For those of you that read my last post, you know I'm diversifying my publishing methods. There are information sites that I don't run subscription lists on. But I do have other sites where I want people to subscribe to a mini-course or newsletter.
I read a post on some blog (don't recall) that the trend is for people to get get information on their own time , instead of newsletters via email; I'll still continue with my autoresponders and mailing lists, but I'll be adding RSS feeds to some of my new sites.
I've realized the easiest way to do this is by using blogs. So, I had to sacrifice something to get an added benefit.
So, back to Pivot. For those of you not familiar with this software, it's a PHP blog that is flatfile based (it uses a text database). I didn't want to add up my costs by getting MySQL added. So I ended up doing some hacking with Pivot.
I changed things around so Pivot is more of a CMS than a blog. There was a feature to turn off live entries. What this does is save each post as a static file. I then changed the templates to write a description from the post subtitle. I added keyword metatags from the keywords used for Pivots internal search engine. I changed the template to make it load faster and make it more search engine friendly.
Will Pivot be my main CMS platform. For blogs-yes, for overall content publishing-not yet. I guess I'll see some results in the next 6-12 months. At that time, I'll do some research to figure out which one I like the best.
I read a post on some blog (don't recall) that the trend is for people to get get information on their own time , instead of newsletters via email; I'll still continue with my autoresponders and mailing lists, but I'll be adding RSS feeds to some of my new sites.
I've realized the easiest way to do this is by using blogs. So, I had to sacrifice something to get an added benefit.
So, back to Pivot. For those of you not familiar with this software, it's a PHP blog that is flatfile based (it uses a text database). I didn't want to add up my costs by getting MySQL added. So I ended up doing some hacking with Pivot.
I changed things around so Pivot is more of a CMS than a blog. There was a feature to turn off live entries. What this does is save each post as a static file. I then changed the templates to write a description from the post subtitle. I added keyword metatags from the keywords used for Pivots internal search engine. I changed the template to make it load faster and make it more search engine friendly.
Will Pivot be my main CMS platform. For blogs-yes, for overall content publishing-not yet. I guess I'll see some results in the next 6-12 months. At that time, I'll do some research to figure out which one I like the best.
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