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Lifestream Added to The Blog
This is a short post to let you all know that i have installed lifestream in our news section. Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.
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5 Straight Forward Ways to Increase RSS Subscribers
Adding an RSS feed to your web design will make it easy for you to share updates with people. RSS is still gaining in popularity, and more browsers are adding it to their functionality. Just like trying to get traffic to a website, if you are offering an RSS feed, you should be thinking about increasing the number of subscribers to it. This article will assume you already have plenty of traffic coming to your page, but need ways to increase the number of people getting your feed.
1. Make it visible. Your visitors are not likely to hunt around on your website looking for a subscribe button. This means you have to make it easy to find. Using the standard RSS icon above the fold, so visitors don’t have to scroll down to see it, is a good start. Be sure to leave plenty of white space around it as well, so it stands out more. Whatever graphic you are using, you need to let people know that is where they can subscribe. In other words, don’t rely on the icon alone. You can do this by simply adding the phrase “Subscribe to our feed here” right next to the image.
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The benefits of building a Squidoo Lens
Squidoo is the brainchild of internet marketer and online entrepreneur Seth Godin. A Squidoo lens is a one page website you build and add content to. You don’t need to know HTML and you may create a lens in just a few minutes.
There is a wide variety of content you may add to a Squidoo lens. This includes RSS feeds, Amazon, Ebay and other revenue sharing modules. You may also want to add interactive content; like You Tube and guestbooks. How you create your lens is only limited by your imagination.
Squidoo lenses also offer huge SEO advantages. Because Squidoo ranks so high in the search engines, Squidoo lenses, when optimized correctly, also tend to do well in the search engines. The biggest benefit of creating Squidoo lenses is that it is an easy way to promote your web design and affiliate programs. Use these lenses in the resource box of your articles and send them through Article Marketer for submission. Most article directories, including Ezine Articles, will accept Squidoo lens links in the resource box.
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How to Get the Most Out of RSS Feeds
Feeds, feeds, everywhere, feeds! We hear so much about them, but what are they? A feed is simply a stream of content that originates from a designated place such as a web design. Think of your parents (when you were growing up) as a feed for wisdom. Or think of your favorite television show “feeding” you entertainment every week.
A feed on the Internet has a similar function, and publishers and users are infatuated with what feeds have to offer. The most popular type of feeds are called RSS feeds, or Really Simple Syndication.
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Increase Variety Of Traffic With Search Engine Placement Services
According to some research that has been done on the subject, it is estimated and a new web design receives 85% of its new visitors from search engine traffic. In light of that fact, it’s no wonder that webmasters spend huge money on search engine optimization (SEO) to attract visitors from Google and the other search engines.
One common question that newcomers to internet business always have is if they can find a way to get a top search engine ranking, or is it too late to be able to pull it off, or will it simply cost a fortune in SEO services to get there.
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