Category Archives: Feeds

Google Alerts Now in RSS

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on November 9, 2008. Filed under Feeds, Google News, Online Reputation Management. No comments.

Do you subscribe to Google alerts?  If you do then you’ll be happy to know that Google has now begun offering the option to recive them via RSS!.  Yes thats right RSS! Benefits of reciveing Google alerts via rss as opposed to to email include the ability to include them in your favourite reader, or [...]

Yahoo’s Paid Inclusion Programme (Search Submit)

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on October 4, 2008. Filed under Feeds, Yahoo Search Marketing. No comments.

Yahoo offers a programme that allows your site to show up in it’s natural results pages on a per click basis.  The programme is called Yahoo  Search Submit aka Paid Inclusion. In a nutshell, the programme works as follows: 1) You provide Yahoo with a live Feed (IDIF) that includes all the pages of your site.  [...]

Google Shopping Feeds Decrease Natural Traffic

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on May 31, 2008. Filed under Feeds, SEO. No comments.
Shopping feeds Lead to Drop in Website Natural Traffic

During the month of April/May 2008, Google has been showing more and more shopping feeds (Google Base) on top of the Natural search results. Companies not participating in shopping feed distribution most certainly would have seen a substantial drop in their website sales as a direct result of this. Its all part of Universal Search, [...]