RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”. In simple terms, RSS allows you to be automatically notified whenever new content is added to a web site

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Two months ago I tweaked my blog layout to encourage visitors to subscribe by email. Since then my email subscriptions have tripled. Find out how.

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I’ve found FeedBurner to be an excellent tool in analyzing my feed traffic and helping people to subscribe to my feed. It has helped in publicizing my web site and it is another useful tool in promoting and marketing your web site. Go burn that feed and reap the rewards!

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During my current series on Webmaster and SEO tools I made reference to Clicky Web Analytics which is competing with the likes of Google Analytics. Clicky is still under development and new features are appearing on a regular basis. The latest one which I like is Feedburner integration. Using the FeedBurner API it enables Clicky to hook into your FeedBurner stats and display them in your Clicky home page.

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If you’ve recently installed or upgraded to WordPress 2.1 then you may be unaware of a change to how your feeds are handled.
I recently noticed that my feeds were starting to get cut off at the point where I insert the the <–more–> tag on my posts. For anyone who doesn’t know, the [...]

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I was browsing the BBC web site today and came across a really clever use of RSS. The BBC allows you to create your own RSS feed based on content stored on their web site.
You use the BBC search engine to find the content you’re interested in and then subscribe to the search results. [...]

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I wanted to pass on this warning I read on Cybernet Technology News.
Full details are contained in the above link but to summarise, the problem concerns people who have burned their GMail feed using FeedBurner. If you don’t make the feed private then it means anyone could potentially have access to sensitive information [...]

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I’ve modified my blog feeds to use FeedBurner from today. It has some really cool features. Here are a few features I liked:

How to help publicize your blog
How to make your feed browser friendly so if someone clicks on your feed they are not presented with a bunch of unfriendly XML.
How to add [...]

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