Question About Using RSS

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Daniel Cassidy, Feb 12, 2008.

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    I am starting to get into using RSS as a means to promote
    my blogs and articles and I am not totally sure the
    right way to go about it.

    Are you just supposed to submit a feed one time or should
    it be done over and over? From what I have read you just
    submit once and everytime you update your blog it will
    update in the RSS feed site.

    Also should you submit to as many RSS feed directories
    as possible or should you just submit one feed to one directory?

    I usually ping my blog feed every time I ping my blog. Is this
    the right way to do it or is one ping good enough for the feed
    and just keep pinging the blog everytime you post.

    Regards,
    Daniel
     
    Daniel Cassidy, Feb 12, 2008 IP
  2. Game Producer

    Game Producer Well-Known Member

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    Hmm, if you use platform like Wordpress they do pretty much automatically it. You can ping other blogs when you publish stuff.

    There are some good RSS feed directories (like techrunch) and more you can find by searching from these forums.

    Key thing is to concentrate on value & letting people to subscribe to RSS & get them to come back later.
     
    Game Producer, Feb 13, 2008 IP
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    Tom Thumb Notable Member

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    Wordpress will ping automatically and you can also run the following manually http://pingomatic.com/ or automagically if you want :)

    I have a Blog that uses a small iframe which pings pingomatic each time someone lands on a page.

    This sends that pages details to the updaters .

    The site pulls over 500 uniques a day ( Im not looking for people to stay , just the one offs who follow affiliate links , adsense clicks ) and I have lots of backlinks albeit from "spammers" who suck the content with a backlink sometimes minutes after being updated.

    Moral of the story - RSS used in the right fashion can be very useful . If you do have real people who stay on your site and are interested , theyll sign up to your feed to keep updated and then visit the site if they feel it warrants a visit!

    (Remember also that you can show yours RSS feed beside your username in Digital Point Forums. More traffic!)
     
    Tom Thumb, Feb 13, 2008 IP
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    I use feedburner for processing, monitoring and tracking my feed. Then I also submitted it to Technorati - helps me keep track of other blogs that mention my site.
     
    mutooni, Feb 13, 2008 IP