Gary Eckstein Internet 2 Atom, feed, feedburner, Feeds, google, how to, PubSubHubbub, rss, WordPress
As a WordPress Website designer and support person I often work with Feedburner. Feedburner makes tracking feed subscriptions simple as well as adding some really cool functionality such as the ability to subscribe to feeds by email and even enabling pubsubhubbub. I enable Feedburner feed subscription for the default WordPress feed on most Sites I [...]
Gary Eckstein Search Engine Optimization 0 Atom, feedburner, google, rss, Search Engine Optimization, SERPs
RSS/Atom feeds have become synonymous with Blogs; every major Blog software and service includes feeds by default. WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Joomla, Drupal, Tumblr and so on all have feed capabilities as a standard offering. Feeds were originally created to ‘push’ content to subscribers i.e. a person would choose to receive updates from a Website and [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 1 feedburner, google, rss, WordPress, wp-o-matic, yahoo, yahoo pipes
The problems with Google Feedburner and the mighty Yahoo Pipes is causing many of us headaches. For over two weeks now Feedburner has not been reading RSS data from Pipes. Many people use Feedburner to parse their Pipes RSS feeds and often publish this information on websites. Since the 6th of November Pipes and Feedburner [...]
Gary Eckstein Search Engine Optimization 0 bookmarking, dmoz, feedburner, link promotion, mybloglog, Search Engine Optimization, search engines, seo, urls, website, WordPress
What difference does Search Engine Optimization really make? Is it worth spending the time and money on SEO? From experience it is obvious that SEO is an effective activity however I thought it’d be fun to compare two identical websites; one with a bit of SEO performed and one with very little SEO. I have [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 1 Atom, feed, feedburner, Feeds, google, Icerocket, index, indexing, ping, PingShot, publishing, PubSubHubbub, rss, search, search engines, SERPs, technorati, web, yahoo
I’m sure I read a quote somewhere saying that PubSubHubbub is like the Web on Crack (I can’t seem to find the quote). I’m not crazy enough to have tried Crack but it must be good if it’s anything like the new publish/subscribe messaging paradigm. PubSubHubbub is the Google initiative which, in plain English, monitors [...]
