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By Aaron Wall - Wed, 04/25/2007 - 08:45

Scott Karp mentioned that RSS has no value without a filter. RSS already has filters, but most people probably do not use them to their full potential.

Your top trusted editors in each category already are human editors / filters. As you go deeper into any category you find more duplication.

Many blog platforms allow you to subscribe to an individual category.

Yahoo! Pipes (and other similar offerings) allow you to mix feeds together.

Sites like Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and Google Feed Reader allow you to share items with others.

Many toolbar providers offer buttons that update with the latest news from an RSS feed.

Custom news search feeds and blog link search feeds make it easy to track keywords outside of your favorite editorial channels.

Google personalized homepage allows you to create tabs for different news. I have tabs to track SEO, domaining, marketing, general web memes, news mentions and link acquisition of sites I am currently marketing. By paying attention to the people I trust or the people who are voting for my sites I am probably making the votes count more.

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Aaron Wall is the author of SEO Book, a dynamic website offering marketing tips and coverage of the search space, free SEO videos, and free SEO tools. He is a regular conference speaker, partner in Clientside SEM, and publishes dozens of independent websites.

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