A now "deceased" website on RSS marketing and RSS publishing - a look at the history of internet marketing

Rok Hrastnik

A Note from the Author: The RSS Diary is Closed

rssdiary.marketingstudies.net was built to help marketers get the most from RSS. However, much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.

Since I've moved on to other interests in internet marketing years ago, the site is now officially closed, and only remains online as an archive of a part of internet marketing's past. This is how we used to see RSS between 2004 - 2007. We don't, anymore, but there's no harm in having a small part of our past available online.

With that, I'm also making the e-book that started all of this, Unleas the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS, available for free download.

Rok Hrastnik [to contact and/or follow me: LinkedIn l Facebook]

RSS Metrics

 
[02.05.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Clarification: FeedBurner Does NOT Require Users to Point at Their Domain

I got my facts wrong the other day in the post about the new Pheedo service. Actually, FeedBurner's MyBrand service also allows you to serve your optimized feeds from your own domain, retaining all the SEO benefits of RSS. Terribly sorry for the blunder ...
 
[28.02.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

FeedBurner Introduces New RSS Metrics: Great News for Marketers

How will FeedBurner's new metrics improvements help you improve your RSS marketing?
 
[23.11.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Metrics Reports - Screenshots - From SimpleFeed 2.0

SimpleFeed share their screenshots of their RSS metrics reports.
 
[16.11.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

New RSS Metrics Service from Pheedo ... Exclusive Screenshots

Pheedo is just about to join the RSS Metrics game, going head-to-head with FeedBurner, with their free mass-market RSS metrics solution, accessible to every marketer out there.
 
[11.08.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

ClickZ 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. Where did they go wrong and what marketers can really do with RSS metrics?
 
[25.07.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Real RSS Usage Data from Pheedo

Pheedo released some new benchmark data on RSS usage, ranging from most active RSS days to click-through ratios. Take a look at their numbers and our comments.
 
[19.07.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Average Daily Readership Explained

The new RSS metric, Average Daily Readership, opened many key questions for both marketers and publishers. Today, Stuart Watson of Syndicate IQ responds in-full to all the questions asked, giving detailed answers to what ADR means and how it's calculated.
 
[12.07.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

What is Average Daily Readership?

Average Daily Readership is a new RSS metric, just recently introduced by Syndicate IQ. Dubbed as the solution to wider RSS marketing adoption, it does leave some questions open ...
 
[12.07.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Attensa Metrics and RSS from the Investor's Point of View

It's becoming increasingly evident that Attensa is going head-strong in to the RSS metrics space, based on Attention.xml. What is also evident is that Attensa will be trying to provide rich RSS metrics and behavior data, while at the same time maintaining full user privacy.
 
[22.06.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Metrics Focus: Interview With Dick Costolo and Stuart Watson, Part 4 - Defining RSS Metrics, the RSS Metrics Space and RSS for SEO

In this final part of the RSS metrics interview series Stuart Watson of Syndicate IQ and I take a closer look at what specific RSS metrics mean, advanced metrics systems, the RSS metrics space and using RSS for SEO.
 
[19.06.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Metrics Focus: Interview With Dick Costolo and Stuart Watson, Part 3 - Concrete Feedburner Metrics, RSS Measurements Step-by-Step and Average Daily Readership

In part 3 of our RSS metrics interview, Stuart Watson opens with a simple to follow step-by-step plan on how to start measuring RSS, Dick Costolo continues with some very hard numbers from Feedburner and Stuart finishes with an announcement of a new type of RSS metric.
 
[16.06.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Metrics Focus: Interview With Dick Costolo and Stuart Watson, Part 2 - RSS Advertising and Specific RSS Measurements

We continue with the second part of the RSS Metrics Interview with Dick Costolo of Feedburner and Stuart Watson of Syndicate IQ, and the focus today is especially on RSS advertising, covering everything from tactics that work to real-life metrics. And this also means you'll be able to hear the whole reasoning from Dick on why and how RSS feeds with ads are not losing subscribers ...
 
[14.06.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Metrics Focus: Interview With Dick Costolo and Stuart Watson, Part 1 - Different RSS Metrics Approaches

We did an incredible joint interview on RSS metrics last week with Dick Costolo of Feedburner and Stuart Watson of Syndicate IQ, two of the handful of companies that are leading the RSS metrics way. In part 1 of the interview we cover the differences between different RSS metrics approaches and how they relate to RSS targeting and personalization.
 
[24.05.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Works: Hard RSS Metrics

During my presentation at Syndicate on Wednesday I was finally able to present some hard RSS metrics that show that RSS works. Take a look some metrics from a branded RSS aggregator, an RSS marketing vendor, a publisher and a marketer ...
 
[21.03.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Advertising, RSS Metrics and RSS Consumption: Interview With Scott Rafer of Feedster

We interviewed Scott Rafer of Feedster to get the scoop on the future and present of RSS advertising, RSS metrics and RSS consumption habits. Scott provides unique content and insights of great use and advantage to all advertisers and RSS marketers.
 
[13.03.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Metrics - Unique URLs Might Not be the Best Choice: Interview with Fergus Burns, Nooked.com

I spoke quite extensively with Fergus Burns of Nooked while attending the International Direct Marketing Fair in London. In this interview, recorded on-location, we discuss the technology approaches to RSS metrics and the corporate RSS marketplace. The interesting thing is that Fergus believes that using unique URLs to track RSS subscribers might not be the best solution, since it puts a higher bandwidth strain on online RSS aggregation services.
 
[25.01.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

An Advancement in RSS Metrics?

RSS Metrics is one of the hotest RSS topics right now, which is quite understandable, since a key requirement for a channel to be effective as a marketing tool is the ability to measure and analyze it in full. And now, there's a new player on the market, promising the 'riches' ...
 
[18.01.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Challenge to the RSS Industry: RSS Metrics Standardization

Alex Barnett discusses the problem of RSS Metrics, more precisely the lack of any real standards. The question (and a challenge to everyone) I'm asking is why don't we, the RSS industry, do something about this?
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