DISQUS

Hi Tinu,

Just saw your response. Was away on a media tour for my book all week (no, I don't have a cool Blackberry yet to check my email on the go!).

I use Opera and Firefox, and I love the tag clouds, because they're intuitive to me (although my readers probably wouldn't realize that they're clickable).

I'm referring to all the links and icons (tags???) under each post. Your readers are much more internet savvy than mine, so mine wouldn't know what RSS is or that icon, or any of the other icons.

But I'm always game to try something new. And if it works, who am I to say it's crowded?

Hi Tinu,

I just wondered what the status of the updates to the blog package were?

I see you're promoting it for people who only bought the book, but what about those of us who have the book, the Marketing with RSS book, the whole package, etc.? I never got an email or anything.

Also, I love the new design. It is cleaner and more readable than the old one.

I'm wondering about the tags. They must be great for the SEs, but sometimes they cloud the content. I feel like I sometimes have to sift through the tags to find the actual post.

I guess what I'm saying is, as a reader, I don't know what all those links mean -- there are links for RSS, and some other blue and gray links (Wikipedia?), and while I understand the content tags, sometimes I just want to get to the post right away.

Also, as a blog owner, I'm wondering why you do this. Is this a key to getting SE traffic? If so, is there a way to do it with less tags and less of the little icon links?

I feel like if I implemented this for my market (moms with young kids who are sleep-deprived!), they'd click away because it would be too much work for them to figure out what all the tags are for, and they wouldn't be able to find the posts.

What do you think?
Stephanie

That was my impression of it, too, Tinu. I don't care if he makes a few pennies off the Adsense if I'm getting the publicity and traffic. Plus, I get to send people to my site, my RSS feed and to Amazon to buy my books.

And as long as I provide good content and not just self-promoting pap, people will appreciate it, right? And since the lenses get ranked, like Alexa or Amazon rankings, the poor ones will automatically be weeded out.

Great, Howard. Thank you!

I'm curious what you think of Squidoo as a traffic-building tool? I've done one post on baby gifts, and it wasn't very time-consuming. Seems like it would take about as long as an article if you're going to give it some thought.

Some have criticized Seth Godin as making money off of other people's content, but isn't that what all the article directories do too?

How did you convert your blogger blog to Wordpress. It seems like you have all the old posts and you have the same URL, so what was the process? Did you lose anything in the conversion? Time? Material?

Great! I haven't received an email about it yet. Will that be coming soon?

Ooh -- this sounds so perfect for me. I'm re-designing my blog and I was planning to move it to Blogger. Should I go to Wordpress instead? Do tell! Inquiring minds want to know...

Please, please, please tell me I'm eligible for the update! Pretty please?

Seriously, I bought a package that included Rescue Your Blog and Marketing with RSS -- it wasn't the same as the one you're advertising now. Does that count?

Thanks for all the good info -- I'm a big fan!