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If you’re a blogger who uses FeedBurner for your RSS feed, have you noticed occasional FeedBurner glitches that result in large fluctuations in the number of reported subscribers for your site? We sure have. If you’re looking to publish your subscriber count, and want it to be more representative of your true numbers, there is a method for generating an average subscriber count over a set period of time, using some PHP code. Hit the link for the details.

If you’re a regular visitor to 40Tech, you’ve probably noticed the new look. The look is largely due to a new theme by WooThemes. A few months ago, the 40Tech team decided that a new look was needed in order to grow the site and to implement some upcoming new features that we had in mind (stay tuned for those). After searching around for a new WordPress theme from numerous sources, all signs kept pointing back to WooThemes. While the beauty of WooThemes’ designs was what sealed the deal, it was the support I ran into after the sale that impressed me the most.

We’ve previously asked for your input on product reviews here at 40Tech.  Now, we have a similar question.  Specifically, when a blog publishes a sponsored post, does that affect how you view that blog?  By "sponsored post," I mean a post similar to what Mashable and Lifehacker sometimes run, where the post is a paid [...]

It never ceases to amaze me what you can learn online. From the interesting psychology reflected by the average user to the most basic of instructions for the tiniest task that may simply have eluded you, the worldwide web is that bit of tech that just keeps on giving. There are several places you can [...]

Redanyway is a very easy and apparently quite effective way to increase blog traffic and create a direct line of interaction with your readers — as long as they also have a Redanyway account, of course. That’s the nature of the social network beast though, so it is not a surprise. The difference here, however, [...]

If you’re like me, you like lists.  And if you’re like me, you like year-end lists.  In that spirit, as we close out 2009, let’s look at the 10 most popular stories this year here at 40Tech.  We’re going to define "most popular" as those stories with the most page views.  The page view count [...]

40Tech launched on June 4, 2009.  While the site is still in its infancy, its growth has been encouraging.  We have you to thank for that.  Thank you for visiting, and for contributing.  In the first days, we were excited about getting 10 visits a day, believe it or not.  Today, we’re going to take [...]

In the quest to develop my personal brand and portfolio, to and simply create a place where all of my writing efforts across the interweb can have a single home, I came across a neat little plugin for Windows Live Writer (which all bloggers should try using, if they don’t already) called xPollinate. xPollinate allows [...]

A week and a half ago, as part of a review of the first 6 month’s of 40Tech’s life, we took a look at the technical details of starting the site, including some lessons we learned along the way.  Today, in Part 2, we look at some of the other factors that went into starting [...]

As we approach the six month anniversary of 40Tech’s launch, we are taking a look behind the curtain here at the site.  In this post and a future post, we will take a look at the basics of the site, the inspiration behind the site launch, and other questions that arise when starting a blog.  [...]