How can you stop RSS feed republishing of your blog and prevent content theft to avoid duplicate content penalties, or getting scrapped content ranking higher in search results than your own blog article. All bloggers experience RSS scrapping to some extent and it is simply not possible to go after every blog with a DMCA takedown request. Stop RSS Scrapping & Content Theft. To deal with sites republishing RSS, we created the  Simple feed copyright WordPress plugin  which adds a copyright notice as well as links back to the blog url and permalink of the post. MORE >>

In perhaps one of my most controversial articles (unintentionally), I wrote a week or two ago about how both Twitter and Facebook both quietly removed RSS from user accounts and Pages. Of course, with Facebook, on user accounts that made sense since they were intended to be private, but with Pages, 100% public versions of the site, it didn't make sense that they would remove the links and access to be able to subscribe to updates via RSS. Technology social Facebook open standards rssYou can see it by looking down at the bottom left on any Page now. MORE >>

Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds. 26 Comments. RSS is easily one of the best things to happen to web publishing in the past 10 years. Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. Weve also taken a look in the past at automatic filters such as Feedhub ( our coverage ) which learns from your behavior to suggest posts, or AideRSS ( our coverage and here ), which uses outside metrics to determine which items in an RSS feed are the "best." Comments. MORE >>

Building a successful blog in 2006 depended on building a loyal readership via RSS. In 2011, RSS usage has dramatically declined with many people receiving their news from friends in social networks online or via email. How does one write a great, well-read blog in the post RSS era? In the past, headline writing mattered , but without significant RSS traffic, the need for catchy titles increases exponentially. In the past with a large RSS readership base, it was important to publish regularly. When people comment or link to your blog, it means more now. MORE >>

RSS on the other hand is a pull. Users will check RSS at their own pace and it will take more time to get buzz around your content. This is changing the “pull&# dynamic inherent in RSS (which may become passive for folks that are too busy to keep up on RSS) to a “push&# dynamic through Twitter – but to people already interested in you. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tags: Social Media rss twitter (yes, that’s supposed to be a Twitter army ). Why Twitter is Important. click image for full size). Twitter is no exception. MORE >>