WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

This guest post was submitted by Lars Koudal, Publisher of Web 20 Tutorials blog that provides information on all aspects of web building from design to how to maximize your revenue streams.

A not-so-new thing for several blog owners is to use guest bloggers to fill in holes in their own posting schedules, or to expand the areas/niche to which the blog focuses on. Guest blogging is nothing new, but what exactly are the benefits, and is it worth it for both the host blog and the guest blogger?

There are indeed several benefits to both the host-blog and the guest blogger and the combined effect of all elements are great for both blogs on short-term as well as long-term.

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Part 3 of the mini-series of posts dedicated to RSS technology and its benefits will build upon information shared in 2 previous posts:

• What is RSS and How You “Feed” It
• What Is RSS And How You “Eat” It

… and in it I will not beat around the bush and want to concentrate directly on what is “near and dear” to every blogger - monetizing the RSS feed without loosing integrity of the blog and annoying our most precious readers - our loyal subscribers!

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This is Part 2 of the short series on RSS and expands on information provided in my first post “What Is RSS And How You “Eat” It“. But this time I want to discuss details that are more relevant to bloggers and how you can use RSS technology to promote your blogs.

In this post I will cover 3 specific areas:

• Optimizing your RSS feed
• Announcing your RSS feed
• Promoting your RSS feed

So dive in for details…

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RSS is one of the Web 2.0 technologies most widely used and yet, least understood. To add to confusion RSS, while providing a similar functionality can mean different things. Dan Libby developed original RSS (RDF Site Summary RSS 0.9) for Netscape and after a couple of months, produced a simpler and easier-to-use version called Rich Site Summary or RSS 0.91. Later in 2005, Microsoft developed Really Simple Syndication in relation to its Simple Sharing Extensions.

Today, RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’, and it has the following 7 existing formats or versions: 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 2.0 and lets not forget the Atom format created to address all the short comings and incompatibilities of the multiple RSS versions. But we will make this simple…

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On pages of “WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er” I do my best to present meaningful information to help you build your own blog based on my favorite platform WordPress and make it a truly interactive Web 2.0 portal. Helping people proves to be beneficial not only to the blog itself (rewards via steady traffic and increasing readership) but also to many visitors.

But as everyone else I need to take some time off during this month and will be spending the last week of December in ski resort with a limited time that I can dedicate to the blog itself. Calling on anyone interested to become a guest blogger!

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A few days ago MyBlogLog has announced a contest with an offer of the prize. Rules were simple - get most community members during a specific time period and get some rewards. Honestly I didn’t even pay much attention to exact rewards offered as I was viewing this contest as a simple means of increasing visibility of my own community.

I’m hoping to gain people who are actually interested to read my blog and perhaps participate in discussions here. Well, apparently some bloggers have taken this Contest very seriously and what I’m seeing now is that communities directly offering rewards for joining community are moving fast to the top and they do it legally!

To me this is equal to invitation: “Game MyBlogLog Contests And Be Rewarded!”

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Ever wanted to ACTUALLY Make Money Blogging? Wonder how it can be done? Reality is simple and yet complicated at same time. To make money blogging you have to be able to accomplish several things and get each of them just right. You need to know how to build the blog optimized for Search Engines and social interaction, how to build income streams into it to automate process and how to drive traffic to your blog - these tasks are among the most important.

When I created my Web 2.0 Wealth product I had one goal in mind - make it simple for even a complete newbie to accomplish those tasks and yet complex enough that even intermediate bloggers can benefit from it and then I provided a surefire way to make money in 7 days or less (guaranteed only if you are a US customer, for other customers might take longer)! Mind you, I do not promise to make you rich but to help you earn that first, most important dollar online!

And now as part of special arrangement with Yaro Starak you can get my package for a limited time at $20 off, instantly! Visit his blog for complete review and offer details or read the rest of the post if you want to know WHY you should care …

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