SPONSOR By X10TV.com

Afrikaans Afrikaans Albanian Albanian Amharic Amharic Arabic Arabic Armenian Armenian Azerbaijani Azerbaijani Basque Basque Belarusian Belarusian Bengali Bengali Bosnian Bosnian Bulgarian Bulgarian Catalan Catalan Cebuano Cebuano Chichewa Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Corsican Croatian Croatian Czech Czech Danish Danish Dutch Dutch English English Esperanto Esperanto Estonian Estonian Filipino Filipino Finnish Finnish French French Frisian Frisian Galician Galician Georgian Georgian German German Greek Greek Gujarati Gujarati Haitian Creole Haitian Creole Hausa Hausa Hawaiian Hawaiian Hebrew Hebrew Hindi Hindi Hmong Hmong Hungarian Hungarian Icelandic Icelandic Igbo Igbo Indonesian Indonesian Irish Irish Italian Italian Japanese Japanese Javanese Javanese Kannada Kannada Kazakh Kazakh Khmer Khmer Korean Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kyrgyz Kyrgyz Lao Lao Latin Latin Latvian Latvian Lithuanian Lithuanian Luxembourgish Luxembourgish Macedonian Macedonian Malagasy Malagasy Malay Malay Malayalam Malayalam Maltese Maltese Maori Maori Marathi Marathi Mongolian Mongolian Myanmar (Burmese) Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Nepali Norwegian Norwegian Pashto Pashto Persian Persian Polish Polish Portuguese Portuguese Punjabi Punjabi Romanian Romanian Russian Russian Samoan Samoan Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic Serbian Serbian Sesotho Sesotho Shona Shona Sindhi Sindhi Sinhala Sinhala Slovak Slovak Slovenian Slovenian Somali Somali Spanish Spanish Sundanese Sundanese Swahili Swahili Swedish Swedish Tajik Tajik Tamil Tamil Telugu Telugu Thai Thai Turkish Turkish Ukrainian Ukrainian Urdu Urdu Uzbek Uzbek Vietnamese Vietnamese Welsh Welsh Xhosa Xhosa Yiddish Yiddish Yoruba Yoruba Zulu Zulu

  HOMEPAGE

 

 

DIRECTORY CATEGORIES

X10tv Main Category
Articles
eBooks
YouTube
Stories Book
Movies & TV Series
Music

Articles Part 1
1-Automotive
2-Business Articles
3-Business_Articles/
4-Cars
5-Children_Articles
6-Communications_Articles
7=Computers_Articles
8-Debt_Website
9-Education_Articles
10-Family_Articles
11-Fashion_Articles
12-Finance_Articles
13-Food_Articles
14-Health_Articles
15-HomeImprovement_Articles
16-Legal_Articles
17-Loans_Website
18-Reference Articles

Articles Collection Part 2

19-accounting
20-acne
21-adsense
22-advertising
23-aerobics
24-affiliate
25-alternative
26-articles
27-attraction
28-audio-streaming
29auto-care
30-auto-parts
31-autoresponder
32-aviation
33-babies-toddler
34-baby
35-bankruptcy
36-bathroom
37-beauty
38-bedroom
39-blogging
40-body-building
41-book-marketing
42-book-review
43-branding
44-breast-cancer
45-broadband-internet
46-business
47-business-loan
48-business-plan
49-cancer
50-car-buying
car-51-insurance
52-car-loan
53-car-maintenance
54-career
55-cars
56-casino
57-cell-phone
58-chat
59-christmas
60-claims
61-coaching
62-coffee
63-college-university
64-computer-pc-tips
65-cooking
66-cooking-tips
67-copywriting
68-cosmetics
69-craft
70-creative-writing
71-credit
72-credit-cards
73-credit-repair
74-currency-trading
75-data-recovery
76-dating
77-debt-relief
78-diabetics
79-diet
80-digital-camera
81=diving
82-divorce
83-domain
84-driving-tips
85-ebay
86-ebook
87-ecommerce
88-email-marketing
89-emarketing
90-essay
91-ezine
92-fashion
93-finance
94-fishing
95-fitness
96-flu
97-furniture
98-gambling
99-gardening
100-golf
101-google
102-gps
103-hair
104-hair-loss
105-hdtv
106-health-insurance
107-heart-disease
108-hobbies
109-holiday
110-home-business
111-home-improvement
112-home-organization
113-interior-design
114-internet-tips
115-investment
116-jewelry
117-kitchen
118-ladies-accessories
119-lawyer
120-lcd-plasma
121-legal
122-life-insurance
123-lingerie
124-love
125-mailing-list
126-make-money
127-mortgage
128-mp3
129-music
130-network-marketing
131-online-shopping
132-paid-survey
133-pc-games
134-perfume
135-personal-injury
136-ppc
137-pregnancy
138-publishing
139-real-estate
140-recipe
141-recreation
142-relationship
143-resume
144-romance
145-rss
146-sales-letter
147-self-employment
148-seo
149-shoes
150-small-business
151-smoking
152-software
153-spam-blocking
154-sports
155-spyware
156-stress
157-trading
158-travel
159-vacation
160-video-conferencing
161-video-streaming
162-virus
163-voip
164-web-hosting
165-website-traffic
166-wedding
167-weight
168-wine
169-women
170-writng-tips

Articles Collection Part 3

171-+BONUS-ARTICLES
172-/ 25 Home Business PLR Articles
173- / 25DatingRelationshipsPLRArticles0613
174- / 25InternetMarketingPLRArticles
175-Affiliate-Marketers
176-After School Activities
177-Articles-Marketing
178-Baby
179-Blogging
180-Car-Rental
181-Car-Stereo
182-Cell-Phone
183-Coin Collecting
184-Credit Card
185-Depression
186-Diamonds
187-Diet PLR Articles
188-Digital-Camera
189-eZine Marketing
190-Family Budget
191-Fishing
192-Gardening
193-Golf
194-Google Sense
195-Home Schooling
196-Home-Theater
197-Job Search
198-Making Money With Articles
199-monsterplr15000articles
200-New-York
201-Newport Beach
202-Opt-In-List
203-Paint Ball
204-Podcasting
205-San Diego
206-Scotch
207-Ski vacations
208-Collectibles Sports Car
209-Web Design
210-Web-Traffic


Articles Collection Part 4
211-Adsense
212-Advertising
213-Affiliate Marketing
214-Affiliate Marketing On The Internet
215-Affiliate Success
216-Affiliate-Marketers
217-After School Activities
218-Air Purifiers
219-alternative energy
220-American History
221-Art Auctions
222-Articles-Marketing
223-Articles250
224-artmarketing
225-AspenNightlife
226-Astronomy
227-Atkins Diet
228-ATV
229-autism_articles
230-Auto Navigation Systems
231-Auto Responders
232-Auto sound systems
233-Auto-Leasing
234-Autoresponders
235-Baby
236-Backyard Activities
237-Bargain Hunting
238-Bathroom Remodeling
239-BBQs
240-Beach Vacations
241-Beach-Vacations
242-Beauty
243-biography
244-Black History
245-Blog Marketing
246-Blogging
247-Blogs
248-Bluetooth Technology
249-Breast Feeding
250-business
251-Buying A Boat
252-Buying Paintings
253-Candle Making
254-Car-Rental
255-Car-Stereo
256-Carpet
257-Cats
258-CD duplication
259-Cell-Phone
260-Choosing the Right Golf Clubs
261-Christmas Shopping
262-Cigars
263-Closet Organizers
264-Coin Collecting
265-College Scholarship
266-COMPUTER GAMES & SYSTEMS
267-COMPUTERS, LAPTOPS, SMARTPHONES
268-Contact Lenses
269-Cooking
270-copywriting
271-Craigslist
272-creating an online business
273-Credit Card
274-Credit Cards
275-criminology
276-Cruise Ships
277-Dance
278-Data Recovery
279-Dating Women
280-Decorating for Christmas
281-Dental Assistant
282-Depression
283-Diamonds
284-Diesel VS Gasoline vehicles
285-Diesel-VS-Gasoline-vehicles
286-Dieting
287-Digital-Camera
288-Disneyland
289-Dogs
290-eBay
291-Education
292-elliptical trainers
293-Email Marketing
294-entrepreneur
295-Excavation Equipment
296-Excavation-Equipment
297-Exercise
298-eZine Marketing
299-Family Budget
300-Fashion
301-finance_and_insurance
302-Fishing
303-Fitness
304-foods and bevarages
305-Forex
306-Formula D Racing
307-Fruit Trees
308-Fruit-Trees
309-Gambling
310-Garage Remodeling
311-Gardening
312-general
313-Golden Retriever
314-Golden-Retriever
315-Golf
316-Google Sense
317-googleadsense
318-Government
319-Health_Insurance_articles
320-Healthy Eating
321-High Definition Video Cameras
322-High-Definition-Video-Cameras
323-Hiking and Camping
324-Hobby Articles
325-Holiday Games & Activities
326-home and constructions
327-home decorating
328-Home Schooling
329-Home Security
330-Home Theater Systems
331-Home-Theater
332-Hunting
333-hypoallergenic dogs
334-International Airports
335-investing
336-Ipod Video
337-Ipod-Video
338-Jewelry-Wholesale
339-JewelryWhsl
340-Job Search
341-junior golf
342-Kitchen
343-Kitchen Remodeling
344-Koi
345-La Jolla California
346-La-Jolla-California
347-Las Vegas
348-Law
349-Law_order_crime
350-Making Money With Articles
351-Marketing
352-Marketing Your Business On The Internet
353-Martial Arts
354-medicines_and_healthcare
355-Membership Sites
356-Mexico Vacations
357-Microbrews
358-Mini Blinds or Wood Shutters
359-Mini-Blinds-or-Wood-Shutters
360-mobility scooters
361-Monograms
362-Motor Homes
363-Motorcycles and Scooters
364-Mountain Biking
365-Myspace
366-New Air Travel Rules
367-New Years Eve Party Planning
368-New York
369-Newport Beach
370-Niche Marketing
371-Nursing Assistant
372-Office Chairs
373-Online Shopping
374-OptInList
375-Outsourcing Ebooks and Software Jobs
376-Paint Ball
377-Personal Loans
378-pet health care
379-Pets
380-pH Miracle Diet
381-Photography
382-Podcasting
383-politics
384-Pool Accessories
385-Porsche
386-Power Tools
387-Pre-Paid Legal
388-Private Jet Charters
389-Private Label Resell Rights
390-Private Yacht Charters
391-Rawfood
392-RC Hobbies
393-Re-Financing
394-Real Estate
395-Reference
396-remote control helicopters
397-Renting A House Or Apartment
398-Retirement Planning
399-San Diego
400-SanFransisco
401-Satellite Radio
402-Satellite-Radio
403-Scotch
404-Seattle
405-Self Improvement Articles
406-Self-Help
407-Show Business
408-ski vacations
409-Skiing Locations
410-Skincare
411-SkVacations
412-Sleepingbaby
413-Snowboarding
414-Snowmobiling
415-Social Networking
416-Sports
417- collection Sports Car
418-St. Thomas Vacations
419-Summer Vacations
420-Supercross Racing
421-Superfoods
422-Surround Sound
423-Swimming Pools
424-Swimming-Pools
425-Tattoos
426-tech_gadgets
427-Tennis
428-Thanksgiving Party Articles
429-Theater Arts
430-Time-Share Investments
431-TootAche-ToothCare
432-Toothache and Tooth Care
433-Top Golfing Accessories
434-Tracking Software
435-Travel Tips To European Countries
436-UniversalStudioTours
437-Vacuum Cleaners
438-Vacuum-Cleaners
439-Valentines Day
440-Vegetarian
441-Video Sites
442-video streaming
443-Vitamins
444-Vitamins and Supplements
445-WAHM
446-Wart Removal
447-Web Design
448-Web-Traffic
449-webtraffic
450-Wedding Favors
451-Wedding Games & Activities
452-Weight Lloss
453-Weight Loss
454-Wine And Spirits
455-Womens Issues
456-yoga
457-YouTube

# Country
1 Afghanistan
2 Albania
3 Algeria
4 Andorra
5 Angola
6 Antigua and Barbuda
7 Argentina
8 Armenia
9 Australia
10 Austria
11 Azerbaijan
12 Bahamas
13 Bahrain
14 Bangladesh
15 Barbados
16 Belarus
17 Belgium
18 Belize
19 Benin
20 Bhutan
21 Bolivia
22 Bosnia and Herzegovina
23 Botswana
24 Brazil
25 Brunei
26 Bulgaria
27 Burkina Faso
28 Burundi
29 Côte d'Ivoire
30 Cabo Verde
31 Cambodia
32 Cameroon
33 Canada
34 Central African Republic
35 Chad
36 Chile
37 China
38 Colombia
39 Comoros
40 Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
41 Costa Rica
42 Croatia
43 Cuba
44 Cyprus
45 Czechia (Czech Republic)
46 Democratic Republic of the Congo
47 Denmark
48 Djibouti
49 Dominica
50 Dominican Republic
51 Ecuador
52 Egypt
53 El Salvador
54 Equatorial Guinea
55 Eritrea
56 Estonia
57 Eswatini (fmr. "Swaziland")
58 Ethiopia
59 Fiji
60 Finland
61 France
62 Gabon
63 Gambia
64 Georgia
65 Germany
66 Ghana
67 Greece
68 Grenada
69 Guatemala
70 Guinea
71 Guinea-Bissau
72 Guyana
73 Haiti
74 Holy See
75 Honduras
76 Hungary
77 Iceland
78 India
79 Indonesia
80 Iran
81 Iraq
82 Ireland
83 Israel
84 Italy
85 Jamaica
86 Japan
87 Jordan
88 Kazakhstan
89 Kenya
90 Kiribati
91 Kuwait
92 Kyrgyzstan
93 Laos
94 Latvia
95 Lebanon
96 Lesotho
97 Liberia
98 Libya
99 Liechtenstein
100 Lithuania
101 Luxembourg
102 Madagascar
103 Malawi
104 Malaysia
105 Maldives
106 Mali
107 Malta
108 Marshall Islands
109 Mauritania
110 Mauritius
111 Mexico
112 Micronesia
113 Moldova
114 Monaco
115 Mongolia
116 Montenegro
117 Morocco
118 Mozambique
119 Myanmar (formerly Burma)
120 Namibia
121 Nauru
122 Nepal
123 Netherlands
124 New Zealand
125 Nicaragua
126 Niger
127 Nigeria
128 North Korea
129 North Macedonia
130 Norway
131 Oman
132 Pakistan
133 Palau
134 Palestine State
135 Panama
136 Papua New Guinea
137 Paraguay
138 Peru
139 Philippines
140 Poland
141 Portugal
142 Qatar
143 Romania
144 Russia
145 Rwanda
146 Saint Kitts and Nevis
147 Saint Lucia
148 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
149 Samoa
150 San Marino
151 Sao Tome and Principe
152 Saudi Arabia
153 Senegal
154 Serbia
155 Seychelles
156 Sierra Leone
157 Singapore
158 Slovakia
159 Slovenia
160 Solomon Islands
161 Somalia
162 South Africa
163 South Korea
164 South Sudan
165 Spain
166 Sri Lanka
167 Sudan
168 Suriname
169 Sweden
170 Switzerland
171 Syria
172 Tajikistan
173 Tanzania
174 Thailand
175 Timor-Leste
176 Togo
177 Tonga
178 Trinidad and Tobago
179 Tunisia
180 Turkey
181 Turkmenistan
182 Tuvalu
183 Uganda
184 Ukraine
185 United Arab Emirates
186 United Kingdom
187 United States of America
188 Uruguay
189 Uzbekistan
190 Vanuatu
191 Venezuela
192 Vietnam
193 Yemen
194 Zambia
195 Zimbabwe

 
  Related Industry News


 

Recommended By MCT JV Bloggers


  Recommended By MCT JV Bloggers
 

International MCT JV Bloggers Sponsors Collection

International MCT JV Bloggers Sponsors Collection


This Static Spot is open for sponsor

Advertise Here




Informative Articles

Click Here To View Full Title Page

 

 

Article Navigation

Back To Main Page


 

Click Here for more articles

Google
Can You Really Make Money From Blogging
by: Willie Crawford
Copyright 2005 Willie Crawford

One of the questions I see frequently asked on online discussion forums is, "Can You Really Make Money From Blogging?" People want to know if there's some way to profit from the time they spend maintaining their weblogs or personal online journals.

My answer is an emphatic "YES," because I do it... everyday!

Today I'll share with you how I do it.

Let me begin by saying that I don't make thousands per month from MOST of my blogs. However, I do have many making hundreds. Since I don't put in a lot of time maintaining them, and I enjoy blogging, I consider the money a bonus. I blog while sitting in my yard with my laptop (on a wireless connection)... watching the clouds roll by.

Another bonus I get from blogging is that it helps my regular websites that are set up as my "money machines."

The search engines visit my blogs more often than they visit my regular sites, and they follow the links from my blogs pointing to other sites. Some of these links point to my sites, and some point to sites of partners. This does help the search engine rankings of these sites MASSIVELY.

How Do I Monetize My Blogs?

I monetize my blogs by creating blogs on topics people are searching for... and that they are spending money on. I know which niches are hot to an extent based upon what my research proves pay-per-click advertisers are willing to spend their advertising dollars on.

I run Google AdSense ads on my blogs. I simply insert these ads in my menu bar and other strategic places on the webpage. I also experiment with other paid advertising on my blogs.

I sell affiliate products from my blogs. I simply find affiliate products at places like PayDotCom.com and Commission Junction. I incorporate these into my blogs. I do things like product reviews, how-to articles, etc. You can also locate suitable affiliate products by typing your target keywords + "affiliate program" at any major search engine. This should point out numerous websites with suitable affiliate programs to you.

How Do I Setup/Host My Blogs?

I have blog hosted on some of my own domains using Moveable Type. This is just one of many great pieces of blogging software. You have other choices... my programmer recommended this one to me.

I also have blogs hosted for free on Blogger.com. I have them on Blogger.com because they are incredibly easy to set up and maintain. A secondary reason I have them on Blogger.com is that Google OWNS Blogger.com and they index webpages hosted on their servers OFTEN and FAST!

The secret to getting Google and Yahoo! to visit your blogs often is a technique called "blogging and pinging." It's a method of notifying all of the major search engines, and blog directories, each time that you update your blog. The search engines come to take a look and they follow links from your blog to spider other blogs/sites. It's very powerful.

I won't go into too much details on blogging and pinging here. If you want more information on that topic I invite you to drop by my free, Internet marketing discussion board and ask any and all questions! It's at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi

Examples Of Profitable Blogs?

I know, you want to see examples of profitable blogs :-)

To show you how simple it can be I'll show you just ONE. It’s less than 2 months old :-)

The problem is that as soon as I show a site to anyone as an example, it's instantly ripped off. So, I'm going to "sacrifice" one making me about $60 per day from affiliate product sales and about $20 per day in AdSense revenue. That site is at:
http://cure-nail-fungus.blogspot.com

The above site currently ranks Number 6 on Yahoo for the term "cure nail fungus." It's a small niche but one that makes me $2400 per month... just from that one blog.

If you searched on the same term at Google, this site is not very highly ranked. However, THIS page is Num ber4:
http://www.chitterlings.com/no-more-nail-fungus.html

That happens to be one of my pages too :-) I won't tell you what ALL I'm up to on that page... that's another article. The technique involves using your own domains to promote affiliate products rather than advertising someone else's domain... so it improves your link popularity.

I'm not going to show more of my blogs because that just invites competition. Instead, I'm going to answer another question you have to be wondering...

"How do I find time to maintain all of these blogs, even if they are profitable?"

Well, first of all, I don't really need a lot like the "sacrificial lamb" that I showed you above to keep me satisfied.

I do have a number of secret weapons though. One is called AutoBlogger. You can check it out at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/auto-blogger.html

What AutoBlogger does is allow me to queue up a number of posts for my various blogs in advance. It lets you queue up "articles" which can really be anything you want. Then you tell the software at what frequency to make a post.

My AutoBlogger account allows me to automatically post to an UNLIMITED number of blogs.

WARNING: A program like AutoBlogger can get you in trouble if you misuse it! If you use it to spam or abuse the search engines, it's just going to get you banned. If you use it to abuse the blog hosts, they're just going to delete your blogs.

Here's how I use AutoBlogger:

I have sites where I discuss Internet marketing... as just one example. On these sites I share many of my articles and tidbits. I simply queue up these articles/tidbits to post at a given frequency. This frequency can be a set number of hours, days, weeks, or months. So theoretically, I can set up a blog, pre-schedule 50 posts, and not touch it in months, while it is automatically posted to for the next 50 intervals.

AutoBlogger even lets you set it to start rotating through the posts again when they run out, if you want to. I personally wouldn't do this since you'd just be posting duplicate content.

AutoBlogger allows you to insert RSS feeds right into your blog posts. So in addition to posting articles you can also auto-update by adding new RSS feeds at a set interval. Since I HATE sending my traffic to other sites (without reciprocation), these RSS feeds generally pull from MY sites. That way, my traffic is only sent to my other sites.

If you don't even feel like queuing up a lot of posts, you can go to a site like Elance.com and hire someone else to do it for you... or just hired your kids to do it for you. It can be as easy as you want to make it.

OK, I've just proven to you that you can make money off of blogs. In-fact, you can make more money than many people make off of their REGULAR websites. It just takes a little thinking outside the box!

It also takes not being too greedy. What I just showed you works for me because I'm not doing anything that's likely to get me banned from the search engines, Google AdSense, Blogger.com, or any affiliate program. It's only when you get carried away, and do things that harm the search engines that you "shoot yourself in the foot."

Set up blogs providing useful content. Make regular posts to these blogs but not in a manner that seems unnatural. By that, I mean don't auto-post twenty times in an hour, or post every hour for a month! No human can possible post to a blog at these rates for long, so the search engines detect something is "wrong." They don't generally prohibit you from using tools to make your job easier... just don't get carried away!

There are actually, thousands of people earning a living doing things similar to what I just shared... but with little twists. I'm meeting up with many of them in New Orleans in September. You're invited to join us. We'll basically be sharing how we make a fortune off of niche websites and programs such as Google AdSense. You can register today at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/meet-in-new-orleans.html


About the author:
Willie Crawford has taught PROVEN Internet marketing techniques to thousands of successful Internet entrepreneurs since late-1996. Grab a free copy of his comprehensive, 20-Lesson Internet Marketing Success Course now at: http://WillieCrawford.com


Circulated by Article Emporium

 



©2005 - All Rights Reserved

This Static Spot is open for sponsor


RSS Information

Read Articles:


 How to Use Your Google API Key as Your Secret W...

 Make Money Blogging

 Tools for Online Tracking

 Do Marketers Really Need RSS?

 15 Tips to Bring More Traffic to Your Blog

 New Google Blog Search is Great Marketing News ...

 Blog and Boost Your Search Engine and RSS Traffic

 Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search...

 RSS Ego Searches

 Submit Your Articles: Guidelines for getting t...

 Analyzing the New Yahoo! RSS Report for Marketers

 7 Reasons to Add Podcasting to Your Business Ma...

 The 6 Top Reasons Marketers Should Blog

 Blogging will take over the world!

 Developing Content Sites as Marketing Tools

 How Non-technical Webmasters Are Harnessing the...

 The Importance of Blogging/RSS to Your Home Bus...

 Huge Content Rich Websites for Profit

 Here's 4 Quick and EASY Steps To Getting Your W...

 Microsoft and Google Show It's Time for RSS Mar...

 Where's Your Content?

 Webmaster Tools and Resources

 The Hybrid Blog and Ping

 Making money with RSS Feeds

 The Evolution of Google AdSense

 Should Bloggers be Helping Google Fix Their Pag...

 "If an RSS feed is the Yahoo backdoor, is a Blo...

 Can You Really Make Money From Blogging

 How Podcasting Works

 6 more free steps to making money online

 Why Google Blog Search Matters to Your Business

 Marketing Optimization 101 for Blogs

 How To Add Fresh Content To Your Website

 Benefits to RSS

 What is Blogging?

 How Yahoo's Recent Facelift Can Mean More Traff...

 Website Globalization

 Fun Free Feed Tools for Both the Publisher and ...

 You Don't Have TIME to Sit and Wonder When The ...

 RSS Tools

More Article Pages 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

 

Tracking and Measuring RSS Feeds
 by: S. Housley

Measuring and tracking RSS while a fairly simple concept, is really anything but. Unlike websites, RSS have the added caveat of potential syndication, making accurate tracking a challenge to anyone but the extremely tech savvy.

It is not unrealistic for marketers to want to know how many subscribers they have, which items in their feeds attract the most interest, or how many click-throughs are generated as a result of an RSS feed.

There are a number of 3rd party providers who focus on tracking the consumption of RSS feeds. Some solutions are rudimentary but likely sufficient for a small business testing the waters with RSS. Other RSS tracking solutions are more complex and while they can come close to being accurate, with syndication there is no solution that tracks with 100% accuracy.

Techniques Used to track RSS Consumption

Small businesses can view web logs to provide information on how many times a specific file (RSS feed) is requested. The logs and information is rudimentary but will give a basic sense of a feeds success. Many 3rd party tracking options have additional tracking information available.

Hosting

The most common method to track the number of feed accesses or individuals accessing a feed is to use a 3rd party feed host. Companies like FeedBurner essentially track feeds based on accesses. The downside to using a 3rd party like Feedburner, is that the url is a FeedBurner url and any PageRank or popularity associated with the url will benefit the feed host rather than the feed creator. Additionally, no distinction is made between unique views or syndicate feeds.

FeedBurner provides a free no frills service to host RSS feeds and they have been proactive in circumventing user concerns. Recently implementing a service that eases users concerns about migrating from FeedBurner. There is a 3 step process for users interested in migrating from FeedBurner's free service, implementing a permanent redirect, and url forwarding.

Details can be found at: http://www.burningdoorc.om/feedburner/archives/001251.html

Some publishers, who were concerned about lock-in or wanted to retain control of the domain and feed urls often resist a hosting service. The new program FeedBurner Partner Pro is not free, but allows for users to point to their own domain, retaining complete control of their feeds without sacrificing statistical tracking.

The downside to using a service like FeedBurner is that some filtering applications used on corporate proxy servers block feeds residing on FeedBurner or other free hosts.

Redirects

Companies like SyndicateIQ have more complex tracking solutions that generate unique urls for each subscriber. The tracking benefits to such a customized solution is obvious. Individual user habits can be monitored and any users abusing their access and inappropriately syndicating a feeds content can have their feed turned off. The downside of course is that the success of RSS is in a large part due to the anonymity. Users don't want their personal habits tracked.

Considering the venture capital interest in these 3rd party hosting services. It is important to note that their value is in the data that they collect. As with any 3rd party service, it goes without saying that publishers should read the privacy policy carefully, be aware of who owns the rights to the collected information, and how that information might be used. It goes without saying that the value in many of the free services currently available lies in their aggregate data.

Uniquely Named Transparent Images

Uniquely named transparent 1x1 graphics can be added to the description field of an RSS feed. Users can use standard web logs to see the number of times the image is viewed and determine the number of times the feed was accessed.

Companies Specializing in Tracking and RSS Metrics

Pheedo - Pheedo creates tools that enable individuals, organizations and corporations to promote, analyze, and optimize their weblogs and content.

http://www.pheedo.com

SyndicateIQ - SyndicateIQ's position in the content distribution chain provides clients a set of analytics.

http://www.syndicateiq.com/

FeedBurner - FeedBurner offers a full range of services to help you build awareness, track circulation, and implement revenue-generating programs in your feed(s).

http://www.feedburner.com

Each individual using RSS needs to make a decision of the extent and importance of the analytics they require. Realizing that any system they employ is not going to be perfect.



©2005 - All Rights Reserved





Afrikaans Afrikaans Albanian Albanian Amharic Amharic Arabic Arabic Armenian Armenian Azerbaijani Azerbaijani Basque Basque Belarusian Belarusian Bengali Bengali Bosnian Bosnian Bulgarian Bulgarian Catalan Catalan Cebuano Cebuano Chichewa Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Corsican Croatian Croatian Czech Czech Danish Danish Dutch Dutch English English Esperanto Esperanto Estonian Estonian Filipino Filipino Finnish Finnish French French Frisian Frisian Galician Galician Georgian Georgian German German Greek Greek Gujarati Gujarati Haitian Creole Haitian Creole Hausa Hausa Hawaiian Hawaiian Hebrew Hebrew Hindi Hindi Hmong Hmong Hungarian Hungarian Icelandic Icelandic Igbo Igbo Indonesian Indonesian Irish Irish Italian Italian Japanese Japanese Javanese Javanese Kannada Kannada Kazakh Kazakh Khmer Khmer Korean Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kyrgyz Kyrgyz Lao Lao Latin Latin Latvian Latvian Lithuanian Lithuanian Luxembourgish Luxembourgish Macedonian Macedonian Malagasy Malagasy Malay Malay Malayalam Malayalam Maltese Maltese Maori Maori Marathi Marathi Mongolian Mongolian Myanmar (Burmese) Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Nepali Norwegian Norwegian Pashto Pashto Persian Persian Polish Polish Portuguese Portuguese Punjabi Punjabi Romanian Romanian Russian Russian Samoan Samoan Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic Serbian Serbian Sesotho Sesotho Shona Shona Sindhi Sindhi Sinhala Sinhala Slovak Slovak Slovenian Slovenian Somali Somali Spanish Spanish Sundanese Sundanese Swahili Swahili Swedish Swedish Tajik Tajik Tamil Tamil Telugu Telugu Thai Thai Turkish Turkish Ukrainian Ukrainian Urdu Urdu Uzbek Uzbek Vietnamese Vietnamese Welsh Welsh Xhosa Xhosa Yiddish Yiddish Yoruba Yoruba Zulu Zulu

 

Total Views stat / Page Views stat

Advertise Here

web page counter Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved.
\n