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Many business owners started their web marketing with the traditional «postcard on the web» site. Maybe they added some basic e-commerce functionality, bought a few pay per click ads and waited for traffic to come. When it didn't come, they asked why and, in many cases, turned to blogging to help drive traffic.

One issue for business bloggers, especially the vast majority who blog in between dealing with demands of their real business, is finding extra content that can sustain the blog between posts. We all love the eye candy sidebar widgets from social media sites, the traffic exchanges, the quizzes and memes. But, especially on business oriented sites, these are often not enough to fill the bill.

For business bloggers, I'm offering free business oriented news feeds to add a little something to your site's sidebar, to fill in as «mini-posts» or pretty much any other way you can think to use them subject to a few simple rules.

Sites and feeds

• Financial topics, personal finance, markets from a member of the Forbes Business and Financial Network - feed URL
• Real estate and mortgage news - feed URL
• Economic indicators - feed URL
• Morning economic news - feed URL
• Feeds for specific topic categories from each site are available - contact me for category specific URL

Rules

1. The content on the sites is copyrighted by me and you are using it by permission.
2. All links, both the feed links and any internal content links, must be left intact.
3. Links can not be «nofollowed» in anyway. This includes any use of nofollow, etc. in META tags on your page.
4. Links must be search engine readable. This generally means javascript, AJAX and similar methods can not be used to publish the feeds. PHP scripts, server side includes, etc. are generally acceptable.
5. If your site has more than 25 visitors a day on average, please use a caching mechanism on your server and update from the feed up to 5 times a day.
6. Do not repost entire articles. Use headlines and first paragraph or short excerpt only.
7. You do not have to notify me you are using the feed, but if you do I will include you in lists of users that may help publicize your site. Contact me here.

If you'd like to use full articles on a case by case basis, contact me and we can discuss it.

If you need help with syndicating feeds to a site, installing blog software, getting a blog up and running on your business site or any other aspect of business blogging - contact me and let's talk.