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rss: The Art of Exploding Your RSS Subscriber Count (Part 3) - 09/15/08 02:11 PM
By now, if you've been following this short series on RSS, you should have a firm understanding of:
What RSS is What it means to be an RSS publisher How to locate your RSS feed How to sign up with feedburner How to add a feedburner subscription form into your sidebar If you happened to miss those first 2 posts, you can click below to review:
The Ultimate (& Practical) Guide To Optimizing Your RSS Feed (Part 1) How to SuperCharge Your Activerain Blog With Feedburner (Part 2) In this 3rd and final post of this series, we're going to get … (24 comments)

rss: How to SuperCharge Your Activerain Blog With Feedburner (Part 2) - 09/08/08 08:00 PM
Disclaimer: You don't necessarily have to have an Activerain blog to apply these principals.
In my last post, I reviewed the basic concept of RSS and how it can be used as a syndication tool.  Alot of people use RSS readers, or have signed up to RSS via email without even knowing it... but many people don't seem to grasp the value of being an RSS publisher.  If you have a blog, you ARE an RSS publisher whether you knew it or not!
If you don't have a solid understanding of RSS, don't know how to find your own feed, or … (76 comments)

rss: The Ultimate (& Practical) Guide To Optimizing Your RSS Feed (Part 1) - 09/02/08 10:02 AM
RSS is such an interesting technology.  It has truly spearheaded a complete mind shift in the way people design, look at, and interact with the internet.
When I first read an e-book in 2003 about this new RSS technology that was becoming more mainstream, I have to admit, it was a little fuzzy.  The only RSS readers available were software programs you had to download and install.  Only a few sites even published RSS feeds, and the few popular blogs that existed only had a handful of subscribers.  But even in my ignorance, I ran out to get a blog realizing … (45 comments)

rss: Do You Ping Your Blogs? - 10/05/06 04:17 PM
"pinging" in the context of blogging is a way to tell the different websites that compile blog posts that you have added new content to your blog.  This  would include sites like technorati or  feedburner, and other similar blog post aggregators.
In the way of an update on my post earlier today about the new Google Blog Search Tool, Google just announced today that they will allow you to ping them with your blog's URL address if it is not already included in thier index.  First you may want to do a search on the Google Blog Search tool to … (4 comments)

rss: Behold! The New Digg for Real Estate is Born - 09/28/06 11:09 AM
It was only a matter of tme...
The crafty fellows over at HomeThinking.com have launched a digg like service that lets users post articles and rate them.  The new service is calld Real Estate Voices which I am officially dubbing: (REV)  I have officially added it as an acronym  The obvious slang terms will eventually follow i.e. - "REV up your engines", " 
Once this new service catches on, I beleive it will be a great way to get news and real estate stories from around the web.  Hopefully they will be able to avoid some of the problems that digg has had … (1 comments)

rss: Del.icio.us -- Do You use an Online Bookmarking Service? - 09/22/06 12:56 AM

Ok, so, does anyone use an online bookmarking services like Del.icio.us? It is a great tool that allows you to post all your bookmarks or "favorites" as they say in the dark world of ie.
Here are some useful things that you can do:1. Import all of your existing bookmarks instantly2. Create a a free account so that you can login from any computer to access your bookmarks3. Share your bookmarks with other people through your "network", and through a customized URL given when you start your account: del.icio.us/hismove4. Tag your sites with keywords for easy future lookup5. Give all … (4 comments)

rss: Do you Pay for Search Engine Positioning? - 09/19/06 11:53 AM
As a followup to my post earlier today, I wanted to write about the ins and outs of paying to have your website listed in the search engines. I haven't met too many individual real estate agents that use pay per click, but the ones that do seem to do pretty well if they know what they're doing.When you visit a popular search engine like Google or Yahoo, you'll notice that the first few results for a search are usually in a special box called sponsored links. The advertisers in this section are paying every time a person clicks on their … (31 comments)

rss: Post Blog Content onto your Website Through RSS - 09/18/06 02:07 PM
Do you find that your website lacks a certain stickiness? Do you only have information about yourself, contact information and links on your site? Are you blogging yet?
If the answer to those questions is yes, you might want to consider making a few changes to your website that would include adding the content from your blog directly to your website. This will allow your visitors to see the current things you are writing about without actually having to visit your blog. They could read the headlines on your home page and decide whether or not it is something they are interested … (7 comments)

rss: Ultimate Beginners Guide to RSS - 09/14/06 10:45 AM
This technology has forever changed the way I look at the internet... Does this graphic look familiar? It's an RSS feed button. Get used to it because it's hear to stay.
Please forgive me if this is all old news to you. This is for the RSS "Newbie". I've just been so surprised lately at how many people don't understand what it is and how it's used.There seems to be quite a bit of ignorance out there about RSS. Since the dawn of email there really hasn't been many new innovations in the way that we get our information. Until now... … (23 comments)

 

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