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Connect your Blog with the Twitterverse

Blogger, the Google-owned blog platform, is suggesting that you use Twitterfeed to tweet your new blog posts. This is a way to expand the readership of your blog, as well as participate on Twitter without actually tweeting things about you life.

5 Steps to Manage Your Brand's Reputation On Your Own

You probably know by now that protecting the reputation of your brand online is critical to success. Word spreads fast on the Internet, and whether or not something is true, it can spiral out of control in a short time. That is why it's important to monitor what people are saying about your product, your business, and their experiences in dealing with you.

Business Blogs Only Work if You Use Them

The New York Times recently ran an interesting piece about how most blogs on the web are abandoned, or at least very rarely updated. The article cites a study performed by blog search engine Technorati, which found that something like 95% of blogs it tracks had not been updated in the past 120 days (from the time the research was collected). Is This a Problem That Plagues Your Business?

Tips to Get People to Subscribe to Feeds

Darren Rowse is an Australian blogger, speaker, and consultant. He is the founder of several blogs and blog networks, such as b5media and ProBlogger.net. According to Wikipedia, two of his blogs get around 85,000-100,000 page views a day and over $20,000 in total ad revenue a month. In other words, the man knows his stuff when it comes to blogging. If you are looking to improve your blogging efforts, he is a good person to follow.

Advertising Through Feeds

If you publish content then there is a good chance you offer readers RSS feeds. You can monetize these by placing ads in them, and make up for the people that aren't visiting your site/blog because they're getting you content through their feed reader.On the flipside, whether you are producing articles or not, there are no doubt feeds from other places that provide content related to whatever you business provides. This can be a good place for some ad impressions that you may have overlooked.

Stand Out in Their Feed Readers

If you publish a business blog, chances are you have RSS feeds as well. There is also a good chance that many of your readers pretty much read your content exclusively through these feeds.If these readers are reading your content exclusively through feeds, they are probably doing the same thing with many other blogs and news sources, which is why you have to take some measures to make yours stand out enough to get their attention.

Ways RSS Feeds Can Benefit Your Business

As I mentioned before, Google Reader is one of my favorite features that Google offers because it allows me to read the latest articles and posts from nearly every website and blog that I read on a regular basis all in one place. This can be a tremendous time-saver and tool to keep you up to date on all of the happenings in your niche, and boost your productivity as a result.Subscribing to Feeds