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 

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