Tuesday 1 November 2011

Increase Your Blog Traffic With RSS and Social Bookmarks

RSS is an extremely powerful and easy tool that can get you repeat exposure to readers that you otherwise may not reach a second time. If you're just starting out, you may not be aware of what RSS is or how it works, so let's go over an explanation and how to implement it. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is the easiest way to get content syndicated on the internet. When a user subscribes to your RSS feed, they will receive the content of your post every time you create a new post. They can then read it on any number of RSS readers.

You ask how? Simple! Ok, let's start from why you are set up in business. To make money, right? And how does your business bring in money? You develop a product or render a service and then, through aggressive marketing and advertisement, you convince people to patronize your business. So, really, a successful business is about two key ingredients: something you want to sell; getting people to sell it to (and this is where RSS comes in).

RSS gives you a cheap, simple, easy, and fast platform to get across to your target audience and others. It is arguable if you can get it any better than this. Below are some specific ways RSS will improve your bottom line.

Almost all WordPress themes come automatically equipped with an RSS button, and you will see it appear on any WP blog. Other blogs may need a plug-in installed. Another strategy that will get you exposure and backlinks, is to share your posts on social bookmarking sites, such as Digg and Reddit. These are high authority sites, and the backlinks add value to your site in the eyes of Google.

Ease of access to information and your site: Another way RSS helps your business grow is the ease of access it gives to your site from links and higher rankings. There are millions of exciting competing products on the net that users are exposed to daily. But it is neither possible nor even practicable for users to access all of this. And that is why users rely on such things as search engines, directories, RSS Feed, etc that they employ to help them decide where to look. The internet promises speed and users will take nothing less. Your RSS feeds instantaneous highlight (summary) of your offerings directly to users and if they see something they like they can link immediately to you.

Saves you cost: Yes, it does. You don't need to pay an expert, as you don't have to know HTML or XML, the language of RSS, to publish your own content or RSS Feed on your site. All you need do is sign on, for free, to a site like eBlogger and you are on your way.

Most of the web browsers like internet explorer and Firefox will have the automatic discovery feature that enables the RSS feeds to make automatic detections of the new feeds. You will identify the RSS icon on the left of the URL. The simple procedure would be to click on the RSS icon so as to get to the most updated RSS feeds. After making your subscription, you will be able to be to see the latest news and developments in your areas of interest.

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