Jumat, 12 April 2013

How to Get Traffic to Your Blog Using RSS Feeds

RSS feeds can get traffic easily and in significant amounts to your blog.

What is RSS?

RSS means really simple syndication. It is a method to share content of a website with its readers. RSS provides news about new content added to website to the readers. RSS feeds are read through RSS readers. RSS reader is a popular tool used by blog readers. RSS gives the information about the changes in the blog without visiting the blog URL again and again. RSS is also called Rich Site Summary. So, RSS feeds save time and work for readers and thus have changed itself to most popular blogging tool.

Now we know the importance of RSS to readers but how does it helps blog owners?

The blog owner decides and controls the content to be published through RSS feeds. So it gives you the facility to publicize your blog and attract your readers. The basic aim of maintaining a blog is to have a good number of readers. This job is simplified by use of RSS feeds.

Role of RSS to increase traffic to the blog

Whenever changes are made to the blog, RSS feeds tell the blog readers about these changes. Therefore, pointing them to visit your blog. So it does the hard job of maintaining the interest of regular blog readers, which is most important for any blogger. Regular readers are also important because they advertise your blog through social bookmarking sites and Social Network sites like twitter to others for free. The traffic earned through RSS feed and the number of visitors that follow your RSS is known RSS traffic. RSS traffic forms a major part of internet traffic.

RSS feeds are also used to tell other readers about your website. If there are any partner websites which share content about your website then, RSS acts as a tool to provide this information to all regular readers of that website.

How to get RSS installed to your website?

All blogging websites and software gives RSS facility. All you need to do is to place a RSS button on almost every page of your blog. Also tools like Feedburner are available which provide you more facilities in your RSS feeds.

You need to decide the content that you would share on RSS. Good feeds can earn you large number of visitors whereas bad feeds can even drop the number of your loyal readers. The blog owner is the one who controls his RSS feeds and decides a blog's success.

How to get RSS traffic?

Achieving RSS traffic is a simple task. Just follow these steps.

1. Publish useful and quality content. If you want any kind of visitors to your blog, your content must be informative and useful to them.

2. Publish full RSS feeds. Hiding content in fear of theft, leads to great drop in RSS traffic. People never like to read partial content.

3. Provide relevant information about RSS feeds and what you offer in them through articles in your blog. You can also give subscriptions in other forms like emails. This helps you reach larger number of people also compared to when you only use RSS subscription.

4. Apart from RSS subscriptions and content sharing through social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. This also causes significant increase in your traffic.

5. Tell your readers about your RSS feeds through your articles and comments. Inform them about this easy to use feature and ask them to subscribe it.





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