I have a bad habit of bothering my friends about cool stuff on the net that they just have to try™. This could be something that I’ve created or it could be some neat service that I just found out about. One site that I’ve created, and haven’t been bothering people about is my Free iTunes Downloads blog. I have been passively advertising it; it’s linked in my footer here and it’s linked from my Facebook profile, but I’ve never posted it on my MSN nick, or talked to people in real life about it.

There’s a reason for this of course. While I want my blog to be successful, I don’t tell people about it because they can’t use it! FiD is a blog that lists the free downloads (songs and vids) available on the US iTunes Store as they appear. This was something that I always checked myself, so I figured I would take it a step further and blog it for the world — also as a foray into niche blogging and using Google AdSense (previously tried with Photo Quickies but that takes too much effort).

Anyways, it’s been half a year since I started and after some mis-steps, stupidity, and frustration from actually having to put in effort into the blog, I think it is picking up some steam. I’m up to almost 1800 subscribers on my RSS feed which has been bubbling recently.

It’s funny because I’ve tried to Digg FiD repeatedly without success, and recently another blog that has the same idea popped up on Digg with more than 2k Diggs. Increduously, I also gained a large amount of traffic from this, mainly because LifeHacker picked up my non-Digg’d link instead. I can only explain this as an example of how content is instrumental in blog popularity.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: blogging, fid, rss