Originally Posted by V_RocKs

What do you get? Traffic... Not sure how well it does compared to TGP's...

Of course the people using them are all not thinking about the big picture. Without using some kind of Markov script to rewrite them, you are just gonna get dinged for duplicate content and get no SE traffic...

Originally Posted by John Marco

Feeds aren't just used for blog entries, though this is what most affiliates use them for because you can use wordpress and a basic parser to get an automatically updated site going.

See this thread for a much more innovative use of RSS technology:

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=626095

In a nutshell, we can use a feed to syndicate which webcams.com models are online and associated info for each model so that affiliates can parse the info to have a completely dynamically updated webcam front end.

Originally Posted by xxxjay

Cool.

I think I just got threadjacked.

Originally Posted by xxxjay

What would you guys want as affilaites to have you adding occash blogs into your blog.

Prewritten blogs with your refferer code? Hotlinked images / movies?

Help me out here...I am trying to come up with some ideas that would be useful to you.

Originally Posted by Fris

i dont use any rss feeds, because i dont want the same content as like 100 other blogs out there, all my posts are original, style of my own. but if people are going to use them for your affil program all the better, this is just a personal preference of mine

Originally Posted by Jace

an rss feed is a easy stream of content for those people running blogs and anything that can translate an rss file

I can take a rss feed and input it into my blog and tell the script to update once a day from your rss feed, and once a day my script will go in and grab one entry from your rss feed and post it to my blog, and that post (hopefully) will look like I wrote the post and it will be an easy way for me to gain more posts without actually having to write anything

It will work for you because of the amount of people using blogs and autoblogger pro/rss2blog these days, both autoblogger pro and rss2blog are awesome tools that allow a webmaster to basically run a blog without ever having to update it

Please PLEASE PLEASE, do not just think you can look at others rss feeds and think you can just copy what they are doing and think people will be all right with it...so many sponsors thought they could just jump in and create something simple and people would instantly use it....and it turns out that blog users need very specific things...check this out for a nice start

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...&highlight=rss

if you really wanna take it to the next level, like I know you like to, give all of us affiliates the option of making a fully customized rss feed. I want to be able to control all aspects of the rss feed and output something that is completely customized for MY site....images, text, title, etc...all customized to what I want.

If you need anything else Jay, please feel free to hit me up, i would love to work with you and guide you to what would be the perfect rss feed

Originally Posted by xxxjay

Yeah, I could see the duplicate content thing being a problem from the start. Though, I guess the advantage would be that you can have your blog updated with way less effort, but on the other hand...you'd have the same content / blogs on every other blog if you are running a large rss.

What would you guys want as affilaites to have you adding occash blogs into your blog.

Prewritten blogs with your refferer code? Hotlinked images / movies?

Help me out here...I am trying to come up with some ideas that would be useful to you.

Originally Posted by Jace

am I on your ignore or something?

I asnwered your question in major detail in that other thread

I have also responded to you on mutliple occasions with other topics and you never seem to reply and basically ignore my response

Originally Posted by xxxjay

Cool...I've read all of your stuff now. So webmasters want filtered blogs?

Originally Posted by Juilan

There have been plenty of detailed RSS posts made by Stickyfingerz & Splum about what would be most desireable to them, perhaps they can bump there old threads for you.

Originally Posted by Jace

What webmasters want when it comes to RSS feeds:

We want full customization...so, when we enter into your affiliate area we see a bunch of drop down form options

-choice of hosted gallery feed OR paysite updates feed
-small, medium and large sizes for images...and a choice of using myultiple images or just one image
-short, medium and large descriptions/posts
-short, medium and long titles

all of this would be options we can choose, and when we choose what we want we hit submit and it gives us a url of that feed that we created.

so many sponsors just put up a feed of their latest hosted galleries, and while this is cool and all for feeder crap for my blogs, I never take it seriously, because it is always just a small thumb and a one line description.

I LOVE paysite updates feeds...when the sponsor took the big paragraph they used to update with and create a rss entry for it with 1-4 images that link to either the paysite or larger images.

and don't stop there...give us video update rss feeds to...I don't thiink there are any sponsor offering videos in their rss feeds yet

Originally Posted by Khun

Ditto to everything Jace said. If you had that, I would be signing up right now.