Posts Tagged ‘rss-feeds’

Should I Go Back to Full Text Feeds at This Point?

When this site was on the Blogger platform and had a members section, I had a bunch of feeds, some were full text, some were partial, some had both. At the time, partial feeds meant less scraping and more more page views.

Now, I wonder if page views even matter when the bottom line is really getting read, not getting displays – unless of course you’re running a site where you don’t get paid unless the ad is clicked or at least displayed, on a web page. And I hear the de-emphasis of the page view as a measurement echoed across the Net.
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Traffic Thursdays: Why You’re Missing Out On Consumers Like Me if You Don’t Have This

My name’s Tinu, and I’m a feedaholic.

I love the sophisticated surfers I get to my site via my own feed, I love how much the search engine spiders love my feeds, and I simply adore reading sites via their RSS Feeds. I do the majority of my research for my column that way.

If your site doesn’t have one and you want to be featured in one of my daily columns, you’re out of luck. It isn’t that there aren’t great sites out there with great tools out there that aren’t feed-capable, it’s just that now that I use web feeds as my primary source of news, unless your site was featured in someone else’s feed, it just wouldn’t occur to me.

To folks like me, your site is effectively invisible, unless you happen to come up on the first page of a search, and since I know where to go to find the information I want quickly, I don’t use a search engine on a daily basis.

True story.

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Traffic Thursdays: Sales from Articles : Part One – Your Topic

Part One of this step is Choosing Your Topic, otherwise known as “What the Hell Am I Going to Write About?”

With choosing your topic, you want to strke a balance between writing about a popular topic and not writing about the same thing everyone else is writing about. For example, I sometimes write a lot about Google, RSS Feeds and Yahoo, and Alexa Internet.

Now, a lot of people write about Google, or Yahoo, here and there about RSS Feeds, and not so much about Alexa. But I picked those three topics because they are things people want to know about. Then I took those topics and illustrated how I solved a problem I had or a challenge I was facing with one of those topics.

So get out a piece of paper (or launch a text file), and put at the top, the heading “There Should Be a Book About” and think of topics related to your product, service or web site that has to do with that title. Then write down five things you think there should be a book about.

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Free Traffic Tips: Traffic Thursdays Site of the Day

If you’re still not getting the idea about using RSS Feeds to increase your traffic, I have a free site for you with lots of good information. Robin Good’s .Really Simple Syndication

Free Traffic Tips: Traffic Thursday : Concept Conversion Pt 2

Okay, you’ve got a tracking system, and you have your pages prepared to test, now what?

For our example, I’m going to use the article that was recently republished on Site Pro News. Using this method, when I get published for free in a major publication like that, it’s as good as money in the bank. And they’ve been gracious enough to publish me five times just this year.

If you take a look at the article – 5 Reasons Why Your Site Needs To Publish A News Feed – you’ll see that there are 3 major links leading back to my site in the article, the one in my resource box, that points to my blog, my feed (after the link for Pluck, which really leads back to the Pluck downloads page – it’s just a forwarder for easy subscription, so that one doesn’t count), and the one minute tutorial.

Each of these links addresses my audience in a different way, and leads them to a different method of using my site, and ending up as part of my audience.

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Free Traffic Tips: Freedom Friday!

It’s Freedom Friday!

Before you cheer, you may want to know what Freedom Friday is. Today is the day of the week you’ll learn about free resources you can use on the Net, some will get you free traffic, some will free up your time so you can focus on getting yourself some more free traffic, and sometimes, we’ll just talk about freedom in general, as it relates to your site and your business.

Today our focus will be on free tools for studying your traffic, like the URL Info tool I read about in SEO Scoop, and tools that make RSS Feeds easier to work with like FeedBurner.

Free Traffic Tip #1: Site of the Day

Today’s site of the day is Wilson Web.

Waiting for a phone call, I was searching my bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox, trying to find out if sites that I no longer had time to visit had RSS Feeds. I haven’t been to Wilson Web in a year, and that was my bad, because Ralph F. Wilson has been talking about RSS Feeds and Marketing since last year.

The site has changed a lot over the years, but one thing definitely hasn’t – there’s a lot of good, free information, though some of the content is for paid subscribers only.

Free Traffic Tip #2: *New* Feed of the Day

It seems that a lot of people are confused about the feed fuss – what’s so great about feeds? And I still feel the best solution for understanding what a great tool a feed can be for your site, is in seeing what other people are doing with theirs.

Today’s feed of the day is Free Marketing Ideas. To view it, right-click the link and paste the feed in your favorite feed reader, or add this to the RSS Headline area in your “My Yahoo” page. .

If you don’t have one, create a free account in my member section, and cut and paste the link into “My Headlines” on the first page. You can also get a free online reader at bloglines.com.