You may be losing out on opportunities to improve the reach of your RSS feed or blog. These optimization tips can help: • Burn your feed to Feedburner.com. Take advantage of the optimization and analytics features they offer. • Offer alternate ways for readers to subscribe to your feed. Use FeedBurner tools like email subscriptions […]
RSS essentials
Top three trends in social media distribution
While the majority of traffic still comes through search engines, that’s all poised to change with these three trends: connecting your content to existing social networks, distributing content through advertising networks, building relationships with contests.
Survival Guide Chapter 3: RSS feeds & blogs
Here is part 3 of the series I will post over the next few months based on chapters from my new book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization. This book is meant to be a guide to building an optimized foundation in the Social Web for beginners and advanced users alike. […]
Practically painless FeedBurner Google transition
Several of my clients have expressed concern over having to transfer their RSS feeds from the traditional FeedBurner platform to the new Google Feedburner platform. Google is now requiring that Feedburner users make this transition, so I do recommend doing this right away. I made the transition myself to make sure there were no surprises […]
Mashups with Yahoo Pipes: A user’s guide
IT Management: Yahoo Pipes: A User’s Guide Yahoo Pipes is an interactive tool that enables you to combine many data feeds, like RSS, into a single aggregate. Pipes offers an intuitive visual programming field that lets you filter, remix, and mash-up these feeds to your heart’s content. p2pnet.net: Yahoo Pipes data mashups. It’s a “milestone […]