RSS Feeds Blog October Archive

MailChimp offers RSS-to-Email

10/30/08 02:45

As a regular blog reader, I also have subscribed to some interesting blogs via RSS but, usually, I am not able to read my feeds. Instead, I just read the blogs directly. So I would appreciate it if my feeds are sent directly to my email.

MailChimp, an email marketing platform, realized this and responded to it well. Not is including an RSS-to-email feature bundled to its service.

Link: MailChimp RSS-to-Email Expands Blog Readership and Revenue - MarketWatch

RSS Advertising

Advertising in syndicated feeds (RSS) actually went backward when Google shut FeedBurner's native RSS advertising with Adsense ads. The original FeedBurner ads didn't make much money, but according to Allen Stern of Centernetworks that Adsense units gave lower results.

ReadWriteWeb is a new tackling RSS advertising in a new way completely. Instead of a footer ad, they are rotating one 125px add from their existing advertisers in each post of the feed. Read more on the link below.

Link: ReadWriteWeb tries something new with RSS ads

An RSS Content Generator

I am sure that you have heard of software applications that allow you to create content out of news feeds in the form of RSS. These types of software tools are useful in the sense that they provide sensible content without exerting much effort on your part.

If you are looking for such a software, here is one, courtesy of Thomas Net.

Link: Software creates content out of news feeds., ExtraLabs Software

RSS Submit 1.7

It is undoubtedly one of the most important tools any serious blogger should have, as its performance is an indicator of the popularity of the blog. I am talking about the RSS feed.

Bloggers are so concerned with RSS feeds that independent software developers have even though of applications to further improve the RSS experience. In this case, it's RSS Submit, a tool that any blogger could use to submit his/her posts in almost every RSS directory in just one click of a mouse.

Link: RSS feed submission software - RSS Submit 1.7 - was released