Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds for Dummies, by Ellen Finkelstein

March 23, 2009 by Nekkidblogger · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Non-fiction, blogging, book review, web design

RSS or “Real Simple Syndication” is a great way to publizise content from Web sites and blogs. Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds for Dummies by Ellen Finkelstein tells you how to do it and how to use it to stay informed about what’s going on on the net. Find out how to:

Use RSS to drive traffic to your Web site and build brand awareness
Choose and install the right software, set up RSS feeds, and decide on the format that meets your needs
Create RSS feeds from scratch, or put a news reader on your Web site
Improve your site’s ranking in search engines and build customer loyalty
Enable your customers to choose when and how they receive updated information
Tailor information for your audience and publish all your updates quickly and easily
Promote your RSS feed and explain to your customers how to use it
Provide added value for your customers

Making the most of RSS can make life easier for both you and those who do business with you. Syndicating Web Sites With RSS Feeds For Dummies will help you maintain fresh content for your Web site, blog, or e-zine, promote your site and establish links to it, and even update vital documents like employee guides, price lists, and procedures manuals, quickly and easily.

Tags: blogging, feed, Non-fiction, RSS, syndicate

Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business, by DL Byron & Steve Broback

February 20, 2009 by Nekkidblogger · 3 Comments
Filed under: Non-fiction, blogging, book review

Blogs have come to stay. There are now millions of blogs on the net, about every possible subject you can imagine. Some blogs are extremely informal, reporting on the everyday lives of their authors, while others are corporate ones, run by companies that try to establish new, more conversational types of communication with their customers.

Here at this site we have started a couple of blogs too, and found blogging to be an interesting medium for communication. Blogs are more informal by nature, and most blog software provide for easy communication between bloggers and readers.

Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business is a little gold mine about blogging. It is short, only about 180 pages long, but it deals with most of the topics that are relevant to establishing and running a blog. It covers topics like blog design, tools you need for blogging, writing and launching your blog, as well as managing and monitoring your blog. The tone is informal and conversational. And the authors have a solid background as bloggers and as corporate advisors to corporations that have established blogs aimed at customers (like Boing or Bluefly).

Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business is a well written, very informative book that covers a wide range of topics about blogs and blogging. Recommended!

A few other books about blogs and blogging that may be of interest to you: