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Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes RSS is fast replacing email marketing and newsletters. You would not want to be left behind would you? Your competitor will surely overtake you and speed right up. RSS is mostly called Really Simple Syndication, although some give other meaning to the acronym. It is a process by which you could place a feed on websites that can read RSS from your directory. Information distribution has been made simply by RSS. Simply put, with RSS, you can place your headline to other website for more people to see it. In marketing, it is a known concept that the more people you reaches to, the more likely that your product will sell. RSS is an XML-based application. XML is similar in a way to HTML, which we all know is the most common website creator application. From a directory, it would feed the headlines into website that has an RSS reader. Creating an RSS feed would definitely boost up your sales. How can you make an RSS feed? Just follow these simple steps: Create... 

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... 

Reading time: 8 – 13 minutes This is the final installment in the RSS Mania – Understanding RSS Series. In this article we will discover just how to get your RSS Feed up on the web, and what is possible and what is not with an RSS feed. Naming your RSS file – Your file name does not have to be rss.xml You are welcome to name it to whatever your little heart desires, though the .xml extension is kind of important for your editors to know just what file the software is dealing with. Now that you have the file – what do you do with it? Okay first thing is first. Take the file and place it in your Web directory where everyone can get to it. Lets say we named the file “ballchain.xml” and we move it (ftp) to our web directory under the address of [http://www.janisjoplin.com/rss/ballchain.xml]. Now we know and the rest of the world will know where that file is. Don’t put it in a secured or password directory UNLESS you are only granting secure, password...