| I love my RSS reader. I have a gazillion website, blog | | | | merchant products using text files. The file contains a |
| and news feeds set up in there, and I get the latest | | | | list of products, services, special offers, coupons or |
| information from all of my favorite sites. That means I | | | | other information that you can display on your site. |
| can be one of the first to share it with you. And RSS | | | | You then upload that information to your server and |
| Reader 1.0 has a doorbell sound effect that rings when | | | | use some kind of tool or script to display the different |
| there are new feed entries to read. So wherever I am | | | | items in that file. There are programs on CJ, LinkShare |
| in the house I hear it and take a look. I also get the | | | | and Shareasale that have datafeeds.While others are |
| additional bonus of six barking dogs to announce the | | | | absolutely gaga over this, I look at it with the same |
| new feed entries.As an aside, I noticed something very | | | | jaundiced eye as the whole article thing - it all depends |
| interesting. Because of my RSS reader I was one of | | | | on your niche, the level of trust you want to maintain |
| the first to cover adsenseblacklist.com, a terrific new | | | | with your customer, and how technical you want to |
| web site that will help you screen out the cheesy | | | | get.If you have a niche that has a well-matched |
| AdSense ads. Because I was on it first, I popped up in | | | | affiliate program, you might try a product feed. If you |
| the first five Google search results for this keyword | | | | want to put up an occasional coupon or special offer, |
| for a while, which drove traffic to this site. So watch | | | | you can probably do it by hand rather than going |
| your RSS reader.All that being said, we are beginning | | | | through all of this mumbo jumbo.We are starting to |
| to see RSS used as auto update feature for websites | | | | see products that convert merchant datafeeds to |
| and blogs. The first application was RSS feeds that | | | | RSS, allowing you to auto-display products from |
| automagically update your site with articles in your | | | | affiiliate programs. Again, if you can maintain relevance |
| subject area from a free article site. The rationale is | | | | across the entire affiliate line, it's a good idea. If not, |
| that this will give you fresh content that search engines | | | | you're not going to get conversion anyway, so you're |
| will eat right up. They call it spiderfood. I call it a dumb | | | | wasting your time. Personally I want everything |
| idea. Have you read some of these articles? There's a | | | | including the advertising, to have relevance to my |
| wide disparity in quality from one to another, and I | | | | visitors.There's always a shortcut - in this case you're |
| would never allow articles to be put blindly on my web | | | | shortcutting the time and effort involved in finding |
| site without my approval. For crying out loud...you | | | | relevant offers for your visitors. That may work with |
| spend hours and hours of time getting your site to a | | | | some sites.If you want to know more or give it a shot, |
| certain level of quality to build a certain level of trust | | | | here are some resources:1. FiveStarAffiliatePrograms - |
| with your visitors, and then you're going to allow some | | | | They love the idea, but I think they're plugging their own |
| hack to put his content on your site without your | | | | tool.2. Smartsville has a nice synopsis. Oh...they also |
| approval, just so maybe a search engine will come a | | | | have a tool.One last thing - while I was out looking for |
| few extra times? That's just stupid.Need more | | | | links and information, this is what someone said about |
| content? Turn off the football game and write | | | | using datafeeds:Soon, I will let you know how I put this |
| some.Seriously...if you want to use articles as | | | | all on autopilot and never have to think about the blog |
| supplemental content, hand pick them. Just like famous | | | | again after I spend a few hours setting it up!How do |
| Internet marketer Wille Crawford did on his blog when | | | | you think that blog is doing?Matt DeAngelis runs - A |
| he picked my article Chitika - What Went Wrong (a | | | | resource for Affiliate Marketing and Internet Marketing. |
| little humor there). I have at least 20 - 30 articles in an | | | | Matt is the former CTO of Modem Media, a pioneer in |
| Outlook Folder that I'm going to post on the site as | | | | the Internet ad space. As a foot soldier in the Internet |
| soon as a I get a chance. That's the good news - the | | | | revolution, Matt devised the technology behind many of |
| bad news is I went through 500 or so articles to get | | | | the most successful ad campaigns of the |
| those.Closer to home, affiliate merchants are starting | | | | time.AffiliateBlog is his latest venture, and was started |
| to get into datafeeds, which are sort of like file-based | | | | as a resource to help site owners and bloggers get |
| RSS feeds. Datafeeds provide direct access to | | | | more revenue from their sites. |