Using RSS To Boost Your Blog
Written by Mr Javo
RSS or Real Simple Syndication is the most common way to deliver the latest content of a blog to its readers. Have you noticed its buzz in the latest years? It has converted in a perfect way to connect a website with its readers. Every day, a RSS feed updates itself and this way the people can check the latest articles through a rss reader such Google Reader or Bloglines instead visiting the blog.
Although RSS is to deliver updated content, you can use it to enhance your performance in your marketing activities. How? Let’s review some of that techniques:
Introduce your RSS into rss directories and search engines: On internet there are a several specialized directories, search engines and content aggregators available that you can use to expand your RSS. By submitting your RSS to these sites, you will be exposing your latest articles to millions of internet users who can be potential readers, and probably capturing some of them.- Display external RSS sources to improve your blog’s content: Have you visited blogs with a widget on their sidebar that displays external RSS feeds? Well, this can be good and bad and I’m going to tell you why. The idea here is to display feeds which relates your blog’s niche. If your have poor content on your blog, your readers can start leaving through these feeds, and possibly never coming back. In the other hand, if the content of your blog is good enough, those external feeds will complement your content with news, offers and related articles. This way, your blog will be attractive as much for your readers as for the search engines.
- Use your RSS to promote: Your RSS is an excellent way to spread in addition to your latest articles, other things such a good promotion, product or service. You can do this by using the header or the footer of your articles with the help of the plugin called RSS Footer, which you can add a html code and it will be automatically displayed on your feeds.
- Use your RSS to remind: With the same plugin I mentioned in the latest lines, you can add a little message to your feeds such a copyright or reminder. You can remind to your readers subscribing to your newsletter or entering to a contest, it’s up to you!
- Sell a text line on your RSS: Once again, the great RSS Footer plugin attacks, and this time is to give you a direct monetary profit. You can use it as advertising, selling a text-line of 50~80 characters for some bucks a month.
As you can see, there are many ways to use your RSS to enhance your marketing activities, some of them are very useful ( as the first tip ) because they can give you backlinks to your blog, improving your rankings on search engines.
In the case of the RSS Footer plugin, as you could see it depends of your imagination. You can use it of many manners which certainly will help you to make a kind of broadcasting among your readers.
Hey! my name is Javier but you can call me Javo, everybody does.
Thanks for sharing, i’m gonna try this plugins
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You are right, Javo. RSS is a great way to boost a blog but you should have a good RSS count. My main goal now is increasing the number of my subscribers. I am holding a contest with cash to win this month and it’s going well so far. We’ll see what will be the results.
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Excellent post MJ. Could you do a follow-up and list some of the rss directories and search engines?
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Hey Dennis of course, I will do it in another post
Hello Guys! I am not familiar to rss and I want to know more about it that’s why I made several research. Thanks to this post and I learned a lot.
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Hey Ronald check out this post What Is A Feed?, it could help you to understand…
Hi Javo
Great post. I wonder if the RSS footer is the answer to my prayers.
I want to offer a free ebook to readers, once they’ve subscribed to my blog. How do I do this? I don’t want to have to subscribe to an autoresponder like getresponse. Could RSS footer be the answer?
ANY help would be most appreciated guys
Cheers
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Hey Rob! yes actually it could be a good way to deliver your ebook to the people. You can add any html code in the footer or header so you could customize an image, text or anything you want there… Why don’t you give away your ebook with a newsletter like aweber? It has many features but you need to pay for that…
Does it allow you to do both footer and header at the same time, or no?
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You can only place it after of before each post, but I’m pretty sure that you can edit the plugin to show-up the html code in both places… Also you have this option: Include a link back to the post, with post title as anchor text too.
I invite you to test it!
Sorry my friend, you lost me at “I’m pretty sure that you can edit the plugin to show-up the html code in both places”
LOL that’s not me.
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hahaha I wouldn’t be TOO complicated… If you want I could help you…
Seriously, I don’t programme, I don’t code. If I need an oil change I go to Jiffy Lube
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Hi Javier, thanks for the suggestions. However…
Awebar – rather not use. Monthly fees too high.
Regarding placing code in footer. I have tried that technique. However, anyone can simply click on footer link to free ebook, without the need to subscribe.
The remit is to make people subscribe to blog by offering a free ebook (free and accessible) only after subscribing.
I have spent a while trying to find a viable solution, but to no avail.
Any help from you guys would be fantastic
PS Dennis, surely understanding some code is necessary when venturing into the world of blogging!
Program – code
Programme – something you watch on radio/TV
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Not exactly the same world – I can HTML, CSS, etc., with the best of ‘em (almost) while inside the blog itself.
Actually it was a double typo since I live in the US…..TV here is also Program
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How can you click on the footer link in a feed without subscribing to the feed?
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MJ – sorry for the triple comment, I just wanted to assure you I wasn’t ignoring you on AIM…..just needed to concentrate on the webinar I was in.
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Nice post. As mentioned in an earlier comment by Dennis, it would be nice if you listed a few directories where we can submit our feed.
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I just recently got into the whole rss thing and just did it because I thought I should but didnt realize the power of rss till now. Thanks.
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i really should get around to submitting my rss feed to directories. i keep on putting it off because it seems so dreary. :O
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I haven’t used RSS much. Now that I read your post, I see the benefits. Thanks for the good tips!
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Hi Javier,
I’m seeing quite a number of posts on RSS promotion lately and I think it’s a very powerful method to reach out to the people. Thanks for sharing.
Peter Lee
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I will appreciate if you make a list of RSS directory and/or RSS agregator to introduce our RSS. And just like you said in your other post, you can make internal linking on this both page
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Hey bro, check on “Related Posts” of this post and you will see an article of RSS directories and aggregators. You can check that post by following this link:
RSS Channels and Directories Where You Can Submit Your RSS On
I was kind of in the dark about RSS and its benefits so I certainly appreciate this helpful post. To this point I have promoted my newsletter way more than my RSS. Ill have to make a stronger effort in this area.
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Nice post. I didnt know about RSS directories. Thanks a lot
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Thanks a lot for this informative post. I have started my new blog and I am looking for new ways to boost my blog. And also thanks for posting the link to the article which gives a list RSS directories and aggregators.
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