Gain a Competitive Advantage with RSS Feeds
Keeping an eye on the EzineArticles Blog, your niche and your competition is easy with RSS!
You’ve probably heard of RSS (Really Simple Syndication), but do you really understand the value it can bring to your article marketing program? More importantly, do you know just how EASY it is to incorporate EzineArticles RSS feeds into your work-flow?
Competitive Advantages of RSS:
- Puts Published Information in One Centralized Location
- Keeps You Up-To-Date on Your Market or Niche
- Let’s You See What Your Competitors are Doing
- Helps You Know When/How to Modify Your Article Marketing Strategy
- Keeps You Abreast of EzineArticles News
Before we go into the “how to” of RSS, let me define a couple of terms:
RSS – The abbreviation for Really Simply Syndication. RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video – in a standardized format.
XML – The abbreviation for Extensible Markup Language. XML is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. In essence, it’s the behind-the-scenes language of RSS.
In the following video, I’ll walk you through the simple step-by-step process for adding EzineArticles-related feeds to your favorite RSS reader. And if you don’t have an RSS reader, I’ll show you how to find one.
If you’re more of a reader than a viewer, here’s the process in a nutshell:
- Find an RSS Reader
- For Article Niches:
- Go to the Page for that Article Niche
- Hover Over the RSS Icon
- Click on Your Preferred RSS Reader Button in the Drop-Down Menu
- Follow the Directions for Your Reader
- For Expert Authors:
- Go to an Expert Author Page
- Hover Over the RSS Icon
- Click on Your Preferred RSS Reader Button in the Drop-Down Menu
- Follow the Directions for Your Reader
- For the EzineArticles Blog:
- Navigate to http://blog.EzineArticles.com/
- Click on Your Preferred RSS Reader Button in the Right Navigation Bar
- Follow the Directions for Your Reader
- For XML:
- Click on the the XML Button in Any RSS Menu
- Copy the URL for that Page
- Paste the URL into Your Reader
For more information: http://EzineArticles.com/rss_what/
Now go subscribe to a few EzineArticles RSS feeds. And keep writing and submitting fresh, original articles because you never know who might be subscribed to your RSS feed!
Including an Expert Author or category/niche feed on your website is quite simple using the EzineArticles Widget.
Adding the Blog feed can be accomplished by using an RSS reader like RSS Feed Reader.
January 8, 2010 at 8:35 AM[Reply]