Great Find: How to Create an RSS Feed

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I didn’t find this Mark Wade at the R Web Designs blog did, and he has a fine write up on it. Click Mark’s logo to read his analysis and to see his fabulous blog.

Great Find: The Robin Good’s How to Create a RSS Feed from Any Web Page
Type of article: Blogging basics how-to article
Permalink:http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/03/09/how_to_create_a_rss.htm

Target Audience:All web users who want to know more about RSS feeds
Content: Robin Good points out that at some moment in the future you might want to follow the updating of a web page that doesn’t have an RSS feed.He answers the question, Can you create one? with a resounding YES!. Click Robin’s logo to access the article.

Thank you, Mark for finding this page. Thank you, Robin for writing it.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: Controlling Your Online Identity

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Great Find: Lifehacker: Have a Say in What Google Says about You by Gina Trapani
Type of article: Feature on personal identity, personal safety
Permalink:http://www.lifehacker.com/software/feature/geek-to-live-have-a-say-in-what-google-says-about-you-152444.php

Target Audience:Everyone should know this
Content: Gina Trapani, Lifehacker Editor, offers valuable advice on how to make sure that what people find when they Google your name is actually information about YOU and information you want them to have. To quote the intoduction to the article

A recent poll here on Lifehacker shows that for about half of you, information about someone else with the same name or a web site you donâ€™t control gets returned in search results for your name. Today weâ€™ll go over the ins and outs of setting up a nameplate web site that makes you Googleable with a web page whose content YOU control. –Gina Trapani, Editor, Lifehacker

Using your name page is also a great way to promote yourself, your brand, and your business. Everyone should take a look at this one. To read all about it, click the screenshot.

Thanks for this important information, Gina.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: Topic–Blog Promotion

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I was exploring on Technorati this morning and I found this for you . . .

Topic: Blog Promotion

Great Find: Topic: Blog Promotion
Type of article: Link list of posts on blog promotion
Permalink: http://mostbloggers.blogspot.com/2005/11/topic-blog-promotion-mostbloggers.html
Audience: Anyone who is looking to promote their brand, their business, and their blog
Content: The screenshot shows just a piece of the list. There are actually 23 links to posts on blog promotion. Most of the links lead to more links, directories, tools you might use to establish and promote a blog. To quote the post, the links are all about

discovering ways to spread the word about your blog, how to increase readership. . .

So here you go. Click the screenshot to explore what is there.

When you’re done looking, come back. I’ll be here.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: Top 10 Successful Blogging Tips

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I was going through my stats and had some time one afternoon this week. So when a social bookmarking referral came by, I naturally checked it out. I like to see where things stand with each of them and there are so many now its hard to keep track. I went to the search function and typed in Successful Blog. It’s always interesting to see what I get back.

One of the results was Robin Good’s How To Write A Successful Blog: Top Ten Tips.

To be frank, I thought it was about time I learned how–no, no not really. But I did think it would be a fine addition to the Successful-Blog Survival Kit.
Great Find: The Robin Good’s How to Write A Successful Blog: Top Ten Tips by Sharon Housley
Type of Blog: Blogging Basics
URL: Robin Good’s How To Write A Successful Blog: Top Ten Tips.

Target Audience:Bloggers who are just starting out
Content: Sharon Housley who manages of marketing for FeedForAll wrote this article. She offers ten points and notes on each one. The points are basics of blog building technique and tactics. I’ve add my own points at the end of her list.

If you find this list useful, you also should know this about content.

Write content of the highest quality
Work to keep your writing voice consistent and friendly.
Post at predictable times so readers can look forward to something new.
Write about topics that you find relevant, that is, worth reading and talking about. In other words, write about things that are your passion.
Respond to your comments, your readers are the only ones who count.
Visit other sites and comment there, so that people see you as a reader too.

Hope this helps get you started!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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