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much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.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 SEO and Traffic Generation

 
[26.02.2007 l Rok Hrastnik]

Quick RSS SEO Tips

Quick SEO tips to optimize your RSS feeds for better search engine rankings. Plus some RSS traffic generation tips ...
 
[15.07.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Use RSS To Increase Your Traffic Now, Part 2

In the 2nd part of using RSS for traffic generation we take a look at how syndicating your content to other online media will increase your traffic.
 
[12.07.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Use RSS To Increase Your Traffic Now, Part 1

Online visibility and online traffic are, quite naturally, of paramount importance to everyone and anyone marketing or conducting business online, period. Find out how RSS will help you attract more traffic and visibility ...
 
[16.03.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Optimize Your RSS Feed for Better Search Placement

9 must-read tips on how to optimize your RSS feed for better search engine placement.
 
[05.01.2006 l Rok Hrastnik]

Get Your Content Easily Published on Other Sites

Does anyone still remember that RSS was also supposed to be used to make it simple for publishers to share and display their content on other sites, to bring them additional visibility, credibility and targeted traffic? We now finally have a tool that makes this easy ...
 
[21.11.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

The Add To Google RSS Subscribe Button

Google just issued their own RSS subscribe button, cleverly called "Add to Google":)
 
[02.11.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Robin Good's RSS Top55 Premium is Out

Who doesn't know Robin's list of top sites to submit your RSS feed to, to get maximum external RSS exposure? Well, he just made the updated premium addition available through his site ...
 
[04.10.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

New Tool to Submit Your RSS Feed to Search Engines Online

There's a new tool on the block to help you submit your RSS feed to some of the top RSS search engines and directories for free via a simple online interface.
 
[30.08.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

RSS Feeds Submit Might Not Be What it Seems

After publishing the review of RSS Feeds Submit yesterday, the vendor of RSS Submit stepped forward and provided some of his own commentary on their new competitor, which does put a different light on RSS Feeds Submit.
 
[29.08.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

New RSS Traffic Tool: RSS Feeds Submit

In terms of generating traffic, what good is an RSS feed if no one can find it, right? Part of promoting your feeds and using them to generate traffic is of course submitting the feeds to appropriate search engines and directories, quite a tedious process if you're doing it by hand, given the large number of directories and engines out there. There's now a new tool that will help you do this automatically. See how it compares with one of its key competitors, which we already reviewed here.
 
[27.07.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Google's New RSS Features as an SEO Vehicle?

Robin Good takes a far more positive outlook of Google's new RSS features than I do, proclaiming that this actually means Google is now indexing RSS feeds, although it's still unclear what they intend to do with them. Considering Google's complex ranking algorithms, it's questionable whether these manual submissions will have any weight at all.
 
[19.06.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

The SEO Industry Cathing Up on RSS?

With RSS getting more and more coverage, ''traditional'' internet marketing industries start branching out in to it. The SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) industry was quite early to catch on, but only in some limited and highly early adopter circles.
 
[13.06.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Blog and RSS Marketing Strategies and PressFeed: Interview with Sally Falkow

Sally Falkow and I discuss the merits of their new RSS publishing solution (PressFeed), in-depth RSS and blog marketing case studies, internet content strategies and using RSS for SEO.
 
[01.06.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Guardian's Simon Waldman on RSS: It's All About Traffic

What does the Director of Digital Publishing for the UK's The Guardian have to say about RSS and what does he recommend?
 
[26.04.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Testing the Impact of RSS Powered Blogsites 'Live'

Following yesterday's interview with Andy F. Seidl on blogsites and using RSS for improved search engine rankings, I was happy to find the 'A Better Blogsite' blogsite, which chronicles on its own example how the blogsite approach is helping it increase search engine rankings.
 
[24.04.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Blogsites, RSS Radars and RSS Search Engine Optimization: Interview with F. Andy Seidl, MyST Technology Partners

Blogsites are complex blog implementations with the power of turning your site in to the preferred content source for your industry, as well as generating high search engine rankings for you. This audio interview focuses on the mechanics of blogsites, RSS radars, using RSS for increased search engine rankings and more ...
 
[11.04.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Submit Your RSS Feeds: RSS Submit Review

The benefits of using RSS for improved internet visibility, via improved search engine rankings and by taking advantage of new RSS-specific search engines and directories, have already been well documented, but it does take some time, especially if you're submitting your feeds manually. Here's a simple tool I've been testing recently that does it for you ...
 
[08.03.2005 l Rok Hrastnik]

Exclusive Search Engine Optimization Strategies and RSS: Interview with Lee Odden, TopRank

In this interview, Lee Odden of TopRank shares his exclusive search engine marketing and optimization strategies, especially those related to RSS and blogs. These strategies are not widely used yet, so Lee's advice is by all means worth gold.
Unleash the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS