Should You be Using RSS Feeds and Blogs?

Should You be Using RSS Feeds and Blogs?

by: Craig Desorcy

Today’s marketplace is extremely competitive. The Wal Marts of the world are squeezing the life out of small business enterprises. Meanwhile the World Wide Web is inviting small marketers with open arms. Rather than having an amazing amount of resources available, the Internet requires savy and alert marketing methods. Blogs and RSS Feeds will blow your mind with the virtually free growth potential they offer small and large marketers alike.

Why not level the playing field to give your small or new web business a boost? Blogs were once used as a personal online ขdiaryข where people could express their thoughts and feelings, but today they offer a quick and efficient way to get your website indexed really fast! Forget about spending months to build a small clientelle. A few minutes each day, spent writing about the market you’re involved in will bring your site to the attention of search engines. Incorporate your blog into a RSS feed and your site will be broadcast across the world in no time at all.

Alicia was the typical homemaker who spent her days raising kids, sewing, cleaning, and of course folding piles of laundry. She did have one pastime surfing the web. Early in her experience she knew absolutely nothing about web terms. In fact, the mention of a spider would have sent her running. As her knowledge grew, she began to get a wild dream of becoming a virtual entrepreneur. Could she do it?

She thought of what her family would think about her attempt. Their number one reaction she imagined would be surprise. This made the decision she would keep her business attempt a secret, and if all went well she’d have a really great surprise in store for them.

Alicia went through the normal first steps of setting up a website, and readying her product a mother’s personal organizer. Next she researched all of the marketing plans she could find.

Day after day, after the kids went off to school Alicia spent a few hours blogging about everyday events in the life of a mother. She incorporated RSS feeds into her plan, and included a great number of links to other sites of interest. Day by day she watched her web traffic increase and her bank account grow. By Christmas time she had the most amazing surprise to present to her family a bank statement that proved she had earned more than $100,000 in her spare time of a few hours each day.

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How could such a simple marketing plan work for an obvious newbie? Simply! Alicia just found a plan that involved little technilogical knowledge and implemented it. She happened to have found a way to get her site indexed and listed on search results almost immediately. Spiders love updated content, and long lists of links. Alicia, like most mothers, knew that if you feed something what it likes, it’ll pretty much do what you want it to! For Alicia, a little mother’s insight paid off.

What about your website and marketing dreams? Are they paying off at the rate you expected? If not, take a moment to visit www.marketingrampagewithblogsandrss.com and watch your web traffic increase. Who knows?… you may be more surprised than Alicia’s family members!

About The Author

Fast and Easy Way To Get Blogging and Using RSS Feeds

Click here> http://www.effectiveinfo.com/blogsrss.html

This article is copyright © Craig Desorcy

Craig Desorcy is an Internet enthusiast who Lives and works in Japan, spending most of his free time on the internet running his blog and websites of interest.

Craig(at)effectiveinfo.com

This article was posted on February 05

by Craig Desorcy

How Podcasting is Used

How Podcasting is Used

by: S. Housley

Although podcasting is new, it is well on its way to becoming a mainstream communication medium. Podcasting, simply put, is audio files that are delivered via RSS. Many people believe that podcasting is solely for the distribution of music files, but really, nothing could be further from the truth. This emerging method of audio file distribution has opened an array of marketing and communication opportunities to businesses. Currently, most who are familiar with podcasting are technically savvy, but it is clear that podcasting will be more than a passing fad as many businesses are adopting podcasting and employing it in unusual yet powerful ways. Podcasting can be used for talk shows, tutorials, music demos, educational training, stories, comedy clips, debates or even foreign language tutorials.

While RSS has had the capacity to include audio files for a few years, only recently have entrepreneurs made the conceptual leap, taking advantage of the new power held within this communication medium. In reality, podcasters cover the gamut; some are professional broadcasters, while others are obvious amateurs.

Podcasts are usually published with associated meta information that includes descriptive data about each specific audio file. This allows listeners to make a determination of which audio items are of interest. If listeners are using a news aggregator that supports podcasting, they will automatically receive updates in their feed reader or news aggregation software when a new podcast exists for a feed that they have subscribed to.

Why is podcasting so beneficial to the subscriber?

Unlike traditional radio, with podcasting the subscriber decides what content he/she receives. Podcasting is extremely useful to the subscriber because the user can easily receive information he/she would like, and listen to it when they want. The material, once downloaded, can be listened to and viewed on wireless handhelds, allowing subscribers to utilize time on the road.

Topicspecific radio talk shows with commentaries, interviews and debates can now be heard at a time and place of the listenerกs choosing. Consider the benefit of educational tutorials and foreign language instruction; lessons could be listened to during a work commute. Supplementary class lectures, step by step tutorials or walking guides are all possible using podcasting. An unlimited collection of books read aloud for elderly or visuallyimpaired listeners only scratch the surface of what is possible in the future of podcasting.

The fate of podcasting is in the hands of the subscribers. The subscriber can easily delete podcast feeds that do not satisfy their needs with the single tap of a button. Ultimately, the subscriber maintains control and determines what podcasts are deemed successful. This intrinsically builds in a quality control level and will ensure that the more innovative instructional and interesting podcast feeds survive.

The technology is fresh and, like the Internet, is opening doors to entrepreneurs. As podcasting evolves, users will find more creative kinds of audio content to deliver. The low barrier to entry has forced this new medium to the forefront, as businesses and individuals have really little to lose in adding podcasting as a communication channel.

About The Author

Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds and NotePage, Inc. http://www.notepage.net a wireless messaging software company.

[email protected]

This article was posted on February 28

by S. Housley

RSS: News You Choose

RSS: News You Choose

by: S. Housley

Why is RSS So Magical?

The answer is simple: RSS is news you choose.

How Does it Work?

Publishers and webmasters provide content and news in an RSS feed. Users view the content of interest in an RSS reader or news aggregator. The aggregator or reader contains the collection of feeds that are of interest to the user. As the RSS feed is updated the content in the reader or aggregator updates with the new information. At any point, users can remove a feed from their aggregator or reader and no longer receive information from that source. Ultimately, the user is choosing the news and content they wish to view.

As RSS has increased in popularity more and more webmasters and publishers have adopted RSS as an alternative communication stream. Webmasters use an RSS graphic to indicate the content is available via RSS.

RSS Aggregators and News Readers

Generally, there are three types of RSS readers that users use to view feeds that theyกve subscribed to. Feeds can be viewed in a desktop application, webbased aggregator, or plugin aggregator.

Desktop RSS Readers

Standalone desktop applications generally run in the background, similar to an email client, automatically refreshing headlines as newfeeds are updated. The RSS readers collect the feeds and refresh items in the feeds each time they are updated. An example of a popular standalone desktop RSS reader is: FeedDemon http://www.feeddemon.com

Web Based Aggregators

Webbased news aggregators are online services. In simple terms, you can personalize a web page. Each time that page is accessed or each time you login to the service, the web page news headlines from feeds that you have selected will refresh. Examples of popular webbased RSS aggregators are: SurfPack http://www.surfpack.com, FeedScout http://www.feedscout.com or ActiveWeb Reader http://www.deskshare.com/awr.aspx. My.Yahoo even has the option of including RSS feeds on My.Yahoo start pages.

Plugin Readers

Plugin news aggregators expand the functionality of existing applications to allow users to veiw RSS feeds from within an existing program. Some plugins work with web browsers; others work with email clients. An example of a plugin is: NewsGator Outlook http://www.newsgator.com/outlook.aspx

Websites containing RSS feeds usually have a colorful graphic indicating the availability of an RSS feed. The graphic is usually marked กRSSก or กXMLก. Simply click the graphic and enter the URL of the file into the reader. Regardless of the RSS reader or news aggregator used by web surfers, the process of adding feeds is generally simple. Web surfers need only to enter the URL of the RSS feed that they wish to view into their news reader. Each time the reader refreshes the feed the information contained within the feed is updated and new content in the feed will appear in the RSS reader.

Finding Feeds

In order to find topicspecific feeds, conduct a search on the RSS search engines available at RSS Specifications http://www.rssspecifications.com/rssdirectory.htm or try RSS Locator http://www.rsslocator.com .

About The Author

Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds and NotePage, Inc. http://www.notepage.net a wireless messaging software company.

This article was posted on February 23

by S. Housley

Fun Free Feed Tools for Both the Publisher and the

Fun Free Feed Tools for Both the Publisher and the Reader

by: Tinu AbayomiPaul

As you’ve probably been reading, there are basically three problems many webmasters have with web feeds (that is, among those who are already familiar with them on a basic level).

The three concerns I hear the most are:

ขHow do I deal with the bandwidth hit?ข

ขIs there a way to include information that isn’t in the automated resource I use to populate my feed without touching any code?ข

and

ขWhere can I find a costeffective, simple way to display feeds on my site?ข

Say Goodbye to Bandwidth Overages with FeedBurner

http://feedburner.com

If you’re a publisher, chances are, you’re familiar with the bandwidth increase that occurs every time your audience reads the latest update to your feed that for some webmasters lead to the possibility of exceeding monthly bandwidth limitations. There’s an easy solution.

Burn your feed with FeedBurner. They’re happy to take the burden off your server. (And yes, they say, FeedBurner is one word.)

Whether you’ve just created your news feed or you have been RSSing for years, you can create a free account at their site. Their service will also:

translate your feed from Atom to RSS or vice versa,

make a browserfriendly page that explains what web feeds are to the new user,

allow you to splice any link into your feed using some of the more popular social bookmarking services.

FeedBurner also allows you to study your demographic by giving you statistics on how many request have been made for your feed contents, down to the item if you like.

Though I offer both the burned version of my feed and the original to my audience, they love the extra information my FeedBurned link provides them.

Social Bookmarking Share More Info with Less Hassle

http://furl.net

http://bloglines.com

http://del.icio.us

Social bookmarking allows you to create a bookmark online, and share those bookmarks via RSS.

Some services even allow you to share your collection of links, as you can do with the service from del.icio.us . Furl.net, newly acquired by LookSmart, also adds the capability of saving an old version of a page you have visited with the bookmark feature. And at Bloglines, you can get ezine subscriptions via feed by subscribing through a special address they give you.

All three of these services can be coupled with FeedBurner to splice external links or other internal links from your own site into the ขburnedข version of your feed.

Display links on your site for free with RSS Digest

http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/

Youกve heard about the value of displaying feeds from other sites (with permission of the publisher, of course) on your site. The theory is that the frequently updated headlines add freshness to your site, which results in more frequent visits from search engine spiders. This can lead to better rankings for the site carrying the headlines, and more backlinks for the feed publisher. Everybody wins.

For the most part, I’ve found this to be true, with a feed that frequently updates, at sites that have suitable content for both the visitor and the spiders to enjoy.

The trouble for many smaller web property owners is finding a costeffective manner in which to employ this technique. Most free tools that do this with javascript are fine for site publishers who are using the headlines for content, but if you also want the search engine benefits, it doesn’t help as many spiders don’t register content that appears in this format.

RSS Digest will do this for you in HTML, as recently reported in Search Engine Journal.

It’s not as sophisticated a tool as CARP or RSS Equalizer, but if you want to offer your feed to an audience and they don’t mind using an IFRAME or pasting PHP code into their pages, this will do the job just fine.

If you’re good at supplying tips, finding resources, or locating fresh information, after viewing some news feeds for yourself, you might find that you’re ready to take the next step and publish one. If you’re already a publisher, utilizing some of these free tools may help you build a better feed.

Either way, good luck!

Copyright 2004 Tinu AbayomiPaul

About The Author

Tinu saw a 75% increase in site traffic using only promotion of her web feeds, not taking into account increased exposure in search engines. She compiled her findings into a quick, everevolving guide this past July that you can download from http://www.freetraffictip.com, in addition to the semidaily free traffic tips you’ll find in her blog.

This article was posted on September 23, 2004

by Tinu AbayomiPaul

RSS Meets the Needs of Direct Marketers

RSS Meets the Needs of Direct Marketers

by: Rok Hrastnik

Contrary to general opinion, RSS meets the needs of even the most demanding direct marketer, actually providing most of what email marketing does, except for the strong push factor.

Most direct marketing reasons against RSS are in fact the result of inadequate understanding of RSS by most marketers.

a] Scheduled and autoresponder messages

There are already a few services and software packages on the market that allow for scheduled and autoresponder messages via RSS feeds. Once your visitor subscribes to your special RSS feed, he can receive a predetermined set of messages in a specific time frame, determined by you. Use these messages to welcome your new reader to your RSS feed; thank your new customer after the purchase, send him additional information about the ordered product and give him the opportunity to buy an additional product at a lower price tag a couple of days later, and so on.

b] RSS metrics

RSS can in fact be tracked: track anything from the number of your subscribers, their reading habits, their reading frequency to your clickthrough rates and activities after clickingthrough from your feed. This includes tracking which of your RSS feeds are performing better, are more interesting to your readers and drive more sales … and the same for individual content items.

c] Message targeting

Since RSS feeds can be dynamically generated on a peruser basis, you can easily track the interests of your individual subscribers and then target marketing messages directly to them, making each message relevant to their needs and interests in order to increase your sales success.

d] Message personalization

If you generate your RSS feeds for each individual user, you can also personalize these feeds. Basic personalization includes elements such as the readerกs first name, while more advanced personalization might include personalized content and product recommendations and so on.

e] Data capture

Email marketers have already become experts at using optin forms to get as much information from the prospect as possible; the prospectกs name, his interests, the current products he is using, his current position in the purchase cycle and so on. RSS can be used in the same way, giving your visitors access to the RSS feed only after theyกve filled in a simple or complex optin form. This can work with ezine subscriptions, as well as forms you require your visitors to fill in to either register on your website or download your free report or whitepaper.

Good news for direct marketers is that these capabilities are already available in many RSS publishing/marketing solutions, available at very acceptable prices, accessible even to the smallest companies.

Copyright 2005 Rok Hrastnik

About The Author

Rok Hrastnik is the author of »Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS«, acclaimed as the best and most comprehensive guide to RSS for marketers by leading RSS experts. The complete guide on RSS for marketers: http://rss.marketingstudies.net/index.html?src=sa4

This article was posted on April 12

by Rok Hrastnik

How RSS Feeds Help Your Search Engine Rankings

How RSS Feeds Help Your Search Engine Rankings

by: Kim Proulx

RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. RSS is an XMLbased format for content distribution. Webmasters create an RSS feed containing headlines and descriptions of specific information. The majority of RSS feeds currently contain news headlines, current articles, breaking information but you can find a feed on just about any subject.

Webmasters can use these RSS feeds to help add relevant content to their webpages and move their site up the search engine ladder. The key to using these feeds is to have it show up in your websites page code so when search engine spiders your site, it will see all kinds of new content and thinks that your site is currently maintained and being updated frequently. Search engines really like to see this and rank these sites highest. Optimum rankings will likely not hold up if the site stays static. RSS feeds are an excellent way to continually freshen website content without having to make periodic content updates manually.

Buried within U.S. Patent Application # 20050071741 (aka The Google Patent) is the following paragraph:

กDocuments for which there is an increase in the rate of change might be scored higher than those documents for which there is a steady rate of change, even if that rate of change is relatively high. The amount of change may also be a factor in this scoring. For example, documents for which there is an increase in the rate of change when that amount of change is greater than some threshold might be scored higher than those documents for which there is a steady rate of change or an amount of change is less than the threshold.ก

Easytoimplement RSS feeds are available for almost any imaginable topic and having one or more feeds on your website will certainly enhance your visitor experience. Your visitors will most likely appreciate this added content with uptodate information. They will be more likely to revisit and stay longer while reading these RSS feeds.

If you are adding RSS to your website for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), there is one important rule that must be followed: DON’T USE JAVASCRIPT! Why not? Because search engines don’t look at JavaScript, so JavaScript feeds are useless for SEO. To make news feeds visible to search engines, their text has to be embedded into your page. If you view the source of your page and you don’t see the actual text of the news feed, then search engines aren’t going to see it either.

RSS is one of the hottest phenomenons in the webmaster community today. RSS that benefits SEO is a topic that’s been very much overlooked. Implementing RSS into websites has become much easier so that even nonprogrammer types can do it. RSS should be viewed as a must for any website that would normally remain very static and should be strongly considered as a part of all SEO projects.

Once you find the right newsfeed for your webpage you will need a program to parse out the content and display it on your site in plain HTML. Originotions.com http://www.originotions.com makes this as easy as putting your RSS feed link in a form. You can customize the size, look and feel of the output. They send you a couple lines of code in PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion and HTML. You just add it in your webpage and presto, you have an RSS feed on your site, all for free.

About The Author

Kim Proulx

Webmaster

Website: http://www.originotions.com

This article was posted on September 10

by Kim Proulx

Get All the Traffic You Need With Blogs and RSS Fe

Get All the Traffic You Need With Blogs and RSS Feeds

by: Craig Desorcy

Are you a small businessman setting up a brand new website to advertise your products? Maybe you already have an active website, but desire to make it more interesting. Either way, you’ll want to investigate blogs and RSS feeds to give your website some aweinspiring zing!

Even good, hardworking marketers come up against a brick wall sometimes. How many times have you grabbed your head in frustration, wracking your brain for innovative ideas to liven up your website and get more public interest? Don’t fret! Blogs and RSS feeds have taken many small marketers’ websites and blown them skyhigh with additional traffic and revenue.

Bruce, like you, was a hardworking businessman. Now Bruce is also a successful marketer, but he hasn‘t always successfully marketed his products. Several years ago he set out try his luck as a virtual salesman. First, he thought of his hobbies and decided to make a video about his most favored hobby bodybuilding. After months of preparation and spirits high, Bruce’s webpage was designed and his product online. ขAllright!ข he bragged to his good buddy, Jeff. ขI’ve got my website up and running. Now I’m going to make big bucks online.ข His optimism quickly died after three months when he had only sold five of his highquality workout videos , Twenty Minutes a Day to a Fatfree Musclebound Bod!

How did Bruce solve his problem and become successful? Simple! Bruce put a blog onto his website that he updated every few days. He gave his personal account of trimming his figure. Bruce also used RSS feeds to announce new products that complemented his video, and was amazed at the increase in traffic and sales his website began bringing in. Within a week, his sales had skyrocketed past his wildest expectations!

Bruce’s story is wonderful! It lifts the spirit and encourages the weary marketers. ขBut how are blogs and RSS feeds going to help me?ข you might ask yourself. With blogs you can show that your product works. What better way is there to sell an item than to let the entire world know that the product has worked for you? Yeah, you can place pretty, attractive pictures and have witty advertisements, but with no proof that your product works, people aren’t going to buy your merchandise.

ขOkay, so I see how blogs can help me gain traffic, but how will RSS feeds help?ข you wonder. It’s quite simple really. RSS feeds are syndicated, in other words they are broadcast throughout the World Wide Web rather than to individual emails. Basically, RSS informs the whole world that you are out there and what you’re latest information is in one easy feed. WOW! How simple can you get?

Go ahead and join others who are sitting there scratching their heads and thinking, ขThis sounds great! It’s actually so simple. But how on earth do I get started?ข One visit to http://www.effectiveinfo.com/blogsrss.html will have you ready to incorporate blogs and RSS feeds in your own successful marketing plan…

About The Author

Fast and Easy Way To Get Blogging and Using RSS Feeds

Click here> http://www.effectiveinfo.com/blogsrss.html

This article is copyright © Craig Desorcy

Craig Desorcy is an Internet enthusiast who Lives and works in Japan, spending most of his free time on the internet running his blog and websites of interest.

Craig(at)effectiveinfo.com

This article was posted on February 05

by Craig Desorcy

RSS: The New Playground

RSS: The New Playground

by: Tony Dean

Online consumer spending in the month of November 2004 alone grew by 19%, that equals $8.8billion. Since 2002 online spending increased by 62%.

Grab a slice of the action now whilst you can do it for pennies, and before the big boys gobble up all the prime targetted keyword feeds and they will.

So start your rss news feed now for pennies and be an early adopter and get off to a flying start. The sooner you do the big media companies with billions of ad dollars are going to be knocking on your door, asking to advertise on the html web pages that come up in the feed, and already I see adverts by the big media people literally plastered over many pages I look at every day, but just think of the ad revenue some of these early adopters are now raking in. It literally is being thrust upon them without asking, for there are not enough feeds out there to satisfy demand of the media moguls.

You may have doubts as to making any mony off these feeds you set up, just consider this, your feed and where the feed items take people to, ie. your web pages, can look like any multimillion dollar corporations web site out there, the difference can be nil.

Remember too, that habits have changed dramatically in the last two years, surfing the news feeds has replaced watching television as the main activity, especially in the USA.

Cruising the feeds does not cost anything, all you need is a feed reader software, and many of these are free, there is one on my own site for free download, and at the moment is one of the most downloaded progs on my server, thatกs how much interest there now is in rss feeds.

Having a feed out there drives traffic to your web site, where you will not only be selling a product or service, but would have Google Adsense ads as well as ‘third partyก ads. It really does not matter that some of these ads are for your competitors, the ad revenue will become more important than selling anything from your web site and will give you substantial reveueกs for years to come. Residual incomes like this is a desirable thing.

It takes a while for your news feed to be known about, but putting the address of the feed in many กblogsก and forums is a fast way of getting it known.

The sooner you put up your own feed, the sooner you will gain ad revenue, it does not matter too much about the content, you don’t have to come up with your own original articles everyday. Many news feeds out there are posting many of the same articles they have obtained from Ideamarketers.com and press releases from PRWEB.com.

These are just to hang the advertising on and start getting ad revenueกs from the big media companies, the more ads they can spread around, the more กeyeballsก are going to see the ads and then their clients are going to be very happy spending the money.

So, original content would be nice, but to get you started, do what many others are doing, and get some ad revenue.

For those who know nothing about rss feeds and how they are made, I wrote an ebook after I set up two feeds, it is available through Clickbank.com or my own site, www.ebooksales.com The ebook comes with a bonus rebrandable ebook ‘think & Grow Richก the timeless classic by Napoleon Hill, you may sell or give away to promote your link inside.

The name of my ebook? ‘really Simple RSSก. This I should have called ‘really Simple RSS For Dummiesก, because it is for people with no knowledge of this new technology whatsoever, it also comes with technical support to give people confidence that they will put up a feed.

You are not limited either, to putting up only one feed, there is a company out there that has put up 330 of them.

Remember these wise words: กProcrastination is a thief don’t let it steal from you.ก

About The Author

Tony Dean is a published author and owner of a website selling ebooks and software: http://www.ebooksales.com

This article was posted on January 29

by Tony Dean

RSS PIONEERS SET OFF GOLD RUSH

RSS PIONEERS SET OFF GOLD RUSH

by: Tony Dean

The nature of cyberspace is changing fast with the rush now on to set up rss news feeds. Every gram of news and current affairs is gleaned from the four corners of the globe so that we may be informed as to what is happening in hundreds of different commercial fields of endeavour.

Everything from what new item is selling well on eBay, to what กWired Magazineก is saying about the latest technology. More and more magazine and newspaper publishers are gaining a foothold on this new juggernaut which is going to change the way we gather news.

Advertisers too are not left out. Already some of the largest media companies in the world are now poised to find advertising space for their clients กbrandingก campaigns, on any available web page that regularly features in rss feeds.

The media companies with billions of ad dollars to spend, will they say, be spending less on newspaper and t.v. advertising in the coming years, and will concentrate instead on กblogsก and rss feeds.

Competition will be fierce for every available space on the most popular feeds, some run by newspapers!

Many freelance journalists will be running rss feeds in direct competition with the newspaper employers who now pay them to gather news for their publication. There will be no editor to censor their news items, they will be free to write whatever they want.

This new found freedom for anyone in the world to be able to express their opinions without it costing anything, will make for a new กHouse Of Babelก, with maybe up to several millions of rss feeds within the next five years run by private individuals all over the world. The only needed resource to set up a rss feed is free hosting on a server anywhere in the world, and these web hosts are plentiful.

Press releases submitted to the biggest and well known media release agencies are appearing rapidly on rss feeds, with the publishers of these feeds scambling to put กcontentก on their feed almost on an hourly basis.

Commercial enterprises have never had it so good to get their press release into circulation so quickly as more and more commercial news, via press releases, is needed to fill the ever available channels being run by rss feed publishers. Even badly written press releases that under normal circumstances would not find a publisher willing to print it, will be readily accepted by rss feed publishers looking avidly for more กcontentก. This กcontentก may only be on a rss feed for the space of one hour before it is replaced by something else, but it will have the potential to be seen by lillions of people world wide.

This is the กpotentialก that big media companies are now eyeing.

One rss feed publisher charges $6,000 for an item of news to be on one of his feeds for the space of one day. So the potential for earning substantial incomes from publishing your own rss feed can be huge.

Many web publishers will change tack and embrace rss feeds as being potentially more commercially viable than publishing a web site.

Many กspammersก will change to running as many rss feeds as possible to saturate the market, since spam filters are proving very effective for email.

How easy is it to put up a rss feed?

If you have web hosting already, it can be set up in 5 minutes!

All it needs is a text file placed on the server, and the กfeedก is live to the whole world. Instant rss feed publishing!

About The Author

Tony Dean is a published author and webmaster. Author of the bestselling ebook on setting up a rss feed ‘really Simple RSSก available from Clickbank or his site: http://www.ebooksales.com/rss.html

This article was posted on January 14

by Tony Dean

Jump on Blogging and RSS Feeds or be Left Behind!

Jump on Blogging and RSS Feeds or be Left Behind!

by: Craig Desorcy

Viruses and the deluge of the cyberspace version of junk mail, spam, has forced marketers to look for new ways to get back into the surfer’s eye. Spam filters hinder many of today’s marketers. That ezine you spent hours producing is often routed to the garbage bin without your intended audience ever seeing it. Now that’s not nice, but overwhelming piles of unsolicited emails are thrown into virtual mailboxes around the globe. Do you read your spam mail?

The wise and prudent are jumping on a trend that was relegated to personal use until about a year ago blogging and RSS Feeds. These new tools have become the latest marketing craze to hit the Internet. Why? The advantages they present are amazing, cost effective, and can get your site indexed in the blink of an eye. No wonder marketing gurus are smiling like the Cheshire cat!

Andrew logged onto his usual My Yahoo! page early in September 2004, and was startled to see that it had had a makeover. Really, he thought only women did that! What was this RSS feed information blaring across the screen anyway? It took a little bit of investigation, but Andrew soon discovered that this news could mean extra money in his pocket.

He nearly spilled his lukewarm coffee on the keyboard when he realized that he could get his website in front of more than 20 million viewers with such amazing ease! People everywhere were touting RSS feeds and blogs as the backdoor to Yahoo! and what a place to be! He’d spent endless hours trying to implement search engine optimization techniques in order to do this very thing.

Andrew is still shaking his head in wonder even after several months of high web traffic and amazing profits. ขSuch a simple way to get your product in front of people, save money, and escape spam filters should have a catch!ข he constantly says to himself. But so far, he only has extra money in his account to show for jumping on the blog and RSS band wagon.

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What techniques have you employed to get your site listed? The great lengths people will go to amaze me. I recently wrote fifty search engine optimization articles about baby strollers for an gentleman desperately attempting to get his website noticed. How much can you say about baby strollers, and how many ways can you say it without becoming buggy yourself? RSS feeds and blogging take the hard work, sweat and tears out of marketing. The current search engine optimization techniques are now becoming a relic of the past.

We all know that the virtual world is constantly changing. Anyone who is going anywhere on the Net has to be on the ball, and ready to get in on the first level of these new changes. Are you going to be left behind in the marketing realm?

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Craig Desorcy is an Internet enthusiast who Lives and works in Japan, spending most of his free time on the internet running his blog and websites of interest.

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This article was posted on February 05

by Craig Desorcy

How To Conceal Your Websiteกs กFingerprintก From T

How To Conceal Your Websiteกs กFingerprintก From The Search Engines

by: Satyajeet Hattangadi

The internet marketing industry is now flooded with various page and portal generators.

In the good old days the gateway page generators did very well, earning a lot of money for many people.

Then the search engines began to crack down on robotgenerated pages, a trend which has led to the demise of such tools.

But how is it that the search engines are able to track down these sites so fast?

Well, its not rocket science. Believe me, even you could track down a site within minutes if you knew how to find its fingerprint.

A fingerprint for a site is usually a piece of text or a paragraph or at times a particular CSS style that the software repeats for all the sites it generates.

In fact thatกs why I always advise customers of my portal generation software Niche Portal Builder (http://www.novasoftinc.net) to modify the default templates.

If you use such software with the default templates provided and don’t modify the HTML, you can be sure that hundreds of others are doing the same thing.

All it takes is one jealous competitor to complain to Google. And, Bam.. your site gets banned.

Modifying the templates to create a unique site is definitely one way to go, but there are several others ways to make your site unique.

RSS is a great way to make your site กunfingerprintableก.

But most RSS scripts available in the market today just display the feed content as is without modifying it.

The ideal way to use RSS feeds in a truly กunprintableก fashion would be to aggregate more than one RSS feed and display them randomly.

By aggregating and randomizing several feeds you can guarantee that your content will be unique.

PPC feeds from Amazon, Revenue Pilot and Search feed can add extra content to your sites that make it unique, and earn a few dollars for you at the same time.

All the three PPC sites listed above provide their feeds in XML format and also provide sample PHP code that can convert this into regular HTML.

If you use page generators to create your websites, use them responsibly to ensure the กlongevityก of your websites.

And if you use RSS feeds on your site, remember to กrandomizeก them to conceal your siteกs fingerprint from the search engines.

About The Author

Satyajeet Hattangadi is the Owner of Novasoft Inc, creators of RSS Randomizer http://www.novasoftinc.net/rssrandomizer, a unique php script that aggregates and randomizes RSS feeds to make your site กunfingerprintableก

This article may be reprinted as long as the text and resource box are kept intact, and the links remain live and spiderable.

This article was posted on April 15

by Satyajeet Hattangadi

How to Republish RSS Feeds On Your Website

How to Republish RSS Feeds On Your Website

by: Allan Burns

In this article I am going to cover some tools that you can use that will allow you to publish RSS feeds on your site. This will allow you to have fresh, updated content on your site and you have control of what sort of content you display and how often it is updated.

First off if you do not know much about RSS or feel you require more information take a look at this RSS publishers FAQ and then rejoin us again later.

There are several ways you can go about publishing RSS content, two of which this article will cover are using third party software that will take care of the RSS republishing for you. The second is to use some freely available PHP code to generate your RSS pages.

If you do not what PHP is or have little knowledge or PHP or programming then I would recommend that you use RSS Equalizer which takes care of the complicated stuff for you. RSS Equalizer produces HTML format pages that it has transformed from the RSS feeds it is using as its source.

RSS Equalizer is a PHP script that runs from your server so you will need to make sure your host can run PHP, most web hosts do. Once installed and set up RSS Equalizer can be left to parse content from the RSS feeds and produce a readable HTML format pages on your website.

If you have any programming experience or know a little PHP then there are some other free tools that you can use. These PHP scripts will allow you to parse RSS feeds and if you know PHP will give you more options for customisation. These tools are CaRP, Last RSS and zFeeder.

If you have the time and feel you can handle the PHP then the free PHP scripts above will be your best option. If you neither have the time or the inclination and want the hard work already done for you then try out RSS Equalizer, its not free but itกs the best option for the non programmer.

About The Author

Allan is the webmaster at NewsNiche an RSS resource for webmasters. Learn how to use RSS to attract and retain visitors to your site.

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This article was posted on April 24

by Allan Burns