Website Promotion with RSS Feeds - four tips

Four tips how to promote your weblog with feeds and :

1. Submit your RSS feed to RSS aggregators.
You can use this RSS Submission Service I created or do it manually. A good list of sites to submit is at Master New Media.

2. Add ping servers to your ping list
To tell multiple services that your site has been updated, submit your RSS URL to Ping-O matic (every time you have post) or add these ping servers to your blogging application. Technorati explains how.

3. Add My Yahoo, Feedster, Newsgator and other personal RSS reader links to your site.

RSS readers are becoming increasingly popular. The old ‘bookmark
this’ link should be replaced with links to common RSS reader. Below is
a list you can use - I know, there are more (tell me about them). Don’t
forget to replace my URL with yours.

Bloglines
http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.thomaskorte.com/index.rdf

My Yahoo
http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/promo_content?.module=ycontent&.url=http://www.thomaskorte.com/index.rdf

Newsgator
http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=http://www.thomaskorte.com/index.rdf

Feedster
http://www.feedster.com/myfeedster.php?action=addrss&confirm=no&rssurl=http://www.thomaskorte.com/index.rdf

Kinja
http://kinja.com/checksiteform.knj?pop=y&add=http://www.thomaskorte.com/index.rdf

4. Trackback as many posts as possible
To increase the number of relevant links to your site use Trackback.

I use Google to search for similar posts and add the Trackback URL to the post.
For example, I searched for ‘blog promotion trackback’
to find posts that are relevant to this posting and have trackback
enabled. Once I find a good site, I also follow the other trackback
links to see if I can use them.

January 3, 2005 | Filed Under Thoughts |  

Submit your Feed to multiple sites

My weekend project - a Feed Submission Service for RSS feeds.

What does it do?
Submit your RSS, XML, RDF, etc. feed to 15 feed aggregates including Daypop, Technorati, Google and Yahoo Search.

What do I have to do?
Just enter your feed URL and email address and hit submit.

This application lets you add your Feed to currently 15 RSS aggregators as well as Google and Yahoo Search.

Just enter your Feed URL and email address. The script will do the rest and give you success/error messages for every site.

Disclaimer:
I wrote this in a few hours, so please do not look at it as a full blown RSS submission machine.
From what I can tell, it gets the job done.
Please use at your own risk - no garantees :-)

And … spread the word ;-)
If you have comments email them to thomask[at]gmail.com


1. Enter your URL and Email:
 
Feed URL:
(rss,xml,rdf,..)
Email:
(for confirmation)


2. Override Default Search Engines: (optional)
 


The default engines are marked with a *

Windows users hold down CTRL while clicking to select multiple.
Mac users hold down Apple key while clicking to select multiple.


3. Receive Confirmation via Email: (optional)
 
Send me a confirmation email message.


 

Add your site here:
If you accept feeds, please let me know and I can add you to the list. Please email me at thomask[at]gmail.com

January 1, 2005 | Filed Under Thoughts |