Question for the Blog Gurus

[Jace]

Originally Posted by DannyCox

Toby, are those submitted by the Amateurs listed or do you pick them up automatically some how? Or do you just grab what you like and insert it into your Blog?

Jace, my only knowledge of RSS Feeds is that I subscribe to some so I can quickly check what's going on. The ones I grab all have to do with sailing, so are only interesting to Sail Geeks like me

I wasn't sure if the RSS stuff was something that webmasters linked to (with an affiliate code) in order to get surfers to subscribe and that somehow the aff code stayed with that surfer.....or if they somehow linked to the feed and it contained aff codes back to the hosting website.

I apologize for my total lack of understanding in this area, it's just something I never paid attention too. I just had a bunch of webmasters bugging me about the Blogs Carol does for other websites. They are much more involved than the ones that Toby has on his hottie-heaven.com Blog as they contain longer, more explicit stories with pics and/or video teasers.

I'm not even sure what affiliates would be looking for?? The quickie stuff like Toby has, or the more involved and in-depth story style Blog? Both??

I'll probably contract someone to help me get set up with this as I don't feeling like working through the learning curve. I grabbed WordPress, and the templating for design is quite simple, but that would be about the extent of what I could do at the moment.

here is a good example of a rss fed blog

http://www.rshblog.com/

that blog is TOTALLY built from rss feeds...so every single post you see is grabbed from an rss feed from an affiliate program

now, when you step from normal rss feeds to affiliate rss feeds make sure you have someone professional do it, because that is something you can fuck up pretty bad, and last thing you need is to throw rss feeds out there for affiliates for 2 weeks only to discover that their affiliate codes haven't been being saved into the posts, you can't undo that and every affiliate has to go through and change each post out, one by one

if you need any help let me know, I have some free time coming up next week, i wil gladly walk you through everything