Friday, May 18, 2012

Both United Parcel Service And Your RSS Feed Have Deadlines

UPS Truck

I remember when growing up that U.P.S. had a fierce deadline. Wherever I worked when I was growing up it always seemed like I was in charge of the U.P.S. shipments. I was always fighting the deadline. They don’t wait. That’s not what they do. They come, they drop off, they pick-up, they go. What a job to have; driver for U.P.S., I guess that is why they get paid so well.

Your RSS Feed has a similar deadline. It won’t wait either. Just like UPS, Google ain’t going to wait.

With the advent of Caffeine, which I wrote about earlier this year, my posts are getting indexed by time of post. Here’s a heads-up: Without an RSS time stamp, you’re at the mercy of the bots. When you set your RSS Feed to publish at say ……… 7.00 P.M. Google comes looking for it at that time. How else does Google know when to publish “within the last 10 minutes”. Trust me; Google ain’t waiting around the back door of your Blog just for your daily post.

When you set your RSS timer, Google crawls that part of your site or site-map and logs it in. Then every day at 7.00 P.M. Google comes around for the goodies.

Google will not explain this to you; I have just learned this by “EXPERIENCE“. It’s the name of the game in Blogging and Internet Marketing.

WordPress For BlackBerry. You’re Kidding, Right?

WordPress For BlackBerry

I was doing some Blog hopping today and was looking at the “QuickPress” in my own WordPress Dashboard, kinda at the same time. I just figured that the “QuickPress” thing was just a little to small for me to fool with, although I wanted to take a test drive.

As I said I was Blog hopping and saw a news feed for “WordPress For BlackBerry”. BlackBerry or WordPress or both are updating its WordPress Software for the different Smartphones and now you can do just about anything you want on a Blackberry that you can do on the desktop. I kid you not!

I decided to take a look at the downloads so far and for the first couple of weeks there were only about 70 downloads for the WordPress Software for the incredibility popular BlackBerry. 70 downloads! You’re kidding, right? I mean I gave up on “QuickPress” because it seems to me just to be too small and here are 70 mis-guided soles downloading WordPress for BlackBerry.

Every so often I have to display my Blog to others in a public place, usually at a restaurant and the only way to do this is with my BlackBerry Storm. For the record, it’s a painful, it’s just awful. Slow downloads, no flash, not to mention tiny screen. I mean, I know I can magnify, but it’s just too cumbersome to work with. It’s also interesting to watch people’s reaction to my Blog on a BlackBerry. They look at me like I’m nuts. Maybe it’s my Blog. But I have a sneaking feeling that they were wondering why I would put them through the experience of looking through the keyhole that is my BlackBerry to view my Blog to begin with.

WordPress on a BlackBerry. You’re kidding, right? What next? Internet Marketing on a shoestring?

Writing Your Own Ticket – Lesson 30

Last week and several previous lessons ago, I focused on writing. I can’t emphasize this enough. You have to do a lot of writing to get good. Once you reach that place where you are comfortable in providing content for your Blog consistently enough, you will be ready to begin expanding your skills. Without a good foundation in writing