The Success Behind RSS

According to Technorati, there are over 15 million blogs as of July 2005. And during July, an average of 80,000 new blogs were created each day. If you own a blog, how are you going to promote it in order to stay ahead of the competition?

Fortunately, there is a simple, yet very effective method: RSS directory submission.

Submitting your RSS newsfeed to specialized news directories benefits your site in

several ways.

• Regular posting : write quality content related to your niche on your blog. And try to post more regularly on your blog. If you are posting once a week right now, aim at doing to 2-3 times in a week time. Quality content and regular posting will be the main key for you to increase the subscribers to a blog.
• Subscription Icons : You should show your RSS subscription symbol on the prominent positions on your blog. The best places to show RSS icon are blog header, top sidebar and within posts.

RSS feeds are primarily created to offer dynamic content, ie content that is fresh and updated. As you can see, many news press are using RSS feeds to provide their readers with the latest news in the stock market, sports and world news. Commercial companies offer feeds to subscribers as a means to announce new products, company news, or as an advertising channel. Webmasters use RSS feeds on their websites so that visitors can always read about the latest developments in the web topic or niche such as medical, internet marketing or even stock movements.

Select your aggregator program very well to achieve the best direct subscription service. It is best that when you place a link on another site, try to find out which aggregator programs are currently and widely used by many who use the RSS feed.

The third key to fast RSS is to ensure the continuing functionality of your RSS feeds. There's nothing worse than an RSS feed system that breaks down and does not function. Take the time to ensure that your RSS feed is working.

Carefully follow the submission guidelines provided by each directory. Make sure you are not submitting an unrelated feed, a feed with bad code, or a feed with poor descriptions. Carefully choose your feed's category and only submit to relevant categories. The fourth step is to use RSS to generate more traffic to your blogs by building your own RSS feeds so that your messages are available on various web sites.

The fifth step is step to make money with RSS is by integrating your search engine ads with RSS feeds

The sixth step is to make your RSS feeds interesting so that it creates impact on people.

There are 2 main components of a RSS feed.

• Channel: A channel is the total collection of items you wish to highlight in your site. There is exactly one channel per RSS file.
• Item: Item is a single thing you wish to highlight from your site. There is at least one, but no more than 15 items per channel. But it is better to limit to 6 items per channel.

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