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What Are RSS Feeds?
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." It's a format that web sites and blogs can use to send updated headlines to you via services like My Yahoo!. My Yahoo! gathers the content you select from a variety of sources and displays it for you in one convenient location. Syndication means you don't have to visit each site individually to see what's new -- you simply scan headlines or brief article summaries and click to read the full text. That's the "really simple" part. And it's "really simple" for publishers to make their content accessible this way too. RSS is an easy way for you to keep updated automatically on websites you like. Instead of you having to go to websites to see if they've written a new article or feature, you can use RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) to get them to tell you every time they have something new. Different News Readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to take this into account when you make your choice. The easiest way to have your RSS feeds sent to you is to open a my Yahoo or a my MSN account . Then all you have to do is add the content you want delivered to you. There are a large number of different News Readers available. NEWS READERS Windows Awasu -http://www.awasu.com/ FeedDemon - http://www.feeddemon.com/feeddemon/index.asp FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/ Freeware application for Windows. Newz Crawler -http://www.newzcrawler.com/ Mac OS X Bloglines- http://www.bloglines.com/ A web-based personal news aggregator that can be used in place of a desktop client. blogbot - http://www.blogbot.com/ NewsFire - http://www.newsfirerss.com/ Macintosh RSS reader. OS 10.3 required. NetNewsWire- http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ Web and Other News Readers GOOGLE- http://www.blogger.com/start My Yahoo- http://my.yahoo.com News Feed - http://www.BennetteBurks.com/NewsFeed A Blog compiles several news sources (RSS) into one easy-to-read web site. There's even a search engine just for RSS feeds, called Feedster.com, that currently returns over 4,645,164 feeds indexed and fully searchable. Sean Felker is the publisher of the very successful and popular Work at Home and Making Money on the Internet blog: http://making-money-online.blogspot.com/
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If you are using Blogging software your software is probably already doing this for you , check your documentation. For those of you who do not have software set up to automatically ping for you there is no need to worry. There is a free service at Ping-o-matic that will do this for you. Your RSS Feed Might Look Like Spam RSS feeds seem to be the breakout technology for the year. With more users turning to them for driving traffic to their site, it's no wonder that a trail of RSS feed spam is following in the wake. A careful editing of your RSS feed could make the difference between being classified as genuine content or RSS spam. The 7-Step RSS Marketing Plan If you're wondering how to get started with RSS marketing, here's a basic 7-step plan that should provide some needed guidance. Use these steps as your personal RSS marketing checklist to get your started and help you see whether you're on the right track. Blog and Ping: The Basics! The buzz words on the internet at the moment are Blogging and Pinging and according to the internet guru's we should all be looking at these as the must have system to be attracting visitors to our site and consequentially making revenue. Blogging Is Not Important - Its Crucial It has been established that having a 'blog' helps your web site gain visitors and higher rankings in search engines. But a small study which I have just completed shows that blogging is much more important than this. Blogging appears to be absolutely essential to your web site success. If you are not blogging, your web site will fade into obscurity. How to Cash In on Blogs Over the past year or so, more and more webmasters have been creating their own blogs (web-logs). If you don't already know, a blog is sort of an online diary which is updated at regular intervals by the author(s), and can be viewed by the public. 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