http://blog.kickrss.com All about the latest events at KickRSS Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:56:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Michael Dorausch Some things I've learned and was reminded of in the past few days... Generally, people love birthdays, and rightfully so. There are few things better than being able to give well wishes to someone you appreciate, love, admire, share friendship with, or whatever. Ever notice in restaurants that when ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/09/26/they-say-its-your-birthday/ Monday, September 24, 2007 Happy 42nd Birthday Danny Sullivan! Many of the gang from Sphinn are here to celebrate your 42nd birthday. We are all wishing you the very best on this day. Check out all the familiar faces and avatars on the card below. Some of us have been stalking you! Happy ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/09/23/happy-42nd-birthday-danny-sullivan/ Hey there Sphinn fans, If you went to bed early Friday night, the night of September 21, you missed out on what was likely the first Sphinn-To-Sphinn, Head-To-Head, Post-To-Post event of the year. I know you're probably bummed out because you either went out partying with friends, went to bed, spent ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/09/22/sphinn-head-to-head-battle-rages-on/ by Michael Dorausch Early this morning I was commenting on a post appearing on Sphinn related to local business searches and yellow page advertising. Moments after I finished my comment I received a phone call I'd like to believe came as a result of optimized local SEO. In hopes of us ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/09/17/why-local-seo-beats-print-yellow-pages/ Earlier today, SEO Michael Gray posted a Britney Spears Career Choices article to his blog. In his post, he mentioned that one of the keys to being good at social media and linkbaiting was to keep in tune with the trends, and have people on hand to create posts when ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/09/14/impossibly-great-linkbait-article-tips/ Here is a list of some of the RSS feeds for United States 2008 presidential candidates. You'd think all of the candidate web sites would feature big orange glowing RSS feed buttons, but none of the websites that I visited had a clear and concise way to locate RSS subscription ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/09/09/2008-presidential-candidates-web-site-rss-feeds/ Submitted by that Venice chiropractor... Here's a list of RSS feeds from very popular people in the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) world. The first is from Glen Allsopp of viperchill, an expert in the field of social media marketing. The second is from Long Island resident and notorious SEO expert, Michael Gray, ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/08/18/7-seo-rss-feeds-to-wrap-your-head-around/ This past weekend I went seeking out web sites that were using RSS feeds to display results for real estate listings. I was surprised by the absence of heavy use of RSS in industries such as the real estate industry. I will be checking out some other niche markets ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/07/29/industry-specific-rss-real-estate-feeds/ We'd been experienceing errors with many feed links during the past 3 months. Today we upgraded php on the server and updated installs of Sablotron (version 1.0.3) and domxml which appears to have corrected multiple errors we'd been experiencing with XSLT functions on the user page outputs. For those involved in ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/07/26/feed-links-finally-repaired/ Were going to be introducing a new service on this blog beginning in the next few days. It will be focused on what's hot (according to current search engine results) for a particular time and date. Were still in experimental stages but the plan is to provide groups of topics ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/07/26/whats-hot-topics-coming-to-kickrss-blog/ Had breakfast last Saturday with the founder of a new social networking website called Zoodango. Check out Zoodango Profile to see how a user profile appears on the site. Zoodango is a new social networking site for business professionals that hopefully like meeting at Staurbucks. The concept of the site is ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/07/17/zoodango-social-networking-for-business-professionals/ Here is another way we can look at RSS technology. Knowing about XML and how code is used in RSS is not important to everyone. Here we'll go over some ideas and concepts and then you can work on what can be accomplished in your space. First we had SMTP, it ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/06/22/photos-classifieds-niche-markets-and-rss/ A new breed of RSS related domain names are beginning to move like wildfire. I've been following search terms and keywords related to RSS for quite some time now and there's been a significant increase in recent activity for searches online in this space. Here's what I'm talking about. People are ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/06/22/health-rss-feeds-and-other-domain-names/ Since Google announced last Friday that they have purchased online RSS aggregation company, FeedBurner.com, I really haven't seen that much discussion about it in the news. Makes me wonder if people really understand what RSS stands for and what the benefits are when using really simple syndication for one's web content. ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/06/04/video-news-feedburner-google-purchase/ Google announced on Friday that they have purchased one of the webs leading RSS related websites, FeedBurner.com, for a rumored $100,000,000.00 (one hundred million dollars). I say rumored since the details of the transaction have not yet been disclosed. Google apparently purchased the Chicago-based FeedBurner to improve on ways to include ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/06/02/google-buys-feedburner-rss-website/ When it comes to using RSS, most people are familiar with the distribution of news feeds, or content that is typically provided in a text format, delivering the latest information related to news stories on what ever subject the RSS feed is related to. When I come across other uses ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/05/31/using-rss-for-classified-ads/ Just finished a project today on a website that was updating the XML file for their RSS feeds manually each time after new news articles were added. Thanks to some help from a great programmer I discovered FeedCreator.class.php which helped me to create an auto updating RSS feed for this ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/05/21/working-with-feedcreator-formerly-rsscreator/ It's not perfect yet but after 30 days it appears that the new setup for running cron on updating feeds for KickRSS has taken some of the load off of the server. What was happening is I was running updates on feeds (over 12,000) every few minutes. As a result cron ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/04/25/30-days-of-cron-and-we-are-on/ It's been a long weekend modifying update feed php scripts as well as removal scripts on the KickRSS server. Last two weeks while traffic was going up I noticed speed and performance was going down. By Friday night mySQL was crashing from far too many processes running. Turns out our feed ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/03/26/long-weekend-of-cron-job-on-rss-feeds/ I was planning to post this last week but had not gotten around to it. I mentioned I would post when we hit 2000 visitors per day and by golly we hit it on 12 Mar 2007. Total count for that day was 2281 with 16 Mar 2007 being the ... http://blog.kickrss.com/2007/03/22/2000-a-day-and-counting/