What is RSS and How do I start using RSS feeds?

We live in the information age, and there's just no getting around it. Information and news happens every single day, and savvy site surfers will expect you to update your content regularly. In fact, they'd prefer you to do that daily, or even hourly. And yes'I mean 24/7 hours.

But you gotta sleep, right' And have some time off occasionally. So instead of spending every waking hour relentlessly surfing around from site to site looking for content, wouldn't you prefer it to be streamed in to your site' Well now you can, thanks to a very clever service, RSS.
RSS works so well that a lot of site owners swear it stands for ’Really Simple Syndication’. Why is it simple' Because you just select the content you like and have it delivered directly to your site.

If you're a busy person'and who isn't, these days'RSS feeds can take the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by streaming in the very latest information that you are interested in. The Google 

So where do you get this good stuff' Well, if it's news you want, most of the major news sites provide it since it is growing rapidly in popularity. A few news services that provide it are Guardian, New York Times and CNN.

How do I start using RSS feeds?

Well, the first thing you're gonna need is a news reader. There are many different versions of these, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications. All allow you to display and subscribe to the RSS feeds you want.

My top picks for news readers, listed by the operating system they work with, are:

1. Mac OS X: NetNewsWire This is a simple yet elegant Mac-like aggregator that any one can use, yet it's powerful.
2. Windows: SharpReader A very simple tool, but it delivers the goods.
3. Linux: Straw The best very aggregator for GNOME.
4. Web: Bloglines Enough said.

Now, after you've chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want. For example, if you would like the latest BBC News Entertainment stories, simply visit the Entertainment section and you will notice an orange RSS button on the left hand side.
The RSS button typically looks like this example from the BBC (http://www.bbc.com) page:

The RSS button typically looks bbc

If you click on the RSS button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways: you can either drag the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader, or you can cut and paste the URL into a new feed in your news reader.

Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, have functionality that automatically picks up RSS feeds for you. To make absolutely sure, check the details on the homesites of those browsers.

RSS feeds are a great way to get free content streaming onto your pages.

The only downside is that most of the free RSS feeds are news-oriented or entertainment-oriented, so if you run, say, a site that focuses on the latest video games, your audience may not really care that they can get the latest news streaming in there.

As far as the nitty-gritty, each RSS channel can contain up to 15 items and is easily parsed using Perl or other open source software. But you don’t really have to worry too much over the details, since a simple Google search on 'free open source RSS feed scripts' will produce the code you need to create your own RSS channel.

The next step, once you’ve created and validated your RSS text file, is to register it at the various aggregators, and start watching your traffic really spike. This happens because now any site can grab and display your feed regularly, which will drive traffic straight to your site.
It gets better'if you update your RSS file, all the external sites that subscribe to your feed will be automatically updated. What could be easier, other than watching those nice, fat checks from your Google AdSense ads roll in' Well, if you use RSS feeds, they'll work together!

note: i don't recommend this way in your work so you have to work hard and make your on articles

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Blog and Ping not just funny names see why

Some of the very biggest buzz words on the internet right now are Blogging and Pinging. Many internet gurus claim these are the essentials for attracting visitors to your site and consequentially making those bucks through AdSense.

The best kind of blog lets readers put in their 2 cents worth. People love to be able to voice their opinions, and tend to get frustrated when they can't. Thus, the best blog is an online discussion web site that allows both you the web owner and your readers to voice their opinions on a specific subject.

So where do you begin' Well, for one thing, your blog needs to be specific to succeed, unless you're a celebrity. People will go to Paris Hilton's site to read just about any fool thing she writes off the top of her head, but don't think you can do that. I know it's not fair, but that's how it is. The 

If you're not famous, you need to focus on a niche topic. For instance rather than run a Blog on dogs why not specialize in black labs or some other breed' I guarantee you, if you put a cute picture of a black lab with a red bandana around her neck up, you'll have all the other black lab owners dropping by to tell stories about their own dogs.

Pinging, is how you tell the entire Blog community as a whole that your Blog site is up and running. Most Blog software has a feature that does this for you when a new post or comment has been made.

To put Blog software on your own server and running it independently on your site, I have found Wordpress to be excellent software and this can be downloaded at http://www.wordpress.org

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How to Building a Virtual Content Empire to Display Ads On

So now you're ready to build your content-rich empire and start raking in the bucks, right' Sure you are! You don't have to be a great writer, you just have to know where to get good writing. And heck, it really doesn't even have to be great. Just good.

Here are the steps you'll want to take:

1. Pick a domain name ' this requires some thought, since even though it's not as critical as it used to be to have a catchy domain name, it still matters to some users. Once you've picked one, check with http://www.web.com, or http://www.whois.net to see if it's available. If your favorite choice isn't available in .com format, consider being flexible and having it in .net, .biz, .org, or some other form.

2. Reserve the domain name. Web.com and many, many others offer that service.

3. Get web hosting. You'll want to shop around on this one, since prices and services and terms & conditions vary greatly.

4. Set up your new domain, including your e-mail addresses.

5. Design your site, and start building pages.

6. Get some content. If you don't want to write it yourself, check out:

! http://www.ezinearticles.com
! http://www.goarticles.com
! http://www.freshcontent.net/
! http://www.elance.com to hire a freelance writer who will write articles for you. Browse project postings first to see what other people usually ask for these articles'they are very popular.
! ArticleSiteBuilder.com builds your article sites automatically!

7. For good RSS feeds, check out:
! http://www.rsscontentbuilder.com/
! http://www.feedster.com/
8. Sign up with Google AdSense

9. Update content at least weekly

10. Go to mailbox, get checks.

*Blogging

'Blog' is internet shorthand for 'web log.' They're like online diaries. Unlike a real diary, however, the entire world gets to read them.

You should seriously look into keeping a blog, or inviting others to blog on your site. Blogging is one of the hottest new forms of contents, and many readers find it positively addictive. In fact, it's grown so fast that many traditional news sources such as newspapers and TV stations are seeing an increase in declining readers and viewers (it was already declining due to the internet, but it got worse) because users are finding out they can go online and read a reporter's personal blog, which often gives juicy details that are not reported in formal news stories.

So people seek out blogs to get the real scoop. What does that mean for you' It means you should capitalize on it. What does blog look like' It looks like this.

This is Wil Wheaton's blog (remember 'Ensign Wesley Crusher' from Star Trek'Next Generation?):

Wheaton's blog

And here's a blog from a Canadian professor, Michael Lessig:

Canadian professor, Michael Lessig

And here's a blog that makes fun of other blogs, by calling itself 'The Dullest Blog in the World' (satire, clearly):

here's a blog that makes fun of other blogs

An easy way to start getting experience with writing a blog, before you get yours up and running, is to go to http://www.blogger.com and set up a practice blog.

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Put web links where people will see them

Put web links where people will see them

If you're putting web links in, make sure they're where people will see them'not in that bottom right-hand Corner of Death! Yes, people notice links in web content. They're usually bright blue and underlined, so people notice them. Many people even read links before they look at headlines.

Now that you know that, make it easy for them to get to your links by consistently presenting them in list form or by slamming them right up against the left-hand margin.
Don’t put your links in a sentence or they might end up in the invisible right-hand area of the content. Yes, this means you can't use the old "click here" convention, but for a good reason: it never worked very well anyway.

Here's an example of a good way to put in links:

'There are several cool skateboarding sites you might want to check out. They really rock and they've got some great gear you can pick up for not a lot of bucks.
Skateboard.com
Skatefreak.net
Liv2skat.biz

Here's an example of a bad way to use links:

If you want to read about the latest in cool tricks, check out skateboard.com. For the lowdown on which pro skaters are doing what and dating who, you want to see skatefreak.net. And one of my very favorite places to read blog is liv2skat.com.

Never Hide Headers

Remember how I said people look to the upper left' If you've been centering your headlines and subheadings, do you still think that's a good idea' Well, it's not. Yeah, I know newspapers, magazines and books do it. So do lots of other sites. But that's just not where people want to look first.

They've tested this. Believe it or not, about 10-20 percent of people just literally do not see centered headlines, particularly if they're in a hurry (and who isn't these days') They look in the top left hand corner of the content. And when they do, they see empty space, because the centered headline starts off to the right.

So what do they do' Instead of scanning right, they move their eyes down. And they miss the headlines.

Centered headlines are wasted headlines. If you center them, you've hidden them from 10-20% of your readers. Might as well not have them at all. And don't even think about right-justifying them.

Just left-justify them and don't ever worry about it again!

A word about tables: the ideal table for online is short, narrow, and only used for data. When a table is too wide or too long, part of it is out of the reader's natural field of vision. When they scan fast, they won't see all of it.

Maximize your Click-Throughs With Placement

Yeah, size matters, but so does placement'particularly as far as Google AdSense ads are concerned. Remember how I said to use the skyscraper format for ads, putting them in the margins as opposed to banner ads across the top or bottom'

Well, guess how much difference that can make. Go on, guess. OK, I'll tell you. Poorly placed ads, such as banner ads down at the very bottom of the page, might have a click-through rate of about 2.3% on a good day.

But well-placed ads, such as a nice skyscraper ad in that critical upper-left quadrant we talked about, can have a click-through rate as high as 40%.

And that's for the same ad. Yes, the very same ad can have a click-through rate of an abysmal 2.3% or an awesome 40%. It has nothing to do with the ad itself and everything to do with where you put it.

Another neat trick to maximize click-through is to massage the colors of the ads so that they fit in with the colors of your site. Ads that are seen as 'fitting in' get more clicks than ads that clash.

Here's an example of some ads that look like part of the site:

Here's an example of some ads that look like part of the site

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Where are the user's eyes looking for adsense?

When you're running a website, whoever is surfing it is staring at the screen'but where' One of the biggest questions for website designers is, 'Where are the user's eyes looking'' Where do your eyes go when you read articles on the Web' What do you notice and what do you miss?

Well, we've got some answers for you, because this topic has been studied. Turns out that the upper left quarter of the screen gets the most attention, according to the Eyetrack III research of The Poynter Institute, the Estlow Center for Journalism & New Media, and Eyetools. But that's not all. There's more to it than that.

People's eyes have some very common behaviour patterns. It probably has to do with our hunter-gatherer ancestry.

First, we do reconnaissance, or 'recon' as the military calls it. Users' eyes flick over the entire screen at whatever draws their attention. And what draws it most' Well, the first hot spots are headlines, photo captions, subheadings, links, menu items and the logo on the page'doesn't matter if it's a good logo or a bad one, people look at logos.

Then the upper left corner of the screen gets special attention, probably because that’s where people expect to find the very best stuff. And the right-hand and lower part of the page almost always gets less attention.

This is info that site developers must know: when you put your most important, vital content outside that critical upper left corner, that important content might as well be invisible when people are making the big decision: whether to stay on your site and read more or go somewhere else.

Yes, people scan a page quickly. But scanning has a purpose: it quickly identifies to a user what they really want to read. The good news is that if you can hook them right off the bat, when they start actually reading a news story on the Web, they read a larger proportion than if they were reading that very same story in the newspaper.

Frontloading

Frontloading means that you start headlines, paragraphs and links with the most important words. The first words should communicate the subject of the headline, paragraph or link. This is not like writing a novel or a story, where you have time to be coy and not get to the point for awhile. You've got about a quarter of a second to grab that user's attention or he won't read the rest of the sentence. Make the most of that opportunity.

If you do this, and you frontload your writing, especially at the top of the page, user?s eyes will easily catch the most important info, and they?ll keep reading.

Here are some examples of good frontloading:

• Foo Fighters release new cd
• Barbeque beef ribs recipes everyone will like
• Tom Cruise stars in a new movie
Here are some bad examples that are not frontloaded:
• New cd is being released, it?s by the Foo Fighters
• Everyone will love these great new recipes for barbeque beef ribs
• New movie is coming out and it?ll star Tom Cruise

Don't Nest, Just List

Remember back in school when the teacher asked you to make an outline and you went nuts making all sorts of nested sub-headings that looked like this'

1. The United States
a. Texas
i. Austin
1. South Austin
a. The 78704 zip code
i. My house

Don't do that.

Why' Because the last few items could be out of sight for many people when they skim-read. A straight margin is a whole lot easier to scan quickly on the Web.

Nested dot-points and numbers are often used in business and government policy documents and management plans, and you're not making those, you're just writing content. Find another way to show the hierarchy of ideas. Web users do not like to try to read through a whole bunch of indentations, and you will lose some people before they even start reading.

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