If something looks interesting in your feed reader but you're running to a meeting, star it. Whether you're doing it through RavenTools, Hootsuite, SproutSocial or another app – you need something that's going to let you share content when you have...
Thankfully, reader gives an average posts / week for each feed, and I could work out how long I had been subscribed to each feed by looking at dates of the first post starred in that feed and the most recent.
Google is no stranger to deprecation, as many of us have recently experienced from the phase-out of Google Reader. Google promises weekly updates to the site, but you can still subscribe to the RSS feed.
Digg is taking advantage of Google's decision to close its popular RSS feed reader Google Reader and has announced that it has already started developing its own version. We've heard people say that RSS is a thing of the past, and perhaps in its...
If you, dear ninja reader, can fake good CTR to the product engine, you can get some nice little CPC discounts, and some better positioning. We’ve found that the ROI from the product feed is much higher than from text ads.
Interestingly, if you buy my argument that sometimes we are aware of our sense of satisfaction due to completeness vs.not completeness and you continuously strive to write “completely”, you will have developed a readership at least, in part, by...
Use this as your modern feed reader. I don’t use RSS feed readers anymore. There are at least 30 ways to market your website with a time investment and no credit card required. Some of these are oldies but goodies, while others are newer and...
Blog more and blog regularly: Writing content that is useful for end users will not just increase your reader base but force search engines to crawl, index, and rank your site. You can import your RSS feed from your blog, bring in your Twitter...
Your challenge is to find a happy medium that serves business objectives - drive traffic, improve SEO, and boost reader trust. Both factors impact a reader's trust to socially engage with content. Long titles also present a feed scannability...
You can even use RSS to keep up with submissions by pointing an RSS reader to: http://instagr.am/tags/[hashtag name]/feed/recent.rss (the hashtag name here doesn’t have a #). With more than 15 million users and 500 million photos uploaded since...
It's not the reader's job to entice users to view your content. Facebook Activity Feed Update the widget title accordingly so it's clear to users what the feed is displaying. Social media optimization (SMO) is the process of optimizing content for...
Below is my attempt at translating Google's tech-heavy, though thorough schematics, into a reader-friendly guide. Google Product Search has recently released new Unique Product Identifier (UPI) requirements in June and new data feed requirements as...
Also, make your content available via RSS feed, so subscribers can regularly view your latest content on their news reader of choice. Blog Optimizing: Back to the Basics Content is a form of online currency that is crucial to any business' online...
A reader of SEW passed this video onto us. To improve the online shopping customer service experience, the 3 team featured in the video created a multi-touch interface which can overlay onto a live video feed so that an online shopper can interact...
Every message you post should provide some value for the reader, unless it is such good publicity that you simply have to share it. Deliver both and your Twitter feed will be a success. A social platform like Twitter isn't a sales driver; it's a...
The feeds come into your feed reader and among that constant stream of information there are some nuggets (or red dots) worthy of special attention. Another alternative is Twitter, as you may find "follow me" a far easier proposition to put to your...
YouTube introduced AutoShare in 2009, which allows YouTubers to automatically share their Activity Feed to Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader. By opting into AutoShare, when you perform certain actions specified in your Activity Feed on YouTube...
Hopefully, my dear reader, taking this to heart will help you avoid my link building mistake. They were junk because these links only served one purpose: to feed the bots. It's even harder to accept the consequences of the mistake.
Google Buys eBook Technologies, Is Reader On Way Or Maybe GPad by Frank Watson Speculation that Google plans on creating an electronic book reader were given more fuel with the company's acquisition of eBook Technologies - "a company that...
Another way to find the top news is to subscribe to feeds from all relevant industry blogs via Google Reader and browse your feeds with PostRank's browser extension installed, which highlights which post are more influential.
