Do your blog with RSS : feel it great dude…

RSS is a method of distributing links to content in your web site that you’d like others to use. In other words, it’s a mechanism to “syndicate” your content. RSS is unlikely to make you rich. However, it can be an easy way to draw attention to your material, bringing you some traffic and perhaps a little net fame, depending on how good your information is.

What Is RSS?
How does RSS syndication work? Say you publish a new web page about a particular topic. You want others interested in that topic to know about it. By listing the page as an “item” in your RSS file, you can have the page appear in front of those who read information using RSS readers or “news aggregators” (more explain here :RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content). RSS also allows people to easily add links to your content within their own web pages. Bloggers are a huge core audience that especially does this.

What does RSS stand for? There’s a can of worms. RSS as introduced by Netscape in 1999 then later abandoned in 2001 stood for “Rich Site Summary.” Another version of RSS pioneered by UserLand Software stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” In yet another version, RSS stands for “RDF Site Summary.”

History buffs might be interested that there’s been some rivalry over who invented RSS. This is why we have both different names and indeed different “flavors” or versions of RSS. Mark Pilgrim’s written an excellent article, What Is RSS, that charts the different versions with recommendations on which to use. I’ll also revisit the version choice you’ll need to make. But first, let’s look more closely at some basics of what goes into any RSS file.

RSS is easy to develop?

the RSS 2.0 specification has an “cloud” element that’s optional but which a lay person might still wonder if they should use it. Meanwhile, heaven help the person who stumbles into the RSS 1.0 specification and its complicated RDF syntax.

Sure, making an RSS file IS easy for many. If you understand HTML, you’ll probably understand enough to do a cut-and-paste from someone else’s RSS file to make your own file. Don’t know HTML? Start a blog, because several blogging tools automatically generates RSS files.

As for those non-technical people using WYSIWYG page building tools or personal home page building systems, have faith. Even you can build an RSS file from scratch, as long as you dispense with some of the extra features you probably don’t need. We’ll go through how to do this below.

Write reviews online to earn money

Wrote by Alvin Lim

The other day, I’ve talked about earning money in myLot by posting up discussion topics. I’ve earned USD $ 0.40 on my second day there. Not much actually. That’s why I’ve decided to look on other alternatives while keeping the myLot as “de-stress” place.

I’ve registered in some of the review sites which pay people for posting up product reviews. I’ve tried Epinions (very very very slow earning rate), SharedReviews (very slow as well), DooYoo (only available for UK and Europe residents) and Ciao (available to UK residents). All those, I must admit, are not that easy to earn money.

Then I came across ReviewStream. Unlike the rest of the review sites, this site lets you write ANY product reviews. You can write in a simple form since there’s no minimum or maximum length. You can also write on any product since the title of the review is up to you to put. The company requires you to have a PayPal account though. The rate is around USD $ 2 per review and if your review is so-so or there’s already another such product review, you might be paid BULK RATE instead. Bulk rate is the current review rate divided by 5. So the current rate is USD $ 2, the bulk rate would be USD $ 0.40.

I’ve just got the acknowledgements from ReviewStream of my 2 reviews and I’ve earned USD $ 2.40. Not too bad since the reviews are not really lengthy.

But there are some things which you need to pay attention to.

The account which you are going to use is your email address. There’s no user registration. There’s a nickname which will be tied to your email address. That’s all. And also, always ENSURE that your email address in ReviewStream account is connected to your PayPal. Otherwise, you will not get anything. This is very important.
The difference between bulk rate post and full rate post is quite subjective since there’s no proper guideline given by ReviewStream. But I’ve read it from somewhere that the recommended length of the review should be at least 300 words. This is not stated anywhere in ReviewStream though.
You will receive an email right after you posted the review. One review, one email. Always keep the email because that’s the only proof that you’ve got. If you managed to search the site and saw your review, without any acknowledgment from their side. You can use the email to ask them. Once you’ve received the acknowledgment email, you need to wait 72 hours or more for them to confirm that your review has been accepted. They will send you an email with the rate charged and your account’s balance.
Be consistent and be precise. Don’t go out of topic because your review might end up getting rejected by them and you earn 0.
Other than that, I find that ReviewStream is a very good place to earn side income. It’s up to you whether to try it or not. Writing a short review for them doesn’t take that much time as well. And you get to review on ANYTHING. Not that difficult, right?

If you’re interested to join, go here - join ReviewStream. Yea, I do get a little bit of benefits from here. Hope this helps.

Source: novice.alvinlim.info