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(What Would Set Godin Do [WWSGD]) (Possibly, Maybe?)
I'm running my blog
pc-freak.net/blog for almost two years.
Though beforehand I used to use the nanoblogger as my primary blog
and this wordpress blog was just an experiment. Since almost a year
and a bit more I've copmletely migrated to wordpress blogging
platform.
I would say that I'm quite an active blogger and most of the days
of the year I blog at least one post.
By so far I have blogged
715 times and my blog is starting
to become massive, less that the amount of my blog subscribers is
staying to the shocking number of
5 .
I believe my blog content is not that boring that for about a year
and a half time just 5 people would get interested into receiving
RSS notification whether I put online a new blog post.
As I took some time to consider what might be the cause I came to
the conclusion that my current set up for blog RSS subscription via
the
Add-To-Any wordpress plugin is not that intuitive, and
users needs to click at least 3 times before they could have added
themselves as a new subscriber.
Therefore logically enough I needed a quick and easy way to improve
my current situation with subscribers and
increase the current
critically low number of subscribers to a bit better one (let's
say few subscribers per week or month).
I took the time to research online about what kind of options do I
have in my situation for an easy and silly way to install some kind
of wordpress plugin which will have positive effect on my
subscriptions.
After a while of useless googling, thankfully I came across
something that looks promising for my set task.
The plugin which is supposed to do the trick is called
What
Would Seth Godin Do or as it's shortly abbreviated
WWSGD
;)
The plugin's idea is actually very simple, if a new user comes
across my wordpress powered blog, he is recognized as a referrer
who is accessing the blog for a first time and therefore offered
the option to subscribe in two intuitive simple clicks.
The offered default user message which could easily be changed via
the
What Would Set Godin Do options reads as follows:
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.
Thanks for visiting!
If a visitor visits your webpage 5 times, the message will
automatically disappear from the screen.
The
WWSGD plugin allows you to choose where do you want to
position the RSS above shown text (e.g. you can set the text
location to appear before or after your posts). It also gives some
options to play with the plugin css styling via the
configuration.
I just installed the plugin and it will take a while until I find
out if it will provide my blog with some more subsribers but anyhow
the plugin idea is good so I hope it will work out.
Here is a quick few liners which describes
how to install the
WWSGD plugin on your wordpress
1. Download the plugin What Would Set Godin Do plugin in your
blog wp-content/plugins directory I've made a mirror
copy of the plugin so you can choose either to download it directly
from wordpress extensions website.
linux:~# cd /var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins
linux:~# wget what-would-seth-godin-do.zip
...
linux:~# unzip what-would-seth-godin-do.zip
2. Login to wordpress administrator and go to;
Plugins -> Active
Look over the list of your installed wordpress plugins and find and
enable the WWSGD plugin
3. Configure the WWSGD extension
Navigate to
Settings -> WWSGD
There set the options which fits you well. The WWSGD wordpress
plugin works fine on my just updated wordpress 3.1 install even
though it's intitially prepared to run on older versions of
wordpress.
Note that the What Would Set Godin Do extension will require
you to have your browser cookies enabled in order to be able to
distinguish between old and new site visitors.
Will the plugin really boost up my blog subscribers, I don't know!
Only time will tell. I'll be glad if somebody already has
experience with the plugin and can share if he has a positive
results in increseing the count of blog subscribers.
I'll be testing it and further comment back if the plugin is really
useful in fulfilling my goal of increasing my blog
subscriptions.
Feedback on any others who tried my article to install and set the
plugin will be very much appreciated!