Sometimes a piece of software comes along that just plain makes certain tasks really simple. RSS feed marketing and promotion is part of and overall blog promotion strategy for communicating your content to targeted audiences across and broad range of content sources.

RSS Submit is a Windows software tool that allows you to submit your RSS feed to a number of directories at once with the click of a button. This tool is easy to use and must have piece of software for your blog promotion and RSS feed submission efforts.

Blogs and RSS are a powerful publishing (blog) and broadcasting (RSS feeds) tool set for content distribution. RSS marketing and promotion is extremely powerful because of the potential traffic you can generate to your blog.

Blogs matter because they are not just standard web publishing tools. Blogs also ...   more »

How To Podcast with BlogHarbor

In this tutorial I will show you how to quickly get started with publishing your own Podcast with BlogHarbor. The quality of your podcast will depend on the quality of your podcast tools and podcast equipment.

Podcast Primer
Podcasting is the activity of creating time shifted audio for the Internet. Using a assortment of software and optional hardware you "record and store" audio programs for broadcasting over the Internet using RSS.

A common yet very accurate analogy for describing how a podcast works is by using Tivo. Tivo is a device and service that allows you record programs and then watch them at a time that is convenient for you. With Tivo you don't have to worry rushing home to watch that favorite program of yours. You simply tell Tivo what you want ...   more »

In the most recent article in the How To Blog 101 series I talked a bit about blog promotion in How To Blog 105.

This video is a supplement to that article.

This video tutorial talks about RSS feeds and how they help you generate traffic for your blog. Blogs and RSS are fantastic search engine optimization tools. This How To Blog video will discuss one short aspect of RSS feeds and blog promotion.

Keep your broswers and RSS readers point here for more articles, audios and videos. Much more to come. Hey while your here, why not check out my experimental podcast I call "Blogged In 60 Seconds!". Next podcast will be published later today (12.17.2004).

Brief Anatomy Of An RSS Feed

Running Time: ~12 minutes

Enjoy!


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You can easily create blog site content by logging into your blog site administration panel and use your blog software web-based editor. For great power without increased technical complexity, a client-based blog editor can be very useful especially if you publish more than one blog like I do.

Blog pubishing is fast, fun and easy. Blog software automates most of your design function regarding layout, archives and categories which allows you simply focus more on publishing your content.

Below are two quick toturials that show you how to blog using a web-based blog editor and a client-based blog software editor. Client-based software is a reference to software you install and run from you computer desktop. In this case it would be Windows operation systems. This allows you to publish offline if you desire and at a minimum you don't have ...   more »

How To Blog 101 - What is Blogging and Why Should I Blog?

In this article your will learn what blogging really is and why you should start blogging. Unless you've been comletely internet free for the past several months to a year, you have probably heard about these "blog" sites but you may not know what a blog is. Or perhaps you know what a blog is but you want to learn more about how blogs are being used and if blogging is something you could benefit from. In this article you will learn exactly what blogging is and what blogging is not and why you should or should not start blogging.

I will attempt to dymistify the definition of blogging if you absolutely aren't quite sure what a blog really is. A blog is generally defined as an online journal that is updated frequently and where your articles are listed in reverse chronological order when they are published. That means your articles are published with the most recent article listed first in date and time order.

What Is A Blog?
The term "blog" is derived from the term "Weblog" or web log. In the early days of blogging circa mid to late 1990's, web logs were used to track updates and references to other resources on the internet. Weblogs, as journals were also used as a stream of consciousness publishing tool where you could share and comment on anything and everything under the sun. As a results and to this day, there are lots of blogs that publish opinionated commentary as diverse in tone as there are a diversity of topics to talk about.

A blog is technically a content management system (CMS) albeit a more simplified version of one. A CMS allows you to easily publish to a website and manage content without having to deal with having to know how to program code. Blog publishing software provides you with a graphical user interface (GUI) for point and click publishing of your content. Your blog software will require you to perform intial easy-to-do setup and configuration so that it will know how to automically organize your published content in the future. After that, you can publish quickly and instantly using your blog software editor that is built into your blog publishing software.    more »