I just reviewed some stats for the last 6 months my hand-written blogs are doing great

Blog 1
Blog 2
Blog 3
Blog 4 (Mainstream)

Two of my hand-written blogs are too new to have any meaningful stats so I didn't post them here.

The splogs are doing OK but not pulling the traffic that the blogs are - about 20% of my splogs are down in traffic.

Spolg 1
Spolg 2
Spolg 3
Spolg 4
Spolg 5

The last month stats are for 1/2 the month so it looks like the trends will continue.


I know it's not necessarily concussive but I'm not giving up on blogging yet.

I've got a personal handwritten blog I use to promote my 2 paysites and my BF's two paysites.

I know absolute dick about SEO and am impressed with myself whenever I hit this section and even understand half of what you guys are talking about.

But I do have to add that just by trying to keep my posts diligently keyword-rich and by using the tags feature built into WP's control panel, I seem to be getting some pretty decent SE traffic and ending up high in the results of some surprisingly decent search strings.

My numbers are still low of course, but I think that just by keeping that up and continuing to work on regular traffic trades, it's going to do ok. I think so anyway.

That does seem to be where most of my SE listings come from.

Ok I have a bitch. I'm working on a blog with a black background, and pulled in some feeds, and the sponsor had formatted the text to be black. Now why would a sponsor format a text to a particular color? Don't they realize we don't all do blogs with white backgrounds? |catfight| My rant for the day as I work on this humongous project that is eating my brain.

Sponsors that don't know how to format feeds correctly, or no clue what they are doing, never bothered to find out, or just jumping on the bang wagon so they aren't left behind. Sure every one here can name more than a couple...:)

Yup - I dropped that sponsor |jester| (or one just as stupid)

After I sent 3 or 4 emails.

They actually had an ICQ contact for their RSS feeds, so I sent her a note, wonder if she will respond?|whisper|

I've had this type of rant running through my head for about 6 months now. Only reason I haven't let it lose is I doubt any sponsors would really listen and I simply be preaching to the choir.

Walrus ... I think you, TPat and I (and probably more than a few others here) have the same rant we're holding back.

I'm thinking we may need to create a thread for program owners looking to add RSS feeds to their program or improve their existing ones. Sort of like the threads we had some time ago about what program owners should know about building hosted free sites (not that so many read/listened even then).

Then we could point the program reps, affiliate managers and owners to that thread for advice on what they should and should never include in their feeds, and how to never format anything in them in advance, etc...

Maybe two threads, one in which we collect everyone's feedback on what makes a very good versus a very bad feed, and then another thread where we publish the 'collected wisdom' for feed producers to use.

Or maybe I'm just dreaming of a more perfect world again.

:)

I've been biting my tongue for months, I agree Simon it's time to start a thread on RSS Feed do's and do not's |thumb