With all new free tools available, even if you’re all thumbs when it comes to making a web page, if you can fill out a form, you can create a feed.

Reason #3: Get visitors to click through to your site whenever you update

If you haven’t used a feed reader before, you might be confused about connection between feed and your site and why it can result in an increase in traffic. I’ll attempt to explain this to you in words, but I suggest downloading a news aggregator (also known as a feed reader), and looking at results of your favorite site’s feed through a reader after you read this for full effect..

You can use my main feed here if you don’t have one to view: http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeTrafficTips

If you don’t want to have another application up while you’re surfing, you can try Pluck , a free application you can use for more than just feeds that integrates with Internet Explorer - get it at http://freetrafficdirectory.com/pluck - it will take you right to downloads page.

You can also do this from My Yahoo!, by changing your page to include their RSS Headlines console, still in Beta testing at http://my.yahoo.com .

To summarize, a visitor sees headlines they want to read, view summary, and click through to your site to read rest of news, either in a new window, or without having to leave application they are in.

And when you update again, reader will notify them that you have new headlines, and/or populate list of items you have available. This can keep your audience coming back.

If you had trouble following that, come to this page for a one minute tutorial:

http://www.freetrafficdirectory.com/members/postt95.html

Reason #4: Recycle old content.

If you have a list of your older articles, some older product reviews, site suggestions, or archived newsletters, you can use those to build content to populate your feed with information. As long as this news is still relevant, you can recycle this content to attract new visitors

Reason #5: Its so easy it’s crazy not to do it.

Before last few months, there weren’t as many free tools online that made process of starting and publicizing a feed so effective and user-friendly.

The bottom line is, now that you can get all those benefits from filling out a form, saving file, uploading to your server, promoting it once, and updating it from time to time, it’s insane not to do so.

You already have to update your site from time to time. You might as well get all benefits of having a news feed too.

Recipricol Linking Warning: Reciprocol linking is very time consuming, but does work. You will be glad you did it in 3 months. There are also some myths and truths when using Recipricol Linking. First of all, Quality is Better than Quantity, Links pointing to you, and no links on your page pointing back is good, and might even be better than reciprocol linking (Depending on quality of site linking to you) Quality - If you want to get a good listing in a certain major search engine, take your top keyword, and search for it using this search engine. Go to top 50 sites listed for this keyword, and ask for a recipricol from every one of them, ask if they want a link returned to them after they agree to linking. If they don't - this is fine. Again, If your not listed at all with this search engine, and this may be your first site, not too many people are going to want to link with you. Well quality is top priority, but if you still need links, get alot of lower quality links. After all, Low quality links are better than none!

About Author: Nick McPherson has been successfull from home for a couple of years now, and has been looking for people to join his team. You can get more information here: http://www.ezinfocenter.com/8661279.4/FREE or nickmcpherson@ns.sympatico.ca