Friday, July 08, 2005

RSS Advertising -

When you have an online business you know
how you're always learning about something
new and then trying to learn how to do it?

Me too.

I saw how articles could be syndicated several
months ago but couldn't figure out how it was
done. Sure, I knew it involved RSS or XML
and even saw how those types of files had to
be written. But I couldn't figure out how to put
it all together.

You can imagine the hours I spent researching
the topic and how many e-books I read, all
with the hope that I would find the answer and
then be able to syndicate my newsletter articles.

Unfortunately, my searching took me nowhere
because while there's a lot written about how
great article syndication is, there's not much
information on how to do it.

Then, by accident, I found the answers I had
been searching for. While reviewing a product
with a title that implied it was going to tell me
how great using RSS feeds were for marketing,
and sell me on the fact that I needed to set
up a blog, I found not only all the information
necessary to do article syndication, but it also
gave me a tool to create the RSS file
automatically and links where I could convert
RSS to Java - free.

Now I have to admit that I haven't read the
entire e-book. I've only read the chapter
on article syndication. But for me, that chapter
made this book priceless because it contained
what I had been looking for and not finding
anywhere else.

So if you're thinking of syndicating your
articles, news, or some other type of
information and are searching for the
way to make it happen, you need this
e-book - "RSS Advertising - A
Complete Guide To Advertising Using
RSS Feeds"

Oops, the title isn't a link but that's not
a mistake. You see, I have resale
rights to this useful piece of information
and I do sell it with a 37.5% discount
off the suggested price - but only to my
subscribers.

So if you're a FriendsWhoCare subscriber,
just send me a note and I'll send you the
link where you can get this RSS e-book

If your not a subscriber please join us at
FriendsWhoCare and then request the link.
You can find a place to subscribe in this week's
newsletter:
FriendsWhoCare.us/thisweek.htm

If you don't like the newsletter you can
unsubscribe at any time and since we all hate
spam, you won't hear from us again.
Also, we never share subscriber information.

To Your Success,
Susan Carroll
FriendsWhoCare.us

PS Sorry, I don't have a non-subscriber page
for this product but some things I only share
with my friends.

Easy Archive Maker

It's been awhile since I've written a product
review and I've found some really good ones
since the last post.

If you happen to be one of my newsletter
subscribers, you know I don't have an article
archive on my site but ...

I do archive our monthly site reviews where
subscribers give suggestions on how to
improve that month's subscribers site.

Now one of the reasons I don't have an
article archive is TIME - there's never
enough of it. But with a new tool I discovered,
I decided to try my hand at archiving with
our site reviews.

Easy Article Maker is the tool I use and
it is not only easy but it's also makes archiving
very fast.

First I had to create the page template for
the review sites and index. Since my sites
pages are similar but different, this took a
few minutes. If you already have a template
for your site then you've already done most
of the work.

Second, I opened the tool, copied the first
site review into the text box and clicked
the create button.

Third I uploaded both the archived review
page
and the index created by Easy Archive
Maker
.

Now, when I need to archive another review
I just open the tool, copy the review into the
tool and upload the new page and the updated
index. All done and it only took a couple of
minutes.

This tool also has other uses besides archiving
articles and reviews. It can also be used to
create those much needed Table of Contents
for your e-book!

You may not have heard of Easy Archive
Maker
but I did and I am glad I found it
because it makes the job of being a web
master a little easier.

To Your Success,
Susan Carroll
FriendsWhoCare Newsletter