I have been testing a couple of WordPress plug-ins on a few of my sites. One of these plug-ins retrieves articles from the iSnare article directory. I have several sites that are receiving articles on a regular basis, but two or three have not seen any new content.

I have looked at the server logs and the iSnare bot does stop by those sites and there does not appear to be a problem as it finds the download script. The categories that I chose for those sites must have little content available.

One of the sites is my old humor site, WebPickups. It has been some time since I posted things to the site on a regular basis. I had hoped to generate some additional traffic. I put up a blog with an initial post explaining the plan and have waited for about a week for the content to start rolling in. Nothing has showed up. The site displays email comedy. Today I added three posts of material that showed up in my inbox. Posting this type of material may take more time in WordPress than to just build an additional page on the main site, but with WordPress there is the RSS shout and the other plug that I am working with adds some other blogs links to the post. This then precipitates a ping to the other blog and, with luck, a trackback to the post.

You can check outs the new posts on the WebPickups Blog if you have any interest. I will be watching my traffic numbers to see if I achieve a boost. The display is slick in WordPress.

What do you think, will this help?