Okay, so I'm checking my FeedDemon RSS updates (the best RSS Reader on planet earth...actually I do have a few secondary favorites but FeedDemon is my favorite) and I happen upon a find from Scripting News about a new and innovative search engine for Podcasts called Podscope.

New Podcast Search Engine
Podscope is very unique and bleeding edge in that they are the first search engine that actually allows you to search for spoken words within any audio or video file. Er...that would mean that you would want to mention your keywords specifically within your audio and video stream for search optimization? Hmmmm...

You can read more about Podscope on their blog and FAQ pages. But make sure you go to Podscope and give it a try. You can submit your audio and video URLs here. Podscope just ...   more »

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 »

Robin Good reports on how to submit your RSS feed to MSN Search. Very good article and must read for all blog and RSS publishers alike.

Microsoft went live with the New MSN Search this past week.

Google provides the lions share of search engine traffic to this blog but my Daily Success Motivation and Positive Thinking blog has seen an explosion of traffic from MSN for top keywords since the new MSN Search went officially live last week. Google was the primary source of search traffic for that blog but now it's almost 50/50 between MSN and Google. The good thing is that my results in MSN are much, much better than what they were before.

Check out this article by Robin Good. He discusses the relationship the New MSN Search has with Moreover for getting your content and ...   more »

On January 18th, 2004 Rok Hrastnik released what I consider to be the best book on RSS to hit the planet.

I'm know I'm bit late on publishing my buzz but I wanted to seek my teeth into all the good stuff first. :) Man, I was not disappointed one bit. This is great stuff!

Rok has done a fantastic job of capturing the state of RSS and how RSS is trending up in use and application. What is so phenomenal is the sheer volume of information that is both easy to follow, easy to understand and practical to apply. This piece of work doesn't just tell you what RSS feeds are it completely explores the whole paradigm-shift to distributed Internet content publishing and the changes that are influencing the increased usage of RSS feed for marketing.

Rok Hrastnik has ...   more »

Here is a great article for managing RSS and information overload

PubSub is a tool that allows you to create search queries and use RSS to monitor them. The following article is a well written piece covering PubSub and how this powerful tool can assist your online information management tasks.

Link: Managing the Firehose of Real-Time Information.

© 2004 T. L. Pakii Pierce
Publisher: The 'RSS-Powered' Report
Layman's Guide to RSS Channel Publishing and Communications   more »

Here is an interest short take from the Free Traffic Tips blog regarding the new My Yahoo! search page. As I wrote about in the following article on Yahoo and RSS Yahoo implemented a face lift that gives greater attention to RSS feed search.

I pointed out the importance of getting your RSS feed into Yahoo! for free via the My Yahoo! page setup and customization.

The Free Traffic Tips blog points out in this article on RSS Traffic that while the RSS search feature is still in beta, it won't be that way for long. Tinu, who is the auto of this blog points out that slowly but surely there is an increasing number of competitors for difference keywords starting to show up than there were before.

Here are a my key take aways from this article:

1. There ...   more »

Yahoo Takes RSS Mainstream

In a move that is seen as very positive by many, Yahoo has now moved closer to bringing RSS to masses. They are now beta testing the new My Yahoo! with makes heavy use of RSS feed in their search results.

Jeremy Zawodny, a developer in in the Yahoo's infrastructure platform engineering and RSS enthusiast had this to say:

"Well, we just launched a beta of the next generation of My Yahoo that fits into that reality. Instead of "you can add anything you want, as long as it's on the list of My Yahoo content" you can now add pretty much any public RSS or Atom feed. In other words, the content model is open.

Let me say that again, just for dramatic effect: the content model is open now.

This not only makes My ...   more »

Ask Jeeves Spidering RSS Feeds

VOX Market News websites posted short clip About Ask Jeeves spidering RSS Feeds.

They reference an artle from Search Engine Lowdown. Apparently they notices that the RSS feed urls are turning up in search results.

You can seen and example of this by clicking here and looking at the second listing for their website.

RSS feeds are becoming increasingly important to the search engines as the demand for the most revelant and up to date information increases.

You have to realize that Search Engines on in business to. They business is on target and relevant search results. If they don't deliver a quality product (that is relevant search results), they know they will lose business to other search engines that do.

Crawling and indexing blog or website content syndicated through RSS feeds gaining momentum....   more »