5. Add a Blog – Blogs are a good way to get site traffic because your RSS feeds can be distributed all over web with just a few site listings. You can increase your page rank by listing your website or your blog in top blog search engines. This gives you another source of free traffic and links.

6. Content Structure – People don’t read on web, they scan. If you can keep this tip in mind and structure your website accordingly, you will get more visits for longer periods of time.

How do you make your site easy to scan? •Use subheadings •Bullets •Indented text •Bold text •Numbered text •Italics •Different types of fonts •Colors •Small paragraphs etc.

7. Link Freely – Don’t be afraid to link to other websites including your competitors. If you consistently link to websites with a high google pagerank, your page rank will also increase. Google determines your site worth by association. Associate with best, and soon your website will be one of best.

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If you use a combination of these techniques on your website or blog, be prepared for a significant increase in site traffic within 30 days.

Build RSS Feeds and Blogs for Your Keywords.

One of best ways to use RSS is to set up a Blog and RSS feed for each of your major keywords. Any major topic or subject on your site must or should have a Blog and RSS feed to compliment your site's content.

To optimize fully, it is best to have a separate IP address for each of these Blogs, different from your site's IP address. You can even use Free Blog sites like Bloglines (owned by Ask Jeeves) or eBlogger (owned by Google). To take full advantage, it's best to use 'unique content' in these blogs and make sure you link only to high PR quality sites.

Ping Your Blogs Regularly

Pinging your blog posts regularly will alert search engines new content has been added to your site or blog. Most of you have probably noticed by now that using sites like 'MyYahoo' to ping your blogs and RSS feeds is a great way of getting your sites spidered and indexed quickly in major search engines.

Pinging is simply sending out a signal to all weblog tracking sites that your site/blog has been updated.

Here's a site http://pingomatic.com/ that will 'ping' you blogs automatically.

Add RSS Feeds to Your Site

Another way to attract search engines is to place high quality RSS feeds on your site related to your subject area. Use these feeds to provide valuable content to your visitors.

And it's quite simple to do; just add "&format=rss" at end of URL in your Msn search engine query. For example, to get an RSS Feed for 'tsunami relief' you would use this url:

http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=tsunami+relief&format=rss

In Yahoo URL would be slightly different:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=tsunami+relief&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

Of course, you can change 'tsunami+relief' with keyword or phrase of your choice to suit your website's content.

Conclusion

Trying these RSS positioning strategies will give your site added visibility on web and a greater presence in major search engines. It will create dynamic links to and from your site and this will result in faster spidering/indexing of your sites. You should be using RSS to basically 'hotwire' your site or sites to major search engines such as Google, Msn and Yahoo -- in fact, it should be your number one priority.

RSS is still relatively new; despite popularity of blogging, podcasting, MyYahoo and RSS featured Firefox Browser, it hasn't totally gone mainstream. Many webmasters have not yet optimized their sites for RSS, so you can give your site a slight competitive edge if you act quickly. By taking full advantage of this new technology you will see a marked improvement in your site's traffic, not to mention a noticeable increase in your site's rankings.

So don't delay, 'hotwire' your site by utilizing RSS factor and you might be pleasantly surprised where it takes you!

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RSS and Blogging Guide.

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