RSS is rapidly becoming a “must have” for a proper search engine optimization. But what exactly is RSS?

RSS or Rich Site Syndication (or Really Simple Syndication, depending on who you ask) is a file format similar to XML, and is used by publishers to make their content available to others in a format that can be universally understood. RSS allows the display of articles on third party websites, RSS newsreaders, and the like, enabling easy distribution of a website’s content across the Internet. It is a form of content syndication, using distribution lists, hyperlinks and the like to generate interest in (and traffic to) your website.

RSS has existed for several years, but with the advent of spam filters and online blogging, it is fast becoming the choice of ezine publishers who want to get their message across to their subscribers.

However, not much attention has been given to the advantages RSS provides for search engine optimization, until now.

Why Search Engines Love RSS

Many SEO experts believe that sites optimized around themes,or niches, where all pages correspond to a particular subject or set of keywords, rank better in the search engines.

For example, if your website is designed to sell widgets, your entire site content would be focused around widgets.

Search engines like Google seem to prefer tightly-themed pages.

But where does RSS figure in all this?

RSS feeds, usually sourced from newsfeeds or blogs, often correspond to a particular theme or niche.

By using highly targeted RSS feeds, you can enhance your site’s content without having to write a single line on your own.

It’s like having your own content writer - writing theme-based articles for you - for fre!

How can RSS improve my Search Engine Rankings?

There are three powerful reasons why content from RSS Feeds is irresistible bait for search engine spiders.

1. RSS Feeds Provide Instant Themed Content

There are several publishers of RSS feeds that are specific to a particular theme.

Since the feed is highly targeted, it could contain several keywords that you want to rank highly for.

Adding these keywords to your pages helps Google tag your site as one with relevant content.

2. RSS Feeds Provide Fresh, Updated Content

This is perhaps the most important feature of RSS. RSS feeds from large publishers are updated at specific intervals. When the publisher adds a new article to the feed, the oldest article is dropped.

These changes are immediately effected on your pages with the RSS feed as well. So you have fresh relevant content for your visitors every hour or day. Major search engines have determined that the relevancy algorithm historically used to rank pages does not result in the most accurate results - and as such have added to the equation an algorithm based on a website’s “freshness”.

A simple analogy helps explain the logic behind this recent change in ranking algorithms. If you were to do a search for the keyphrase “war on terror”, you would likely pull up a huge amount of articles. Let’s take two articles for the purpose of simplification. Let’s say both articles contain the phrase “war on terror” the same number of times, have the same number of inbound links, and all else is the same between the two articles. The only difference between the two is that one article was written a year ago and the other was written yesterday. Which one would be more likely to contain the information for which you are looking?

Well, using the relevancy algorithm, both articles appear equally relevant. However, they really aren’t, because obviously the newer article is more likely to contain the information which you seek. This is why the search engines have added a freshness component to their ranking schemes - in an effort to provide the best results to their users, they should provide not only relevant articles, but “fresh” articles as well. Therefore, nowadays, the most recent article (or most recently updated website) would be listed before the less recent article (or less recently updated website), all other factors being equal.

Does this make sense? It should - and you should now be able to understand why a proper search engine optimization will include the use of fresh content such as an RSS feed, in addition to an optimization for keyphrase relevancy.

3. RSS Feeds Result in More Frequent Spidering

One thing I nevr anticipated would happen as a result of adding an RSS feed to my site was that the Googlebot visited my site almost daily. To the Googlebot, my page that had the RSS feed incorporated into it was as good as a page that was being updated daily, and in its judgement, was a page that was worth visiting daily.

What this means to you, is that you will have your site being indexed more frequently by the Googlebot and so any new pages that you add to your site will be picked up much faster than your competitors.

How does this benefit you as a marketer?

Well, for example, let’s says a top Internet Marketer comes out with a new product that you review and write up a little article on, and that your competitors do the same.

Google generally tends to index pages at the start of the month and if you miss that update, you will probably need to wait till the next month to even see your entry in.

But, since your site has RSS feeds, it gets indexed more frequently. So the chances of getting your page indexed quickly are much higher.

This gives you an advantage over the competition, as your review will show up sooner in the search results than theirs.

Imagine what an entire month’s advantage could do to your affliate sals!

Why Javascript Feeds Are Not Effective (as well as frames and iframes)

Some sites offer javascrpt code that generates content sourced from RSS feeds for your site. Others will offer you an RSS feed display via the use of frames or iframes.

These are of absolutely no value in terms of search engine rankings, as the googlebot cannot read javascrpt and has difficulty reading frame and iframe content, and as such the content is not interpreted as part of your page.

What you need is code that parses the RSS feed and renders the feed as html content that’s part of your page. This cannot be overemphasized.

This is achieved using server side scripting languages like PHP or ASP.

An excellent PHP scrpt is CARP, which is the one that we recommend to our clients. This PHP script converts the RSS feed into HTML code that is easily readable by the major search engines.

For more information, or to implement an RSS feed into your website as part of a thorough search engine optimization, please visit http://www.arteworks.biz.

About the Author:

Matt Foster is President and CEO of ArteWorks Business Class, a company which specializes in search engine optimization and search engine friendly website design and ecommerce solutions.

Portions of this article taken from “Get Better Search Engine Rankings with RSS” by Satyajeet Hatangadi. Satyajeet Hattangadi is the CEO of Novasoft Inc, a software solutions provider, that specializes in affordable customized software solutions. Get the Fr-e-e Email Course “RSS Riches” and learn how to use RSS to get high search engine rankings and monetize your website at http://www.novasoft-inc.net/traffic-turbocharger.

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With fly fishing, sometimes it is all about the chase. Here’s a day trip that looked unfruitful, but turned out alright in the end.

Colorado Fly Fishing

We put the raft in on a warm morning in Sept. without a cloud in sight. My expectations were not high, since a warm sunny day tends to put the fish down, at least on this stretch of the Colorado. When the fish aren’t rising, I go straight for tandem streamers; there is nothing more exciting than a big pissed off brown chasing your streamer off the bank in shallow fast moving water. Dredging the bottom with a nymph just doesn’t do it for me. If I break out a nymph’n rig, I must have exhausted all other options.

The first quarter mile of water put a bleak outlook on the remaining 9 house of river ahead of us, not a single chase through some of the higher quality water on this stretch!! My invited guest on board had no experience throwing a heavy awkward tandem streamer rig, and was fairly discouraged after nearly throwing his shoulder out with only a handful of well-placed casts. I always talk of the exciting chases, but now; he must think I am full of it. I now know the frustration that guides must endure while watching miles of quality water go by without a singe well placed or completely untouched. “There was probably a nice fish it that pocket we just passed”, came out of my mouth far too many times than I care to recall.

About 3 miles into our float, which is exactly what it had become, a sightseeing float, the weather began to change. Here came the clouds, an encouraging sign, of course unless the wind comes with it. Here came the wind, and next thing you know, our beautiful sightseeing float turned into a back rowing battle to keep the boat heading downstream. Luckily, this did not last long, but the rain did begin to fall.

Within a few minuets after the rain subsided, the mayflies were swarming and the fish were rising. Were eddied out in several prime spots and began to catch fish in the swirling foam. Just about any well-placed cast was rewarded. Time went by unnoticed, until suddenly I realize that we had only traveled half way to our take out and more than half of the day was gone. Pushing through the slack water and hammering the moving water with the streamers was now becoming very productive. Finally, I could prove to my guest how exciting the chase could be. It seems that every other cast produced an aggressive brown, either territorial or just plain hungry.

We landed several nice fish while powering through the final stretch, arriving at last light. A turn in the weather sure can turn on the fish and bring on the chase.

Rick Chapo is with NomadJournals.com - makers of diary and writing journals for fly fishing. Visit NomadJournalTrips.com to read more articles about fly fishing and the great outdoors.

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Art has been an integral part of the lives of the tribal communities for thousands of years. Right from birth to death, every occasion in the day to day lives of tribal communities is depicted in some form of art by tribal artists.

Like other tribal communities from across the world, African tribal communities have had their own art traditions, reflected in their various art items. Thanks to the internet age, the hitherto unknown African tribal art forms are now being noticed by art lovers in the furthest corners of the globe.

African tribal art comes in a wide range of forms. However, the most popular ones are:

1. Sculpture: African tribes usually create beautiful sculptures in wood. The common features that can be noticed in the sculptures are the symmetric facial expressions, unmoving posture, large heads, distinct navels and celebration of youth.

2. Jewellery: The earrings, neck pieces, bracelets and other jewellery items used by both the male and female members of the various tribes have a genuine ceremonial or daily usage background. The jewellery is hand crafted from elephant hair, lion claw, ivory, giraffe hair and strong bones from other animals.

3. Masks: African masks are world famous. Traditional dance forms, local festivals, processions, and even funeral ceremonies remain incomplete without the colourful and majestic masks. In Africa, one can even find tribal masks made of animals such as elephants, zebras and antelopes.

4. African Paintings: African painters typically use bright and unusual shades of colours for painting. Apart from the human figure, nature is the most common subject for African paintings.

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Ostinato means “repeating pattern” and is used frequently in all types of music. For New Age piano players, it provides a great way to lay down the background of the piece while the right-hand improvises a melody!

For example, in the lesson “Winter Scene,” we have a repeating pattern going on in the left-hand using 2 chords. And 2 chords are all that is needed to create a few minutes of music!

Interest is maintained by the right-hand melody. How long you could actually play this ostinato and maintain interest is a whole new topic but the secret to really keeping the improvisation going is to stay in the present and trust your intuition.

The music will naturally wind down when you start becoming bored or indifferent and/or no new material wants to come. Then the improvisation is over and the music has played itself out.

The good thing about using an ostinato to create with is that it’s quite easy to develop a harmonic background over which you can improvise your melodies. The bad thing is that it tends to stagnate over time. That’s when you either stop playing, or introduce new material - something that adds contrast.

If you wanted, you could introduce another ostinato pattern, or go for something completely different, but you’d probably want to let your intuition guide you in this. You shouldn’t try to come up with material but instead, just improvise and see what comes up. A completely different, and much more effective approach!

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Stop by now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!

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Beginning piano students can become focused on reading the notes and finding the right keys on the piano and miss the point of playing - to bring their personal sensitivity to bear on the music. Hearing each note in the mind before it is played and thinking about how to touch each key is important to playing thoughtfully and creatively. Music is a language and as such it always tells a story or paints a picture.

Painting is a great analogy for children in piano as it is something that can easily relate to. In children’s music the first place kids can look to get an idea of what this picture will look like is the title of the piece. The title could be for example about the “Morning,” “Moonlight,” a “Triumphant March,” or a “Dance.”

Young students with limited experience learn by imitation and need to hear the pieces played. Parents sometimes think their child isn’t learning to read the notes if the teacher has to play the music for their child. And often children who are able to read music well will not attempt to play new pieces of music at home if they don’t know how it is supposed to sound. Over time, as students gain experience and begin to recognize melody in the music notes, they feel more confident interpreting the music on their own.

Listening to many examples over time allows children to develop their musical ear and artistic abilities. Putting too much emphasis on note reading, or not enough, creates an imbalance between note reading and artistic interpretation. For the beginning piano student these need to go hand-in-hand over time to develop the whole musician.

For great home piano activities parents can use to help children ages 5 to 11 develop their musical talent, visit Piano Adventure Bears Music Education Resources You’ll find a treasure box filled with piano resources to create an exciting musical adventure for your child - right in your own home! Visit their website and subscribe to their f’ree internet newsletter so you can download f’ree piano sheet music and mp3s of original piano compositions.

These exciting stories, games, piano lessons, and inspirational gifts feature the Piano Adventure Bears, Mrs. Treble Beary and her new piano student, Albeart Littlebud. Young students follow along with Albeart to learn what piano lessons are all about in a fun way that kids readily understand appreciate. Click here to visit PianoAdventureBears.com For a wealth of information about piano lessons, visit tallypiano.com

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Graduation Stoles

Graduations are memorable events when family and friends convene to celebrate to celebrate together with their loved ones for their outstanding academic achievements. The graduation event is a momentous event which the graduates use to express pride in their achievement through different graduation products with the most exceptional being college graduation stoles which is a component of the academic regalia. Graduation stoles are used for reflecting the identity of the school and personalizing the school’s name as well as the graduation year. College graduation stoles may also be used to honor the student’s club membership or academic achievements.

Graduation stoles are usually customized according to one’s preference and may come in different designs and colors. There are embroidery experts capable of digitizing Greek crests or team logos on the graduation stoles. Other than professional embroidery, College graduation stoles are commonly made from bridal satin of high quality and they contain no patches or cheap ribbons. The design of the product ensures that it looks great after being worn and especially so in the commencement of photos which are cherished for a lifetime. The color and design of the graduation stole may vary from one institution to another as well as distinguish different fields of study.

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Determining help in funding degree courses may be difficult and may need time. Scholarships are different from a regular student loan in that the funds are a grant, and thus, repayment isn’t needed. While researching ways to finance your higher instruction, research the more unique choices, for example funding specifically for southpaw scholars.

Scholarships for Left Handers

It may appear strange to offer a bursary based on being left-handed, however consider these facts: Bill Gates is left-handed, as is Barack Obama. Raphael, Da Vinci, Ringo Starr not to mention Winston Churchill were also left handed. Figures suggest up to eleven percent of the world’s population are left handed. Frequently considered much more artistic and more intelligent, lefties have often gone through discrimination. Today, lefties are no longer stigmatized or thought of as odd, as a matter of fact they are frequently linked with the many great individuals noted previously.

Should you be left handed and searching for grants specifically for left-handed scholars, a lot of left-handed grants are accessible which you could acquire. A Beckley Scholarship for 1000 USD is available at Juniata College stuated in Huntington, PA. For scholars of Juniata College and set up in the seventies, this particular bursary has assisted forty plus scholars receive their university degree. Whilst searching for school scholarships, be aware that a few scholarships may have prerequisites and restrictions. This can include grades and monetary needs, but not always. Do apply for the maximum amount of scholarships feasible to step-up the chances of funding a university degree with as small a debt when you graduate as possible. Societies, groups linked with your hobbies and even local organizations may be a source of college grants. Scholarships for lefthanded scholars are not a unusual example; financial aid is even available if you are a child of a from a armed forces household or are disabled, to offer some examples. Some scholars need to spend some time researching scholarships, of course the rewards can be sizable. Utilised along with regular lending, they can certainly cut down the unavoidable debt that a college education generates. Ensure you research every opportunity. The above-mentioned funding is not the only choice - write a list of your clubs and societies and utilize every available resource. Go for everything you may possibly qualify for, keeping any costs to a an absolute minimum, additionally you will look forward to a more positive career outlook after graduation.

If you want in depth hints, we suggest you take a gander at our vast source for asian scholarship is your ticket to a more rewarding career pointers

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Many of the implant recipients who had zimmer durom hip replacement applied in their hip replacement surgical procedures are discovering that there are difficulties that far surpass the average expectations for recuperation. These implant recipients are feeling a lot of extra pain sensation for longer periods of time, required to undergo revision surgical procedures and increased medical expenses, and losing revenue by being unable to work at their normal businesses. Although Zimmer Holdings, Inc. is postulating that that their hip replacement implant could never be imperfect and not to be held accountable for the faililng hip implants, numerous implant recipients are filing lawsuits against them and encountering settlements.

During October, 2008 Zimmer declared that it had reserved $47.5 million to pay for claims they had received. Many physicians are not convinced that the implant is as good as the company says it is. In fact, when Zimmer provided online training to physicians in order to instruct them what was supposedly more accurate methods for doing the implant surgery, roughly 50% of the physicians refused to participate. Thus, the whole situation remains to be stressful for everyone involved, but none more than the hundreds of unfortunate people who are needing a revision surgical process due to the issues with their implant not staying tight in the socket.

These hurt poor people definitely merit some aid and restitution which is the main reason product liability attorneys are supporting them by telling them to file a lawsuit. durom hip implant has been settling up with these claims. However, even if the payoff they are being offered seems like a lot to them, in most cases unfortunate people are resolving too quickly and without clause being made for reoccuring problems if they happen down the road. If they don’t wait to find out what an actual case is worth, people might find themselves incurring alot more expenses from their own pocket when further complications arise.

For anyone who thinks they probably have a claim against Zimmer should start an investigation into it. If you believe you might qualify, you should probably call a lawyer to find out for sure. Look for a lawfirm that operates nationally and focuses on processing litigation against faulty medical devices. This law firm has taken out all the risks and has setup a special division to research and process claims against Zimmer and win substantial settlements for their customers.

If your orthopedic MD breaks the news that will have to have a revision surgical operation to resolve your Zimmer Durom hip replacement device, call an lawyer immediately.

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Tottenham-Liverpool

This match could show which of these two clubs is the most likely to break into the dominance of the big three. While Spurs started promisingly with two victories and then failed to score in two, the Merseysiders have been preoccupied with the CL and therefore have only played two League games, keeping clean sheets in both.

Spurs include new signings Grzegorz Rasiak, Jermaine Jenas and Lee Young-Pyo in their squad.

My feeling that Liverpool is not yet in the momentum of last season, furthermore, last season in the Premiership was victim of Champions League.

Ecobika’s bet: home win

West Bromwich-Wigan

Two relegation candidates, bottomderby. West Brom have injury doubts over strikers Kanu and Kamara after midweek World Cup qualifiers. The four previous League fixtures between this pair have all been home wins. But Brom is in a little crisis, after two defeats, which last time happened only in last December.

Ecobika’bet: DRAW.

Birmingham-Charlton

The home team wants the first home point of the season in their third fixture at home. Charlton, who’ve made their best ever start to a Premiership campaign, could hand debuts to the new trio.

Ecobika’s bet: home win.

Manchester United-Manchester City

MCity has one more point than United! But Sir Alex Ferguson’s side have won all five League and Champions League matches this season without conceding a single goal.

Ecobika’s bet: home win.

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Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournaments can be formatted for short or long play. A deep stack tournament at the casino starts with large amounts and typically has longer blind intervals designed to allow extended play.

A deep stack tournament provides some leeway early on. It can be approached like a cash game in the early stages because your stack starts out large, and the blinds are not going to erode your chips quickly. Getting your chips into the pot early with good cards can add more ammunition to your deep stack.

Unlike sit-n-go tournaments with short stacks and fast blinds, the deep stack format lets you make more value bets to get information. If you play too conservatively early on, you give other players the opportunity to fortify their stacks against you. Instead, you can use your chips to get useful information about the other players’ styles without drastically depleting your stack during the early stages. You might even win or steal a pot with some aggressive play.

A deep stack lets you chase more speculative hands early in the tournament too. These types of tournaments are not the place for ’scared money.’ The beauty of deep stack contests is the ability to play more hands than you would in a sit-n-go or small multi-table poker events.

A deep stack tournament is not a blank check for just peeling off your chips. It is a format that lets you be a little more ‘playful’ in your decision making to bet or raise.

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