How To Use An RSS Fees

Increase Your Site’s Traffic With RSS

Did you know that an RSS feed can help you drive more targeted traffic to your site?

Yep, your feed can be far more useful to you than just a tool for subscribers to be updated. Try the tips below to utilize the power of RSS to bring a constant flow of targeted traffic to your site.

#1: Submitting to Quality RSS Directories

Most websites have their own RSS feed regardless of their search for subscribers. An RSS feed is automatically created if you use a blogging platform like WordPress. If an RSS feed is not automatically created, try using software or online services. Searching Google for RSS Aggregators will get you a substantial list.

Once your site is set up and you are adding content, submit your content to as assortment of RSS feed aggregators.  There are services available to help you do this automatically but it is quite simple and quick to do it manually. It will seem unproductive at first, but it will be become worthwhile. By adding content frequently you will find that every time you post you’ll receive a fair amount of visits from people who have subscribed to your feed after finding it in the directories.

This can be automated with software like RSS Submit or Traffic RSS Bot, which will automatically submit to nearly 90 directories at a click of a button. Automated services are great if you have many sites.

#2: Submitting for Backlinks

It’s critical to the success of your website to create custom feeds that include content linking back to your site, using certain keywords or phrase. Once you’ve created a custom feed and have submitted it to all the directories, you almost instantly have powerful, targeted backlinks pointing to your site from high page ranked web directories and search engines.

A great way of creating a custom feed is to use other feeds from different websites, in the same niche, and then blend that content into a feed for RSS distribution.  Change the wording and add important keywords to make it pertain to your site.

One simple way to create custom feeds is to use a service like RSSMix.com. At this site you can simply add in feeds from other sites (including your own), hit submit, and the url for the mixed RSS feed will be created instantly.

Another and a more complex way of doing this, including the ability to use filters for different keywords is by using “Yahoo Pipes”, and exporting the ‘pipe’ as RSS. This new and custom RSS feed can then be submitted to the feed aggregators.

Submitting RSS feeds will create backlinks in itself, but there are also people and other sites who may want to use the feed you created on their own website. If they do use your feed, your feed posts will be displayed on their site with a backlink to your website. Google loves these types of backlinks.  This process can create hundreds, even thousands, of backlinks over time, and depending on the keywords used in your blog posts and overall competition, your site could end up on the first page of the search engines.

#3: Use the “RSS footer” plugin.

When you check your web statistics, you may discover that your site’s traffic can come from very unusual sources, such as visitors referred from sites you don’t recognize.  This is the result of people ‘scraping’ content from your site’s feed. They have used software to copy the content from your feed to use on their own sites.

Don’t worry about this practice, you can use it to your advantage. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to stop people scraping your content, so make them work for you! By using the RSS footer plugin you can add a link to the end of each post in the RSS feed pointing back to your website.  Anyone who scrapes your feed will then be giving you backlinks on every post, resulting in a boost of your search engine rankings.

Hopefully these basic tips can help you increase and improve the traffic to your websites and increase your revenues.  It may take a small amount of work to set up your RSS feeds, but they will continue to work for you after you have them installed.