Archive for January, 2008

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RSS Mixers

January 28th, 2008

More and more internet users are getting familiar with the concept of RSS feeds and its uses. This has resulted in number of online and offline services to help in better RSS Management. Feedburner and Feeblitz lead the way in RSS Management services.

Many a times you want to read content from different sources. While there are tools to filter RSS feed content, tools to mix, blend and Mash-up multiple RSS feeds are more important. They help you grab multiple RSS feeds and create a single customized RSS feed. Here are 10 tools worth checking out… RSS Mixers

RSS Scripts Directory

January 24th, 2008

Large selection of popular RSS Scripts  for manipulating and publishing RSS feeds. Filter scripts, prepublish feeds, convert the feeds to html or merge multiple RSS feeds. Also extract information in a database and make a feed.
RSS may sound like a distress signal along the lines of SOS, but its real purpose is to make accessing Web information simple. An abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication, it allows you to get all the updated headlines and podcasts in one place, without having to sift through individual Web sites. You can put all your feeds together in an RSS reader, which will become your all-in-one destination for news and information.

Advice for Getting More from RSS

Software Deal of the Day

January 23rd, 2008

Software Deal of the Day offers one software application for sale every day at a significantly discounted price.

Software Deal of the Day is a new site that offers software applications at a significantly reduced price for only twenty-four hours. Each day a new software deal is available. If you cannot resist a great deal then Software-DOD.com is for you!

Software-DOD.com features popular software titles. The software discounts range from 10-90% off of list prices, and the software is only available at that price for twenty-four hours! Software-DOD.com also contains second chance offers. The second chance offers are still discounted and designed for those that miss the deal of the day offer, but the second chance offer is not as deeply discounted as the deal of the day offer.

Many of the software applications on the Software-DOD.com website even have trial versions available, which allows website visitors to try the software prior to making a purchase decision.

Interested visitors can preview the applications that will be available on the Software-DOD website for the coming week. Additionally, deals are easy to monitor because RSS feeds are available that contain the daily specials, the second chance offers, and a preview of applications that will be featured on the Software-DOD.com website.

Other webmasters and publishers can also syndicate the Software Deal of the Day offers, and integrate the discount offers into their own websites. Software-DOD.com provides the tools to make the integration process painless for webmasters. The offers will dynamically update each night as the new offers become available. Providing such great software deals are sure to endear webmasters to their website visitors.

Software developers interested in this new distribution channel are encouraged to submit their software applications for consideration. With economic concerns looming individuals and businesses alike are tightening their spending. Software Deal of the Day is a win for every everyone. Additional details available at http://www.software-dod.com

More AdSense Money on Your Blog
Is Real!

During the numerous discussions with blog experts at professional blog forums Free Blogging Advice Guidelines project team has been convinced by many bloggers that the best amount of clicks on AdSenses and the best CTR is achieved when the traffic to the blog comes from search engines.

So, the tip is...

Show AdSenses to Search Engine Traffic

A while ago that might be impossible, until the creation of Who Sees Ads plugin that was a real breakthrough. Since that the Who Sees Ads algo was accepted by many the principle that is really great.

With this type of plugins (there are many of them now) you can basically create scenarios to display ads. For example, you can set up the AdSenses to be displayed only to those who come from search engines. Or, you can set up to display your special affiliate offers only to those who come to your blog for the 2nd or 3rd or 4th time. The freedom that you are receiving in creating scenarios is very impressive. And this freedom can make traffic monetization very effective.

For more useful tips - read about Blogging for Money and Hobby.

People Have Learned
To Ignore Ads on Sites and Blogs
You Can Gain their Attention Again...

No one would doubt that to survive in the highly over-advertised medium - the Internet - one needs to learn the basic skill of surfing = IGNORE THE ADS.

For the eye of a surfer it is very time consuming to pay much attention to all that shiny banners or Google's textual blocks. Hence, surfers are becoming ad blind; in other words, they simply do not notice the ads on the sites.

But for the site owners and blog owners, who do their best to grow sites and blogs with quality content, this ad blind behavior is cutting down a big part of the profits.

Solution?

As always - simple. Try to make the ads to look non-ad like. And you can see a nice sample of how this can be done with 100% free plugin that is shared by Free Blogging Advice Guidelines project.

Using TimeStamp in Blogging
to Make You a Ping Spammer
Yes/No?

This one of the highly disputed issues of blogging (blogging for money or hobby - doesn't matter) - usage of future posting and a possibility to become a ping spammer in the eyes of pinging services.

Future posting via TimeStamp feature of the WordPress is a very useful strategy. Let's say you purchased 30 unique articles for your blog and during a weekend scheduled them for posting for the next 30 days. The feature of future posting saved you tons of time and your blog is growing with quality content on a daily basis. Perfect!

So, What's the Problem with Ping Services?

The point is that many bloggers heard that your post (when being added with TimeStamp feature) gets pinged NOT when it is actually published on the blog, but RIGHT AFTER you saved it for future posting.

That is why in the example of 30 articles scheduling, instead of getting pinged every day when the new article is automatically published on the blog, you can get pinged today - and for the rest of the 30 days there will be a drastic gap without any new pings. This is a problem.

But there are no problems to blog experts :) Denis Bernardy - creator of Semiologic - explains the truths and fakes of this future posting + ping spam story in his Interview to Free Blogging Advice Guidelines Project.

RSS Feed Etiquette

January 22nd, 2008

Attempts have been made to create best practice documents and specification clarifications. We felt it would be helpful to provide general guidelines for those constructing an RSS 2.0 feed. In general, the following are guidelines for constructing an RSS feed. It is good to get into the habit of validating the RSS feed, either with software, or with an online validator.

RSS Feed Etiquette