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Blogging, RSS & Feeds |
Dear Web Diary!Blogging is hot and getting hotter, with more and more web logs (blogs) cropping up online... read more So You Have a Blog, Now What Do You Do With It? Blog Basics(This article assumes that you have already set up a blog on your website. I highly recomm... read more Boost your Search Engine Rankings with an RSS FeedI'm here to teach you about how RSS Feeds can boost traffic for your website. You may have... read more Blogging for Personal BenefitsWhile there is a lot of debate about blogs replacing emails in the future, I would rather ... read more Creating A Basic RSS Feed For Your SiteThe future of RSS Feeds and internet marketing is looking bright and promising. It would b... read more RSS Can Keep You In The LoopWhen webmasters first hear about RSS they tend to concentrate on the promotional side of t... read more RSS Works: Hard Metrics to Prove ItMarketers are constantly asking if RSS marketing works and if this can be proved. It... read more If an RSS Feed is the Yahoo Backdoor, is a Blog Google?s?Though the answer is in a book I wrote this July, the question is still asked of me repeat... read more How to Use Blogs for Free Targeted TrafficOne of the Number 1 traffic building secrets is adding content to your website. Have you e... read more What is Blogging?Blogs have been around for many years but have recently become somewhat a new 'craze'. A B... read more Blog ReflectionI still consider myself to be a blog writing novice but as I've got a few entries under my... read more The Best Marketing Tool For Your RSS Feed and Its FreeDo a search on Blogs on Yahoo and you get 236 Million Results.A Yahoo Search on RSS yields... read more A Basic Introduction to BloggingWeb logging first appeared on the net in the mid-1990s. The term "web log" was i... read more Build a Website Using Blog SoftwareHave you thought about how easily you could build and maintain a website if you created th... read more You Are Losing Money If Youre Not Using RSS Feeds On Your Website!(An RSS primer can be found near the bottom of the article) A commercial website in ... read more |
What is a Blog?Q: Not to ask a ridiculously obvious question, but what is a blog? And what's the future of blogs and blogging? A: By a remarkable coincidence, Steven Streight, aka Vaspers the Grate, just asked me the very same questions about the definition of blogs on his own site, so rather than write something new, I'm just going to quote what I wrote for him: What is your definition of a "blog"? A blog isn't what everyone thinks it is. In fact, on this very page, you have a pile of definitions of blogs that I disagree with. Why? Because everyone likes to focus on the *presentation* of information and blogs are really all about the *management* of information. Her e's what I mean: if you think that a blog is a web site characterized by frequent articles displayed in chronological order, typically with timestamps, a la a journal or diary, you're missing the forest for the trees. Weblogs, instead, are just the facade that we see of considerably more powerful content management systems that really revolutionize the maintenance of Websites. Look at it this way: if you're not using a blog to help manage your site, when was the last time you added any new content or revised an existing page? When you do add content, do you make sure to link it into all the other pages on your site, including your sitemap? Sure, there are other software solutions for managing Web sites, but none that are as flexible, easy, inexpensive, and SEO-friendly as weblogs. What is the future of blogs? Having said that, I think that blogs are going to go the way of the dinosaur, evolving from an animal we spot into the petroleum we use to fuel our journeys, without giving an iota of thought to the source of the petroleum. It's not that blogs aren't cool and interesting, but just as geeks used to learn PostScript so they could work with printers and display systems and now... ...have no idea that PostScript is the underlying language of many devices, so we'll find that we can focus on our sites, how the information is displayed and how we utilize it for our needs. After all, the bottom line is the same as it was before the blogging "phenomenon": Ho w do you find the best, most useful and valuable information on the Internet for any given question, problem or query? Dave Taylor is an internationally recognized expert on business and technical topics and is the author of 18 different books and thousands of magazine articles. His Q&A Web site is http:// www.askdavetaylor.com/ |
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