If you are into website publications and any type content generation for them, you know how difficult it can be to keep you content fresh enough to keep people coming back. I am heavily into building an Adsense income on my main website and one thing that you can us to stay current is RSS feeds. RSS or "really simple syndication" are all the rage for bloggers and website builders with regard to keeping your site fresh and attractive to your visitors. The are numerous sources to get these feeds from and this is where FeedCycle.com comes in.
They have taken a bit of anew approach to providing RSS feeds. If you provide an RSS feed from your site and decided to provide a 10 part mini course on some new marketing technique you have discovered, you would need to at regular intervals add each of these to your site so that your subscribers would get each of the individual parts at the time interval you wanted them to receive them.
With FeedCycle.com it's simpler. FeedCycle is a web service that manages serialized web feeds for you. What is a serialized web feed? A serialized RSS web feed enables a subscriber to receive, perhaps on a daily or weekly basis. You have the sequential episodes from a given series of episodes or chapters of your program. So for example, if you have a 10 part training course, on day 1 or week 1, you would receive the first topic, on day or week 2 you would receive the second topic, and so on. On the 10th day or week of the cycle, your course would be complete. Technically, it is still RSS and conventional RSS web feed reader software and tools can be used to subscribe to these feeds.
What can I do with a cyclic web feed? Cyclic web feeds are not for current news or "fresh" content. However, they can be used to "replay" some of your existing content from your site or blog. If you have previously published a 10 episode podcast - that tells a story from start to finish - you can create a cyclic web feed and ensure that your subscribers always start from the beginning. This gets around the problem of people coming to your site once everything is published and jumping around because it is all there to see.
At FeedCycle.com, they provide you with method of providing to you listener or customer, the information you want to provide to them, in the order you want them to receive it. This can be a great tool for internet marketing if you have a launch coming up and you are working on a "pre-sell" program that will be delivered in individual parts. Use your imagination and put it to work for you. It's free to sign up, so check it out.
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