RSS in Plain English - Part 2

Want to know what your competitors are up to?  How can you stay informed and maintain a strategic advantage over your competitors?  Read here to find out.  Following on from yesterday, here are more sites where you can carry out your free RSS Ego searches.  All comments welcome.

RSS Ego Searches – Part 2

By: Sharon Housley

Ice Rocket

Simply search Ice Rocket then click the RSS 2.0 button to obtain the url of the RSS feed that contains your search term. Add the url to your RSS reader or newsaggregator.

http://www.icerocket.com/

Find Articles

Traditional media channels can even be monitored using RSS. FindArticles routinely scans magazines and publications for keyword mentions. Conduct a search then click "RSS Alert" to obtain the url to the RSS feed. Add the feed to your reader to receive instant notification of new articles.

http://www.findarticles.com/

NewsTrove

NewsTrove indexes millions of news articles from a myriad of sources. Build an RSS feed on any topic imaginable. Enter your search words in the search box. Click 'Search' click the orange XML icon on the right side of the search results page and save the feed to your news reader.

http://www.newstrove.com

BlogDigger

BlogDigger monitors the blogosphere and generally what is said daily in the blogs. Conduct a search on Blogdigger and click the orange XML icon to retrieve the url of the search feed. The feed should then be added to your RSS reader.

http://www.blogdigger.com/

DayPop

Conduct a search and click the icon on the right that says XML, save the feed to your RSS aggregator. Only the most recent search results will appear.

http://www.daypop.com

Yahoo News

Conduct a search then click "view as RSS" in the right column save the feed in your aggregator. The feed will check Yahoo news for mentions.

http://news.yahoo.com/

Overall, ego searches are an excellent way to stay informed and maintain a strategic advantage over competitors. Knowing exactly what your online competitors are doing provides a competitive edge that can be used to your advantage. Keyword RSS feeds can be used to monitor key phrases for trademark abuses or monitoring the effectiveness of a specific press promotion.

Although they sound daunting ego searches are simply good business sense.

Author Bio

Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for FeedForDev http://www.feedfordev.com an RSS component for developers.

Article Source: http://www.ArticleGeek.com

Source:  by Sharon Housley

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