RSStoBLOG - Look Again

Posted on August 22, 2005 - Filed Under RSS Industry News, Using RSS Feeds | 3 Comments

A while back we talked about automating your website and two software tools that post content to a blog.
The software that I told you about back then was released at the same time as a similar tool.
And that ‘other tool’ crashed and burned with some really harsh results for the users. (I warned them, [...]

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Google’s XML Sitemaps

Posted on June 24, 2005 - Filed Under RSS Industry News, Website Traffic | 9 Comments

I’ve been getting quite a few emails from subscribers lately asking about Google’s new sitemap technology.
People are asking me because I’m an RSS fanatic and most RSS is written in XML, as are Google’s sitemaps.
To be honest with you here (and I’m soliciting responses from anyone who is in the know) I haven’t experimented at [...]

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Your Blog’s Ping - Can You Hear It?

Posted on June 3, 2005 - Filed Under RSS Industry News, Using RSS Feeds | 4 Comments

The earlier info about pinging every blog post created quite a flurry of emails and comments.
Made me wonder…perhaps not everyone knows this stuff already.
So let’s talk about it some…
There are many blog services and software and there’s no way I can cover them all, but I will talk about the top three - Google’s blogger [...]

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Ethical Use of RSS

Posted on May 17, 2005 - Filed Under RSS Industry News | 2 Comments

Personally I love it when someone grabs my RSS feed and displays it on their site. I get off-site page rank, visitors clicking through that I might never have ‘met’, etc.

For me, it’s a win-win situation.

However not all marketers or writers feel that way. Last I heard, my friend Jason Cain over at goldblogging.com does not like other sites scooping his feed and stealing his bandwidth.

And, although I’m not 100% certain today (but will look into it), I think google frowns upon use of their news feed as well.

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