Blog Overload: Who Has Time to Read it All?
Blog Overload: Who Has Time to Read it All?
There is no question that the blogosphere is growing. According to webdesignerdepot “WordPress has statistics for both WordPress.com (15.1 million blogs and counting) and self-hosted WordPress installations (17.4 million active installations), which gives part of the picture. There are more than 10 million tumblogs on Tumblr. Blogger doesn’t offer any public statistics on how many blogs they host. Technorati is currently tracking more than 1.2 million blogs. And there are likely millions of other blogs out there hosted on other services like Movable Type, TypePad, Expression Engine, and other CMSs.”
There is no shortage of blog search engines to find blogs that contain information of interest. There are also lots of articles by sites like Forbes and others who occasionally list their idea of top blogging sites. Google and Google News features can be incorporated into an iGoogle page, and can be another way to keep up with topics to follow.
With all of this information out there, who has time to read it all? Bloggers know it can be good form to make comments on others’ blogs. However, finding the time to not only read these blogs but formulate insightful comments may be difficult. Even if people find a good blog to follow and subscribe to their RSS feed, as sites continue to be added to the feed, the feed reader may have more information than people have time to visit.
There has been speculation about when blogging popularity will die down. The latest discussion is whether Facebook will replace blogging and company websites. Cnet reported, “Even if Facebook doesn’t somehow supplant lots of Web sites, though, there’s no denying the social network is becoming more important to marketing, and it’s adapting to the idea.
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WordPress To Introduce New Stats Features For Authors
Many blogs on WordPress are large enough that they have several authors writing for them. Wouldn’t it be nice to see which author is bringing in the most views? Well now you can.
According to TimesoftheInternet.com, “Now, WordPress is introducing a stats feature which will allow the admin to see which posts are profitable and which authors are bringing in the most profit. This way, they can ask their authors to change their styles to bring in more profit for the site. This is one feature that is very useful for WordPress blog admins. They can easily manage their top authors from their dashboard and make necessary changes.This feature should be available very soon, probably in the next beta release of WordPress. So if you’re running a WordPress blog, you could make good use of this feature which will help you manage your site authors.”
Authority Pro: Promises More Than the Typical WordPress Theme Engine
Authority Pro has positioned itself as a theme engine unlike any other currently available for WordPress. The intent of the engine is to maximize the ability to have content delivered as needed and to drive conversations. They offer 24 customizable widgets to increase functionality.
I’ve been reading some reviews of Authority Pro since it debuts today.
Promotedprofits.com stated, “The promise of Authority Pro is this: you get targeted traffic, and it’ll work to get you the very best conversions possible, on as many of your pages and posts as possible. It can continuously split-test for you, so that you’re always finding better and more profitable ways of configuring your site. If you have low levels of traffic, Authority Pro might be critical for you, as you need to really maximize the ROI of each visitor that comes to your site. If you get moderate to high levels of traffic, then it’s obvious that you have a lot to gain from Authority Pro.”
Netmarketingcourse.net lists the following capabilities as part of Authority Pro:
- Video Fake Out
- Google Analytics
- Google Website Optimizer (split testing)
- Built In Squeeze Page Graphics
- Multiple Squeeze Page Templates
- Aweber & Get Response Intagration
- Custom Exit Page Redirect
- Custom CSS Coding
James Morgan at Articlebase.com claims he was skeptical about this product due to all of the hype, but found the product to be much more than a theme. He stated, “It comes pre-installed with a bunch of different squeeze page templates that make your sites indistinguishable from the ones the pros spend thousands and thousands of dollars testing.”
They are offering this product for $97 and you can get it by clicking here.
If anyone has used this and wants to fill me in on their experience, I’d love to hear about it.
5 Useful Sites For Help With WordPress
Collection of WordPress statistics: http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
WordPress TV visual resources for all things WordPress: http://wordpress.tv/
Video press – Upload and share videos on WordPress – converts your video into multiple formats: http://videopress.com/?ref=wpcom
WordPress beginners guide: http://www.wpbeginner.com/category/beginners-guide/
How to create a slide show in WordPress: http://wordpress.tv/2010/04/14/using-slideshows-on-wordpress-com/