Adweek covered a recent study conducted by Universal McCann that shows some interesting things about US consumers and social media. The survey was a repeat of one done in September 2006 by the research firm. The second survey showed that the number of survey respondents who regularly read blogs jumped from just over 50 percent [...]
Blogging has been around for a decade or more and businesses are beginning to see the value of blogging as a marketing technique. In the Internet age, businesses are now beginning to see the value in blogging and working with bloggers to promote products. Many consumers turn to blogs when seeking out information and product [...]
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) has been around for about ten years and it is used to syndicate data that is published on a Web site. Today, many Web sites are built with RSS marketing in mind. Most blogging platforms also routinely publish an RSS feed, which Web browsers and news readers will recognize. (You’ll often [...]
What is the difference between a search engine and an RSS feed? Search engines and RSS feeds are two different tools work together - like a set of gears - to drive different parts of your marketing strategy. A solid approach uses both search engine visibility and RSS marketing to get visitors to a site [...]
RSS marketing strategies can enable your clients to subscribe directly to information on your Web site. RSS marketing is an efficient communications tool in a comprehensive strategy to improve search engine visibility.
An RSS marketing strategy will supply your customers with the latest information about your business. You provide an RSS feed on your Web [...]
What comes to mind when you hear the word blog? Is it a bunch of words on a web page, ideally expressing a message of some sort to the reader? That is what many people first think of when they hear this word, and, initially, this is what many first time blogs are comprised of. [...]
Though RSS Feeds are an amazing technology, enabling customers to receive up-to-date news from various resources in real time fashion, they can all be, well, pretty overwhelming. Subscribing to feeds can be somewhat of an addiction. The little orange button is nothing less than a quick invitation to begin receiving daily (and often multiple times [...]
At the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference last week, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg threw around some interesting numbers and provided some cautionary advice to corporate bloggers.
The interesting statistic he provided is that WordPress supports more than 2.5 million blogs. That’s a huge number, but it doesn’t distinguish between corporate bloggers and personal bloggers. [...]
Although in the grand scheme of things, RSS feeds are novel additions to the World Wide Web, the fact of the matter is that they are not going anywhere anytime soon, if ever. They have become a welcome aid to many businesses because they offer a way to get significant information to customers fast.
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