- Doesn't support simple HTTP authentication so you can use RSS for private stuff
- Doesn't provide a mechanism so content producers can restrict sharing stuff
Tag Archives: rss
You Can’t Segment RSS… Sorry
Well actually you can as you could with the now defunct Feedmagic service that I evangelised 3 years ago as something that would be killed off by Google and the growing popularity of RSS sharing with Google Reader.
Google Reader still:-
Posted in marketing Also tagged Blog Marketing, blogging, http authentication, Mafia Offer, RSS Authentication, RSS Marketing, Stomper 999, stompernet Comments closed
Open Letter To Google Reader Team On The Future Of RSS
Today is RSS Awareness Day, and as a solid 40% of my RSS subscribers use Google Reader, I thought I would take this opportunity to reach out to the Google Reader team.
I am someone who loves using RSS, but at the same time as a business owner I find RSS is not living up to its current billing.
Whilst I haven't mentioned RSS day before on this blog, I have known about Daniel's plans for a month, and I might have been the first one to suggest using a dedicated site to promote RSS Day. This avoids what might be looked on as purely an attempt at linkbait.
Posted in Google, blogging tips, marketing, news Also tagged goog, Google, google reader, rss-day, rssday, rss_authentication Comments closed
The Fallacy Of Subscriber Only Content On Blogs
Lot of blogs, either using plugins or a little custom PHP code publish articles that are intended purely for their subscribers, with the content appearing only in their RSS feeds, or in emails generated from the RSS Feed.
Totally Illogical
Lets look at this from a number of points of logic
- Best "public" content - if you are reserving your best content for subscribers, then you might be limiting the number of subscribers you receive. I look on this as a little different to "premium content" that might be served within a membership site or private RSS feed / email list - there
Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips Also tagged blog_subscribers, feeds, http authentication, rss_authentication, wordpress Comments closed
Players With Money Review & Bonus
Gary Halbert has been an inspiration to online marketers
What I want to impress upon you is… if possible… you should endeavor to confine your selling efforts to…
Players With Money!
Why? First of all, it is easier to sell something to someone with money. It's an obvious fact that person has the money to buy what you're selling. If you've got a $500,000 house for sale, it doesn't matter how appealing the house is if the family you're pitching it to has a pitifully low total income.
But there's another fact you mustn't overlook
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged affiliate marketing, affiliate_bonuses, blogging, email marketing, email_subscription, online_marketing, players with money, sales funnel, subscribers Comments closed
Why Have Blogs At All? – The Race To Kill Blogging
How would a human differentiate between the original source for a piece of content on the web, and a syndicated or splogged copy?
One of the most important factors would almost certainly be the comments.
What is one of the primary reasons people click through from an RSS feed to actually visit a blog?
Almost certainly it is either to read comments others have made, or to make one of their own. It is not to view advertising... at least for most.
How would a machine, such as Google differentiate between original source and whether a piece of content is valuable to include in its search index?
Factors could include:-
- The content within comments - keywords, language structure, length etc
- The number of comments
- Update frequency of the page (gaining additional comments over time)
Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 Also tagged aol, blogging, blogs, cix, comments, compuserve, disqus, fidonet, friendfeed, greasemonkey, prodigy, usenet Comments closed
How To Add FriendFeed To Technorati
You can add your FriendFeed account to Technorati, and there are various possible methods.
Go to your account on Technorati, and use the URL for your personal lifestream on FriendFeed to start the claim process.
Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 Also tagged friendfeed, Google, microformats, social graph api, technorati Comments closed
Why TrafficJam.com really…
I could finish that title in all kinds of ways
- does suck
- is amazing
- can bring you masses of targeted traffic
- can be used for market research
- can help you optimize your titles
- can be used for discovery
- is overrated
- is underrated
- is useful
- is a waste of screen pixels
Posted in blogging tips, marketing, plugins, wordpress Also tagged blogrush, subscribers, traffic, wordpress, wordpress plugins Comments closed
Visible Linking And Traffic
Yesterday Joost linked through to me from a guest post on Shoemoney about Wordpress SEO.
In direct referral stats it didn't cause a shockwave until I looked at the specific pageviews of the page he chose to link to, my Wordpress category.
My category pages rarely figure highly in the most viewed, so I could actually attribute the majority of the traffic to that specific landing page, even if the traffic originated from an email or RSS subscriber.
This takes me back to one of the discussions I had with Joost regarding his Google Analytics tracking from RSS Plugin
Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, marketing, wordpress Also tagged blog_linking, email, email marketing, email_subscription, linking, traffic Comments closed
Aweber RSS To Email Scheduling And Feed Counts
I have been quite vocal in my encouraging Aweber to add some more control to the way they handle RSS to Email, and I am glad to say they have now added some very flexible date and time based controls.
This means that they totally blow Feedburner Email subscription away as far as features are concerned.
Apart from one important aspect.
Exclusive: Aweber Will Soon Report Email Sububscriber Numbers To Feedburner
In the announcement Justin Premick mentioned
This is just one of a number of enhancements we'll be making to the Blog Broadcast tool. Stay tuned…
I probed a little deeper and we can expect
Posted in blogging tips Also tagged aweber, blogging, email marketing, feedblitz, feedburner, feedburner_subscriber_count, rss2email, rsstoemail Comments closed
Bloglines Beta Adds Preview
Sometimes it is the little things that make a big difference when browsing RSS feeds, such as how quickly you can visit the site in your browser to view content not shown in the RSS feed (partial feeds or sometimes things like javascript widgets), or on busy blog often the comments are just as important as the article itself.
For a while now it has been possible to open a preview of a site in Google Reader using a Greasemonkey script in Firefox, and various lightbox and open in tabs scripts also exist for Bloglines.
Built In Preview
It is all
Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 Also tagged bloglines, bloglines-preview, blog_subscribers, rss_subscription Comments closed
Exclusive: How To Get OPML For Google Reader
This isn't a typical "how To" article, because currently this feature doesn't exist, but it could with just a little 20% time at Google.
Whilst you can download an OPML file to import into other feed readers, or to upload to the web in another location, you can't currently access it directly.
Whilst many tech sites are lauding the new blogroll for Google Reader users, it isn't really very useful, and is without doubt extremely ugly compared to many widgets that use OPML, such as SpringWidgets, or even a work-around previously available.
The Key To OPML
Posted in Google, blogging tips, web 2.0 Also tagged blogrolls, goog, Google, google reader, opml, rss_subscriptions Comments closed
The Secret Statistics In Split RSS Feeds – Google Reader
Google Reader now reports feed usage, and it is being suggested by a prominent Google engineer that you should look at aggregated numbers. Danny has gone into what many of the numbers mean, but he is missing out on some vital clues that are extremely revealing.
First up, for those counting stats such as Darren Rowse, Robert Scoble and Techcrunch here are my numbers.
Google Reader is currently showing 3 different feeds that are all providing the same content, which you might think would be better served as a single number as appears in Feedburner. Hopefully that will never
Posted in Google, blogging tips, stats, web 2.0 Also tagged blog_subscribers, feedburner, google reader, rss_subscribers, rss_subscription, rss_syndication, subscription Comments closed
Why Blogs Suck
Whilst I wouldn't class myself as a fanatical tester and tracker, I do test and track extensively. Having now published this blog for close to a year, I have reached a number of conclusions.
To be fair, I reached these conclusions more than 6 months ago… but saying anything at the time really would have fallen on deaf ears. I needed to have an established audience created in a traditional way, without any "explosive" growth from gaming social media, paid advertising or leveraging existing traffic.
- It would have been looked on as moaning and whining
- I would be told that you can't
Posted in blogging tips, marketing Also tagged blog_marketing, blog_traffic, conversion_rate, email, email marketing, rss_subscription, website traffic Comments closed
RSSBrief – PayPerPost To Directly Compete With Feedburner and Google Reader?
The guys from PayPerPost might cause a lot of controversy, but there is one thing that I doubt anyone could deny, even their most harsh critics… they are smart.
They bring out interesting, useful, sometimes controversial or disruptive products, but they are certainly market leaders not the following pack.
In the case of RSSBrief, they are taking on an existing market, RSS Readers, and in many ways it seems they might also step into reputation management and RSS Search.
I have a feeling even Jason Calacanis is going to like RSSBrief because it will help him with reputation management for Mahalo… but
Posted in blogging tips, marketing, news Also tagged email marketing, feedburner, Google, marketing, news, payperpost, rssbrief, rss_aggregation, rss_subscription, zookoda Comments closed
Open Social Web – Google + Feedburner Really Is Bad For RSS
I honestly laughed when I saw the new "Open Social Web" Bill of Rights launched yesterday, not because it isn't to some extent a useful idea, but because of one specific term…
Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others
10 months ago I fired off a heated debate about RSS sharing, and how Google with it's easy to share feeds could be killing the future of RSS. Now I say I fired it off, but honestly it would have been a storm in a teacup without Robert Scoble taking part with one of his most
Posted in Google, blogging tips, marketing, news, web 2.0 Also tagged bill_of_rights, facebook, feedburner, Google, google reader, news, open_social_web, robert_scoble, techcrunch Comments closed
Bloglines – Why You Should Test Out The New Beta
Here is a link to the new beta version of Bloglines
Lots of tech blogs are talking about it, but there is a good reason that they all talk about new feed readers, and it is not just because it is newsworthy.
Every time they talk about a new blog reader, and a chunk of their readers test it out, even on the short term, they get more readers counted in Feedburner.
Bloglines readers are also counted for many monetization programs such as Text Link Ads and ReviewMe, to rate your blog or set the pricing.
The most popular blogs also benefit from
Posted in blogging tips Also tagged beta, bloglines, blog_subscribers, rss_subscribers Comments closed
Important Tips On Using Feedburner Pro – Now Free
Feedburner have just annonced that 2 of their professional features are now available free of charge.
I have been signed up for Feedburner Pro for a while
Feedburner Pro – I don’t use all the features
Read more on Important Tips On Using Feedburner Pro – Now Free…
Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips Also tagged 301_redirect, analytics, feedburner, pro, rss_feed, stats, technorati, totalstats Comments closed
Techcrunch RSS Subscriber Payola?
Maybe I should enter these lyrics into the SEO Lyrics contest
Payola makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Payola makes the world go around
It makes the world go ’round.
Posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, web 2.0 Also tagged disclosure, google reader, payola, RSS Reader, rss_subscribers, rss_subscription, techcrunch Comments closed
What I am Reading
Chris over at Blog-op recently pinged me to ask what I am reading in the way of blogs these days.
That is a tough question, because I am trying hard to expand my reading habits to pop by the blogs of the readers I know about a little more.
PayPerPost Buys Zookoda – Maybe I Got The Jump On Techcrunch
A few days ago I saw a number of my readers had grabbed an “opp” with PayPerPost to predict the acquisition they were going to announce this week, in fact today.
Read more on PayPerPost Buys Zookoda – Maybe I Got The Jump On Techcrunch…
Posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, web 2.0 Also tagged aweber, email marketing, getresponse, payperpost, rss_2_email, rss_email, rss_subscription, rss_to_email, syndication, syndication_services, zookoda Comments closed
In Depth Review | Traffic Strategy | Stampede Secrets 2.0 – Social Media Marketing From A Unique Perspective?
Stampede Secrets 2.0 is unlike any internet marketing report or ebook I have read…
If spending $97 on an ebook is a major financial commitment, don’t read any further
Ok, for the rest of you lets get on with the review…
Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, marketing, mininet, reviews, vre, web 2.0 Also tagged marketing, niche marketing, niche_websites, rss-sharing, smm, smo, social bookmarking, social marketing, social network, social networking, social networks, Social News, social-bookmarks, social_media, social_proof, social_tagging, stampede_secrets, syndication, tagging, tags, tracking, traffic, traffic_strategy, vre, web 2.0, website traffic, website_promotion, web_metrics Comments closed
Are Yahoo Guilty of Unethical Plagiarism With Syndicated Content?
Bloggers often complain that another blogger has stolen their content (plagiarism) or reworked their ideas without giving credit, and on the internet among bloggers, credit isn't just mentioning their names but providing a link, preferably to the original article.
Major Websites and Press Agencies Seriously Don't Give a Damn About Conventions
I am not a lawyer, this post is personal opinion. Please treat any legal information as for entertainment purposes only
Vipul Arora wrote a story today entitled Yahoo plagiarizes content - does not give credit!!
But was it plagiarism?
Lets go into detail and see what happens, and how this all
Posted in news Also tagged afp, attribution, duplicate content, ethics, hoax, links, museum_of_hoaxes, news, press, syndication, yahoo Comments closed
TwitterAdder – Software Specification
I am sure such an application is just around the corner, and as I speculated about it in a comment thread over on Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim, I just wanted to have a record of “I called it first”
WOOT Creating Twitter Splogs
If an affiliate created a blog and fed a datafeed to that blog, a large proportion of the blogosphere would regard that blog as a splog, especially if it was on blogspot.
Posted in marketing, web 2.0 Also tagged blog_spam, command_line, disclosure, disclosure policy, marketing, rss_spam, sms, spam, splog, twitter, webspam, web_services Comments closed
In Depth: Google BlogSearch | Ranking Blog Documents Patent
For a long time my blogs have performed amazingly well with Google Blog Search. I always appear in the relevant results quickly, and the results I obtain have some reasonable longevity, even when I am not the original source of a story.
Read more on In Depth: Google BlogSearch | Ranking Blog Documents Patent…
Posted in Google, SEO Blog, blogging tips, plugins Also tagged backlinks, blogging, bloglines, blogsearch, duplicate content, feedburner, Google, google_blogsearch, google_blog_search, linking strategy, rss_subscribers, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO Blog, subscribers, tag, tagging, tags, technorati, technorati_favorites, ultimate tag warrior, utw Comments closed
Technorati Can’t Cope With Twitter, coComment, Blog Networks, and Blog Rolls
Technorati simply can’t cope with new forms of blogging and RSS feed generation. I am not talking about splogs, which seem to still be rampant, and reblogs, likewise, but totally legitimate alternative unique content sources that are effectively blogs.
Read more on Technorati Can’t Cope With Twitter, coComment, Blog Networks, and Blog Rolls…
Posted in blogging tips, stats, web 2.0 Also tagged 2000 bloggers, blog, blogging, cocomment, geek, syndication, tech, technology, technorati, technorati_links, technorati_ranking, twitter Comments closed
Twitter | Google Toolbar Button
Just added a new toolbar button to my toolbar buttons site for Twitter addicts.
There has been so much talk about Freebase.com, but Twitter.com seriously should have some kind of health warning – so many people are becoming addicted.
Posted in Google, Projects, web 2.0 Also tagged friends, geek, Google, google-toolbar, google-toolbar-buttons, messaging, search, sms, social networks, tech, toolbar-buttons, twitter Comments closed
The Perfect Way to Use Feedburner Without Giving Them Your Subscribers?
Do you worry about the danger of giving a 3rd party service control over the most important part of your blogging business – your subscribers?
Up until today there were only 2 realistic alternatives to retain some control over your RSS subscribers while using Feedburner for collecting stats.
Read more on The Perfect Way to Use Feedburner Without Giving Them Your Subscribers?…
Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 Also tagged code, feed, feedburner, feed_management, hack, redirect, wordpress Comments closed
Desmond Decides That Ella Gets Too Much Attention – Wordpress | BBPress
I am sure a few other people might have spotted this already in their Wordpress console today. I am sure it is a bug that is going to be cleared up rapidly.
Read more on Desmond Decides That Ella Gets Too Much Attention – Wordpress | BBPress…
MyFeedz – Should This Really Be Called a Feed Reader?
I saw a few posts about MyFeedz yesterday and checked it out, and I noticed Robert just gave Myfeedz a test. He is a hardcore feed reader, so I value his opinion (even though we don’t always agree on everything).
I think Robert is being extremely polite about MyFeedz
Read more on MyFeedz – Should This Really Be Called a Feed Reader?…
Posted in web 2.0 Also tagged feed_reader, meme, myfeedz, niche marketing, RSS Reader, tagging, tags Comments closed
Rojo Splogs and Attribution
Om Malik recent was taking a look at Rojo from a traffic perspective. What he didn’t touch on, although he did refer to a previous post, was that the Rojo page was actually a very poor quality splog.
Posted in web 2.0 Also tagged backlinks, bitacle, feed_reader, linking, news, rojo, RSS Reader, six_apart, splog, syndication Comments closed
Google Reader Stats With FeedBurner
It is nice to finally see one of the mainstream blogs pointing out that it is hard to track readership numbers from Google Reader. Techcrunch have been looking at a report from Hitwise
Posted in Google, stats Also tagged analytics, feedburner, Google, google reader, statistics Comments closed
How to Get 1000s of Blog Subscribers Overnight
What do you think is the best way to have a massive subscriber list for your blog?
As a proactive Internet Marketer or corporation, you might have a massive email list already, but you are now switching to more interactive communication with your customers and prospects by publishing your newsletter on your blog, and maybe copy / pasting it into an auto-responder.
Read more on How to Get 1000s of Blog Subscribers Overnight…
Posted in blogging tips, marketing Also tagged emails, feedblitz, feedburner, subscribers Comments closed
MyBlogLog Flaw
SoloSeo is in the news today for noting a flaw in MyBlogLog.
Techcrunch, and Andy Beal have had their say.
My opinion – this method of gaming MyBlogLog is useless and pointless. SoloSeo has gained some nice linkbait from the article, but very few new community members. It is a bit like Jason Calacanis and his gaming Alexa experiment. Sure it can be done, but what is really the point?
Posted in marketing, web 2.0 Also tagged mybloglog, RSS Reader, social networking, yahoo Comments closed
Chitika Adverts with Ultimate Tag Warrior
I talk about how you can use UTW quite a bit from an SEO perspective, but it can also help with monetization. If you have keywords, you can use them for all kinds of things.
Posted in blogging tips, plugins, wordpress Also tagged chitika, flickr, keyword, keyword_targetting, monetization, pictures, ultimate tag warrior, utw, wordpress Comments closed
Going Viral to Build Defensible Traffic
There is a really informative post on Wolf-Howl today on the results of viral marketing. More importantly, Michael discusses how to retain that traffic long-term.
I have noticed the effect of surges in RSS feed subscriptions in the past, followed by a slow decline in readership after a few days or weeks. Some readers stick around long-term thankfully. Brian at Copyblogger has also been talking about RSS.
Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, marketing Also tagged defensible_traffic, graywolf, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, subscribers Comments closed
Headline Formatting In Blogs
When most people write content, they think about how that content looks in their WYSIWYG editor, and probably in their preview of page contents.
I am sure after publishing, they take a look at their published version of the content.
Posted in blogging tips, marketing Also tagged blogging, blogging tips, bloglines, email, feedburner, feedreader, feed_reader, google reader, googlereader, h2, h3, headings, headlines, html, marketing, pageflakes Comments closed
Mike Filsaime | Social Marketing | Copyright Violations
Mike Filsaime always provides real quality in his free reports, and The Death of Internet Marketing is no exception.
I have read all 59 pages of this free report. It certainly isn’t junk, and it shouldn’t be ignored.
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Posted in blogging tips, reviews, web 2.0 Also tagged affiliate marketing, alexa, blogging tips, copyright., Digg-this, email marketing, how_to, link_blogs, mailing_list, marketing, marketing_technique, out-sourcing, rss-sharing, rss_syndication, sales_technique, social networking, splog, technorati, youtube Comments closed
Google are killing the future of RSS
An RSS feed which you subscribe to is your personal subscription to a service, just like email.
A private subscription service for text, audio and video content, even involving a paid subscription fee has been possible for more than a year, based upon RSS.
Posted in Google, Uncategorized, web 2.0 Also tagged aweber, email marketing, email_delivery, exclusive_content, feedmagic, feed_magic, getresponse, Google, google reader, linkblogs, link_blogs, mailing_list, paid_subscription, podcast, podtech, robert_scoble, RSS Reader, rssemail, rss_email, rss_syndication, scobleizer, spam_blog, splog, splogger, tech, web 2.0, web2.0, windows_vista Comments closed
Google Reader, Splogs, Linkblogs, Blog Readership
But the Google reader has major flaws, which noone is really talking about. In fact I have noticed a growing tendancy for reporting thee flaws as a cool feature, without any emphasis on the negative aspects of using these "featues".
Posted in Google, niche website, web 2.0 Also tagged antileech, Google, google reader, linkblogs, link_blogs, msn, niche website, niche_websites, robert_scoble, RSS Reader, rss_syndication, scobleizer, search engines, spam_blog, splog, splogger, wordpress, wordpress plugins, yahoo Comments closed
Is Quality Content Needed To Make Money?
I first published this post under a different title almost 3 years ago (Jan 17, 2007 @ 6:55), but over the last couple of days it has become specifically relevant.
At the time Jack Humphreys was offering a training program combined with high end blog hosting called “Authority Site Center” which was the successor to his previous offering, “Content Desk”.
First of all I was just going to post it with a quick introductory paragraph, then I decided it really needed some additional examples.
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