RSS has a lot of very useful purposes, it can also be used by savvy Internet Marketers for great page ranking in Google as well as getting web traffic.

I have some free RSS videos on my site explaining it (no catches).

We believe in RSS so much we even developed a free wordpress rss plugin that generates links by submitting to major rss aggregator websites every time you post in wordpress.

Anyway, this is turning into a commercial spiel, and that wasn’t my intention, I just wanted to point out that RSS can (and should be) used for internet marketing purposes to actually get you visitors and ranking in the search engines, as well as the more traditional way to keep abreast of news articles, etc.

Congratulations again on an excellent intro.

Cheers

Tim

Thank you so much for this article. I have copied the entire article and posted it on my blog http://www.2nd-income.biz/blog complete as is with all links in tact. You deserve full credit.

many many thanks.

Graham Maddison

thanks so much for this. As an Internet “newbie” feeling a little confused at times, this was a straight forward explanation. Keep ‘em coming!

thanks for the info on RSS feeds, actually explained it well.. only site to do this for me.

again, thanks

Thank you.

You can now add friends to your friends list, share feed items, bookmark single blog posts from blogs that you read on the web and heres the kicker, there is now a blog recommendation engine that recommends blogs you do not read by what your friends list is subscribed to in their Google Readers.

Then, everything you share and bookmark in Google Reader of course comes up on your Google shared items page linked to by your Google profile.

What really blew me away was the recommendation engine. If you add as many of your email list subscribers as you can to your Google Reader you can get a real good idea of what other blogs your subscribers are reading.

The links in your shared items are all HTML and fully followed so every time one of your RSS subscribers shares a blog post it is creating incoming links to your site.

Better yet, it uses the exact blog post title you wrote so now your links use your keyword phrases and bookmarkers cant change your title tag.

After talking to my SEO top dog contacts, they were all floored and assured me this is the new SEO tactic that no one knows about.

http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=136

It is kind of hard to add friends, the easiest way is to send a chat invite from Gmail and then email your contact you want to friend and have them email you back. It seems Google wants a two way conversation before they will allow you to become mutual friends.

If you would like to friend me, add chrislang at gmail.com to your Google Gmail chat and send me an email letting me know so I can return an email to you, thereby creating a two way connection in Google.

Google is quietly rolling this out behind the scenes but it is a full blown social bookmarking application and the blog recommendation engine is the new blog marketing strategy.

One thing I have not quite figured out is if using FeedBurner now hurts you since the links point at the FeedBurner redirect rather than your site like a WordPress feed does.