Blogs and RSS Feeds
What is a Blog?
Blogs started out as a personal online journals less than a decade ago, where people shared their opinions, ramblings and personal events. But Blogs go way beyond that now.
Today, blogs are used for all sorts of purposes. Companies use blogs to communicate and interact with customers and other stakeholders. Newspapers incorporated blogs to their main website to offer a new channel for their writers. Individuals create a blog to share with the world their expertise on specific topics. And so on.
10 Reasons You Need a Blog
- You don't need to know HTML
- It forces you to keep your content fresh
- It's automatically optimized for search engines
- You can keyword optimize your blog
- You create an online community
- You initiate dialog that leads to conversations
- You'll benefit from inbound links (others linking to your blog)
- It's easy to syndicate content (RSS feed see below)
- You benefit from linking and being linked to other blogs and websites.
What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
Benefits of RSS feeds
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually.
RSS feeds are a great way to spread your newest info, products, services, tech support, white papers, etc. to your best customers and fans.
Feed Reader or News Aggregator software grabs the RSS feeds from various sites and displays them to be read.
Avallo Blog and RSS Set Up Service
Standard Blog Setup includes blog set up on Blogger.com and inserting the blog into the website. As you blog, the website automatically updates.
Cost for this service is a low one-time fee of $300.
Premium Blog Setup includes the stand setup plus plus blog promotion–we submit your blog to several (about 50 but depends on the subject) blog and RSS feed directories. Your blog gets spidered very quickly and gets a good link popularity - it may start ranking on several terms even.
Cost for this service is a low one-time fee of $500.
Contact us to set up your blog today!