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5 Simple Steps to Get More RSS Subscribers

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

1. Prominant placement of a big RSS icon

Do not hide your subscription icon somewhere below the fold of your website. Place your RSS icon at the top of your website (e.g. in the header). Another important aspect, besides the placement, is the icon itself. Use a big icon, which blends perfectly in your design, and thus is good visible.

2. Give RSS subscribers a gift

Persuade your reader with a nice gift, which offcourse is only available to a subscriber of the RSS feed. If you are a blogger who uses Wordpress you can make use of the feedvertising plugin or the RSS footer to display a link.

3. Explain what RSS is

Not every reader is technical and knows what RSS is. Create a simple page, where you explain what RSS is, and for instance add the video ‘RSS in plain English’, some links to good RSS readers and help the non tech-savvy reader in a step-by-step tutorial how he or she can subscribe to your feed.

4. Promote your RSS link on other sites

Do you make use of social media sites or use of forums? If yes, than make sure that display a link to your RSS link in your profile or in your signature. You have to make it clear though that the user is subcribing to your feed though. If you do not you can upset the reader and he or she will immediately unsubcribe because of your phishing tactic.

5. Include the possibility to receive updates by mail

A functionality in Feedburner is to offer RSS through mail. Some users do not want another program on their computer, but do however use mail. In your Feedburner account you can copy a piece of code, which you can copy and paste onto your website.

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How To Add RSS Feed Content To Your Blog

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

For those of you who don’t know, RSS today stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” It’s a type of web feed that’s used to publish updates.

The basics of RSS date back 14 years ago – and the concept didn’t even barely catch on until 1999 or so when Netscape created their “RDF Site Summary” (RSS 0.9) – which lasted only four months until they updated and tweaked it into a: “Rich Site Summary.” (RSS 0.91) In a bit of oddness, one year later an independent and non-commercial working group updated RSS again, calling it… “RDF Site Summary” (RSS 1.0) The world moved on, and time flowed. Two whole years later a breakthrough came and the RSS that we know today–”Really Simple Syndication” (RSS 2.0) was born – and it’s the RSS the web 2.0-savvy generation knows and loves.

You can start the process of adding RSS feeds to your blog by looking for something called an RSS feed aggregator or reader. Adding RSS feeds to your blog is pretty simple, even for those unfamiliar with XML. The feed aggregator will collect RSS feeds collectrf and create a code that you can use to display these feeds on your blog. When these feeds are updated, your blog feed willself-update to fit the latest site or blog update.

The easiest way to get started is by trying out a trial version of an RSS feed reader or using a free version. Once you have your feed reader installed, you will want to begin looking for related feeds for when you begin adding RSS feeds to your blog. Try Yahoo News, Google News, and blog search engines to find topics that match your audience’s interests. RSS feeds can add fresh content successfully to any type of blog – you can add freelance projects, jobs, industry-related news, advice columns, horoscopes, press releases, and other up-to-the-minute content without doing any researching at all. The only researching you’ll need to do is find the websites that have an RSS newsfeed. How can you find out if the content is feed-ready? You need to look for the RSS newsfeed symbol, or find the link that says “syndicate this”.

When you select a given feed, choose for the website to send you to a page with XML code. Copy-and-paste the URL of this page into your aggregator. Your aggregator will then create a small piece of code that you can paste into your blog. Your blog will now always contain a new set of summaries and links will be generated by the RSS feed you added.

Adding content to your blog doesn’t have to be complicated, as you can see. You just need a little Web 2.0 know-how, some search skills, and a little help from some online friends. Don’t be afraid to get creative with your blog and choose some interesting topics that really stand out – blogs are meant to be unique. And remember, blogging is a publication that is always a work in progress – and the more focused it is, the more you cake it shine.

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Some Steps to Increase Your Website Traffic With Rss Feeds

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Follow along and learn the simple secrets to increase website traffic with a few clicks of your mouse. RSS stands for “really simple syndication” and it serves as a tool to keep visitors updated to a websites changes without the person having to go back to the website.

Generating Your RSS Feed

If you have a wordpress blog (the most common blogging platform) then you already have an RSS feed built in to your blog. You can find your feed at your domain.

If you have another type of blog check the user guide of your blogging platform to find out where your RSS feed is located or how to generate one. For more details visit to www.inside-the-minds-of-winner.com .Unfortunately most internet marketers don’t know the first thing about using their RSS feed to increase website traffic. There are some very simple steps that you can take to dynamically increase your traffic absolutely free with your RSS feed.

The first thing that you should consider doing is setting up a Feedburner account so that they can manage your feed. Feedburner is a free service that gives some basic traffic stats, keeps track of how many people have subscribed to your RSS feed and best of all makes it really easy for visitors to subscribe to your feed.

After you have setup Feedburner to manage your feed they will give you a URL for your feed. Take that URL and put it on every page of your blog so that anytime someone clicks on the link they will have the option to subscribe to your feed.

Two More Steps and You’re Done

Once your feed is setup and the URL is on every page of your blog the only thing left to do is to submit your feed to some feed directories. For more information logon to www.ultimate-internet-marketing-tricks.com .A feed directory is a site that lists several feeds from all over the web on one website. Feed directories can not only bring in tons of new visitors to your website but they also provide good backlinks to your website. Backlinks are needed for any website to rank well in the search engines.

There are two feed directories that stand head and shoulders above the rest in the online world. Often time’s just submitting links from these two directories can rocket your site to the top of the engines which will obviously help you to increase website traffic.

The first of these two is Feedage. Feedage requires you to setup a free account but once you do you can submit as many feeds to them as you want. It’s very simple and only takes a few minutes to setup a free account and submit your feed.

The second directory is Feedagg and they don’t even require you to setup an account. You simply click on the “add feed” link and input your information. It’s really that easy.

That’s all there is to making the most of your RSS feeds to bring in extra free website traffic to your website. Follow the simple steps laid out and watch your traffic numbers steadily increase.

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