By Jason Lee Miller

Feedster will launch the Japanese version of its RSS and blog search engine soon, according to Feedster President Chris Redlitz. Feedster recently received funding to do so from Japanese investment firm Mitsui and Co., and the move will also help another future transition into the Chinese market by the end of the year at the earliest.

Who serves your blog search needs best: Feedster or one of its many competitors? Tell us who measures up at SyndicationPro.

By Sharon Housley

As publishers have moved towards monetizing RSS feeds, there have been vibrant discussions as to whether advertisements in feeds are viable or whether they will drive subscribers away. At the end of the day while it appears that many are discussing the philosophical approaches to ads in RSS feeds few are taking the time to examine the options available for inserting advertisements in feeds. Ultimately the advertisements served are going to determine the success of RSS as an advertising medium. The ads served must be related to the content contained in the feed. If the RSS feed contains quality content, the ads are relevant, and the volume of ads is in balance with the volume of content served, advertising in RSS feeds will succeed. Take a closer look at some of the ad serving options currently available for RSS feeds.

Written By Sharon Housley and published in SiteProNews.com

The age old question keeps coming up, how do you retain website visitors, how do you make visitors return to your website? The answer should come as no surprise, fresh content. Content is truly king, the fresher the content the better the site. What many webmasters fail to realize is that there is an endless supply of content on the web that is freely available to webmasters.
Not only can public domain material be freely used and syndicated on websites, but a number of content publishers provide content in exchange for a link back to their websites. A variety of contents related to the website theme that is integrated into the website will attract the interest of both search engines and web surfers. The key to taking advantage of frëe content is integrating or including content that is directly related to the theme of the website.

Written by Kamau Austin for SiteProNews

It is the trend du jour. They are the subject of pundit press, guru glare, and are ready for mainstream adoption. RSS feeds and their communication kin the blog — are bandied about as the next big thing.
Everywhere you look there are articles and ebooks touting the electronic affinity and high value of these two forms of media creation and distribution. However can these two forms of digital media drive more traffïc to your site, or — are they just hype?

Written by Tinu AbayomiPaul for SiteProNews

According to Google, Google’s Blog Search is “Google search technology focused on blogs”. It includes search engine results specific to blogs not just in the Blogger.com community, but across the blogosphere at large. You can access it at http://www.blogsearch.google.com.

What the Big Deal Is

A lot of people have probably heard about this extra version of search Google has added and are greeting it with a big yawn, particularly since it’s still in Beta. So what is the big deal, anyway?

Written by David Risley for SiteProNews

We’ve all heard it before: content is king. And it is true. If you own a site, you need to post something interesting that people want to read before you can expect people to stop by. If your site is a content-based website, then you’ve already taken a huge step. However, if your website is a business website whose only purpose is to talk about your services, then you really should make an effort to post some content onto your website which is helpful to readers, frëe, and relevant to your services or website. If you do this, your site will attract traffïc from people looking for information, not just to purchase something. And with increased traffïc in general, you will get increased attention. And this increases your statistics.

by David Utter

A bit of a kerfuffle has erupted over Microsoft’s proposed name change to news feeds as handled by the upcoming IE7 web browser.

The specter of Microsoft has appeared over the realm of RSS, its ominous shadow casting a pall upon the world. The Redmondians have deigned to rename RSS feeds at “web feeds.”

Dave Winer, who refined the old Netscape RDF Site Summary protocol into what is now RSS, has found fault with Microsoft’s choice of names. “Like it or not Microsoft, the technology is called RSS. If you try to change that, for whatever reason, you will get routed around,” Mr. Winer posted there.

RSS As A Change Agent By Rok Hrastnik

To better understand how RSS is changing the way companies and individuals deliver and consume content on the macro scale, let us first remember how content is traditionally delivered and consumed.

People subscribe to e-mail newsletters or e-mail update services to get content delivered directly to their inboxes. It’s (or better yet, was) convenient, easy and simple.

But, in order to get content delivered to their inboxes, they must first reveal their e-mail addresses, which are basically ID numbers that allow anyone who knows them to send whatever they like to these ID numbers.

The RSS Promise for Internet Users by Rok Hrastnik (c) 2005

The RSS promise for end-users is simple:
–> a unified one-stop-shop to consume online content, without having to visit dozens of sites every day to see what’s new and without having their online subscriptions interfere with their personal and business e-mail communications;

–> complete control over their content consumption, including a quick, easy and reliable mechanism to unsubscribe from content they do not wish to receive;

–> the ability to receive breaking news as it becomes available, without having to wait for a monthly, weekly or daily recap sent to their e-mail addresses;

Strategic RSS Positioning… How to Hotwire Your Site to Google! by Titus Hoskins

There’s no denying it, the Internet has changed. The change was so subtle most people missed it. It was no great momentous event, just a slight sideways flex in how information is exchanged on the web. However, this slight shift has significant ramifications for anyone trying to achieve top rankings in the different search engines. So keep reading to find out how you can use this new SEO wildcard to ‘hotwire’ your site to the major search engines such as Google, Msn and Yahoo.
Of course, the wildcard we’re talking about is RSS!