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Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for.

Adam Sherk

However from an SEO perspective there is a downside, as syndication creates duplicate content issues. Search engines don’t want to show users multiple versions of the same content, so when an article has been syndicated it’s likely that one version will be given prominence – and that may or may not be the original.

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Breaking Google Reader on the wheel of Google +?

The Way of the Web

Google has announced it will make a number of changes to Google Reader ‘in the next week’, and by the looks of it, they’re going to break a great existing product and tool which is used by a lot of professionals to be able to shoehorn some extra interaction into Google+.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

So maintain a decent selection of feeds and don’t let the impending shutdown of Google Reader move you away from RSS. Smart syndication. Syndication deals are another popular form of partnership, as publishers syndicate content on other news sites, or in the case of evergreen content, portals like Yahoo!

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Feature Friday: How iGoogle is My RSS Feed HQ

Ari Herzog

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Almost all blogs have some form of RSS feed that syndicates their content out on the web. Choose ‘Google homepage’ and the feed will be added to your iGoogle homepage. If you are looking for more in-depth information about iGoogle, I suggest watching this video.

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Feature Friday: How iGoogle is My RSS Feed HQ

Ari Herzog

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Almost all blogs have some form of RSS feed that syndicates their content out on the web. Choose ‘Google homepage’ and the feed will be added to your iGoogle homepage. If you are looking for more in-depth information about iGoogle, I suggest watching this video.

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Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to searchmonkey

Adam Sherk

SearchMonkey allows sites to use structured data to include additional information in their Yahoo search results such as addresses and phone numbers, review scores, pricing, etc. There’s some background information on the Yahoo Developer Network: SearchMonkey. Not sure what SearchMonkey is?

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Is Feedburner about to be closed by Google?

The Way of the Web

It’s particularly worrying in some areas, where companies of the size and scale of Google have effectively closed out the market, particularly in terms of RSS syndication with Feedburner and RSS reading with Google Reader. But also the @Feedburner Twitter account is being closed from today as well.