go to Looksmart this morning, things will look ever so slightly different. There’s a link to Furl on the front page of the site. Hm… what’s Furl?
Furl is a sort of personal web archive. Instead of just bookmarking a site, Furl saves you the version of the page as presented that day as well as a link to the new version of the site. You can also create a daily link archive that other Furlers can subscribe to, and read your news feeds at their site.
This handy service was just acquired by LookSmart, as annoucned to its members in an email at around 1:25 am Pacific time this morning. They don’t expect any changes for the worse, but they’ have made one change for the better already.
Here’s a quote from the email:
I haven’t gotten John Reese’s report, so I can’t offer my own opinion about it.
But one fact is indisputable – the report he’s giving away free about his results, in my opinion, should have been for sale. Couldn’t have said it better myself… You can download a PDF version of it here: Good stuff.
I’ll admit it now. I’m cheating. This site isn’t supposed to open until tomorrow. But as I write this, it’s 11:39 pm Pacific time. Just in case it opens at midnight, bookmark this site: TrafficSecrets.com.
I haven’t a clue what’s in store for you there, honestly. But I know there’s a buzz about it opening. And I’m here to help you stay on top of that traffic thing, right? Whether it’s one of my sites or not, affiliate program or no, my ultimate goal is to help you get more traffic.
So while you’re at it, bookmark Trafficology.com. While you’re waiting for your first issue, check out the free issue that’s posted on the site. 
Tinu Abayomi-Paul
I build traffic systems to increase the profitibility of your website. You can implement them yourself with one of our how-to manuals, below, or you can email us at support@asktinu.com for a free consultation, to evaluate your site for a custom solution.
Morgan and Cindy Lighter
Cindy is our organizational whiz. Morgan is the author of our most popular column, Tool Time Fridays.
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