What You Should Know About

Publicize your RSS feed.
There is little argument from webmasters and publishers that RSS brings in traffic. So when you have made the plunge and created a feed, how do you tell your visitors about the diet? 1. submit your RSS Feed to RSS directories.
This will not only increase the number of sites linking to your site and increase your link popularity, it will also increase the RSS feeds profile. A number of RSS search engines and RSS directories exist, so you can freely submit RSS feeds. Feeds are generally categorized and grouped by topic. Web surfers are looking for RSS feeds on a particular subject will often search RSS folders to find a feed that matches their specific criteria. Subject-specific RSS feed and podcasting directories dolls also. Please select a web feed's category carefully and only submit relevant feeds to topic-specific folders. A large list of folders is located in http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm

Example of subject-specific-http://www.realty-feeds.net or http://www.religious-podcasts.net

2. Explain RSS
While you have finally was RSS out, some of your visitors do not have. Concept while brilliant, can be a little confusing to the novice. The concept of RSS feeds can be entirely new to some of the visitors to your Web site. Therefore is generally good practice to go website visitors through the steps of localization, subscription and reading of a syndication feed. It is generally a good practice to include a page on your site that includes a general explanation of RSS and details how site visitors can subscribe to an RSS feed. Explanation of the sample page, which can be used for on your site: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-subscriptions.htm. RSS specifications has allowed replication of this Web page. It can be published, simply insert your RSS feeds or otherwise customize the material to explain RSS visitors on the site. 3. graphic on your Web site
Since the design of RSS, has been used bright graphical flag indicates the location of an RSS feed. Now instinctively see homepage visitors often after a colorful flag on Web sites. See flag is changed, but a number of options are available. When you add the image, you must link to the location of the RSS feed. Some webmasters use the chicklets to indicate the presence of feeds, added web surfers click the chicklet that relate to their RSS feed reader or news aggregator and feed to their list of feeds. Others believe that the amount of chicklets just add confusion and choose single relevant RSS graphics.4. Press
With any important addition for your company, it is entirely appropriate to send a press release to let by the media do you have RSS feeds available for specific content. This will often have little attention. In addition, important news editors choose to subscribe to your RSS feed to keep up to date with your latest corporate news. In view of the possibility of these subscriptions make a press statement to signal the availability of an RSS feed simple common corporate sense.5. newsletters
Include a mention in an e-mail newsletter, content is now available through an RSS feed. Many newsletters subscribers appreciate an alternative subscription method and want to subscribe to a feed and the web. 6. Auto Discovery
Some of the visitors to your Web site can be web savvy. You must include an auto-discovery tag in the HTML header of each webpage. Many RSS readers will automatically detect that an RSS feed is available for specific content and message home page visitors and ask them if they wish to subscribe.7. Mark a news reader
Distribute preloaded RSS readers branded for your company name. The great advantage, brandable news readers is that you can include all your RSS feeds in it. Any transfer programs will have immediate access to your RSS feeds in branded news reader.

Brandable readers-http://www.deskshare.com or http://www.customreader.com

8. Blog
If you have a blog or by bloggers, you must share with those you have added an RSS feed for specific content. Blogs are a great vehicle to spread the word. Marketers understood immediately the power of word of mouth, but few marketers understand the movement of blog in the mouth. This growing phenomenon has added credibility to online blog entries.In order to reap the benefits of an RSS feed, it is important the feed be published properly. Simple steps to promote an RSS feed will go a long way in order to ensure a feeds adoption.
About the author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for Note Page http://www.notepage.net a wireless text messaging software company.