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Wasted Potential: A Blog's RSS Feed
"Approximately 85% of blog owners are only using 50% of the software's potential!What is the silent 1/2 that isn't being utilized? A blog's RSS feed."
Boulter, Ontario - January 2, 2006
Laura Childs can't believe just how many WordPress blog owners are missing out onhalf the potential of their blog software. But she doesn't want to work too hard toget the word out.
"Although blogging software has been available to all of us for years, 2005 canofficially go down in history as the year that blogging really went mainstream. I'veeven heard of some people setting up hundreds of blogs per week," says Laura Childs,co-author of The Stampede Secret, 2004-2005's hot selling membership site on blogsand RSS feeds.
Just where is this lost potential in a WordPress blog? Laura says the secrets are inthe blog's backend, safely tucked away in the software, so elusive that mostbloggers are barely aware of it.
RSS feeds are the working cogs of a blog platform. These text-heavy and code-light,database-generated files work overtime as they become syndicated by other websitesfor content, checked by the search engines for updates, and read by about 14% of allinternet users. To illustrate how viable a blog's rss is, you must understand thatevery category created in WordPress, every post written, every series of commentsthat a visitor leaves behind - affects, alters and adds to an RSS Feed running inthe blog.
"The part that amazes me the most," says Smartzville's owner, "is that mostWordPress owners have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of their blog's rss! Evenmore perplexing is that the majority of gurus and info publishers selling blogrelated products and software barely touch on the subject in their $27-497 reports!It's sad really - so much work and money wasted."
As sad as it may sound, Smartzville still isn't too eager to share the quick fixesand help the thousands of WordPress blog owners to increase their website trafficand visibility in the search engines. Convinced that if the masses were to discoverthe truth and tweak all their installs, blog owners with truly valuable contentwouldn't stand a chance in the marketplace. That conviction may strike a note ofdischord by some readers of Smartzville's site. The latest post clearly states,"...to be honest I donÂ't care how many people buy these tiny secrets...I want theseto be our secrets. Yours and mine. To heck with everyone else whoÂ's throwing uphundreds of blogs every month hoping to turn a buck or two. I donÂ't care about them,I care about you - my visitor, my reader." (excerpt:http://www.smartzvil le.com/marketing-help/blogrss. htm)
Contact Laura Childs for more insights on Blogs and RSS Feeds. Direct line: (613)332-5766 Email: news@smartzville.com Other information:http://www.smartz ville.com/marketing-help/blogr ss.htm.
For More Information Contact:
Laura Childsnews@smartzville.comht tp://www.smartzville.com
