At the Blended Search Revolution at SMX, Google’s David Bailey spoke on the topic of Google’s Universal Search.  When asked about SEO as it relates to Universal Search, Bailey responded “Well web results are still the primary results at Google and not backup, but Universal complements this listing.”
Bailey divulged a few tips that will help [...]

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.
Remember the [...]

You’ll find that during the course of learning about the technology that gives you the blog site platform that powers your site, you will find that you will absorb acronym after confusing acronym.

There is one acronym though that represents the technology in that platform that you’ll want to be familiar with; XML/RSS. What is [...]

Blog site platforms utilizing the newest Web 2.0 technology are worth their marketing weight in gold. Case in point.

“The YouTube announcement [for the iPhone] is an embodiment of Google’s technology that is hardwired into the iPhone,” said Stephen Arnold, author of a book on Google, in an interview. “There will be more of Googleplex to [...]

OPML allows other users to take your blog subscriptions and easily add them to their blog reader.  OPML allows for any number of lists to be easily transferred, but most of the time when you are referring to OPML on blogs, you’re discussing blog subscription transferring.
Share Your OPML is a site that’s gaining rapid popularity.  [...]

I wrote on Meme trackers on Friday, but if you want a way to upload your own, personalized OPML file for tracking, the only one, that I know of, that’s allowing that is Megite.
One of Memeorandum’s new competitors, Megite, is testing out a Personalized version of their product. You will be able to upload your [...]

You may think that because RSS is now ‘old hat’ to you, that plenty of your friends are feeding on the technology as you are (pardon the pun).
In 2005 the number of Web users who said (notice emphasis) that they read RSS feeds rose, but very slowly. Forrester pegged feed readership at six percent in [...]

Jon Udell, lead analyst and blogger in chief at the Infoworld Test Center, has written a column about the powerful scalability of XML, the technical foundation of RSS. He believes that XML based communication will ultimately create more scalable, more easily categorized and more accurately searchable databases than database-centric systems that enterprises traditionally associate [...]

Reading a book on XML sounds like corporal punishment for some, but a new book by Thomas Myer promises an entertaining and simple read.  The book consists of 10 chapters and various technical appendixes and is tightly
focused on creating a simple content management system with XML.
The book is a result of his seminars on XML [...]

This is the last part of a 6-part series on Successful Business Blogging.
To keep your readers, you must be useful to them.  But, how do you know what resonates with them?  What are they clicking?  What topics are most popular?
Scrutinize:
1.  Your analyticsKnowing just what they are doing can help you know what works and what [...]