Do Marketers Really Need RSS?
The recent Forrester Research study, which claims that only 2% of online households in North America use RSS, took the internet marketing world by storm. Jupiter Research estimates RSS penetration at 12% of the American online population, while the latest report from PEW shows that 9% of the American online population has a good idea of what RSS is. If you want to be 100% certain that your messages reach your audience, RSS is the way to go. And two, for your most important content updates, RSS really is becoming a must, especially if you need to be in contact with your existing customers, partners and other key audiences. But all of the above don't even touch all the reasons why marketers should start using RSS today .
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12 Reasons Why You Need A Blog
Blog regularly for a few months, and you could end up
having a 100+ page website - all filled with relevant, keyword-optimized, themed
content. And a very powerful way to do
it is by inserting relevant keywords. You can include keywords in your blog title,
description, blog post headings, trackback links, comment invitations, archive titles,
and category names. The terms used as link 'anchors' are
keyword-optimized. Search engines exist to offer their audience a compilation of the best resources on a
subject or keyword.
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24 Tips and Strategies on How Everyone Can Blog Right and Get Everybody to Read
This is
by far the best place to drop by if you want to get your
research done about which blogging software to choose. Research is all what it takes to get the
best of all the available options. Keep note
on the keyword terms used from search engines which bring
you traffic. Its
better to use a service which gives you advanced traffic
analysis, such as keyword tracking information, referral
information, and search engine information. You can also apply some
keyword optimization strategies here.
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Benefits to RSS
Companies or individuals interested in receiving headline news based on a specific brand or keyword can use RSS feeds to monitor news sources. Publishers using RSS as a communication vehicle are able to create keyword-rich, themed content, establishing trust, reputation, and ongoing communication with current and prospective customers. Some online retailers have taken this a step further, allowing users to create their own feeds based on keywords or phrases. The feed is updated each time an item is added to Amazon that meets the specified criteria or keywords - Amazon Search Feed - http. They will only receive items related to a specific keyword or phrase they setup - http.
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Snob-Bloggers: You Just Might Be A Snob If You Publish A Blog
According to Jupiter Research, about 2 percent of the online community has created a blog. The Next Generation? If so, you are certainly a Snob-Blogger. Do you recognize Wil Wheaton as someone other than the geeky kid from Star Trek. Other Snob-Blogger characteristics include. If you know what RSS means, I'm guessing you are a Snob-Blogger.
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Time Saving Uses For RSS
This is useful not just for new content but also as a research tool for you area of interest. With an RSS feed subscription at ezinearticles for any specific topic you can be made aware of new articles as they are added. What if you need to keep a look out for new content for your site without having to constantly trawl the internet. It is not just search and blog syndication that are benefiting from RSS. This is useful as you can get results quicker than they appear in the traditional search engines.
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7 Questions To Ask Yourself BEFORE Staring A Business Blog
A blog is an excellent way to boost your search engine rankings and get listed for a lot of your target keywords. If not, you should either hire someone to do the research or seriously rethink your decision to start a blog. If you are prepared to put in the time and effort required to do that sort of research, your blog will serve as a good branding tool for your business. If, on the other hand, you're a control freak (like me) and don't mind spending some time and effort to customize your blog, then a server-installed software, like Wordpress, b2Evolution or Movable Type might be just right for you. This might also prove a better option if you want to get started as soon as possible, are new to the internet, or are unfamiliar with scripts or code.
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Top 10 Places to Find the Most Popular Blogs
This is a fantastic way to do market research and to see what everybody is buzzing about. The more specific keywords, the more likely you are to find bloggers talking about what you're interested in. As usual, Google and friends to the rescue! These are the more traditional and widely known search engines. Try searching by topic or geographic location. Type in some topic and the word 'blogs' and see what results come up.
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Why I Use Bloglines as My Default RSS Reader
In my research I came across Bloglines which is a web based reader. Since I have been a user I have as yet not experienced any down time. As a precaution you can export your RSS feed list as an OPML file so you can import into another RSS reader should Bloglines go belly up or experience any serious down time. I am happy to say Bloglines is a tool I would gladly recommend to an RSS user. Now this is certainly a big potential problem especially if you really heavily on being able to have access to your feeds.
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Just Tag It!
Think of a 'tag' as a 'keyword' to be used in blogging
and RSS Feeds (Feed tags are still in the works. Just how will tags work for building content or links to your
site? How will the search engines use these tags? How will
marketers and advertisers exploit the potential of all this
content and the content's viewers.
Will someone step in and rank these or will they remain
democratic. Will we have tag-spamming? (Just what we need another form
of spamming!) Someone flooding these tags with thousands of links
to get traffic or sell a product. Heady days for those keeping a close watch on the events unfolding.
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How to Activate The Firefox Live Bookmark Feature on Your Site
Reprint Freely as long as you keep the keyword rich link live. This is the link or URL to the actual feed that the visitor will subscribe to. The whole process is fairly simple once you understand the basics. You can literally make your RSS feed accessible via Live Bookmark to any of your visitors in just a few minutes. Joe Duchesne is the webmaster of ScreamerFeeds.
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How to Make Money With Your Blog?
Ryen Kim is an MBA, specialized in marketing research and analysis. This is your final goal and the monetization has two streams. But it's just one example out of hundred affiliate programs. Did you buy something when a blogger tried to sell something? Maybe not! Instead, give your readers useful information and create the warm mood by giving them the benefits of product that you have in mind. And then, only then place a link so that your readers click through.
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Using Feedburner to Add Statistics to Your RSS Feed
If this means nothing to you I would suggest further research before doing this. You will need to add a new line to your htaccess file. You will need to point Feedburner to a copy of your feed that only Feedburner will see. 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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RSS Support in New Microsoft Windows Vista
Joe Wilcox, an analyst with Jupiter Research, said Microsoft's foray into RSS is reminiscent of its rush to capture its share of the burgeoning Web browser market in the mid-1990s. They responded by making Internet Explorer part of the operating system. Having RSS built into Vista could pose a serious threat to companies that sell RSS readers that siphon data from the Internet. But Kidd contends that Microsoft isn't out to put anyone out of business. Ken Savage is a Webmaster employee who writes about what is going on in the Tech industry usually days before it breaks to the rest of the world.
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RSS Feeds Explosion
Tony Dean is a published author and owner of web site at. Will you have an input into this 'third dimension. The colossal explosion of information through the 'third dimension' of the internet is about to start - the 'first dimension' was the text based information in dos that started as the internet - which then was only for academics and scientists swapping information on research - the 'second dimension' was the introduction of the graphical capability of browsers which allowed pictures, text and movie's - we now move inexorably onward through the 'third dimension' of RSS feeds and now everyone can become a news publisher, the newspaper and magazine publishers are in trepidation, their reign may now be coming to an end, all information in the future will be by RSS feed and 'blogs', in fact most 18-24 year old's are now not even switching on the television, but cruising on the computer instead. If you desperately need to raise awareness and create more exposure for your service or product, without spending huge amounts on advertising - then you need to put up that RSS feed now before the Klondike of all rushes starts. If you can open 'Notepad' and type, you can make a feed file to go on your server and this will be seen by countless people all over the world who are looking for the latest products to buy.
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