In the beginning of 2008, I want to celebrate this New Happy Year with a challenge for my blog. I wrote tutorials most of the time, but there is nothing wrong to invite you all to join this challenge together to build a small community of blog readers.

All right, you've heard link exchange too often, but this I call this exchange: "FeedBurner Email Subscribers Exchange Challenge"

This exchange challenge is open to any kind of blog niches or different topics than mine or everyone who will decide to join.

Why you should join this challenge?

You will have a chance to promote your blog by email.
If your blog is new, bring traffic takes time. Consider this Exchange Challenge as a try because the subscribers might share your article if they find it useful and informative.

It is very easy to join.
Follow the steps below, they are easy as 1 2 3!

It is absolutely a perfect way to boost the number of your FeedBurner Subscribers.
Big Bloggers could establish a contest and ask the participants to subscribe to their feed when entering the contest. Email Subscribers Exchange Challenge can be done without even bother that you are already becoming a Blogger Celebrity. New Bloggers are welcome as well.

Building a solid community for your blog.
This exchange challenge is open to any kind of blog niches or different topics than mine or everyone who will decide to join. Every blog author can learn something useful with another great blog author in the articles that they wrote, and can even jump in to comment as an appreciation.

Increasing your blog authorities.
As a reward, you deserve a link love in a "Blog Listings of Email Subscribers Exchange Challenge" after your confirmation process being approved by your referrer.

How to join?

Write a blog about this exchange challenge

Copy these steps ("How to join" steps) source code and paste it to your post. You can also link back to this post or any blog that refers you this exchange challenge.

You must activate your FeedBurner email subscription service

Put a link or a form at the perfect spot of your blog layout to let your challengers submit their in order to receive your article updates.

Subscribe the blog of your referers via email

Subscribe to your exchange challenge referrer blog and to one of the current challengers in the "Blog Listings of Email Subscribers Exchange Challenge" at the end of this post.

Confirm your email subscription request sent by FeedBurner.

This is a way to recognize your email when the blog author referrer checks your entry challenge in his/her FeedBurner account. Be patient since the FeedBurner report is updated in daily basic. If you haven't confirmed it yet, you can not continue to the next step.

Enter your data profile

Send email to the blog author as a follow up confirmation step and provide these following data:

- Your email address
- Your blog name
- Your blog URL
- Your name
- Your featured post URL*

* if you leave it blank, your latest post will be featured in the Blog Listings of your referrer by default.

Blog Listing Submission

The blog author referrer will submit your data in a Blog Listings of challengers as a match data provided by FeedBurner to 10 minimum numbers. If the blog author haven't reached as much as 10 email subscribers, he/she will update the Post Exchange Challenge later on. Contact the blog author referrer if he/she hasn't added your data in the Blog Listings of challengers. Problem might appear during the emails sending. If this happen, please resubmit your email subscription request.

Optional Challenge:

- You can create more than 10 numbers of Blog Listings. In this case, I dare you to subscribe by email to my blog until I reach 100 Blog Listings in my post! :)
- You can stop this challenge after you subscribed to 10 blogs or do the challenge without limitation. Again, you will get the advantage, since I will subscribe to your blogs anytime you want this Exchange. It means, I will never reject your offer to do the "FeedBurner Email Subscribing Exchange Challenge", nor even if I have subscribed to 100 blogs already. I'll subscribe forever ;p

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