RSS feed -- Boost your website traffic FREE

Another free marketing tool that is making the rounds of Internet Marketing is RSS, or "Really Simple Syndication", and if used right, can send your web traffic over the Moon.

The process begins when a webmaster wants to share his site's content with other web sites. The selected content is added to an RSS document and then registered with an RSS publisher. The content can be anything the webmaster wants it to be... articles, headlines, press releases, or jokes and recipes, for that matter.

The ease of distribution give this technique a very high potential to explode your site traffic and greatly improve the results of your marketing efforts. The key to success with RSS is to have useful content that informs and Interests your audience. The same principles that apply to article writing applies here:

• Consider you target audience and write to them
  
• Keep your article short and to the point... 200-300 words
• Write in a friendly, conversational manner
• Use "How to" Tips and short "step by step" solutions to keep your readers interested
• Consider submitting your articles to news and ezines as another source of traffic

Send Press Releases whenever there is a special event on your website or blog, or when you add new products and services.

A little tip will be required to set up your RSS feed. You'll need a server, a database with descriptions of your content and the ability to use scripts. If you are unable to do these necessary task yourself, you can hire a freelancer to do the technical work.

When you have the details work out, you submit your content for syndication to an RSS publisher, or aggregate. Most have specific categories for popular topics. You will have to make sure you submit your content to the correct category so your intended audience gets your feed.

Do not categorize yourself into a hole. If your content can be useful or interesting to different audiences, submit it to different aggregates under different categories.

If you want to better understand what is an RSS Feed, watch this video:


This is the site were I am doing all of my RSS submission: http://adf.ly/1BV1
I like that site because all the feed directories are listed in that one site, less hassle of opening multiple tabs and typing each site where you will submit your feed.

How to Find your Blog's RSS Feed URL?

So basically now that you know that submitting RSS feeds to directories can greatly increase your traffic, the painful part now is how to actually get your RSS Feed URL? Remember Blog URL and RSS Feed URL is different thing. This is where newbies get lost. 

• Imagine you are on the a site now and filling out the forms to submit your blog to the listings.
• You enter some information, your blog URL, email add etc...
• And then you suddenly pause dumbly looking thinking what you will put in the RSS Feed URL 
  

 Here's how you will get your RSS feed URL in blogger:

• Scroll down your blogger page and at the very bottom of your page you'll notice "Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)"
• Right click on it and click properties
  

• And there you have it, the little RSS Feed URL hiding himself giving us newbies hard time finding it. 
• Now if you want to validate if you get the correct RSS Feed of your site, you can do it here for free:   http://adf.ly/1Ber
  

To be honest this is the only method I know how to find RSS feed so basically I don't know how to find it in other site or web 2.0 sites. :D 


How to add your RSS Feed to your Facebook? 
If you want your Facebook account to be updated in what is happening on your blog or there is something new in your blog but do not like to post every time you want to share something new, then add your RSS Feed to your Facebook account. 

• Copy your RSS Feed URL
• Then go to :  http://www.facebook.com/editnotes.php?import
• Then Log in and paste your RSS Feed URL 
• Then click Import
  

There you have it your FB friend will automatically get updated whenever there is new post on your blog and you will save your precious time posting on FB walls.

Remember this is not permanent, you can stop importing RSS Feed to your facebook anytime want. Go to your Notes page in Facebook. Toward the right you will see a box titled "Notes Settings".  Click "Edit Import Settings"  On the next page, you will see a button that says "Stop Importing".  Click it and Facebook will stop importing that RSS feed.  You can then leave it empty or insert a new feed to import.


So that's it, I hope you Learn something from what I've shared. If you know some techniques or ways to for the better use of RSS Feed please post at the comment. I am also in the process of learning things so any help will be much appreciated. Keep visiting this blog cause I will update this as soon as I find new ways and techniques in the use of RSS feed.

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• Backlinking
• Article Marketing

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