How To Start A Business In North Carolina - A Gentle Warning To All Webmasters About RSS

It just happened. I didn't
plan for it to be that way. RSS is fast becoming an obsession for me.

Simple phrase but it changes everything. Really
Simple Syndication. I have been interested in RSS for a couple of years now
but it was only around this time last year that I started
taking a serious look at this little syndication standard
that's changing how we communicate on the web.

The Internet is one huge storehouse of
knowledge that more than supplied me with enough material to
write a hundred articles. Ebooks to collect what information I needed for
my ebook and articles, forums, blogs, going through the vast resources of the Internet. I figured what better way to get to know a subject than to
write about it.

Feeding the spiders with very legit content
to build targeted traffic to any keyword or market sector I
wanted to promote; starting
my own blogs and RSS feeds to enhance my sites and manipulating
the search engines, i concentrated on website RSS
techniques that worked with the major Search Engines. So at the same time I started to really implement RSS tactics
on my own sites to get 'first-hand' evidence to prove or back
up my articles and writing. I also knew the only way
to really learn about a subject was 'hands on' experience, coming from a fine art background.

The impact
will be felt in all areas of the web. Only after I had started researching and writing about RSS did
it dawn on me that I had no idea just how Big a Player RSS is
becoming and will become in the very near future. Experiences that have opened my eyes wider than they have been
since kindergarten and RSS is still surprising me at every turn.

The year RSS would finally enter the mainstream. . . In that article
I stated that this year would be the Breakout Year for RSS. 10 Reasons to Put RSS On Your Site, at the beginning of last year I wrote a simple article.

Some of the major ones: There have been many
developments for RSS, during this year, since that article.

Google bought Blogger.com
a while back which promotes the Atom feed. Google
also finally embraced RSS despite its major investment in the
other syndication standard -- Atom. Google Blog Search Which now opens up the whole area of blog
content and feeds to the one search engine that counts.

This will put
RSS center stage for computer and Internet users. This will open up RSS to the mass market. Microsoft's Longhorn Statement The next version of Windows will
have RSS.

Google Sitemaps This XML powered system lets you update and
quickly index your site's pages in Google.

Podcasting The enormous popularity of sending audio files or
podcasting is opening up a whole new audience for RSS.

Further opening up RSS
to becoming a broadcasting system for the Internet, including video and TV programs through RSS, media RSS This will permit the syndication of all types of media.

Makes it possible to
search RSS feeds for the information we need, as well as other search engines, rSS Search MSN.

It also proves you
really don't have to know a thing about RSS to enjoy its benefits
-- it can be seamlessly integrated into the background or operating
system with the end-users oblivious to even the existence of RSS. Mozilla Firefox Browser This RSS powered browser with its 'Live
Bookmarks' is proving very popular with surfers.

Commercial RSS Then there is the whole potential of RSS ads and
advertising which would commercialize RSS and bring it into play by
large corporations who are mainly interested in the bottom line.

RSS is becoming a force that
has to be reckon with by every webmaster. Gaining in
popularity and growing in strength, rSS is taking on a life of its own. Not to mention all those orange XML or RSS buttons popping up on
website after website.

Are you using RSS? Are you taking advantage of
RSS? Is your site RSS ready? How about you?

You will be losing traffic to sites that are RSS User-Friendly and
fully optimized for RSS. You will be losing traffic to those sites using the XML powered Sitemaps. You will be losing
traffic to sites that are targeting keywords with blogs and feeds. Without RSS you will be losing
visitors and traffic to RSS empowered sites. If you want your site to remain truly
competitive you must have RSS on it. . . This is a gentle warning that you will start using RSS if you haven't
already and here's why.

How much more effective will your
competitors be with RSS on their sites? What
role will RSS play in getting visitors and repeat visitors
to your competitor's website? How competitive will your site be without RSS, when the next Windows browser
comes online, just ask yourself? You must have an RSS User-Friendly site if want your site to be
competitive.

. . Next RSS
powered Windows, media RSS, blog Search, take
advantage of Google's Sitemaps. You have to position your
sites to take full advantage of the coming RSS revolution! You have to prepare your sites for RSS. If they haven't already, webmasters should be gearing up now for RSS.

Prepare your site. Get Ready.

RSS will play a bigger and bigger role
in the success or failure of your website. RSS will transform the Internet. It is changing the whole ball game, rSS is not only changing the rules.

Proceed without RSS at your own risk.