Why Use RSS Feeds?
RSS Feeds can be found everywhere. When you see a feed icon on a web page, it means these pages serve their content in syndicated format. Feed icons, or text links, can be found on Blogs, Squidoo Lenses, Social Bookmarking Sites and Social Networking Sites.
RSS Feeds are preferable to other types of updates because they are instantaneous; you don't have to wait until a designated day of the week to receive your summary. They will also never be held up by a spam filter .
Of course, if you have been around the internet for some time you probably know how to use RSS Feeds to keep yourself up to date with news and fresh postings from your favorite web sites. However you may not be aware of some of the techniques I will describe and the resources I will introduce to you in this Lens.
So, what are the seven uses? I believe they are:
1. Keep Informed And Up To Date
2. Research Your Market Or Business
3. Provide Fresh Content
4. Sell As An Amazon Associate
5. Sell As An eBay Partner
6. Build Back Links For Your Sites
7. Test Niche Markets Quickly
Of course, there are bound to be more, but I think seven is enough for now, otherwise this Lens will get too long!
FriendFeed Keeps You Up To Date
FriendFeed Automatically Imports Your Social Networking Activities
FriendFeed enables you to keep informed and up to date with the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.
Sign up for FriendFeed, invite some friends, and get a customized feed made up of the content that your friends shared - from news articles to family photos to interesting links and videos. FriendFeed automatically imports shared stuff from sites across the web, so if your friend favorites a video on YouTube, you get a link and a thumbnail of the video in your feed. And if your friend likes a news story on Digg, you get a link in your feed. FriendFeed makes all the sites you already use a little more social.
You don't need to install anything to use FriendFeed. But if you already use Facebook, you can add the Facebook application to connect your Facebook profile to all the other products you use around the web. You can also view your FriendFeed in your iGoogle homepage or read it in a feed reader. If you make your FriendFeed publicly visible (kind of like a blog that writes itself), you can embed your feed in your home page or blog - just like I have here.....
If you would like to Friend me, I can be found at http://FriendFeed/Lynx92
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byUse RSS Feeds For Research And Information Gathering
Combine Your Favorite RSS Feeds With Your Choice Of Reader
You can use Google Reader just to keep yourself informed about current events, or as a powerful research tool to monitor what is happening in your industry or marketplace.
Rather than re-invent the wheel, I have incorporated the following videos from Ed Dale of Thirty Day Challenge fame, which provide excellent tuition for utilizing Google Reader.
If you are at all interested in using the internet for Marketing and Money-Making activities, I would have no hesitation in recommending that you join the Thirty Day Challenge. This is probably the best training of it's type available today and, best of all, everything is totally free.
You can join by clicking www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com here.
Fresh Content For Your Lens Or Blog
Incorporate RSS Feeds To Help Keep Things Fresh
Incorporating RSS Feeds from other relevant sites is a great way to help keep your Blog or Lens fresh for your visitors.
However, you should be aware that this strategy will not help your Lens stay fresh with the search engines. This is because the RSS Feeds are not loaded when the search engine robots are inspecting your site.
The feed displayed below is taken from StumbleUpon, you are welcome to add me as a friend there, I am MLineker.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand bySell Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Products
Further Revenue Opportunities for Amazon Affiliates
Lensmaster TheFluffanutta has produced a great utility for selling Amazon products via an RSS Feed on your Squidoo Lens. If you would like to know how it is done, head over to Amazon RSS Feeds to find out all about it.
If you are wondering why you should use this rather than Squidoo's Amazon module, there are a number of reasons:
1. The RSS Feed allows selection from .com or .co.uk, Squidoo currently only has .com.
2. The RSS Feed provides greater flexibility and control over product selection.
3. The revenue is all yours!
The feed display below demonstrates the use of this utility.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand bySell eBay Products
Extra Revenue Opportunities For eBay Partners
RSS Feeds can be used by eBay Partners to incorporate appropriate eBay Product Lists into their Squidoo Lenses or Blogs.
As with Amazon, utilizing eBay RSS Feeds gives greater control over the product selection criteria and the choice of country location.
The feed display below shows how it looks.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byGain Back Links For Your Lens Or Blog
RSS Feed Directories Provide Great Back Links
Submitting your Lens or Blog RSS Feed to RSS Directories is a great way to build back links that are automatically kept up to date by the syndication service.
I would again like to thank thefluffanutta for his excellent lens Deep Links With RSS Feeds.
It provides great information about the power of back linking with RSS Feeds, together with an appropriate list of RSS Directories that can be used for your submissions.
Manual submission of your RSS Feeds can be very time consuming. So, if you would like to automate the submission process I think you will find the next module of great interest...
Submit Your Site To RSS Aggregators
Gain Backlinks And Test Niche Markets With This Technique
If you are like me you have registered accounts with:
Social Bookmarking websites
Video Directories
Article Websites
Free hosts
Free blog hosts such as blogger and WordPress.
If you have accounts with any or all of these sites listed above. Did you know that the majority of these sites above have RSS Feeds for your free accounts?
RSS Aggregators.
An RSS Aggregator is a website that displays the content of, and including the links in RSS Feeds from your blogs AND these free sites listed above.
Used wisely, depositing of your RSS feeds across these aggregators can provide you with some Impressive Rankings in the search engines PLUS get new sites Indexed FAST.
Not to mention, you can Piggy Back YOUR Posts within these RSS Aggregators including the links within your posts. This means You can create a post on one of your blogs or free sites, or video sites, and this new post can rank very well in the search engines, while its hosted on an RSS Aggregator
So surfers find your content via the RSS Aggregator that is ranking high in the search engines!
This massively increases your contents exposure in the search engines.
Check out Peter Drew's Videos, where he uses a Live example of how to achieve this.
He has just launched a new software product that Automates this process completely, plus he's provided a detailed report on the Magic Of RSS.
He has even allowed a Trial Period of his software so people can test this process for nearly nothing.
You'll be amazed at the Live Results in the videos.
Check them out here
www.BadAssRSS.com
Further RSS Feeds Information
RSS Feeds - Product Reviews
There are a number of ways that RSS can be used to increase your potential earnings from the internet. If you would like to learn more about RSS Feeds and products that can help enhance your Internet Marketing activities click here:- RSS Feeds Product Reviews. RSS Feed Icons
A Random Selection Of RSS Feed Icons
RSS Feed Icons come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Here is a random selection provided by Flickr.
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RSS in Plain English
The Fastest Way To Understand RSS Feeds
Video: RSS in Plain English
We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people and if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes.
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Useful RSS Resources
Vote For Your Favorite RSS Resource
This is a list of RSS Resources that you might find useful. If you know of any sites that would enhance this list please feel free to add them.
SquidUtils - Utilities and Tools for Squidoo Lensmasters
SquidUtils has complementry utilities and tools for Squidoo Lensmasters. Tools include: the advanced dashboard, lensmaster feeds, plus Amazon links an...1 point
Mloovi RSS Blog Translator
Mloovi is a tool which will translate RSS newsfeeds into 24 languages using Google Translate.1 point
http://www.clarior.co.uk/
Useful tool for generating RSS Feeds - particularly the Amazon one.0 points
Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page
This is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite...0 points
LiveBusinessRadio.com - News » List of RSS Blog Directories
This links to a list of RSS Directories that you might find useful to help gain more backlinks.0 points
http://www.accrediteddldegrees.com/2008/100-cool-things-you-can-do-with-rss/
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) allows you to get information sent directly to you, eliminating the need for you to that information individually. Usi...0 points
List of feed aggregators - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia's list of RSS Feed Aggregators.0 points
The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources
Never again will mankind have to look for RSS info in more than one place...ok, we're kidding, but we've aimed to create a near comprehensive list of...0 points
RSS Mixer : Combine, search and promote feeds
RSS Mixer allows you to mix multiple feeds into one. You can promote your feed, blog, or podcast. Make Apple and Web widgets along with iPhone and mob...0 points
Do You Use RSS Feeds?
How Do You Make Use Of RSS Feeds?
Please leave a comment to let me know how you make use of RSS feeds.
Cajean wrote...
I tried a reader/ aggregator and subscribed to WAY too many news sites. After having tons of info coming in for about 2 weeks, I lost my entire C-drive! No one know what happened...boo, and boo-hoo. So thank you so-o much for the cool video, it makes me think I should try it again, perhaps start small...yea, that's the ticket. 5* & my faves for this helpful lens!
Posted November 13, 2008
beachbum_gabby wrote...
I have RSS on my blogs. Looking forward to learn a lot from your lens about it.
Posted November 06, 2008
seedplanter wrote...
Hey Martyn, what thorough info on RSS feeds, and why they're so valuable. Thanks! Five *****'s and a fave. I'm lensrolling you two my two Squidoo tips lenses.
Posted October 16, 2008
Great-Golf-GreenFee-Deals wrote...
Very useful information, thanks.
As my sites, lenses, blogs grow I need a way of co-ordinating them and keeping them fresh with new content.
This helps me plan for that.
Posted September 25, 2008
thefluffanutta wrote...
If you want your eBay RSS feed to look better on your lens, try this tool. People should find it easier to use too.
Posted September 23, 2008
RSS Feed From My Furl Account
Social Bookmarking And RSS Feeds
Just by way of example I have included this RSS Feed from my Furl account. Digg, Propeller, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter and a mutitude of others can all be used in this way.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byPlease Bookmark This Best RSS Feeds Lens
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