Comments on: Blogs, RSS, Press Releases http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/blogs-rss-press-releases Marketing Help Editor, Laura Childs, brings you the latest buzz on Web 2.0, site promotion, online marketing and more. Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:25:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Smartzville http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/blogs-rss-press-releases/comment-page-1#comment-715 Smartzville Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:56:56 +0000 http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/blogs-rss-press-releases#comment-715 Yes, I made it into Google News at the #1 for two days (that I checked). I never did check Yahoo news. In retrospect, it was a crazy time to test. The market isn't ready. The season and the dates weren't great. (Who does anything with their online business in the first few days of January?) Even I was distracted by Christmas and family and children (and never did follow up particularly well on the results). At the end of the day I still find that I get more bang for my buck (visitors, subscribers, sales) blogging and promoting my rss feed(s). Just make sure you're picking a ripe market and your ROI is higher than a few $19 ebook sales. Yes, I made it into Google News at the #1 for two days (that I checked). I never did check Yahoo news.

In retrospect, it was a crazy time to test.

The market isn’t ready.

The season and the dates weren’t great. (Who does anything with their online business in the first few days of January?)

Even I was distracted by Christmas and family and children (and never did follow up particularly well on the results).

At the end of the day I still find that I get more bang for my buck (visitors, subscribers, sales) blogging and promoting my rss feed(s).

Just make sure you’re picking a ripe market and your ROI is higher than a few $19 ebook sales.

]]> By: Jackie Willey http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/blogs-rss-press-releases/comment-page-1#comment-714 Jackie Willey Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:43:10 +0000 http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/blogs-rss-press-releases#comment-714 Thanks for honestly telling us your results. Did you make it in Google news or Yahoo News for free using the Press Release software? Thanks for honestly telling us your results.

Did you make it in Google news or Yahoo News for free using the Press Release software?

]]> By: Smartzville http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/blogs-rss-press-releases/comment-page-1#comment-710 Smartzville Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:33:48 +0000 http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/blogs-rss-press-releases#comment-710 Hi Jackie: Sorry it took me so long to reply to this... Here's the scoop. I did get a surge in traffic, but my 'news' wasn't very exciting and my sales letter wasn't strong enough to convince many people to buy. I think it all fell apart at the product level. A product on getting the most out of your "WordPress blog's RSS feed" is pretty obscure wouldn't you agree? First of all only about 12% of all online users even know what an RSS Feed is, and probably only a tiny percentage of those 12% have a WordPress blog. I've always been just a little before my time. As more and more people begin using WordPress and then want to know more about getting more traffic as a result of RSS positioning I'm sure more sales will be made. I'm just going to sit on it for about 6 months. I did learn something of huge value however. PRweb did send more than the lion's share of traffic, but I would have recieved (I'm guessing here) at least twice as much from them had I paid $30 to have my links activated. That's the minimum 'contribution' required for active links - I'm not sure that's posted anywhere on their site but that's what I was told in an email conversation I had later with them. I hope this helps all readers when they're ready to tell the world about their new site or product! Keep on marketing! Laura Childs www.smartzville.com Hi Jackie:

Sorry it took me so long to reply to this…

Here’s the scoop. I did get a surge in traffic, but my ‘news’ wasn’t very exciting and my sales letter wasn’t strong enough to convince many people to buy.

I think it all fell apart at the product level. A product on getting the most out of your “WordPress blog’s RSS feed” is pretty obscure wouldn’t you agree? First of all only about 12% of all online users even know what an RSS Feed is, and probably only a tiny percentage of those 12% have a WordPress blog.

I’ve always been just a little before my time. As more and more people begin using WordPress and then want to know more about getting more traffic as a result of RSS positioning I’m sure more sales will be made. I’m just going to sit on it for about 6 months.

I did learn something of huge value however. PRweb did send more than the lion’s share of traffic, but I would have recieved (I’m guessing here) at least twice as much from them had I paid $30 to have my links activated. That’s the minimum ‘contribution’ required for active links – I’m not sure that’s posted anywhere on their site but that’s what I was told in an email conversation I had later with them.

I hope this helps all readers when they’re ready to tell the world about their new site or product!

Keep on marketing!

Laura Childs
http://www.smartzville.com

]]> By: Jackie Willey http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/blogs-rss-press-releases/comment-page-1#comment-685 Jackie Willey Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:41:41 +0000 http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/blogs-rss-press-releases#comment-685 How did your press release work for you? Did you pay for any distributions or did you only use the free services? Hope you got lot of media attention and great links. I don't see many links for your release in Google as of today. How did your press release work for you? Did you pay for any distributions or did you only use the free services?

Hope you got lot of media attention and great links. I don’t see many links for your release in Google as of today.

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