Saving time with RSS
Posted on | June 19, 2008 |
It’s taken me a while to get onto the RSS bandwagon and set myself up with a newsreader. For those of you who don’t know, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s that orange logo that you find on sites, typically blogs, and it looks like sound waves. Have a look in the upper right hand corner of this blog.
If you hadn’t ever thought about it, but like to read blogs, news, etc, it could be a big time saver. I recently started using Google Reader, and am I ever glad I finally invested a little time to figure it out.
Those blogs I should read all the time, but don’t because I’m too busy to “surf” to them are now available to me every day without having to dig in my bookmarks.
Now that I’m sniffing out all those interesting blogs and news sites on the net, I have a decent sized collection of regular reads. One tip I’ll give is to sort them out into categories. Try and be reasonably specific to make your life easier. I don’t read all mine religiously. I have some categories that I only check once in a while because they’re not full of earth shattering info.
I have the obligatory Matt Cutts blog in there, along with SEOmoz. I even discovered that Stumbleupon has RSS feeds. Nice! I tend to do a fair amount of blogging in Stumbleupon on SEO and Internet marketing topics, so you might want to add my feed.
Now, practically anywhere I go on the Net, I’m looking for the little orange logo. Any suggestions for blogs, news sites, etc, that I should add to my reader? I would appreciate hearing about them!
Alain Saffel
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