RSS Feed Submission

RSS Feed Submission – How does RSS enhance Blog Performance?

May 16, 2011 By admin

A blog can be read with standard browser, or alternatively, can be read by any RSS reader. Blogs and even website can be syndicated to user RSS feeds. Many content rich sites use RSS and Blogging to keep the user up-to-date with information, breaking news and other stories. Subscription by RSS makes the content come to the user rather than user having to go to different blogs to fetch it. Hence RSS, utilized “pull” technology which means the user asks for content, unlike email marketing, which relies on “push” technology to push unasked-for content. So RSS Feed Submission is one of the most important aspects of your internet marketing.

RSS offers the potential of endless opportunity for the internet marketing community right now. Cleverly written blogs are relatively easy to maintain pages that contain enough information about product and services to sell it.

Advantage of using RSS Feed Submission for Blogging

Higher Search Engine Visibility

Several search engines such as Yahoo and MSN are offering to index your RSS along with your websites (or Blogs) if your visitors include your RSS feed in their search engine specific accounts. Yahoo website will spider your RSS feed and blog if a visitor to your blog includes your feed in his or her My Yahoo account. Yahoo is doing this within 48 hours of such an occurrence. All this happens without costing you a single penny. You can further speed up the process by subscribing your RSS feed to your own My Yahoo Account.

Adding your RSS feed to My Yahoo and MSN Account

After you start to post regularly on your Blog you should add your feed to your My Yahoo Account. If you don’t have account in yahoo then go and create it (http://www.yahoo.com): it’s important. Find your RSS feed URL then log on to your My Yahoo Account. When you have logged in to your account Yahoo will provide you with three options as shown in the picture below

Click on the “Add Content” link, you will be forwarded to the next page where you will see a search box and to the right of the box you will find a link called “Add RSS by URL”. Click on that link.

On the next page simply enter your feed URL in the box provided by Yahoo and then click on the Add radio button.

After adding your URL you’ll be directed to another page where you will find Your Blog Name and a radio button for adding your blog to your My yahoo Account. Click on the button and you will be able to list your blog feed on your own My Yahoo Page. That’s it, you’re done.

Adding feed to MSN account

Microsoft created its MSN account similar to the My Yahoo account. If you are not registered then register yourself with MSN by visiting (http://www.msn.com). Login in to your account and look for the box saying “Add content” simply enter your RSS URL in the box provided and click on the “OK” button. If you have done it correctly your RSS URL will be listed on your MSN Account page.

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