RSS feeds for traffic
This is the last post in the blog traffic series this time through 
.
Quite often I see people not use the most powerful part of their blog - the feed.
Here are just a few places and sites that you may be using where you can add in your feed and give people a chance to find your blog from things you are already doing. (This is not an all inclusive list by any means.)
- Facebook Profile
- Friend feed
- Squidoo pages
- Hub Pages
- Wet Paint pages
In almost all of these you just need to add the url to your feed and they will start updating your listing on all of those pages each time you update your blog.
If you have not set up feed burner or done anything special with plugins the default feed url for your self hosted WordPress blog will be http://yourdomain.com/folder/feed.
Now if that is not your feed look for the feed link, right click and check properties and you can see exactly what your feed url is.
Adding your feed into all these places will give more people the chance to find your blog while just doing what you normally do anyhow.
Even better especially for the various sites like Squidoo, et al your lens is getting new content added each time you post to your blog. Gotta love things that allow you to automate updating and we all know how much Google loves fresh content when the spiders visit.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Mike Paetzold
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4 comments
Charles Burleigh on November 13, 2008 at 9:42 am
Hey Mike,
I see that LinkedIn has an application for the RSS Feed from WordPress blogs too.
I need to add my RSS feed to all those other sites as well.
Thanks for the reminder.
Charles Burleigh
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Ron Barrett on November 13, 2008 at 9:46 am
Mike,
Thanks for that info…had always wondered how that worked.
Now I have a better idea of how, and where to find it.
Keep the great info coming.
Ron
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Jeffrey Levesque on November 13, 2008 at 11:23 am
Hi Mike,
I agree that people should be using their rss feeds to boost exposure and traffic.
Facebook is a great place to utilize your feed, but it’s not readily apparent that you can use it. For some reason, when Facebook upgraded, they “hid” the feature and you now have to jump through a few hoops to get it added.
It would be great if someone would make a tutorial on that for people. (Hint Hint)
Feddburner also has loads of features that can be added to your rss feed, although I don’t see a lot of people taking advantage of them.
Adios,
Jeffrey Levesque
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Fred Lotgering on November 13, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Hi Mike,
I keep learning and experimenting every day.
Clicked on your technorati “rss feed” tag. Got to the technorati page where many of your blog entries were listed.
There I noticed the “Technorati Authority” (is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months). The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.
I suppose that gives you better ranking and more traffic as well.
Fred
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