You may have missed these two significant details over at feedburner

, but you should only check it out as it can significantly improve your ability to manage your subscribers to your blog and get the most out of the feedback that they provide.

1. If you missed it, Google bought feedburner!
2. Merry Christmas early, feedburner Pro statistics are now free!!!

Here’s what you can get now

You can now get access to all the statistics about your feed and what your subscribers are doing with your feed in order for you to tune your message and improve your blog’s performance. 

Using pro stats as opposed to the previously free statistics available from feedburner is kind of like moving up from one of those old vinyl blinds, the type that you’d pull down and it would cover the entire window and when you least expect it would snap! real Loud and rollup superfast possibly exposing you to your neighbors on accident (come on and had happened to someone else besides me . . . - did I just say that out loud??)  to something like a faux wood blinds set that looks great, is much more functional, and never embarrasses you.

I learned a very valuable lesson today.  It’s something that I always knew, but somewhere along the way I forgot to execute on it consistently.

Every blog or website that you set up needs to have a contact form, and preferably an e-mail address or even a phone number.

I re-learned this little truism today when I was trying to contact a handful of bloggers about advertising on their websites.  Several of them did not have contact forms for me utilized in order to contact them. 

In a few situations I left a comment on an article deep within their blog adding the postscript that if they would like to delete the comment that could.  I did not want to leave a comment that might be perceived as spam, however they left me no other choice to contact them.

As I realized how difficult it was to do business with a few of the sites, I realized that I was not perfect either and that several of my sites did not include a contact form.  So now I have to follow my own advice and go clean up my sites that don’t have this very useful function.

It doesn’t cost much in the form of real estate to include a button or link or even a short little word at the bottom of every website in the footer to help your potential customers clients or advertisers find you and do business with you.