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Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS How Does Podcasting Work? It has been said that in October of 2004 a Google search returned less than 6,000 results for the term "podcasting". Today, a similar search yields more than 857,000 results. Like the blogging phenomenon, podcasting has come out of nowhere and attracted an enthusiastic following. Aug 23, 2005, 01:20 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS Tips for a Better RSS Feed Like anything else, a little work can pay dividends. Well-written RSS feeds are more useful to readers and result in more website traffic for the publisher. Below are several tips for making your RSS feed more effective. Aug 23, 2005, 01:05 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS Top 10 Ways to Get People Online to Read Your Business Blog There are many advantages of running a blog, on top of your business website. A blog is an online diary, whereby you can easily posts clips about yourself, your thoughts and your personal life. If you publish a business blog, you posts good content, articles, breaking news or just about anything to build awareness of what you are selling. Aug 23, 2005, 01:03 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS The RSS Promise for Internet Users The RSS promise for end-users is simple: --> a unified one-stop-shop to consume online content, without having to visit dozens of sites every day to see what’s new and without having their online subscriptions interfere with their personal and business e-mail communications. Aug 23, 2005, 01:01 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS The Power of the BLOG Can a Blog earn you a prison sentence? Ask Mojtaba Saminejad. He is an Iranian whose Blog, published in the Farsi language, earned him a two-year prison sentence in June 2005. Aug 23, 2005, 00:58 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS RSS Feeds Can Increase Your Sales RSS feeds are reshaping how we access information online. In the past, when you wanted to know when your favorite information site had some new information on it, you had to go visit the website, wait for it to load, get distracted, etc. With the growing popularity of RSS feeds however, this is no longer necessary. Aug 23, 2005, 00:54 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS Advertising in RSS Feeds: Are we risking disaster? Advertising in RSS feeds is something that Google is considering offering to its Adwords and Adsense customers. RSS stands for Really Simply Syndication and is a really easy way for a webmaster to share their news and information stories to the world wide web. Aug 23, 2005, 00:53 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS You Are Losing Money If You're Not Using RSS Feeds On Your Website! (An RSS primer can be found near the bottom of the article) A commercial website in 2005 is really costing itself money if it does not utilize the myriad advantages of implementing RSS feeds. RSS provides near real-time delivery of information your website visitors are interested in, it provides constantly updated content that search engines crave, and it is quite simple to implement. Aug 23, 2005, 00:51 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS 24 Tips and Strategies on How Everyone Can Blog Right and Get Everybody to Read By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. "Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004 6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators But 62% of online Americans do not know what a blog is." - Pew Internet & American Life Project. Aug 23, 2005, 00:49 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS 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. Aug 23, 2005, 00:47 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS RSS - The Intelligent Marketing Medium Are you new to RSS? If so here is a introduction to what RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is and how your website will benefit from offering an RSS feed to your visitor's. Aug 23, 2005, 00:46 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS RSS - How to Promote and Profit From Your Feed 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? Aug 23, 2005, 00:43 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS Blogging for Profit I recommended that you get a Blog and link back and forth to your website. Combining a blog and a website is an effective way of generating traffic. Aug 23, 2005, 00:42 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS The Blog Revolution: How To Use Blogs to Generate Solid Web Profits Blogs were originally only meant to be ‘Web Logs’, or personal journals for members of on-line communities to stay in touch, sort of like ‘underground news media’. But, it didn’t take long for net-repreneurs (internet entrepreneurs) to catch on to their popularity and to find ways to use them to make money. The human mind is infinitely creative and nothing really stays the same. Aug 23, 2005, 00:35 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS RSS Feeds Just Got Better! We all know that in the world of online internet marketing we need our sites to get good quality targeted traffic on a daily basis. Whether we are just trying to improve our web site traffic just in general or as a specific need to increase our revenue from affiliate programs and adsense the life blood of our business is and always will be quality laser targeted visitors. Aug 23, 2005, 00:33 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS 17 Mistakes Professionals Make with Their Blogs Are you getting results from your business blog? Is it getting harder for you to spend time on your blog because you’re just not seeing how it is going to pay off? If so, you’re not alone. Hundreds of blogs are started each day and many of them are abandoned after several months because it takes time and energy to keep a good business blog going. Aug 23, 2005, 00:31 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS 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. Does this data really mean that marketers can still afford to ignore this channel? Aug 23, 2005, 00:30 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS Top 6 Reasons for Having a RSS Feed - Come and Explore the Possibilities! Getting traffic to your website can be hard. No one just randomly types in "makelotsofmoneyonlinequicklyandfromhome.com" and with this market slowly being filled in, it is hard to get a good rank on Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and all the other major search engines. Although paying for advertising is effective and gets targeted results, RSS feeds are the way to go for free, cheap, and somewhat easy advertising. Aug 23, 2005, 00:28 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS Do You Know The 3 Key Ways to Blog to Promote Your Online Home Based Business? Most People who Blog and Ping only use 1 Method to promote there online Home Based Business. Their are actually 3 Keys ways a Blog can help you promote your Online Home based Business for little or no cost to you. If you aren't using all 3 Methods then you are missing out on some huge marketing opportunities. Aug 23, 2005, 00:25 Business Articles : Online Business : Blog & RSS Marketers Still Don't Get RSS Metrics - How We Really Can Measure RSS Even after all that's been written and explained, even reputable online marketing publications such as ClickZ still don't get RSS metrics. In an otherwise good RSS marketing article, Add RSS to Your Marketing Mix, Heidi Cohen has this to say about RSS metrics: "From a marketing perspective, RSS's measurability is still evolving and therefore limited. You can't tell who has received your feeds as you can with e-mail." Aug 23, 2005, 00:23 More Headlines