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Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes Let me ask you three questions to get you thinking. Does your website offer an RSS feed? Are you promoting your feed effectively? Are you seeing an increase in profits as a result of offering a feed to your visitors? I’m going to outline several actionable steps you can take to promote your RSS feed both internally on your own website and externally on other websites. Then I’m going to show you a couple of effective programs to generate more profits using your RSS feed. Read what I have to say carefully, and then act on the information. I guarantee you can take it to the bank! I’m not just reiterating what others have said before. I actually acted and performed on my own websites everything I’m about to tell you and the results are awesome. Promoting your RSS feed effectively requires a two prong approach. Start with examining your own website. Educate your visitors about the benefits of using your feed first. Then focus on external... 

Reading time: 6 – 10 minutes You hear so much talk about RSS these days on the Internet and in the media. Everyone is acknowledging it’s importance in boosting your site’s presence on the web. Not to mention how it can increase your site’s traffic and ranking. But what exactly is RSS and how can I actually use it on my site? Try these Five Easy Ways… First, just what is RSS? RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Basically, RSS allows you to directly deliver your content to all interested parties… don’t come to us; we will deliver the information to you or your website. It syndicates your content. It lets you send updated headlines and brief summaries to your subscribers. In a nutshell; it’s simply a more efficient way to get your content ‘out there’. Many people associate RSS with Blogs or Blogging because Blogs are usually written in XML or RSS format (code like html) so that these headlines and postings... 

Reading time: 6 – 10 minutes One of the biggest reasons people visit websites is to get information. If you can regularly provide fresh, quality content on your website you can expect to be rewarded by visitors and return visitors. What’s more, you will be rewarded by the search engines. I recommended that you add new and original content to your site as often as possible, ideally once a day. Regularly adding fresh and original content: - Keeps your site visitors coming back - Continually adds value to your website - Makes people more comfortable buying from your site - Establishes yourself as an authority in your industry - Greatly helps your site rank higher in search engines All of the above factors translate into revenue. We all know how hard adding original and fresh content is, especially if you’re the business owner. You have to be original, creative, organized, thoughtful and motivated, and above all, able to write. So what’s a website owner or business owner... 

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes I know you see it all the time on the Net these days, but you still don’t know what the heck it is. RSS, RSS, what in the world is RSS and what can it do for me? RSS which is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication has also stood for Rich Site Summary. Regardless, it is an XML based form of delivering content to the masses. One of the main reasons why it has become so popular is the fact that it is free (reminds of the reason why MySQL and PHP is so popular as well). It makes it a very simple way to create a site with loads of content without a huge knowledge of web design or html. And no, you don’t have to set up huge partnerships with big content sites, you can just grab their information via an RSS feed and you are up and running. Content worthy of the search engines. RSS has been around for a few years, but it just started getting popular in the last couple of years. There have always been ways to deliver fresh, new content to your visitors... 

Reading time: 6 – 10 minutes Displaying RSS RSS offers webmasters a unique opportunity to display fresh content on websites. While publishing an RSS feed is a great way to generate site interest and increase communication, syndicating and displaying feeds from related relevant sources can also generate interest, increase traffic and improve search engine ranking. RSS Radars Webmasters with limited time or capacity can syndicate related content. In a nut shell, webmasters can create RSS radars by combining a mix of content from related sources by grouping similarly-themed feeds. RSS feeds are updated at different intervals, providing an ever-changing collection of related information. RSS is a form of eXtensible Markup Language or XML. Viewing an RSS feed in a web browser generally produces code that is not easy for website visitors to decipher. As a result, webmasters use tools to display the content contained in an RSS feed. Content contained in RSS feeds can be added to websites...