3 Tips to improve your RSS marketing

You have created an RSS feed, or maybe you have several feeds and you post at least once a week to keep your RSS subscribers interested. So now you can sit back and watch your hit counter tally up all those extra visitors. Well you may think you have finished but there are a few things you can do to improve things still further.

1. Let browsers and search engines know you have an RSS available.

To do this you need to add a line of HTML to every page that has a link to your RSS feed. The link will be:

link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="title" href="http://www.site.com/rss.xml" rel="nofollow"

This line will need to be enclosed by angled brackets and placed between your HEAD tags of your page. Once you have done this some search engine bots and web browsers such as Firefox will know you have an RSS feed available.

2. Submit your RSS feed to RSS and Blog directories.

Like you would submit your site to search engines you can submit your site to RSS specific directories. This will give your RSS greater exposure to an audience that is already interested and educated about benefits of RSS. This is a list of Alexa ranked RSS directories and another can be found here.

RSS Feeds Have Revolutionized the Internet

RSS feeds have revolutionized Internet for one very good reason: they have provided and end to Spam. With RSS feeds, you can say good-bye to mass emails and distributions that do not meet your news needs and clog up your mailbox and hard drive.

RSS technology provides a way to sort through vast amount of information available via Internet and to select only that information that will best suit your needs.

RSS technology is easy to use and available to general public, and assists web masters and designers every day in their attempts to fine tune website to specifications of goal audience. RSS feeds provide a simple approach to perplexing problem of Spam, and are accessible at your fingertips.

An RSS editor or reader reads RSS feeds. An RSS feed is a small package of information that you can use to select larger article or content. RSS feeds contain title of article, and a synopsis of what article is about. The RSS feed significantly cuts down on time you spend sorting through articles to pick ones that meet your specific needs.

An RSS feed also sometimes contains a snippet of actual article, which will allow you to understand feel and style of article. An RSS editor or reader can sort RSS feeds. This technology can be fine tuned to select RSS feeds for your perusal You can select based on title, content, or based on origin of article. You can subscribe to certain news groups or can keep your RSS feeds more generalized.