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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been looking at building RSS feeds that POP. So far we’ve covered: Using Images and Video Scannable Content Titles with Bling Opening Lines Avoid Clutter How to Get More Subscribers to Your RSS Feed Today lets turn our attention to a question I’ve ...more

Heather Green has posted that this week Pheedo will be releasing an RSS Powered Ads product. No it’s not an ad product to put in your RSS feeds – but one to promote your RSS feeds with. Heather explains: “Pheedo pulls the RSS feeds from marketers, retailers, and publishers into ...more

This past two weeks I’ve been talking about how to make your RSS feed ‘Pop’ – to stand out from the crowd a little – however covering this topic has caused a few readers to ask RSS related questions that don’t necessarily relate to improving your feed but which are ...more

One trend that I’ve noticed lately among some bloggers is to stuff their RSS feeds with a lot extra information cluttering the end of posts on their RSS feeds. RSS Extras This ‘extra’ material can include: Ads – some bloggers are including multiple ads – text links, banner ads, affiliate ...more

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Here’s the next part of the How to Make Your RSS Feed POP series. Much has been written about the importance of titles of posts in blogging (I have written about it here, here and here for example) – but in your RSS feed title’s power is most notable. News ...more

This week I’m writing a series on how to make your RSS feeds POP and coincidentally Ronald Huereca from Dev Lounge released a WP plugin that helps you do exactly what I’m writing about. It’s a WordPress Feed Styler that allows bloggers to add design elements into their feeds – ...more

I recently watched two fellow bloggers work through their news aggregators (one was using Google Reader, the other Bloglines). In both instances the method that they used was to quickly scan content – only briefly stopping to read a sentence or two here and there – and occasionally opening up ...more

This is the second post in a series on How to make your RSS Feeds POP One technique that many successful bloggers use to stand out from the crowd is to use images in their feeds. This means switching your feeds to full feeds, enabling html and putting up with ...more