While we run no WordPress blogs, I did write an article that demonstrates how to use SimplePie to read feeds and display them in a WordPress blog.  It is a two part series so far but the second one will be interesting for people that just want to plug and play.

Integrating an RSS/ATOM feed into WordPress

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Linkbait is all about being the popular kid in high school. The goals of linkbait strategies are to grow your backlinks and drive sustainable traffic to your site. Linkbait strategies revolve around using content, creativity and a knowledge of what's popular to acquire links from popular places on the web to your site. Simply put, linkbaiting is the process of organically growing your backlinks by motivating the exceptionally active linkers in your industry to link to you.

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Back links are still currently the backbone of quality SEO. You have to have a good solid strategy for building those back links or else you can pretty much kiss climbing the SERPs

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When you have this many irons in the fire, you sometimes fall behind on writing blog entries. In addition to extending our framework, we are also working on several proof-of-concept applications that use RSS as the core. Some of them you will have seen before but now you will see them done with an emphasis on usability and performance. The first test application, which as of now is unnamed, will be released as opensource. Yes, that is correct, opensource. I firmly believe in giving back to the programming community at large and this will be the first step. Some of the subcomponents of the release will be JavaScript objects that do Ajax, a browser based event mechanism and a server side mechanism that can send messages to the browser asynchronously. That is all I can say for now but I will be posting more when we release a fully functional demo. Yup, no piecemeal releases but a big release that should (crosses fingers) be stable and cross platform ready. Each of the demo pieces will also demonstrate our concept of FRIA (Feature Rich Internet Applications) and will be devoid of special effects for the sake of effects and will focus on usability and diverse control sets. As an FYI, I will not just regurgitate someone else's thoughts and I don't fill my blog with links to other peoples original thoughts. That just isn't my style. So please be patient because every now and then I am known to say something worthwhile.

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Because I pander to the masses and crave acceptance due to what my psychiatrist only terms as low-self esteem, let's talk hot "technologies." I'll compare, contrast and combine those buzz words du jour, Ajax and RSS.

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