Simple Syndication (RSS) -- Where's The Payoff?
If you want to be able to read RSS feeds then you are going to need an RSS reader. The types of RSS reader that are available to you come in two flavors.
If you have been using opt-in email marketing for sometime, I'm sure you might have got accused of spam at some point, even after doing everything right. Yes, I'm talking about people who actually agreed to receive your email, blaming you for sending unsolicited mail.
The new hot commodity is a blog for your small business so you've decided you must have one. Before you begin think about it long term.
It seems no matter how much information comes available online, people thirst for more. To illustrate this point, just take a look at all the online news services sprouting up on the web like garden weeds.
I have 'Googlebot' coming to my site every day since a month ago I put up my first news feed, since then I have put up yet another. I never used to see 'Googlebot' much before, so it goes to show that if you want to be noticed by the search engines, you need to put up a 'news-feed'.
Writing Blogs? Blogs are on-line journals where people express themselves through writing. Writing is the process where one puts down words of a language on a format that others can read.
When I saw my first blog, I wasn't impressed. The first blogs I ever read were embarrassing tales of teenage angst better left private, political diatribes from both the rabid right and the rabid left, and jargon-filled tech rags that made my eyes glaze over. And yet everyone was talking about blogs and that I would soon be left behind if I didn't have one.