A quick guide to RSS feeds and making them work for you.
This video will undoubtedly will explain RSS feeds better than I ever could. Even though it is 5 years old now it still has important information for many.
Watch, enjoy then read on.
Right then so now you know what RSS feeds are and how you can use them to get other peoples news to your computer without having to go to all of those websites to read it.
But and there is always a but … are you making sure that visitors to your website are able to do the same.
Are they able to subscribe to your news via RSS feed?
For a long time I’ve wanted to write about the merits of Google reader, being able to read or listen to the feeds we receive fresh each day.
It is how many people filter their news, in a similar way that they would read there not through the eyes of a newspaper journalist but through the eyes of the trusted friend – the blog that they have read everyday for the last 2-3 years, the blog that they feel they have a relatinship with the writer. It’s more personal than the real newspapers.
When was the last time you cut something out of the newspapaer and stuck in into a scrap book, they way I used to when I was younger, well this is how I use Google reader to keep and share others and my own work. But remember it is only possible with Feeds (possibly the greatest invention since the last greatest invention)
In this age of personalisation we can now use google reader to publish a post we have read and enjoyed to Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Myspace or Email.
(I got this from google reader) – it clearly shows the sharing tools that people most often use. If you don’t use google reader now then do start, cause the next thing you know they’ll be making phones. Duh!
Have you ever sat there copying and pasting the url of your most recent blog post into twitter – I know I did until I found twitter feed.
This is a great tool for making the most of what might be disparate blogs and website feeds, that you know you readers/followers would be interested in. Twitterfeed will give you stats on exactly how many people have clicked your link to see your posts, so if anyone ever says what is the point in twitter you have an answer straight away.
I thought I would get more than 20 hits for a House fire but thems the breaks – You can of course convert those clicks into sales if you are so inclined.
