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How to Make Money Online with RSS Data Transfer
RSS
(Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site) also has been
referred to as a "pull" technology rather
than a "push" technology. And, in fact, this
feature is what makes RSS so popular in terms of today's
Internet usage.
It's
probably hard to argue that anyone who uses the Internet
today hasn't heard of spam. If they have an email inbox
it is probably full of it.
Spam,
for the uninitiated, is the receipt of unwanted emails
from people whom you did not request to receive information.
Spam represents the "push" technology. That
is, people "push" their email message at your
inbox, whether you have asked to receive the email or
not.
And
that aspect of "push" technology is what many
have come to believe is the death of email. It's arguable
that email will still be around for quite a long time,
even though there are still people who continue the
illegal spam process. In fact, companies are making
millions now just providing everyday users as well as
huge corporations, solutions claiming to solve their
spam problem.
RSS,
on the other hand, can be said to be the exact opposite
of the email "push" technology. Because you
cannot "push" your message to subscribers.
In fact, the only way that people can subscribe to an
RSS feed is to do so voluntarily. And, at the same time,
they can unsubscribe whenever they want.
That's
why it's called a "pull" technology. Because
subscribers "pull" information into their
readers and, if the content isn't what they expect,
they can unsubscribe whenever they'd like. So, unlike
the email "push" technology, there is no one
using RSS that is experiencing an inbox full of spam.
All they have to do is to unsubscribe and they will
never receive another message from the person who provided
the feed.
RSS
has become a popular way to make money on line too.
And that is due in part to the popularity of the RSS
"pull" technology. Here's one way of monetizing
a website using RSS feeds.
Imagine
setting up a static one page web site - a minisite if
you will. Now, add either Google Adsense code or the
new Yahoo version of the Google Adsense style ads that,
when clicked by a visitor - you earn cash.
This
gives you a nice starting point and, if you optimize
your web page properly, there is a good chance you will
get a high ranking in the search engines. And, the more
people who see your page, the more likelihood they will
click on one of the links on your web page and you'll
earn revenue from the click.
But
RSS provides an even greater potential. Because by adding
an RSS feed to that same web page, you turn a static
web page that only contains the information you placed
on it, into a dynamic ever changing web page that others
will likely come back more than once to read.
After
all, once someone has read a one page web site, what
incentive is there for them to come back? Plenty, if
you use RSS feeds on your web page. It is possible to
add 5, 10 or 15 feeds on your once static web page and
now, you've got a page that automatically updates itself
and provides something that people will want to come
back to read time and time again.
You
can easily convert any web page into a dynamic web page
using free RSS creator software. One of the most popular
free versions is called Carp and you can download it
at this web link: http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/.
Once
you've set this program up on your website and added
the proper code to your website, then you will need
to collect RSS feeds that relate to the topic of your
web page.
Let's
say that the topic of your web page is flower gardens.
You could go to Google News and get their RSS feed code,
place it into the appropriate position in your Carp
coding you put on your web page and then adjust the
code as follows:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=flower+gardens&ie=UTF-8&output=rss
You
can also get a similar feed from Topix.net and you'd
adjust the code like this:
http://rss.topix.net/search/?q=flower+gardens&xml=1
Now,
once you have uploaded your web page, your site will
automatically pull in fresh information from Google
and Topix about flower gardens. Simply follow this illustration
for any web page you'd like to monetize and watch your
search engine ranking soar and also your bank account!
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