6 posts tagged “rss applied”

Has anyone else noticed that you can create a personal profile with google?  From Google's own description they say:

A Google Profile is simply how you represent yourself on Google products — it lets you tell others a bit more about who you are and what you're all about. You control what goes into your Google Profile, sharing as much (or as little) as you'd like.

Use multiple Google products? Soon your Google Profile will link up with these as well.

This may be old news but from the sounds of this statement "Use multiple Google products? Soon your Google Profile will link up with these as well." They're figuring out how to implement it into their other services. 

The regular old forms like:

• First and Last name

• City you live in

• occupation

are all there but in the true spirit of Google they throw in a few interesting questions like:

• super power

• something you still can't find using google

• places you've lived in the past

It will be interesting to watch how this progresses.  Could this be another way google is looking into starting a social network?  Could they be contemplating taking on LinkedIn?

There are quite a few different ways to utilize RSS in your marketing efforts.  RSS feeds can provide your customers with a notification whenever you make any changes.  These changes can be anything from price updates to blog posts to sending a new joke each day.  The possibilities are endless.  Before you jump into the fairly new world of RSS Marketing you have to create a plan.  We've created a short slide share presentation to get you started on that process.  If you would like more help head over to RSS Applied and contact us and we'd be glad to give you assistance.

Over at the Rss Applied blog we wrote up a review of a new URL shortening site called Cli.gs.  It has a few interesting features including the ability to track the following metrics:

• Total hits
• Mentions of the original url on twitter, blogs and the web
• Mentions of the clig on twitter, blogs and the web
• Delicious book marks to the original url
• Total number of links to the original url

If you want to read the entire post check it out at the link above.

One of Rss Applieds biggest requests is to help curb a negative search engine result.  We thought we'd take the time to make up a short presentation on some simple things that can get you started to doing your own reputation repair.  Of course sometimes you need to bring in the help of a professional in whcih case we'll be here for you.

Yesterday at Rss Applied we talked about how google entered the browser war.  Today we brought a story that has been heading around the blogosphere.  A very interestingly worded section of the Google TOS. 

By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services.

If you're interested in see the response from google just head over the Rss Applied Blog and read the Has google turned evil post

We just wrote up an article at our blog on Rss Applied describing some of the different ways to utilize twitter for the businesses. 

Here are numbers 5, 6 and 7... for the rest check out the full post Rss Applied - Using Twitter for Business

5. Competition Watch

Don’t forget that you’re not the only tech savvy company out there. Chances are your competition is on twitter as well… Follow them and pay attention to what they’re saying.

6. Links to Your Site

Fill out your profile and include a link to your site. Twitter has a field for you to input your website but unfortunately they put the dreaded “nofollow” on it. However if you drop your link in a different part of your profile like the “bio” section you get a link without the “nofollow”.

EDIT: Please check out the Rss Applied site for an update to this story.

7. Feed Your Tweets into Your Blot

As part of your blog promotion feed your Twitter RSS feed into your blog. This not only provides more content but also keeps your blog readers aware of what you’re doing. Provide a link to your Twitter account and you can get some more followers out of it as well.