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I just received an e-mail from a business owner who feels he has done all the right things in the last six months — he started a WordPress blog, assigned one of his employees to post to it a few times a week, optimized the site for SEO, created an opt-in box to capture e-mail leads, etc., but he’s not seen any traffic to speak of… a few visitors a day, no opt-in’s, no extra business, and nothing but expenses and bills to show for his efforts… and needless to say he’s frustrated, discouraged and at the point of giving up.  His results are actually very typical, but it doesn’t have to be that way.  Millions of websites are earning revenue for their businesses by following a few key strategies.

A few years ago, you could create an SEO-friendly website and the mere fact that it was optimized would attract traffic to your website, but that’s not enough anymore.  You must advertise or market the site.  

Before we move forward, I’ll state unequivocally that if your site is not optimized, you will suffer search engine rankings.  It’s part of building a professional website, and simply a matter of course that you need to pay attention to proper optimization of each page.  It would be like showing up at the opera in a dirty t-shirt and cut-off’s; it simply isn’t done if you want to be taken seriously.  Pay attention to the title of your page, as well as the description, keywords and especially the content.  Tag your images with relevant keywords.  Do all those things — especially if your keyword competes with less than 50,000 – 60,000 other web pages in Google’s index.  We commonly see the lack of optimization on home-made websites (made in a free editor), Flash sites (pretty but not very smart) and old websites (technically obsolete).  If you have a home-made, Flash or old website, it’s entirely possible to have a well optimized site, but you may have to work harder to get here than the guy with the WordPress blog.  WordPress sites are about as good as it gets for good SEO, and should be your model to emulate in your own web property.

More than simply optimizing your site for search engines, you must tell the world about your website.  There are simply too many pages on the Internet about your topic — too much noise for a page to simply “exist” and get any attention at all.  Time and again, you have heard me talk about “the conversation,” and that’s an image I’ll return to again here.  Think about a cocktail party.  If you are in the street outside the house, you could be the most relevant contributor in the world to the conversation; but unless you walk into the house and actually join the conversation, you’re not relevant.  You’re not even on the radar.  People don’t know you exist.  You are a mere murmur in a world that is shouting.

The Internet — and by extension, search engines — filter out pages for a number of reasons.  Spam content that contributes nothing gets thrown to the side of the road.  Good content with no volume is not found, and that is a true shame.  There are many ways to join the conversation.  If you have something to say — especially if you have something of substance to contribute — you have a responsibility to make yourself heard.  So get out there!  It’s time to be heard.

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Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to extensively test the content management system Pligg.  If you’re looking for a “ratings” type of website — a website devoted exclusively to a ratings system — then Pligg might be for you.  Unfortunately, Pligg is still in a “beta” stage and not quite ready for prime time.  If you’re familiar with the WordPress or Joomla frameworks (for example), then you will probably be frustrated with Pligg.

WordPress has benefitted from a longer development cycle and a usage that is nearly ubiquitous among the blogging community.  And Pligg is less of a blog than a content management system.  With Pligg, you have the opportunity to plug in different modules to customize Pligg to your liking, and you also can incorporate different skins to alter the design of Pligg.  

There are but a few skins available for Pligg, and as with most content management systems, the “design” changes really have more to do with color and column width variables than true design options.  One thinks of the over 1500 public (free) themes available for WordPress, plus the dozens of premium and “developer” grade themes available… Not to mention monster themes like our personal favorite, Thesis, and, well, it’s a pale comparison.  Pardon our lack of diplomacy, but Pligg is the poor second cousin who arrived late for dinner, and has a lot of growing up to do.  No offense to the Pligg community, because I think some day Pligg will truly grow up to be someone.

With regard to a ratings type of website, you can get ratings plugins for WordPress that provide ratings on posts and stories.  And there are numerous examples of adapting the WordPress theme to a content management system, and those have their place as well as their pro’s and con’s…  However, if you truly need a content management system — something where you pull data from other sources and populate it into your website — that database-driven aspect of serving data might be (eventually) better served in Pligg.

This reviewer sees some promise with Pligg.  If you were to download Pligg to test drive, bear in mind that the installation is not difficult with an experienced web developer, but it is more cumbersome and multi-stepped than, say, a WordPress installation via Fantastico in cPanel.  If you can follow the detailed instructions and know how to change file permissions on your server, then you should have no problem.  One tip — READ THE README file.  It’s crucial to your well being as a Pligg installer. Lol 

One wonders why there are not more skins available for Pligg, as it seems fairly straightforward to customize.  It is (like WordPress) PHP-based, so it’s a system that’s open source and ready to be developed, and will likely be so once it catches on amongst developers and users.

Do I ever see Pligg becoming as widespread as WordPress?  Likely not.  The singular benefits of Pligg focus on a fairly narrow definition for website need.  Pligg is for that niche of web developer and website owner who strictly needs a ratings-based content management system.  At least from the time I spent taking it apart, that’s what I see in its present form.

Each technology and platform fills a purpose, and there is no dragon slayer out there that is the end-all be-all of web platforms.  One client might truly benefit from Pligg, another from WordPress, while a third might need a Flash website.  This is where consulting with a professional web developer can save you months of development time and thousands of dollars in wasted expense and lost revenue.  You owe it to yourself to find a developer who has a wide breadth of experience and can advise you on the best strategy to implement for your business — a developer like Kinetics Web Pro.  Woops, sorry for the shameless plug.  

I’ll continue to monitor Pligg’s development and report back on the improvements as they occur.  Bottom line: is Pligg the next best thing?  Uh… no.

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