Archive for March, 2008

SEO Services - Optimization, link building and Consulting (Seo workshop)

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

SEO Guy Services offers professional link building, search engine optimization and SEO consulting. Increase your search engine ranking today with our SEO Services.
Source: www.seo-guy.com

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We offer Search Engine Optimization, Web Promotion, Link Building, Triangular Linking, One Way Linking, Web Design, Web Creation, Content Writing Services and Hosting Services
Source: www.theglobetech.com

web marketing - search engine optimization - SEO - high rankings
search engine optimization, web marketing solutions, database design, flash design, e-commerce and on-line shopping solutions
Source: www.forgeservices.com

Online Marketing Services
Internet marketing is updated and effective way of one’s service and products or company’s name promotion. One of the benefits of online marketing services is their affordability
Source: www.seo-web-solutions.com

SEO 1 Services Company
SEO Services Company- SEO 1 Services is a Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and content optimization firm offering Organic SEO Strategies and Solutions including Pay Per Click PPC
Source: www.seo-1-marketing-services.com

SEO Philippines Forum - Powered by vBulletin
Official home of SEO PHILIPPINES, the largest and most active Internet marketing organization in the Philippines ATTENTION: You’re only seeing a portion of the website. Get
Source: forums.seo.ph

Seattle SEM, PPC, Keyword Advertising, Seattle SEO
Seattle SEO, search engine marketing, optimization, and advertising. Web 1 Marketing helps companies increase sales and profits by employing a variety of online marketing
Source: www.web1marketing.com

SEO Marketing Services - Search Engine Optimization Consultants * Reno
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Source: www.seovisions.com

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Thrifty SEO - a leading company providing Search Engine Optimization, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Web Design, SEO Services India
Source: www.thriftyseo.com

SEO Shimon Sandler - SEO Consultant
In 4 minutes 30 seconds Chris Winfield talks about the benefits & risks, key factors, pricing, targeting, and success metrics of a Social Media Optimization
Source: www.shimonsandler.com

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Search engine marketing and website promotion services. SEO Leaders is devoted to achieving high rankings and targeted traffic for our customers, get a free diagnostic report of
Source: www.seo-leaders.com

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Provides articles and information about the search engine optimization and marketing industry. Latest articles can be sent via email.
Source: www.seotoday.com

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Source: www.seo.com.tw

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SEO-Overload sets out to be the authority in Search Engine Optimization Information.
Source: seo-overload.com

SEO Blog | Services | Search Engine Marketing
The UK Webmaster world SEO contest dubbed SEOcontest2008 is finally here! The competitive challenge kicked off at 12:00 AM February 1st, 2008; literally dozens, if not
Source: www.rjlenterprisesseo.com

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Source: www.seo-proz.com

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Source: www.webceo.com

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Source: www.seo-global.com

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Read, answer or post questions in this unique dynamic FAQ about SEO. Here at SEOFAQ.net you can read , answer or submit questions related to SEO.
Source: www.seofaq.net

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FeedBurner feed count drop (RSS news feed business)

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

. Every copy of Radio will support an unlimited number of categories and each category is, in essence, a separate weblog with its own URL address and its own independent RSS feed. Radio also permits multiple authors to contribute to a community weblog via the Multi-Author Weblog Tool. Want to update your weblog via email? You can do that too. RSS Resources

You may have noticed on Saturday (3rd November) that you FeedBurner feed counter was reporting a much lower level of subscribers to your blog. Here at Newsniche the counter dropped by nearly a hundred subscribers.

FeedBurner blame Google for the glitch as the Google feedfetcher bot had gone out on Friday night and was up late Saturday. This was probably due to drinking too much GoogleJuice the night before, those bots can’t hold their drink. As a result none of the Google Reader subscribers were reported in the stats for Saturday.

Google Feedfetcher drops ball

At the time like me you may have worried even panicked when you saw a massive drop in subscriber numbers. If you have more than one blog then you would have figured out the drop was across the board and due to some glitch.

These sorts of glitches although usually temporary can cause a webmaster a lot of unnecessary stress. These things happen, my advice is don’t hit the panic button, do a little investigating then report it if needed. More often than not these things are temporary. I have learned by experience if you do too much tinkering thinking it’s something you have done you end up making things worse. All you need to do now is explain to your advertisers why your stats dropped.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS Resources

Are you checking your own RSS feeds, are you subscribed to your own feeds. If not then how do you know your feed is working properly. This is something I have come across, I have noticed on both my own and other bloggers feeds that sometimes your feed breaks.

The simplest thing you can do is subscribe to your feed in your feed reader. Create a separate folder to accommodate just your own feeds so you know exactly where they are. Now every time you make a post your new post will appear in your feed reader.

When you do your usual daily RSS trawl you will be reminded to check your feed. If there is anything amiss you will know about it sooner rather than later. I have emailed many a webmaster to tell them that their feed is broken. I mean who reads their own feeds, right.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS Resources

I recently acquired a blog which had an RSS feed powered by FeedBurner. The problem is that as the subscribers are subscribed to the FeedBurner URL which is usually in the form of feeds.feedburner.com/yourfeedname. This means that it cannot be transfer as if it was a feed being subscribed to directly from the URL or your blog.

This means that the feed needs to be transferred from the sellers account to the buyers account. Fortunately this is relatively straight forward as there is a form you can fill in to initiate the process.

All you need to do is fill in the name of the feed, the account you are transferring the account from and the account the feed needs to be transferred to. The user of the account the feed is being transferred will eventually get an email which needs to be replied to, to accept the transfer.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS Resources

I have been doing some digging into the statistics for Newsniche to try and discover what you are really interested in when it comes to RSS. So I have come up with the imaginatively titled 3 things you really want to know about RSS. So here are the most wanted to know things about RSS in reverse order.

RSS publishing tools

The third most popular topic is on RSS publishing tools. Rather than an article this is a section of the site dedicated to letting you know how you can publish RSS on your site. Being able to publish RSS on your site means that you have a constant stream of updating content for your readers.

Which is the best RSS feed reader

The second most popular item on the site is an article on Which is the best RSS feed reader. You certainly want to know which is the best way to read your feeds. This is not surprising as RSS is all about being able to have information from your favourite sites available to you without having to visit every you like frequently. Why not subscribe to their feed and have the content come to you.

Using Javascript to display RSS

I guess deep down everyone wants to display RSS using Javascript as the number one most read article is Using Javascript to display RSS. This is an article I wrote ages ago showing you how you could easily place content from an RSS feed on your site using a snippet of Javascript. That is so 2006.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS Resources

Collin LaHay has come up with an idea called RSSHugger, it’s a site that allows webmasters to promote their RSS feeds by adding them to the site. You can add your own page but it will cost you 20US dollars (10 is you blog about RSSHugger).

RSS Hugger seems to be a cross between an RSS directory and a wiki. Collin wants the directory to grow to 50,000 blogs which he claims is 0.00045 percent of the blogosphere.

The idea behind the new site is to create buzz and generate new RSS subscribers for RSS feeds that are added to the site. When you buy a page you basically get your feed headlines displayed on your own page within RSSHugger. Whether or not enough buzz is created to generate any new subscribers to members feeds remains to be seen.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS Resources

You’ve all seen the little FeedBurner subscriber counters on sites that display a site or more often a blogs number of RSS subscribers. Whilst this is a nice widget to display on your site there isn’t much in the way of customizing to display something different.

Plaint text subscriber count

There is a way to display the number of readers you have for your feed by using FeedBurners API. This means you can display your subscriber count within some text, for example as part of a blog post. You could also have a separate message somewhere on you site saying X number of readers subscribe to this site.

You can use the PHP code below. You need to have PHP5 otherwise the SimpleXMLElement command will not work.

< ?php
//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl=”http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=YourFeedburnerFeedLinkHere”;

//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();

//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);
//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry[’circulation’];

//end get cool feedburner count
?>

The next line of PHP needs to be located where you want the subscriber count number to appear. This code needs to occur after the code above for it to work.

< ?php echo $fb;?>

I borrowed this code from Mark over at 45n5 so thanks Mark.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS Resources

There is a new site that is selling RSS subscribers. The idea behind this is that the more subscribers you have the more valuable your site will be. This is based on RSS being the new metric for measuring a site based on Mark’s theory that an RSS subscriber is worth 30 dollars.

RSS for sale

I think this is boarding on criminal, it basically promotes the faking of RSS subscribers to fool readers into thinking a blog is popular. It is lying to advertisers by artificially inflating the RSS subscriber count but worst of all the site seems to be selling RSS subscribers so the site or blog owner can sell their site at a premium. This is fraud.

Remember these are fake RSS readers they are selling. All that happens is that your FeedBurner counter reports more subscribers. As FeedBurner is owned by Google I am sure RSSxplosion will not last long.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS Resources

Have you ever wondered how much each subscriber to your RSS feed is worth. Well according to Mark over at 45n5 that magic number is currently $30. Mark arrived at this figure by dividing the price blogs have recently sold for by the number of subscribers to the blog.

I have previously made predictions about RSS playing a more important role back in October 2006. It looks like RSS is now an important metric to measure the success of a site and it is also starting to play a larger role in deciding the monetary value of a blog.

RSS subscribers and their value

Although Mark’s use of RSS as a measurement of value was just a bit of fun it does show that RSS is a valued metric. A year ago most webmasters and readers would not have placed much if any value in the number of subscribers you have.

As RSS becomes a more valued metric the value of the RSS feed itself will grow. There are going to be more advertisers willing to buy advertising in an RSS feed and the value of RSS will grow. This is because many RSS subscribers do not click through to the website itself but use the feed to consume the content.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS Resources

RSS is now one of the most valuable metrics on the net. Increasing your RSS subscriber count is a measurable way to show the popularity of your site. As RSS is an opt in way for readers to view your site contents, they can easily stop being a subscriber at any time.

It shows how far RSS has come when John Chow and Shoemoney start a competition to see who can get the most new subscribers in a month. Notice how it wasn’t a competition to get the most traffic or the most subscribers to an email list but who can get the most RSS subscribers.

Why RSS subscribers

John and Shoe are both canny marketers and know the value of RSS. RSS is a transparent metric that shows a loyal readership. If a site starts to slide in it’s content then readers will no longer subscribe. They would rather gain an RSS subscriber than an extra visitor.

Whilst the challenge is a bit of fun there is also a serious reason John and Shoe have gotten together to run this little competition. At the end of the competition they will both have a larger loyal subscriber base. This competition has gained them a large number of new subscribers which generally means more revenue for them.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS Resources

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RSS feeds - RSS news feeds from The Boston Globe and Boston.com (Live news feed)

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Our RSS feeds let you add the latest news, entertainment, sports and Boston Globe articles directly to your blog, Web site, or desktop.

RSS Feeds - The Connecticut Post Online
Connecticut Post RSS Feeds We currently offer RSS feeds for all weblogs. Look for this button on the weblog pages

RSS Feeds// Journals of The American Physical Society
RSS Feeds. APS is now providing content using RSS feeds as a convenience to our readers. Some answers to frequently asked questions may be found in the RSS FAQ , if you need an

RSS Feeds | ZDNet
Stay up-to-date with the latest business technology news and analysis. You can subscribe to feeds that will deliver updates whenever we publish something new in your area of

RSS Feeds : Jacksonville Daily News
RSS Feeds. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a web content syndication format and is based of the XML standard.( more information ) RSS is used for syndicating news by some of the

al.com: RSS Feeds
We currently offer RSS feeds for all weblogs. Look for this button on the weblog pages. Links to all of these feeds also are provided below. Please read our Terms & Conditions.

RSS Feeds | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Local news, weather and sports Lubbock, TX. This site, and all its content 2008 The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal | The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

RSS Feeds | Economist.com
Economist.com offers a wide range of RSS feeds covering politics, economics, business, science and technology. All feeds are partial text, which means headlines and extracts from

toledoblade.com — toledoblade.com RSS Feeds
toledoblade.com RSS Feeds toledoblade.com RSS Feeds RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you get the latest content from your favorite Web sites in short summaries.

Rss Feeds Directory
Rss feeds directory feed list. Rss Feeds Directory & Blog, Rss, Podcasting Resource Index

RSS Feeds
Subscribe to NCES RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds to get news delivered directly to your desktop!

Yahoo! News - RSS
RSS,Yahoo News, Most popular, subscription on Yahoo! News What is RSS? RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” — it’s a format for distributing and gathering content from

Adobe Labs - RSS Feeds
You can stay current on updates to the Adobe Labs web site by subscribing to the Labs RSS feed, located at the following URLs: RSS 1.0:

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RSS advertising (Abc live news feed) with Bidvertiser

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

but Bidvertiser has decided to enter the market and offer publishers the opportunity to sell advertising in their RSS feeds. Of course this also means advertisers will also be able to buy ads in RSS feeds.

Advertising with RSS

With the much larger subscriber numbers for RSS feeds it has become more viable for advertising to appear within an RSS feed. An ad in an RSS feed means that the ad will only appear in the feed rather than on the site.

As RSS subscribers tend to be more interested in the content the ads could be more effective if targeted correctly. Bidvertisers feed advertising program is in public beta and offers RSS advertising and allows RSS publishers to sell RSS ads. It will be interesting to see how it progresses compared the Feedvertiser program.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS News

RSS is now one of the most valuable metrics on the net. Increasing your RSS subscriber count is a measurable way to show the popularity of your site. As RSS is an opt in way for readers to view your site contents, they can easily stop being a subscriber at any time.

It shows how far RSS has come when John Chow and Shoemoney start a competition to see who can get the most new subscribers in a month. Notice how it wasn’t a competition to get the most traffic or the most subscribers to an email list but who can get the most RSS subscribers.

Why RSS subscribers

John and Shoe are both canny marketers and know the value of RSS. RSS is a transparent metric that shows a loyal readership. If a site starts to slide in it’s content then readers will no longer subscribe. They would rather gain an RSS subscriber than an extra visitor.

Whilst the challenge is a bit of fun there is also a serious reason John and Shoe have gotten together to run this little competition. At the end of the competition they will both have a larger loyal subscriber base. This competition has gained them a large number of new subscribers which generally means more revenue for them.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS News

You may have noticed on Saturday (3rd November) that you FeedBurner feed counter was reporting a much lower level of subscribers to your blog. Here at Newsniche the counter dropped by nearly a hundred subscribers.

FeedBurner blame Google for the glitch as the Google feedfetcher bot had gone out on Friday night and was up late Saturday. This was probably due to drinking too much GoogleJuice the night before, those bots can’t hold their drink. As a result none of the Google Reader subscribers were reported in the stats for Saturday.

Google Feedfetcher drops ball

At the time like me you may have worried even panicked when you saw a massive drop in subscriber numbers. If you have more than one blog then you would have figured out the drop was across the board and due to some glitch.

These sorts of glitches although usually temporary can cause a webmaster a lot of unnecessary stress. These things happen, my advice is don’t hit the panic button, do a little investigating then report it if needed. More often than not these things are temporary. I have learned by experience if you do too much tinkering thinking it’s something you have done you end up making things worse. All you need to do now is explain to your advertisers why your stats dropped.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS News

Collin LaHay has come up with an idea called RSSHugger, it’s a site that allows webmasters to promote their RSS feeds by adding them to the site. You can add your own page but it will cost you 20US dollars (10 is you blog about RSSHugger).

RSS Hugger seems to be a cross between an RSS directory and a wiki. Collin wants the directory to grow to 50,000 blogs which he claims is 0.00045 percent of the blogosphere.

The idea behind the new site is to create buzz and generate new RSS subscribers for RSS feeds that are added to the site. When you buy a page you basically get your feed headlines displayed on your own page within RSSHugger. Whether or not enough buzz is created to generate any new subscribers to members feeds remains to be seen.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS News

There is a new site that is selling RSS subscribers. The idea behind this is that the more subscribers you have the more valuable your site will be. This is based on RSS being the new metric for measuring a site based on Mark’s theory that an RSS subscriber is worth 30 dollars.

RSS for sale

I think this is boarding on criminal, it basically promotes the faking of RSS subscribers to fool readers into thinking a blog is popular. It is lying to advertisers by artificially inflating the RSS subscriber count but worst of all the site seems to be selling RSS subscribers so the site or blog owner can sell their site at a premium. This is fraud.

Remember these are fake RSS readers they are selling. All that happens is that your FeedBurner counter reports more subscribers. As FeedBurner is owned by Google I am sure RSSxplosion will not last long.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS News

I have been doing some digging into the statistics for Newsniche to try and discover what you are really interested in when it comes to RSS. So I have come up with the imaginatively titled 3 things you really want to know about RSS. So here are the most wanted to know things about RSS in reverse order.

RSS publishing tools

The third most popular topic is on RSS publishing tools. Rather than an article this is a section of the site dedicated to letting you know how you can publish RSS on your site. Being able to publish RSS on your site means that you have a constant stream of updating content for your readers.

Which is the best RSS feed reader

The second most popular item on the site is an article on Which is the best RSS feed reader. You certainly want to know which is the best way to read your feeds. This is not surprising as RSS is all about being able to have information from your favourite sites available to you without having to visit every you like frequently. Why not subscribe to their feed and have the content come to you.

Using Javascript to display RSS

I guess deep down everyone wants to display RSS using Javascript as the number one most read article is Using Javascript to display RSS. This is an article I wrote ages ago showing you how you could easily place content from an RSS feed on your site using a snippet of Javascript. That is so 2006.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS News

I recently acquired a blog which had an RSS feed powered by FeedBurner. The problem is that as the subscribers are subscribed to the FeedBurner URL which is usually in the form of feeds.feedburner.com/yourfeedname. This means that it cannot be transfer as if it was a feed being subscribed to directly from the URL or your blog.

This means that the feed needs to be transferred from the sellers account to the buyers account. Fortunately this is relatively straight forward as there is a form you can fill in to initiate the process.

All you need to do is fill in the name of the feed, the account you are transferring the account from and the account the feed needs to be transferred to. The user of the account the feed is being transferred will eventually get an email which needs to be replied to, to accept the transfer.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS News

You’ve all seen the little FeedBurner subscriber counters on sites that display a site or more often a blogs number of RSS subscribers. Whilst this is a nice widget to display on your site there isn’t much in the way of customizing to display something different.

Plaint text subscriber count

There is a way to display the number of readers you have for your feed by using FeedBurners API. This means you can display your subscriber count within some text, for example as part of a blog post. You could also have a separate message somewhere on you site saying X number of readers subscribe to this site.

You can use the PHP code below. You need to have PHP5 otherwise the SimpleXMLElement command will not work.

< ?php
//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl=”http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=YourFeedburnerFeedLinkHere”;

//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();

//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);
//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry[’circulation’];

//end get cool feedburner count
?>

The next line of PHP needs to be located where you want the subscriber count number to appear. This code needs to occur after the code above for it to work.

< ?php echo $fb;?>

I borrowed this code from Mark over at 45n5 so thanks Mark.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS News

Have you ever wondered how much each subscriber to your RSS feed is worth. Well according to Mark over at 45n5 that magic number is currently $30. Mark arrived at this figure by dividing the price blogs have recently sold for by the number of subscribers to the blog.

I have previously made predictions about RSS playing a more important role back in October 2006. It looks like RSS is now an important metric to measure the success of a site and it is also starting to play a larger role in deciding the monetary value of a blog.

RSS subscribers and their value

Although Mark’s use of RSS as a measurement of value was just a bit of fun it does show that RSS is a valued metric. A year ago most webmasters and readers would not have placed much if any value in the number of subscribers you have.

As RSS becomes a more valued metric the value of the RSS feed itself will grow. There are going to be more advertisers willing to buy advertising in an RSS feed and the value of RSS will grow. This is because many RSS subscribers do not click through to the website itself but use the feed to consume the content.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS News

Are you checking your own RSS feeds, are you subscribed to your own feeds. If not then how do you know your feed is working properly. This is something I have come across, I have noticed on both my own and other bloggers feeds that sometimes your feed breaks.

The simplest thing you can do is subscribe to your feed in your feed reader. Create a separate folder to accommodate just your own feeds so you know exactly where they are. Now every time you make a post your new post will appear in your feed reader.

When you do your usual daily RSS trawl you will be reminded to check your feed. If there is anything amiss you will know about it sooner rather than later. I have emailed many a webmaster to tell them that their feed is broken. I mean who reads their own feeds, right.

This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.

RSS News

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Directory Of (Feed image news reuters top) RSS Feeds - RSSTop10.com

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

RSS feeds directory - see all the feeds you want right here - no RSS viewer needed. RSS News

New RSS2HTML Template Directory. Creating webpages from RSS feeds just got easier. 03.15.06 New RSS Scripts Diretory RSS News

Directory displaying RSS feeds from automotive news and forums websites. Thanks for visiting our automotive RSS directory. We hope you enjoy our new website! RSS News

What is RSS? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for distributing and aggregating web content (such as sites recently added to the Yahoo! RSS News

as to what RSS stands for, but most people plump for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. In essence, the feeds Home; Apply Now; Ask Me; MyCCC; Maps; Parking; Employment; Schedule; Directory; OWA; CCCD RSS News

DMOZ RSS Reader Directory; How Do I Use RSS Feeds? The first step is to choose an RSS reader. Each reader has a slightly different way of adding a new feed, also RSS News

ABOUT THE DIRECTORY. The RSS directory has been developed to help you discover and make use of important, good quality health-related newsfeeds. RSS News

Find information on sports feeds and sports podcasts, from our categorized directory of sports RSS feeds. RSS News

Top5websites.com - Independent guide to everything and More! RSS Reader and RSS Directory. To Read any RSS Feed, simply enter the Feed address into the RSS Feed Viewer box RSS News

EJC Church Directory; EJC Medical Directory; Multimedia; Free RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or RDF site summary. Put simply, RSS basically allows you to view a feed of RSS News

RSS Feed Directory. The following is a complete list of RSS feeds available for the Collge of Business. If you’re unsure what RSS feeds are, or how to subscribe to content via RSS RSS News

Joomla - the dynamic portal engine and content management system Disclaimer The extensions and reviews listed in this area have been submitted by the community and their RSS News

RSS Feed Directory; Blog Create RSS News Feeds From Your Website. Create RSS feeds from your website. RSS News

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Pennsylvania Directories. Venango County; Erie Pennsylvania; Franklin Pennsylvaia; Real Estate; Rentals. What people are searching for: homes for sale in the northeast philly RSS News

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Arizona web design, phoenix web design, Arizona (Virginia seo) web site design

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Arizona web design company Prime View, is the innovator in phoenix web design. We use modern Arizona web site design techniques to bring your ideas to life on the internet
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Feed from news - Intel RSS Feeds

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RSS Hugger (Feed news RSS wizz)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

seems to be a cross between an RSS directory and a wiki. Collin wants the directory to grow to 50,000 blogs which he claims is 0.00045 percent of the blogosphere.

The idea behind the new site is to create buzz and generate new RSS subscribers for RSS feeds that are added to the site. When you buy a page you basically get your feed headlines displayed on your own page within RSSHugger. Whether or not enough buzz is created to generate any new subscribers to members feeds remains to be seen.

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Source: feeds.feedburner.com

John Chow vs Shoemoney RSS competition

RSS is now one of the most valuable metrics on the net. Increasing your RSS subscriber count is a measurable way to show the popularity of your site. As RSS is an opt in way for readers to view your site contents, they can easily stop being a subscriber at any time.

It shows how far RSS has come when John Chow and Shoemoney start a competition to see who can get the most new subscribers in a month. Notice how it wasn’t a competition to get the most traffic or the most subscribers to an email list but who can get the most RSS subscribers.

Why RSS subscribers

John and Shoe are both canny marketers and know the value of RSS. RSS is a transparent metric that shows a loyal readership. If a site starts to slide in it’s content then readers will no longer subscribe. They would rather gain an RSS subscriber than an extra visitor.

Whilst the challenge is a bit of fun there is also a serious reason John and Shoe have gotten together to run this little competition. At the end of the competition they will both have a larger loyal subscriber base. This competition has gained them a large number of new subscribers which generally means more revenue for them.

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Source: feeds.feedburner.com

The value of an RSS subscriber at 30 dollars

Have you ever wondered how much each subscriber to your RSS feed is worth. Well according to Mark over at 45n5 that magic number is currently $30. Mark arrived at this figure by dividing the price blogs have recently sold for by the number of subscribers to the blog.

I have previously made predictions about RSS playing a more important role back in October 2006. It looks like RSS is now an important metric to measure the success of a site and it is also starting to play a larger role in deciding the monetary value of a blog.

RSS subscribers and their value

Although Mark’s use of RSS as a measurement of value was just a bit of fun it does show that RSS is a valued metric. A year ago most webmasters and readers would not have placed much if any value in the number of subscribers you have.

As RSS becomes a more valued metric the value of the RSS feed itself will grow. There are going to be more advertisers willing to buy advertising in an RSS feed and the value of RSS will grow. This is because many RSS subscribers do not click through to the website itself but use the feed to consume the content.

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Source: feeds.feedburner.com

Selling RSS subscribers a sad day

There is a new site that is selling RSS subscribers. The idea behind this is that the more subscribers you have the more valuable your site will be. This is based on RSS being the new metric for measuring a site based on Mark’s theory that an RSS subscriber is worth 30 dollars.

RSS for sale

I think this is boarding on criminal, it basically promotes the faking of RSS subscribers to fool readers into thinking a blog is popular. It is lying to advertisers by artificially inflating the RSS subscriber count but worst of all the site seems to be selling RSS subscribers so the site or blog owner can sell their site at a premium. This is fraud.

Remember these are fake RSS readers they are selling. All that happens is that your FeedBurner counter reports more subscribers. As FeedBurner is owned by Google I am sure RSSxplosion will not last long.

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Source: feeds.feedburner.com

3 things you really want to know about RSS

I have been doing some digging into the statistics for Newsniche to try and discover what you are really interested in when it comes to RSS. So I have come up with the imaginatively titled 3 things you really want to know about RSS. So here are the most wanted to know things about RSS in reverse order.

RSS publishing tools

The third most popular topic is on RSS publishing tools. Rather than an article this is a section of the site dedicated to letting you know how you can publish RSS on your site. Being able to publish RSS on your site means that you have a constant stream of updating content for your readers.

Which is the best RSS feed reader

The second most popular item on the site is an article on Which is the best RSS feed reader. You certainly want to know which is the best way to read your feeds. This is not surprising as RSS is all about being able to have information from your favourite sites available to you without having to visit every you like frequently. Why not subscribe to their feed and have the content come to you.

Using Javascript to display RSS

I guess deep down everyone wants to display RSS using Javascript as the number one most read article is Using Javascript to display RSS. This is an article I wrote ages ago showing you how you could easily place content from an RSS feed on your site using a snippet of Javascript. That is so 2006.

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Source: feeds.feedburner.com

How to display your RSS subscriber count

You’ve all seen the little FeedBurner subscriber counters on sites that display a site or more often a blogs number of RSS subscribers. Whilst this is a nice widget to display on your site there isn’t much in the way of customizing to display something different.

Plaint text subscriber count

There is a way to display the number of readers you have for your feed by using FeedBurners API. This means you can display your subscriber count within some text, for example as part of a blog post. You could also have a separate message somewhere on you site saying X number of readers subscribe to this site.

You can use the PHP code below. You need to have PHP5 otherwise the SimpleXMLElement command will not work.

< ?php
//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl=”http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=YourFeedburnerFeedLinkHere”;

//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();

//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);
//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry[’circulation’];

//end get cool feedburner count
?>

The next line of PHP needs to be located where you want the subscriber count number to appear. This code needs to occur after the code above for it to work.

< ?php echo $fb;?>

I borrowed this code from Mark over at 45n5 so thanks Mark.

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Source: feeds.feedburner.com

Checking your own RSS feeds

Are you checking your own RSS feeds, are you subscribed to your own feeds. If not then how do you know your feed is working properly. This is something I have come across, I have noticed on both my own and other bloggers feeds that sometimes your feed breaks.

The simplest thing you can do is subscribe to your feed in your feed reader. Create a separate folder to accommodate just your own feeds so you know exactly where they are. Now every time you make a post your new post will appear in your feed reader.

When you do your usual daily RSS trawl you will be reminded to check your feed. If there is anything amiss you will know about it sooner rather than later. I have emailed many a webmaster to tell them that their feed is broken. I mean who reads their own feeds, right.

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Source: feeds.feedburner.com

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