Almost every blogger aims to grow their blog and reach a larger audience. Unfortunately, most new bloggers don’t know much about promoting a blog when they are just getting started.
According to Technorati, there are over 133 million blogs indexed as of June 2008 and an average of 900.000 blog posts were created each day. If you own a blog, how are you going to promote it in order to stay ahead of the competition?
Fortunately, there is a simple, yet very effective method: RSS directory submission. Submitting your RSS newsfeed to specialized news directories benefits your site in several ways.
Benefit of Submitting RSS Feeds to RSS Directories
RSS directory submission increases your readership. When a person is looking for newsfeeds to add to their RSS reader, it is highly likely they will visit an RSS directory to find newsfeeds on their subject of interest. I recently visited a directory looking for personal business blogs. I subscribed to several, and now read them via RSS on a regular basis. Someone else may have an excellent business blog, but since they weren’t listed in the directory, I was unable to discover their site.
RSS directory submission enables your content to be duplicated and linked to from other sites. One of the key benefits of syndicating content through RSS is that it increases your reach. You can publish an article, then have excerpts of that article placed on hundreds of other websites – with links back to the original on your site. Many webmasters want to have fresh content for their visitors, and embedding an RSS newsfeed is the easiest way to do that. You’ll want to make sure that you are listed in RSS directories when a webmaster visits looking for website content – or your competitors may get the free promotion!
RSS directory submission provides immediate link popularity. RSS directories are similar to other web directories – you get a free, one-way link back to your site when you are listed. Think about this. Most RSS directories carry a pagerank (PR) of 5 or higher. When you multiply that over 50 RSS directories, that is a lot of links back to your site – meaning increased search engine rank and more visitors.
How to Submit RSS Feeds to RSS Directories
There are several ways you can submit your RSS newsfeed to directories. The first, obviously, is by hand. You can get a list of the directories here, then go to each website and add your feed manually. Since there are many RSS directories, this can take quite a while.
To save your time, two ways of automated directory submission exist.
Tired of the long and tedious process of submitting your RSS feeds and blogs? Save time by eliminating repetitive data entry work with our automatic submission tool. RSS Feeds Submission software is the quickest way to submit your Feeds to the most popular directories and search engines.
The first one is RSS Submit, a program that automates the directory submission process. All you have to do is open the software, enter the URL for your feed, and RSS Submit will instantly send the feed information to approximately 100 directories.
The second method is appropriately named RSS Feed Submit. This service is similar to RSS Submit – you give them your feed URL, and they submit it to over 58 directories. The difference between the two is price: while RSS Submit costs $64.95 for a personal, non-commercial license. RSS Feed Submit charges $19.95.
Regardless of the RSS directory submission method you choose, make sure to do it! You will find the effort small compared to the benefits you receive.
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