| Attention gadget shop owners and eBay electronic | | | | offering a free RSS creation service. |
| gadgets sellers! Do you have trouble keeping up to | | | | Once you have set up the service it is important to |
| date with the latest gadgets and e-commerce | | | | remember that RSS feeds are short by nature and |
| developments and making your site 'sticky' enough to | | | | only contain text, or hyperlink text. So it is important |
| develop a loyal customer base? | | | | to include an enticing title and make sure your first |
| RSS may be the answer. A web 2.0 format that is | | | | two or three sentences are something that will make |
| keeping netizens up to date with recent | | | | people want to visit the page. |
| developments on the internet and helping | | | | Receiving RSS feeds is also a relatively easy task to |
| webmasters everywhere develop an online | | | | accomplish with a wide number of RSS feed readers |
| community that is more loyal than has ever been | | | | being available. In fact all that needs to be done is to |
| possible. | | | | set up a RSS reader and subscribe to the RSS feeds |
| It didn't seem so long ago that keeping up to date | | | | you are interested in. |
| with the latest hi tech gadgets and cool spy gadgets | | | | Some of the more free web-based readers are |
| was no problem at all. There were only a handful of | | | | Google Reader, My Yahoo, Bloglines and Newsgator. |
| gadget sites out there and, with even fewer blogs to | | | | They all are extremely easy to sign up to and mostly |
| monitor; keeping up to date with gadget news was | | | | look and operate much like email accounts like |
| easy. | | | | Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. |
| Keeping customers loyal was also not a problem as | | | | The next step is to subscribe to feeds from gadget |
| there was a good chance there were only a handful | | | | shops and blogs on gadgets and gizmos that are |
| of similar sites on the internet offering similar | | | | guaranteed to keep you ahead of your competitors |
| products making it very easy to differentiate | | | | with stock. |
| yourself from your competitors. | | | | This can be done any number of ways depending on |
| Unfortunately those days have changed. | | | | which feed reader and which internet browser you |
| As of May 2008 there were 3000 gadget blogs alone | | | | are using. |
| registered on popular blog aggregate Technorati with | | | | You can search on the readers themselves for |
| the website announcing it had indexed 100 million | | | | relevant feeds. However this is likely to leave you |
| blogs in December 2007. | | | | with a large number of unusual gadgets and cool spy |
| So what does that mean for you the gadget shop | | | | gadgets blogs to keep checking up on. |
| owner or eBay gadget reseller? What it means is | | | | If the cool electronic gadgets website has a RSS |
| that there's more to sort through to get product | | | | subscription button on its news page designed for |
| ideas and more competitors for your customers' | | | | your chosen reader then you won't have any |
| attentions and disposable incomes. | | | | problem subscribing. All you need to do is to click on |
| This is where RSS will be invaluable for your business. | | | | the button and follow the steps. |
| RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format which | | | | You could also click on the RSS button and copy the |
| webmasters and content creators use to create | | | | URL from the page of code that opens (the URL will |
| bulletin-like 'feeds' which are sent out to subscribers | | | | probably contain the code XML or feed). You should |
| when the webmaster's site is updated or a new | | | | then paste it into the 'add feed' dialog box in your |
| story is added. | | | | RSS reader. |
| By subscribing to a RSS feeds you will save valuable | | | | Flock or Firefox browsers make adding RSS feeds |
| time previously wasted visiting online gadget shops, | | | | extremely easy. All you need to do is to click on the |
| computer gadgets blogs and strange gadgets blogs | | | | RSS link at the top of the page beside the URL bar |
| unnecessarily. You can also use it to keep your | | | | and another window will open, letting you set up a |
| customers informed when you add the latest | | | | feed directly in your browser. |
| gadgets and new inventions to your inventory. | | | | Make yourself into a more dominant force on the |
| Setting up a RSS feed for your site and getting RSS | | | | internet. Get a RSS reader and subscriptions and set |
| feeds from a gadget shop or blog on hi tech | | | | up your own RSS feed and change your gadget |
| gadgets, strange gadgets or spy gadgets couldn't be | | | | shop into a sturdy, sticky site with more cool |
| easier with popular blog aggregator, Icerocket.com, | | | | gadgets and hot gadget gifts than your competitors. |