Articles by Rok Hrastnik
- 23 Quick Tips to Help You Use RSS for SEO
Search Engines are a key driver of targeted traffic online, but at the same time also one of the most difficult drivers to enhance in your internet marketing. RSS is a tool that will help you do just this. Published 28Feb2007, viewed 351 times
- How Marketers Can Use Yahoo! Pipes to Increase Their Online Sales
Yahoo! Pipes redefines how marketers can use RSS and enables you to do more with RSS feed aggregation, filtering and manipulation than ever before. Find out how Yahoo! Pipes can benefit you as a marketer. Published 10Feb2007, viewed 342 times
- Your RSS Marketing Strategy: Deciding How To Deliver Your RSS Content
To get started with RSS Marketing the right way you need to correctly plan your RSS Marketing strategy, starting by deciding how you are going to deliver your RSS content. This short guide will take you through the key steps and decisions ... Published 25Apr2006, viewed 276 times
- Digging Deep To Get The Most From RSS Technology for Marketing
An integral part of getting the most from RSS is really understanding how RSS works as a technology --- basically understanding its structure and how to best use it to get more readership and better search engine rankings. Published 18Mar2006, viewed 388 times
- The Death of E-mail Marketing and the Rise of RSS? What Can You Do?
The recent announcement that AOL and Yahoo! will start charging e-mail marketers postage per thousand e-mail messages delivered, is rocking e-mail marketers all around the world and at the same time making die-hard RSS fans proclaim the death of e-mail marketing. What does this mean for e-mail marketing and Is RSS really poised to take the throne for direct content delivery and direct marketing? Published 07Feb2006, viewed 350 times
- Podcasting Monetization Strategies for Publishers
With the growing popularity of podcasting, publishers and marketers around the world are asking themselves how to monetize this content channel and make delivering audio content via RSS profitable. Today, let's take a look at how publishers can expect to generate podcasting revenues both directly and indirectly - by combining monetization through ad sales and content sales with using podcasting as a marketing vehicle itself. Published 19Jan2006, viewed 292 times
- The Best of RSS Marketing in 2005
If you're looking to start using RSS in your marketing or want to expand on your knowledge and get some additional ideas, here are our top RSS Marketing articles and tips of 2005. Published 06Jan2006, viewed 298 times
- 12 Reasons For Using RSS Marketing
The importance of RSS for marketing can no longer be disputed, but do we really understand all the benefits RSS brings to us as marketers, or really understand why we need to use it to get closer to our customers? Published 30Nov2005, viewed 310 times
- The Basics of Measuring Your RSS Feeds
For most marketers RSS metrics are still a gray area, although in fact RSS is completely measurable, even more so than e-mail. As complexity grows with added capabilities, we’re only taking a look at the absolute basics of measuring your RSS feeds today. Published 17Nov2005, viewed 333 times
- More Best of From Marketers on RSS
What is the top advice savvy marketers can give you on RSS? We continue with “the best of” on RSS marketing from US marketing leaders. Published 28Oct2005, viewed 325 times
- Analyzing the New Yahoo! RSS Report for Marketers
We were waiting for something like this to happen for a long time. Yahoo!, one of the key providers of mass-market RSS aggregators, finally took a step forward and published their RSS whitepaper, covering their own findings with RSS, based on their usage data. In this article, we analyze the whitepaper step-by-step, explaining what their findings mean for marketers. Published 11Oct2005, viewed 363 times
- Marketers on RSS: The Best Of
What do savvy marketers have to say about RSS? What are their top tips? Published 06Oct2005, viewed 360 times
- Publishing E-zines via RSS
The exact how-to specifics of how to publish your e-mail e-zine via RSS. Published 27Sep2005, viewed 403 times
- Taking the Easier Route to Generating RSS Subscribers
RSS is certainly still far from being user-friendly, which is especially evident once you try and left-click on an RSS subscribe button. If you don't want to waste potential subscribers, what other alternatives do you have? And what are the best ways of generating RSS feed subscribers? Published 22Sep2005, viewed 312 times
- Marketing Optimization 101 for Blogs
Truth be told, most blogs aren't really optimized for marketing effectiveness. Even more so, some blogs are absolute marketing machines, but they at the same time fail to fully capitalize on that fact by not being really optimized marketing-wise. Read this article to discover the 13 essential points to optimizing your blog ... Published 14Sep2005, viewed 365 times
- Podcasting Monetization Strategies for Marketers
With the growing popularity of podcasting, publishers and marketers around the world are asking themselves how to monetize this content channel. Today we’ll be taking a look at how marketers can monetize podcasting through enhanced marketing activities. Published 09Sep2005, viewed 328 times
- RSS and E-mail: How They Can Work Together?
For most marketers online e-mail is still the key marketing and communicational tool. But getting e-mail through due to spam filters and spam itself is getting increasingly difficult, while anti-spam legislation is putting even legitimate e-mail marketers to risk. Since RSS is not a replacement for e-mail, how can these two channels be used together to produce the best possible results for your marketing? Published 30Aug2005, viewed 377 times
- What You Can Publish via RSS
Contrary to popular opinion, RSS is not only good for delivering content from your blog, but has much more marketing and publishing potential. In fact, RSS can be used to deliver a great variety of content and content types. If you can break down your content in to individual stories or individual pieces, you can deliver it via RSS. Published 25Aug2005, viewed 369 times
- ClickZ.com Doesn't Get RSS Metrics - How We Really Can Measure RSS
Even after all that's been written and explained, even reputable online marketing publications such as ClickZ.com still don't get RSS metrics. Published 12Aug2005, viewed 327 times
- Do Marketers Really Need RSS?
The recent Forrester Research study, which claims that only 2% of online households in North America use RSS, took the internet marketing world by storm. Does this data really mean that marketers can still afford to ignore this channel? Published 08Aug2005, viewed 509 times
- Defining the Relations Between Blogs, E-zines, RSS and E-mail
Although RSS and blogs are slowly reaching mainstream, they are still missuderstood by most marketers in relation to eachother and in relation to their relatives, e-zines and e-mail. How do these four really relate and what does this mean for your internet marketing strategy? Published 27Jul2005, viewed 455 times
- The 7-Step RSS Marketing Plan
If you’re wondering how to get started with RSS marketing, here’s a basic 7-step plan that should provide some needed guidance. Use these steps as your personal RSS marketing checklist to get your started and help you see whether you’re on the right track. Published 22Jul2005, viewed 396 times
- RSS as a Change Agent
How RSS is changing the internet marketing world and why? It's impact is much more profound than most imagine and has the potential to change the way we have to do business online. Published 12Jul2005, viewed 400 times
- The RSS Promise for Internet Users
RSS empowers consumers and other internet users to claim the next level of the internet experience, by bringing them the content that matters directly to them, without the burdens associated with e-mail. Published 06Jul2005, viewed 379 times
- Microsoft and Google Show It's Time for RSS Marketing
Many internet marketers are still wondering whether to start marketing with RSS or not. It seems that not even all the case studies, hard metrics and benefits available can’t convince them, or everyone would be jumping on the RSS wagon by now. But now Microsoft and Google are not only starting to show the way, but are making RSS a neccessity ... Published 28Jun2005, viewed 383 times
- The Full Circle of RSS Marketing Power
RSS is a many-in-one marketing & publishing tool, although unfortunatelly most marketers still fail to understand this powerful concept. While RSS does provide a number of benefits when used for each individual marketing function, best results are achieved when it is fully integrated in your internet marketing strategy. In more simpler terms --- when you use it to power most of your marketing online. Published 20Jun2005, viewed 360 times
- 5 New Internet Marketing Opportunities Through RSS
When it comes to new internet marketing opportunities for your business, RSS just might be the answer you were looking for. Here are just some of the new opportunities it can provide you with … Published 07Jun2005, viewed 415 times
- RSS Works: Hard Metrics to Prove It
Does RSS really work for marketers? Does it increase click-through rates, drive visitors and improve search engine rankings? These hard metrics will for the first time demonstrate to you exactly how well RSS works ... Published 31May2005, viewed 425 times
- The 7 Steps to Promoting Your RSS Feeds on Your Website
RSS gets 100% of your content delivered, but it’s no good if no one subscribes to your feeds. Here are the 7 steps to take to make sure your visitors subscribe ... Published 04May2005, viewed 451 times
- What is RSS - For Marketers
RSS is a technology that has the potential of overcoming many of the internet marketing challenges we are facing today and becoming a preferred tool to get 100% of your content delivered to your subscribers, as well as a tool to help you achieve top position search engine rankings. Published 27Apr2005, viewed 406 times
- RSS Meets the Needs of Direct Marketers
Contrary to general opinion, RSS meets the needs of even the most demanding direct marketer, actually providing most of what e-mail marketing does, except for the strong push factor. Let's take a look at the key direct marketing aspects of RSS ... Published 12Apr2005, viewed 443 times
- RSS is Not Only for Blogs
Contrary to popular opinion, RSS is not only good for delivering content from your blog, although blogs are what made RSS so popular. In fact, RSS can be used to deliver a great variety of content and content types. If you can break down your content in to individual stories or individual pieces, you can deliver it via RSS. Published 05Apr2005, viewed 521 times
- #1 Mistake Most Blogs Do
As much as this might surprise most bloggers, the #1 mistake most blogs are doing is not publishing their content via e-mail, as a supplement to their RSS feeds. Just think about it: while RSS is growing strong, it still only penetrates about 5-6% of the American online population. Furthermore, according to a recent BlogAds survey, only 12 percent of the blog reading audience said it used RSS always or often. Published 30Mar2005, viewed 384 times
- RSS: The Amazing Profit Potential
While e-mail is still the primary and most important internet marketing tool, we need to start using other complimentary tools to get our content delivered. RSS is one such tool, which in addition to getting 100% of our content delivered also improves search engine rankings, generates new traffic from new sources, gets our content published on other sites and provides a multitude of new marketing opportunities. Published 23Mar2005, viewed 439 times
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