I’ve seen a rise in our RSS subscription rate so I guess I am now obligated to keep these going. w.blogger is giving me some strange error and I didn’t want to take the time away from Tonights post to troubleshoot.

First, I read Today (or was it Yesterday) in SEOFeed (I think, I read so many articles in a day) that Web 2.0 was over and done, that it was time to get ready for Web 3.0. My first reaction was; we need a better name for it. Whatever it is, my thoughts are hopefully we completely move away from machines determining the relevance of web content, in other words I think Web 2.0 was a balance between bots and humans deciding what was cool … and hopefully Web 3.0 (aw c’mon can’t we call call it ’super mega web’ or something) will be a purely people driven thing. I really like BlogBridge and think that tool is cutting edge stuff.

This brings me to the point where we were unsure if we should talk about this experiment, our results aren’t really in yet but it’s a bit of a ‘no brainer’. I’ll start here: Ready? While the RSS spec does contain … or tagging if you will, it is rarely used. My first shock was to see this at Amazon and in BlogBridge (BlogBridge also has rating) so I dug into the suggestions for RSS tagging and found this form [foo]. That makes sense for del.icio.us but I think the larger question is does generic tagging work ie. www.mydomain.com/tag/ rel=foo? This is one of the many things we’re testing and I promise the results shortly.

We do a lot of testing with Autodiscovery and see huge potential for the RSS extentions ‘category’ and ‘new’ … just look at what Amazon is doing and it should be pretty clear that XML-RPC and RSS can do it all, simply and elegantly.

I guess that’s all for now - we don’t get many comments so what the heck, why don’t you click and tell me I am full of it or something? Oh, this kinda shaped my view of Blogging and sharing our experiments … I saw Fishkin explaining that the reason they got started in the ‘Info’ part of SEO was because it was a struggle any other way. I agree, we don’t expect to compete with the big boys (have I mentioned recently that Bruce Clay is just a few blocks down the road from here) but perhaps a few folks will find our research interesting and spread the word. We are proud of our little think tank. I can speak for all of us when I say we love our work, we are [ex]-engineers so we thrive on the pressure.

Well, that’s our Blog for Today. Sure would be interested in your experiences with RSS-SEO.

Dave,
CE - PSEM - RELAX SEO Services
www.relaxseo.com