+500 Best Green Blogs -- Awesome List -- URLs, RSS, Twitter, Facebook...

During one of my missions, I built up a list of green bloggers for marketing purposes. My job did not just consist of collecting blog urls and names, but also the writers' names, email addresses, Twitter accounts, Facebook account, RSS...

It took me way over a hundred hours to build this list, and all the while I was making it, I couldn't help but think that this kind of data should be public anyway. So now that I am done with this job, I want to make the job easier for anyone who is now trying to build a list of green bloggers for marketing purposes.

I took away the email addresses and other types of sensitive information, but all the information I have decided to share or not here is some info you can find on those bloggers' websites.

If your site is not included in this list, please add it in the comments below!



Link to the Webpage

Influencing Google on "Web Influence"

I recently realized the 'about hyveup' page was ranked 3rd in Google with the keywords "Web Influence", and 1st with "Influence web". I was really impressed by the rewards of my SEO efforts, so I thought I would share it with you:





What I love about this specific first rank situation, it's the keywords: Web influence. it's pretty cool to find that your company's name is the closest match that Google could find for that specific query.

In case you are wondering, there is not an amazing amount of incoming clicks coming from there. I guess ranking first on some keywords is just pure branding.

Looking For Published Google Docs? Bing It!

In September 2009, a Google employee, Marie, announced via the Google Docs forum that published Google Docs (which are made public by default) would be crawled, indexed, and used to serve SERPs:

This is a very exciting change as your published docs linked to from public websites will reach a much wider audience of people.

In other words, Google Docs wanted to flip its users' data public to make more money out of it Facebook-style. In July 2009, two months before the announcement that linked-to published docs would be indexed, the Google Docs team removed a feature that automatically tagged published documents as 'published', making it really hard for users to keep track of which documents were potentially indexable. Technically, only docs linked to from a Website were crawlable and indexable, but as one commenter on the forum put it:

Reply To Facebook Comments Via Email, At Last!

Today in the 'yay!' section, Facebook is announcing that users are finally able to reply to comments via email. Thus, no need to visit facebook.com over and over again to partake to a discussion, everything happens from the email inbox.

Finally Sir Facebook, we've been patiently waiting for this one. For well over two years now, through email, I have been managing my blog's comments via Disqus, and my Twitter's followers and DMs via Topify. Facebook was irritating because I mostly handle emails on my mobile, and Facebook's mobile site is heavy and lame.

Now that replies to comments via email have been enabled, it would be a good suggestion to enable the same for inmails. Unfortunately, those are not public, and it seems like privacy is not a concern for Facebook anymore...

Via The Next Web.

Gizapage: Build A White Label Social Media Hub For Your Brand

Gizapage, the service that lets you stack all your social profiles in one URL, is taking things to the next level. Today, the company is announcing a couple of new features that aim to make Gizapage a more attractive product for Social Media marketers and bloggers alike.

Aside from Gizapage, the hub best known on the Web to gather social profiles is Friendfeed. However, as its name mentions, Friendfeed only feeds you with your friends' activities, but it does not give front and center exposure to your social profiles and those of your friends. Plus Friendfeed has been acquired by Facebook, so it would not be surprising to see the Website shut in the coming months.

Gizapage gathers all social profiles into separate tabs accessible from one Web page. In through the tabs, visitors have access to all the original features of each social network. So what is new at Gizapage?

Steps To Unlock Blogger Blog

Block report, ######.hyveup.tv

Late Friday, December 19th, 2009, PST time, Blogger automatically marked ######.hyveup.tv as a spam blog.

This means the site has been temporarily suspended, and access to its content is impossible.

Spam blogs are detected by robots that analyze a site and determine their 'spam likeliness'.

However, Blogger admits that robots can do mistakes (as in this case).

For that purpose, from the Blogger's dashboard, the owner of the blocked blog can go to a page where filling out a captcha letter verification is required.

Once the owner of the blocked blog goes through that process, Blogger displays the following message:

If you leave this page and access it again, it gives you the following message:

The message from the Blogger team asks for our patience. Unfortunately, we are going to need a bit more than that.

8 days after going through the unlock request process, the message above disappeared from the page, and the owner of the blocked blog was asked to go through the verification process again.

After going through the verification process again, the previous message re-appeared, but the unlock request date had changed to December 28, 2009, instead of the December 19, 2009, the initial request date:

And 5 days later, the same bug happened again, resetting the unlock request date to January 4th, 2010.

On January 7th, 2010 at 12:00Am, the blog owner followed the steps mentioned on http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=33fc69199fb4214a&hl=en.

First was to submit the blog's URL to an appeal spreadsheet, which has been done:

Afterwards, the blog owner posted a report in the Something Is Broken section of Blogger's help forum (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=49d54eb778a68bbd&hl=en):

Analyze Any Feedburner RSS Feed With Feed Analytics

To better understand the reach of the bloggers I was getting in touch with, I needed to know the number of RSS subscribers they each had. After a little research on the Web, I found satisfaction with Feed Analysis, a Feedburner feed analytics tool hosted by BlogPerfume. Feed Analytics offers the following:

- Column chart of subscribers per month
- Line chart comparing subscribers, hits, views, and clicks daily
- Pie chart breaking up RSS consumption per days of the week.
- View the past 6 month, or the past 50 months!

Here is the chart for the HyveUp feed: