Job Hunting – Frequently Asked Questions
By Ron Thomas

Are your job hunting efforts a little helter skelter? Successfully landing the job you want requires a plan and strategy. Just think of what you could accomplish, if your job hunting efforts were organized. Unfortunately, once we get out on our own there appears to be no one to help us. You could bring the wisdom of a war general to your job search efforts, if you could assemble the right tools and resources, but who has the time?

This article considers the elements of the job hunting efforts are most troubling for applicants? They wrestle over how to bring order to searching, applying and interviewing. One tool that may help applicants focus in on what they need to do is to isolate the key features and benefits important to them.

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Mixing Blogging And SEO Effectively
By George Christdodolou

Search engine optimization is a constantly changing and transforming subject that is controlled by Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines. Our best hope is to try and learn the secrets to there algorithms and do what we can to get our sites to the top of search engines.

Many people assume that there are some strategies that will work to optimize there site but in some cases these strategies will not count for as much as they used to.
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Marketing With RSS Feeds - Creating A Direct Link To Your CustomersBy By Chris Malta & Robin Cowie

What’s an RSS feed?

Due to the overwhelming amount of spam on the internet, many users are turning from traditional newsletter subscriptions to RSS feeds to get their information. RSS is Really Simple Syndication. Besides connecting you directly to your customers, feeds are advantageous for several reasons: [Read More!]

Why Blog Networks Are The New Internet Marketing PowerhousesBy Mr Bloggy

Blogs have become the IN thing to have for your business. They can be hip, fun, sassy, factual and matter-of-fact --- anything you want them to be. You can twist them around to suit your purposes; these can be reliable proof of your market appeal and industry stature. But what are they, really?

Blogs, a shortcut for 'Web logs,’ are usually 300-800 words long essays that center on a single idea supported by facts, opinions, or even links to other articles from which a viewer can get more information. These are easily the hottest items on the Web nowadays, and many people from all walks of life caught on. Blogs started out as some sort of 'online diary' where an anxious teen can pour out her angst about appearance, insecurities about attracting boys, marks in school, relations with parents and/or family. It can be about midlife anxiety, self-worth, career dead ends, relationships with one's superiors, chronic disease. It can be about anything under the sun, so long as it catches someone else's attention. Bloggers usually pour their hearts out -- sometimes meandering along, sometimes passionate, sometimes seemingly catatonic. But it is all a personal sharing. Powerful stuff.
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7 Benefits Of Building Niche Blogs

Copyright © 2006 Roger Loh

In this article, I will describe 7 benefits of building niche blogs.

A "niche" refers to a targeted market with profit potential that is not saturated with competitors. The whole idea is to realize the benefits of building niche blogs and then find the niche markets out there and start building.
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Blogs Creating a Buzz with Businesses
Copyright © 2006 Kate Smalley
Connecticut Secretary
http://www.connecticutsecretary.com

Businesses are buzzing about blogs. A blog-short for Web log-is simply a digital diary or online forum. Technically speaking, a blog is an online journal that is regularly updated with content and built on a platform with automated syndication. The appeal of blogs is driving businesses to find ways to capitalize on these unique public journals.

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Lessons I Learned From A Ground Hog
By JoAnn Hines

The lowly groundhog, often called a woodchuck, is the only mammal to have a day named in his honor. The groundhog's day is February 2. Granted, it’s not a federal holiday and nobody gets off work. However, we all know about it and most of us check the news to see if the groundhog has seen his shadow. Consider how many of you recognize the name Punxsutawney Phil. Amazing, isn’t it. That's brand recognition at its finest -- it’s not even for a human.

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How is Yahoo using your RSS feed?
Copyright © 2006 Robert Fuess
Spiderweb Logic
http://www.SpiderwebLogic.com

The format for the site submission has changed in the free Yahoo web submissions http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request . At first it allowed you to submit your site to it using the free submission form. This was normally the home page, and you would hope that their spider would crawl the rest of your website from there. Some webmasters have found this inadequate and have submitted other pages that Yahoo failed to notice otherwise.

More recently Yahoo allowed you to put in a text document with a list of URL's to simplify the submission process.

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by Rok Hrastnik

We were waiting for something like this to happen for a long time. Yahoo!, one of the key providers of mass-market RSS aggregators, finally took a step forward and published their RSS whitepaper, covering their own findings with RSS, based on their usage data.

1. YAHOO!'S KEY FINDINGS

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Marketers on RSS: The Best Of

by Rok Hrastnik

What do savvy marketers have to say about RSS? What are their top tips?

We set to find that out end of 2004 to collect the best possible insights on RSS marketing from top marketers and RSS developers and leaders, for Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS.

Let’s get started …

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Google and Sun - a Partnership to Kill Microsoft or a Deal with the Devil?

by Rob Sullivan

While the implications could be huge and far reaching, only Google knows for sure what it wants. We can speculate however and that’s what this article is all about. Is such a deal good for Sun (and Google) or is it a pact with the devil?

At first glance, such a deal doesn’t seem like much. After all java to most people is just a plug in for your Internet browser. What good would such a deal be to Google? Well lets take a look at what Java can do. The following is taken straight from Sun’s website:

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A Gentle Warning To All Webmasters About RSS

by Titus Hoskins

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

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. Really Simple Syndication. Simple phrase but it changes everything.

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by Robert Murray

WELL, IT'S GETTING TO BE that time of year again--the time when well-adjusted, relatively normal human beings (and I use the word "normal" very cautiously) find themselves willing to go to the mat over a parking spot at the local mall. There's no denying it. The joys of the holiday season are practically upon us. In fact, I think I hear the faint murmur of sleigh bells off in the distance. But for Internet retailers, this season starts a bit earlier, with a lot longer prep time required than for Aunt Mildred's lead-bottom fruit cake.
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Publishing E-zines via RSS

by Rok Hrastnik

It's clear that RSS and e-mail in fact need to be used together, as opposed to either one replacing the other.

While RSS might not be used by as many people as e-mail, you can be sure that those that do use it and subscribe to your feeds will get your content without fail. In addition, many already prefer to receive information via RSS instead of e-mail, making RSS an absolute must as a supplement to e-mail delivery.

Let’s now take a detailed look at exactly how RSS and e-mail can work together.
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What NOT To Do With RSS

by Richard Keir

Everybody is hot on using RSS to increase their traffic, promote their sites and do their marketing. Why?

Well, it's newish - at least within the internet marketing segment. Not as new as it was a year or so ago, of course. Getting significant results is a little harder as the competition increases.

With the profusion of blogs and spam blog-pinging to attract the search engine spiders to index static pages, the utility of this approach has been seriously impaired by unscrupulous overkill.

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