powerful content syndication tool called RSS is revolutionizing the ways in which these sites present their content, as well as how online browsers receive this content. As a website owner or blogger, you can increase your visibility, generate additional site traffic, deliver content to your audience faster, and ultimately improve your bottom line by utilizing RSS feeds as a marketing strategy. An Introduction to RSS. The RSS feed itself may contain a full or summarized version of the text, in addition to data pertaining to authorship and publishing dates. link]. 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. Also, be sure to offer RSS readers an easy way to subscribe. MORE >>

The blogosphere is abuzz lately about the latest trend: “RSS is Dead,&# everyone says. Other blogs say “RSS isn’t dead.&# (of which side I tend to agree with). The debate lies with the fact that more and more people are starting to use Twitter, Twitter lists, Facebook, and other social means to just get the news from the streams they follow on these sites rather than typical RSS Readers like Google Reader. In the new design I can’t find an RSS feed anywhere. Previously there was a link to the lower-right allowing you to add an RSS feed. MORE >>

Twitterfeed and HootSuite offer the ability to take a RSS feed from any site and update it to your Twitter account automatically when new feed items are found. Pros of Automatic RSS Feed Updating. wouldn’t call these cons, but here are some things to consider when choosing an RSS feed to automatically update to your social networks. If you like to have particular status updates stay at the top of your account for longer periods of time, those could be bumped off by a latest RSS feed update. Now, let’s take a look at Twitterfeed and HootSuite RSS works. MORE >>

The last few days in my RSS readers have had me feeling like we are in the middle of blog post reruns - the best of 2009 edition. Within the bolus of hundreds of new items welcoming my every visit to Google Reader , the debate flared up again this week as to whether the very act of consuming content within an RSS reader was a dying one. Meanwhile, the application developers and their active users swear any rumored decrease is false, and the RSS reader remains one of the most efficient ways to consume content. More: louisgray.com | RSS | Buzz | E-mail | Cell: 408 646.2759. MORE >>