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Third Party RSS feeds to promote

RSS feed promotion is a great way to enhance the exposure of your blog or website. One little extra trick, which I want to share with you is to promote other third party feeds that have your content already built into them.

For example, maybe you submit press releases to PRWeb. Well, they have an RSS feed just for your releases. Why not add that RSS feed to your site home pages at IGoogle / MyYahoo / MyMSN, add it to all your social networking profiles if you can. You can add RSS Feeds to Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Ecademy and FastPitch. I’m sure most of the other major social networking sites will allow you to do this too!

Other third parties that have RSS feeds include EzineArticles, Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, and Hubpages. Again, there ar many more that will have RSS feeds with your content within them.

There are many more places that these that have RSS feeds. Next time you are using one of these sites check to see if they have a personalised RSS Feed for your submissions, then promote it.

It will give you another little boost in the rankings and expose your content to a wider audience, plus very few people are doing it, so anything you can do to gain a slight advantage.

Once you have set these up to go, the next time you submit new content, the RSS feeds will update and notify all these services of your new content.

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RSS Promotion

Just a quick tip.  Make sure your RSS feed , be it your Blog or news feed has a good keyword rich title and description.

Why?

Because RSS search engines use the titles and descriptions to help sort and rank a feed.  Make sure it has 3 or 4 of your major search phrases in both.

Here is a list of some 200 odd RSS directories and Search Engines to submit your feed too.

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Submitting your feed is a great way to gain additional exposure for your posts or news and will drive you more traffic.

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Posted in RSS Marketing on June 8th, 2008 | No Comments »

Displaying your RSS feeds

One thing we like with RSS is the ability to syndicate content once and then anytime a new post is made, the RSS will update all the different places that has your feed. It is almost set and forget.

I was told last week about a way of adding your RSS feeds to your Facebook profile.

If you have a Facebook profile and you’d like to feed your blog RSS or article RSS feed to your profile, here’s how:

Install the Flog Blog application on Facebook - To find this do a search under applications in Facebook

In the feed URL box enter your RSS feed url NOT YOUR SITE URL

Enter the other fields and you’ll be done

Good Luck

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Posted in RSS Marketing on June 2nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »