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RSS to Twitter: The Big Boys Have Arrived

(Google + Feedburner) = Death_of (Twitterfeed + RSS2Twitter +DLVR.it) ?

(Google + Feedburner) = Death_of (Twitterfeed + RSS2Twitter +DLVR.it) ?

I have posted before about how you can capitalize on your Twitter social community to increase traffic onto your blog. Regularly tweeting the new posts on your blog is the secret. I tweet a few thousand posts per month, accounting for over 100,000+ visits on my aggregator blogs.

What tools are on the market to automatically convert RSS feeds to Twitter, and which is the best? An overview.

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The best free and sophisticated RSS tools

The past few weeks, I have been quite busy working with RSS feeds. I continue to be surprised about the possibilities RSS gives us, bloggers and web developers alike.

Here is an overview of the tools I discovered:

From RSS feed to Javascript: Feed2JS

If you want to spice up a page on your website, or integrate a feed into a blog widget, then have a look at Feed2JS. They offer an easy, fast and gratis way to convert any RSS feed into a simple Javascript. Each time the page with that Javascript is run, it displays the contents of the feed as if it were content on your page.

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How to make Twitter work for your blog in 3 easy steps

I previously published a post on how to increase quality traffic on your blog using Twitter.

Here is a second simple case study on how Twitter can complement your blog and increase interest for your cause and traffic to your blog.

In October 2008, I started several pain vanilla blogs on Tumblr, a simple and straightforward blog platform. I will use two of them in this short case study: AidNews.org and ChangeThru.Info. As they are so similar in setup and layout, I call them “my twin sites”.

aidnews.org and changethru.info screen shots

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RSS reversed: From Feed to Blog

We all use RSS mostly to read updates from different sites. What if we could reverse this, and use RSS to actually populate a site?
Here is a story of RSS, in reverse. Maybe we should call it SSR instead of RSS…

Both for work, and in my spare time, I scan the news (and the Internet as a whole) for humanitarian, aid and development articles.

1. Using RSS the conventional way

Up till recently I exclusively used PageFlakes, a simple tool allowing you to display a multitude of RSS feeds from different websites on one page.

pageflakes

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10 Free blogging tools I use daily

There is a mass of interesting tools available for the serious and less serious blogger. Here are 10 free tools I use almost daily for my blog.

1. Picasa

Picasa

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