I hope this information about RSS is as enlightening and helpful to you as it has been to me since I first began researching it in early 2005 — RSS has come a long way in the last 4 years. I’m sure you’ve noticed how quickly things change in the online world of search engines, RSS and internet marketing. One week you’re making easy money with Google ads, the next week you need a website, then an RSS feed, then audio in your RSS feed, then video… Wander over to the right-hand column and scroll down to RSS Archives for the very latest 2009 info.

Since things change so fast on the web, I’ve made my free RSS Resources e-book a living document with hyper-links to my Free RSS Resources website. Whenever I mention a resource on the internet, you can click on the link I provide in the e-book and you’ll end up at the resource, regardless of whether its web address has changed since the last edition of the e-book. If the resource goes away entirely, I’ll direct you to a similar resource or to a note explaining what happened. Dead links are high on my list of pet peeves. You can always check the RSS Resource List on my website. I regularly add things which I think you’ll find useful as you explore RSS feeds and related topics.

Be sure to check out the free VIDEO traffic strategies e-book too!

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With my new free RSS Resources e-book and Free RSS Resources website, you’ll always be up to date. I don’t know about you, but I’m in this for the long haul. Nothing bothers me more than pouring through a how-to document, only to find out later that everything I just read and got ready to apply is so out of date that it’s no longer relevant, or worse, that it actually violates the latest search engine policies. Been there, done that? Me too. Several internet marketing e-books written in 2004 fall into that category, along with many (most?) which were written in earlier years. Things change fast in this business. Fall behind at your own peril. Look for clues within the content and examples of any e-book you read, to guess when it was really written (hint: don’t rely on automatically-generated dates in the sales letter or e-book). It could make or break your business financially. Just a thought.

With a few exceptions, I’ve actually used every product which I link to on the website and in my e-book, and I’ve given you my honest opinion of each. I really do want to help you succeed with RSS and your business, by telling you all you really need to know about RSS (but were probably too confused to ask), or at least showing you where to find it.

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RSS is the new wave of internet publishing, redefining online communication. Simply put, it’s a standard for publishing regularly-updated content (news headlines, blog posts, press releases, audio and video content, the possibilities are endless) on the web. Consumers select and read the content of their choice at their leisure with RSS feed readers (either web-based or installed on a local system). The feed reader collects a consumer’s favorite feeds together in one place, making the titles and summaries of individual articles, along with links to the actual articles and the websites they’re hosted upon, available as soon as they’re published.

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Implementing RSS technology today will give you a critical edge over your slow-to-adapt competitors. In 2004, not that many people were even aware of RSS feeds, kind of like the old days of the internet, when the web was quietly used and loved by academic researchers but not the general public. But more and more people are hopping on board every day – RSS is poised to be the hottest way to receive regularly-updated information in 2005. It’s certainly the best traffic-building and marketing tool for online businesses today, and should be at the top of your list of tactics.

Big players are moving into this market and ramping up quickly. Yahoo has their own web-based feed reader. Mozilla (creators of Netscape) built feed-reading into their new Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. You just know the next version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser will be able to read feeds too. Google acquired the Blogger blog service. AskJeeves recently acquired Bloglines. Microsoft has MSN Spaces, their own blog service. Are you excited about RSS feeds yet?

Now’s the time to get involved, before today’s free feed directories, blog directories and podcast directories become saturated and expensive. Get everything in place now and you’ll be ready when the huge wave of traffic hits, when RSS feeds move from the early adopters to the masses, just like email, websites and blogs did in the past.

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