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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - If an rss feed is the yahoo backdoor, is a blog googles?
- Though the answer is in a book I wrote this July, the question is still asked of me repeatedly. Why does it work for some sites and not others? And how come some blogs get indexed in a day and then are dropped, and others stay in Google indefinitely?Well, let's take one question at a time. The answer to whether you can blog your way into Google search results is yes, sometimes in six weeks,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Marketing with blogs and rss feeds
- Perhaps you still don't realize or fully understand the power of RSS Feeds as a marketing tool.After all, email works fine, doesn't it?Unfortunately, the truth is:1. It's getting harder to send e-mails to the prospect's inbox because of SPAM filters2. People are getting numbed by the amount of e-mails they receive everyday3. People are not reading their e-mails...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to build traffic to your blog
- With the growing interest in blogging as a means of online promotion and branding, a lot of marketers are starting blogs to promote their opinions, products, books and services. But a blog is like a website. "Write and they will come" isn't exactly a magic formula to bring in traffic by the boatload. If you need to promote your...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Who would use rss
- My previous two articles "What is RSS and Why use RSS" focused on how we can give our customers a better online experience while lessening the hassles for the online marketer. In this article I'm going to offer you another way to look at RSS ? from the standpoint of a new emerging profession: the channelmaster or newsmaster as Robin Good calls it. These are going to be the "Who's Wh...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why use rss?
- So why use RSS? Well, I can find a whole lot of reasons why. Although I'm not technically inclined I do understand the power behind syndication. Anyone who watches television can get that idea. Still why would I want to use RSS for my viral marketing campaign? Well, let's look at what some of the "experts" are saying.Robin Good is well-known in the blog and RSS forums and venues. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Its a blog, not a sales letter
- The recent spurt of interest in blogging has begun to ignite the hope that people can make a full-time income from blogging. Although there are a few people actually doing this, there aren't too many business models yet that can support someone making a full-time income from their blogs. I believe that blogs should be an important part of any traffic-generation plan for a website, b...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to write a blog... and survive
- Copyright © 2004 Priya Shah The question of the day is "Should you start a Blog?" People all over the planet are blogging. Companies, CEOs, lawyers, journalists, stewardesses. Even dogs and babies. Why? Because they can. It's that simple. Blogging requires little or no learning curve. If ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is rss?
- Recently I did an interview with a well known email Internet Marketer. He wanted to share with his readers a viewpoint on what RSS is from someone who is using it in place of traditional email marketing. Of course this interview was geared towards other Internet marketers so they all somewhat "get" what RSS is, at least in theory.So, what IS RSS? Again, I find myself laughing, as ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Blogging for dollars
- Blogging for dollars might sound like the latest game show or some new drinking game, but it's the latest craze to hit the Internet. Bloggers began blogging for a number of reasons, but as the blog movement has increased in popularity, they have found ways to monetize their blogs and are seeing their commitment pay off.Whether a blogger's focus is to communicate with customers or just to ha...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Blogs explained
- It seems like Blogs are everywhere these days. You can't seem to surf the Internet without seeing the word Blog somewhere. The intent of this article is to explain the basics what a Blog is and how you can use them to help promote your business and gain valuable information quicker that surfing the Internet. The word Blog is short for web log. Basically a Blog is just an area set aside you ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Should you get a blog?
- A blog is a type of website. It allows the website owner to easily write messages that get posted to the site automatically, often in a journal or diary-like style. A particularly appealing thing about blogs is that your readers can comment back to your posts fairly easily, and a continuous stream of fresh conversations result. (This is a good thing.)Here are three reasons to consider getti...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Internet communication
- Email, Instant Messaging, Blogs, RSS, Forums and Listservs: What's Next?How do we keep Internet communication simple? Let's start by taking a look at the different methods used to communicate on the web. It is important to understand the nuances and benefits of the different forms.EmailThis is the most popular communication method. Users typically use desktop software to recei...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Benefits to rss
- RSS streamlines communication between publishers and readers. Since RSS has had a popularity surge, webmasters have been experimenting and using RSS feeds to deliver content in new and innovative ways. Typically, RSS feeds contain news headlines and content summaries. The content summaries contain just enough information without overwhelming the reader with superfluous details. If the reader is in...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 3 reasons to publish an e-newsletter and a blog
- With spam filters on high alert, delivering a newsletter by email is not as easy as it was even one year ago. Should it reach your subscriber's inbox (without getting siphoned into a junk folder), it still has to vie for attention amongst dozens ? or even hundreds ? of new messages. 1. A blog is not "email" A Weblog or blog, on the other hand, is a page on your site that can be upda...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What are rss feeds
- RSS Feeds.RSS also known as rich site summary or real simply syndication, arrived on the scene a number of years ago, but was only recently embraced by webmasters as a means to effectively syndicate content. RSS Feeds provide webmasters and content providers an avenue to provide concise summaries to prospective readers. Thousands of commercial web sites and blogs now publish content summari...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Rss & how to use it -- part 2
- Welcome to part 2 of the article that aims to give you just enough information to help you understand RSS and start using it. Part 1 gave you simple instructions on how to read and subscribe to an RSS site feed, part 2 will give you simple instructions on how to publish your own. Firstly, which websites can benefit from a site feed? Well, pretty much all of them. If you provid...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Rss & how to use it (part 1)
- Have you ever read an article, intended to explain RSS in simple terms that, begins well, but soon descends into confusing jargon or information overload? If so, take heart, I was in the same place a few months ago. Often the best way to understand something, is to use it. RSS is no exception. So rather than try and create a definitive explanation of RSS, this article will tel...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is a blog right for your business?
- Lemmings are cute, but dumb. If you tell them to jump off a cliff, they will. Just like the people who start blogs because everyone is doing it. Guess what happens after a little while? The blogs die. In managing a list of many Web sites, most of which are blogs, I deleted countless sites from the list because the sites and blogs no longer existed. The people ran out of steam or had no rea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is this rss, xml, rdf, and atom business?
- It's been a long day at work and you're in no mood to cook dinner or go out. Time to count on the reliable pizza delivery guy. The order is called in and he promptly arrives with smokin' hot pizza within 30 minutes as promised. If it were only that easy with a picky family where no one can agree on the same restaurant for dinner. One wants Mexican, another wants Chinese, and another wants a burger...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Feed the need: 5 ways to use rss to boost your business or organizational success
- RSS (it stands for Really Simple Syndication, among other things) is a relatively new technology that allows anyone who creates frequently changing web content - news, blogs, current events, etc. - to deliver their messages to interested readers with no fuss, no muss and best of all - no spam! Currently, RSS is being used by content-rich sites (mainly blogs and news centers) to keep reader...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Blog reflection
- I still consider myself to be a blog writing novice but as I've got a few entries under my belt I can tell you about an unexpected bonus of this journaling process. A lot of people think that blog writers are just people who are tooting their own horns blabbering on self-righteously about what they believe to be true in life. On the contrary, for me writing a blog has helped me to reflect on my ex...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Rss is a life raft, saving us from a sea of useless information
- One of the main problems with the Internet these days is the fact that there is so much information out there; it can be quite hard to find the particular knowledge that you're looking for. It can often feel like you're surfing waves of thick chocolate fudge sauce and your honeycomb board has a crack that's getting wider by the second. Over stimulus is the issue here; you wanted to read opinions f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Writing good blogs
- There's a lot of blogs out there on the Web, most of which don't entice one to go back regularly to read updates. What is missing from these on-line journals that would essentially make them 'good' blogs? Well, the answers in life usually come down to simplicities. So let's look at the problem like we were children. Children don't complicate life with miscellaneous information, and when they speak...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Blog problems
- What in the world is up with the world of blogs? Blogs are meant to be this great new technology where people can share their ideas and interests with others around the globe. As far as I'm concerned the state of blogs is one of chaos, confusion, and anti-interactivity. The other day I decided to do some research on the Web and try to connect to some blog writers out there that interested me. Let ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Writing quality blogs
- Writing?Blogs?Blogs are on-line journals where people express themselves through writing. Writing?Writing is the process where one puts down words of a language on a format that others can read. This process has not been around very long, to use one of my writing teacher's favorite sayings, "Writing has only existed for one day in the one year that humanity has existed." Speaking and thi...
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- 2007-03-25 22:03:28 - ?bad blogs have got to go, blogging could be really cool if
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There's a lot of blogs out there on the Web, most of which don't entice one to go back regularly to read updates. What is missing from these on-line journals that would essentially make them 'good' blogs? Well, the answers in life usually come down to simplicities. So let's look at the problem like we were children. Children don't complicate life with miscellaneous inform...
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- 2007-03-25 22:03:28 - Why wordpress is now my blog of choice
- The more I use Wordpress, the more I love it. It has 2 very important features that Blogger doesn't yet support.
Number 1, you can set up Wordpress to automatically ping all the RSS and blog feed directories every time you make a post. This is a very powerful feature if you want your blog to get a lot of traffic right away. On top of that, you'll be quickly developing back...
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- 2007-03-25 22:03:28 - Why blog?
- It seems everyone these days is talking about blogging. Everywhere I go, I find articles and forums devoted to this craze. I also have heard from many moms who are trying to figure out what a blog is and how they can use one to their benefit.
The term ?blog? is short for ?weblog?, which just means an online journal or ?log?. You can jot down personal thoughts and notes, po...
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- 2007-03-25 22:03:28 - What is blogger.com?
- In the late 1990's three San Francisco based web developers came up with the idea of being able to share information about anything on the web. The terminology they used was called blog. It's use was considered a mix of web page / personal journal. It's original usages were vast and wide, but more and more people came to use them as a personal tool that is available anywhere the Internet is. The t...
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- 2007-03-25 22:03:28 - What is a blog? - a beginner's guide to understanding blogs
- A blog is short for weblog, which simply means a website that is updated frequently with new information and is organized by date and submission. Blogs are typically a way of journalizing information whether it be personal, business, or what have you. It's like an editorial and a journal all mixed together and available online for constant updates and submissions.
As a beg...