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Using RSS Feeds For Site Exposure
An extremely useful tool to use in your website marketing strategy are RSS feeds. RSS feeds will enable you to get your pages spidered fast and get them coming up in related searches on the search engines.
What’s the definition of an RSS feed?
The popular site Wikipedia.org refers to it as “RSS is a family of XML files formats for web syndication used by news websites and blogs. RSS Feeds are used to provide items containing short descriptions of web content together with a link to the complete version of the content. This data is delivered as an XML file called an RSS feed, RSS stream, RSS channel, or webfeed”.
In a nutshell this means that when you use RSS feeds you create a link to an RSS feed page that you have made. Any time an update is made to your site or fresh content is added, RSS feed networks are updated with the new content. This is as long as you if you have registered with them.
There are plenty of free resources about how to create an RSS feed that I’ll be providing to you below. These sites explain in fuller detail what you need to do to start your own RSS feed. These free tools will create the feed for your website.
Here's an RSS submission tool that streamlines the whole process and immediately gets you traffic and backlinks.
http://www.paidinsider.com/recommends/powerrss
Create An RSS Feed: Create RSS Feeds and Publish News Feeds | Display RSS Feeds on Your Website
The site above allows you to make an rss feed for your site. Submit Your RSS Feed above.
Yahoo Feed Submit
Yahoo! Publisher's Guide to RSS : Submit Your RSS Feed
From Yahoo Feed Submit, instead of submitting your site to Yahoo, you can submit your RSS Feed. This way you can add your RSS feed to Yahoo’s feed indexing service, and get your site indexed quickly.
Multiple Feed Promotion Service
http://www.feedsubmitter.com/
On the web site above you can submit your RSS Feed to multiple websites. When you submit you will get your feed delivered to dozens of popular feed indexing websites. These sites are constantly spidered by the search engines. Taking this action to submit to a multiple feed service you’re ensuring an easy way for your site to be spidered quickly and quickly acquire backlinks.
Google’s Webmaster Resources
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
Using the Google webmaster tool for your RSS marketing strategy allows you to submit your site and RSS feed as a sitemap. I use these tools every time I want to make sure my website is fully indexed by Google.
Last edited by Matthew Sherborne; 10-08-2007 at 12:17 PM.
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