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Our Prescription is a Marion Blog Subscription

Posted by Sheryl Sargent in Internet Marketing, RSS Feed, Search Engine Optimization, Web Design on August 25, 2010

To stay current with the Marion blog, become a subscriber to our RSS Feed.

This is achieved through just a few easy steps.

  1. Go to the Marion Blog (Look at that, you’re already here. Good job!)
  2. Click the orange RSS icon on the right side of the screen where it reads “Subscribe to the Marion RSS Feed.”
  3. If you have,
    • Internet Explorer (IE): Choose the personal account or preferred browser (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bloglines, etc.) through which you want to receive blog updates or simply add our feed to your IE Favorites.
    • Mozilla: Choose the personal account or preferred browser (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bloglines, etc.) through which you want to receive blog updates or simply bookmark our feed, choosing “Live Bookmark.”
  4. Click “Subscribe Now.”

Voila! You’re now a Marion Subscriber and you didn’t even break a sweat.

Don’t even know what a RSS Feed is? Click here to learn more.

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RSS Feeds are Simply Great for Syndication

Posted by admin in Internet Marketing, RSS Feed, Search Engine Optimization on June 25, 2010

A goal that marketers have when building their websites is to keep customers and prospects informed with the latest news about their business and keep them coming back for more. One online tool that helps is an RSS feed. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, blogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever is interested.

RSS feeds solve problems for people who regularly use the web by allowing them to easily stay informed by having the latest content get taken from the sites they are interested in. People save time by not having to visit each site individually. An RSS feed is a great addition to blogs for people on the go and many blogging tools have built-in RSS feed features. Users can subscribe to a feed by clicking on the ‘Subscribe’ link on the feed’s page. To view the subscribed feeds, users can choose to use their browser’s ‘Favorites’ tab or their iGoogle or My Yahoo accounts.

The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing. RSS feeds provide many features and benefits for both the publishers and viewers of the feed including.

  • Individuals opt-in to feeds for sites of interest and control the flow of information that they receive.
  • RSS does not burden the publisher with maintaining opt-in lists or following strict privacy guidelines.
  • You have direct access to your subscribers and guaranteed delivery of your content
  • RSS feeds can improve your internal content syndication for corporate communications and provide information to remote employees and sales teams
  • Publishers are able to create keyword-rich content. Syndicating your content builds up inbound links and positively affects your search engine rankings

For more information on RSS feeds and how Marion can help you with them and other internet marketing tools, please email or call 713-623-6444.

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