RSS has moved beyond the realm of blogging that is true.
Our auction site offerred RSS feeds for over a year before eBay finally woke up and started offering the same functionality.
I have noticed an alarming tendency though. There are many leech sites, which generated completely junk content purely though RSS feeds. I really hate seeing our feeds appear on such sites.
Bidera Wrote:I have noticed an alarming tendency though. There are many leech sites, which generated completely junk content purely though RSS feeds.
There are programs available that use RSS feeds to generate 100's of pages of fresh content from RSS feeds based on high-payout AdSense keywords. Google and Yahoo's search are drowning in those spam sites.
Nuke 'em all
100 of them
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_an...index.html
A press release for another
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/5/prweb245110.htm
Quote:Are you allowed to get that feed? Yes! In fact, RSS is designed to make the distribution of any form of content easy. The reason that an author, news organization or corporations content is syndicated is because they want other people to subscribe and post that syndication. If they didnt want it out on the web, they wouldnt syndicate it! So we use it.
The TOS of many RSS feeds say otherwise.
Another article on retailers using, and choosing, RSS feeds in addition to, or as a replacement for, email marketing. Hint.
Quote:Looking for new ways to reach consumers, retailers like eBags, ICE.com, TowerRecords.com and others are using RSS, or "really simple syndication," to feed product alerts to Internet users who have set up personalized Web pages on Yahoo, Google and other sites.
"I don't know how many e-mails you get a day, but I can't keep up," said Jon Nordmark, the chief executive of eBags. "Rather than delivering a slightly relevant message to a person's mailbox, this allows us to get customers very detailed information directly."
By giving merchants another free way to reach consumers, these alerts serve as a hedge against the recent move by AOL and Yahoo to start charging for some commercial bulk e-mail deliveries. More importantly, retailers see them as a way to reach consumers who are growing weary of commercial e-mail...
full article:
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/A0Pv5M5R...ping.xhtml
I love RSS.
I hate spammers who put my feeds on their splogs.