Agriya » RSS feed http://blogs.agriya.com Something's Cooking At Agriya... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:25:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Google Reader Learns an Intriguing New Trickhttp://blogs.agriya.com/google-reader-learns-an-intriguing-new-trick http://blogs.agriya.com/google-reader-learns-an-intriguing-new-trick#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:48:24 +0000 sujata http://blogs.agriya.com/?p=1476 Google Reader just saw an intriguing update added to its bag of tricks recently. Let’s say, that you visit parts of a website that don’t advertise an RSS feed ability. What would happen if you still insisted on signing up for one? Up until now, you would just have found an error message from Google Reader about how you were mistaken in your impression that the page featured an RSS feed. The updated Google Reader though, will summarily create a custom feed for the page that you are interested in, and send you updates on it, whenever it crawls through. You’ll get a little notification of changes made to the pages you chose. If you happen to have a gossip page you have an eye on, or the latest prices on a product, Google Reader should track it for you. You can actually use any competing feed reader that you like, to access the service too. All you need to do is click on the Show Details link on the new feed. There are other services that allow something of this nature too, Change Detection , being one such example. And It won’t just give you a little snippet of the page in question either, like Google Reader does;there are plenty of details on offer, and an RSS feed of them too.

]]> http://blogs.agriya.com/google-reader-learns-an-intriguing-new-trick/feed 0 Tips to increase site traffic through RSS feedhttp://blogs.agriya.com/tips-to-increase-site-traffic-through-rss-feed http://blogs.agriya.com/tips-to-increase-site-traffic-through-rss-feed#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:40:49 +0000 isaivani http://blogs.agriya.com/?p=166 Having a wonderful site is the first step in online business promotion, but it can’t do anything unless people find it. Remember generating traffic for your website is the most important thing to run a successful business online. RSS (rich site summary) is a fascinating tool that opens a new door to gain visitors.

Ask yourself, is my site content reaching a wide audience? If your answer is yes then it’s great, if the answer is no, try the RSS feed tool that allows you to share updated content quickly. It offers various benefits to webmasters as well as users. Many people are not aware of the concept of the RSS feed and its purpose.

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audios, and videos in a standardized format.

Benefits of RSS feed for webmasters:

Web publishers can deliver updated web content to end users subscribed to the RSS feed of the site, automatically without taking any initiatives.

Think about the power of social networks. If you maintain a profile in one of the popular social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, you can import RSS feed from that networking site into your accounts at any local site so that whenever your profile is updated, the information will be automatically sent to your social profiles.

If you’re an online advertiser and using the RSS feed in Ads, then newly added ads will be automatically available at your clients’ desktop.

It allows you to share new content on your website, directly with your readers without sending mass emails, or newsletters.

Here are some tips to gain more subscribers:

Offer useful content related to products or services that you are promoting.

Send updates on your latest promotions to them.

Post regular updates and make sure the feed is available for RSS-friendly search engines to crawl.

Attach a link to your feed on your website and encourage subscriptions. With one click of a button, site traffic will be increased.

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