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 user ask for content, unlike
email marketing, which relies on “push”
technology to push content unasked
for. 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 engine 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 happen 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 My Yahoo Account. If you don’t
have account in yahoo then go and
create it (http://www.yahoo.com),
it’s important. Find what is your
RSS feed URL and after gathering this
information log on to My Yahoo Account.
When you have logged in to your account
Yahoo will provide you with three
options as shown in picture below
Click
on the “Add Content” link, you will
be forwarded to 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 Add button.
After
adding your URL your receive another
page where you will find Your Blog Name
and button for adding your blog to My
yahoo Account click on the button and
you will able to list your blog feed
on your own My Yahoo Page. That’s it
your are done.
Adding feed
to MSN account
Microsoft created
MSN account similar to 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
click on “OK” button. If you have
done correctly your RSS URL will be
listed on the MSN Account page.
Active Web Directories
to Submit your RSS Feed!
Here are few other RSS directories that require free
username registration.
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