2. I love my RSS reader. I have a gazillion website, blog and
news feeds set up in there, and I get the latest information
from all of my favorite sites. That means I can be one of
the first to share it with you. And RSS Reader 1.0 has a
doorbell sound effect that rings when there are new feed
entries to read. So wherever I am in the house I hear it
and take a look. I also get the additional bonus of six
barking dogs to announce the new feed entries.
3. As an aside, I noticed something very interesting. Because
of my RSS reader I was one of the first to cover
adsenseblacklist.com, a terrific new web site that will help
you screen out the cheesy AdSense ads. Because I was on
it first, I popped up in the first five Google search results
for this keyword for a while, which drove traffic to this
site. So watch your RSS reader.
7. Closer to home, affiliate merchants are starting to get into
datafeeds, which are sort of like file-based RSS feeds.
Datafeeds provide direct access to merchant products
using text files. The file contains a list of products,
services, special offers, coupons or other information that
you can display on your site. You then upload that
information to your server and use some kind of tool or
script to display the different items in that file. There are
programs on CJ, LinkShare and Shareasale that have
datafeeds.
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9. If you have a niche that has a well-matched affiliate
program, you might try a product feed. If you want to put
up an occasional coupon or special offer, you can probably
do it by hand rather than going through all of this mumbo
jumbo.
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12. If you want to know more or give it a shot, here are some
resources:
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16. Soon, I will let you know how I put this all on autopilot
and never have to think about the blog again after I spend
a few hours setting it up!