Really Simple Syndication or RSS can offer you a lot of opportunities online. It can help you manage your subscribers and it can also help you spread your news around. And, it brings information you want and need directly to you. Beyond adding RSS to your blog page, consider all the free tools you use that offer RSS and think about how you can use them to benefit your internet marketing business.
Uses for RSS
-Add your RSS feeds for the article diretories you write for to your blog sidebar. This creates decor for your blog and brings people and search engines to your articles. Do this on your regular blogs but also create some free blogs to do this with as well through tools like WordPress, Blogspot and others.
-Add your RSS feeds to your Squidoo pages and HubPages. There are modules set up within those tools that allow you to choose to add feeds, label them and design the way they’ll appear. Not only are you adding value and aesthetics to those pages by doing this, but you’re also increasing the chance that a viewer will click a link to one of those catchy titles. Be sure to show teasers in your settings!
-Submit your RSS feeds to Twitter via a tool like Twitterfeed so that as you update various sites of yours online it’ll update your Twitter status automatically.
-Save time by setting up a feed reader of your own (such as Google Reader) so you can check once daily for news and other information instead of having to surf to many regular spots. Getting relevant news and information delivered to you such as posts from SeanSEO can be very worthwhile. Click here to subscribe to the SeanSEO RSS feed.
Have a most outstanding day.
Sean RasmussenAussie Internet Marketing
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Hi Sean,
These are all excellent ideas. It’s all about integrating my sites and automating the sharing of my work between them. Again, I’m doing some of these things but not all.
I’m starting to see a pattern developing. It’s pretty clear the areas that I need to improve on.
Lots more ideas to be implementing.
Like I said I will be setting out a plan to get this done.
Learned something else! Thanks Sean, now I know what RSS is!!
Yep, this article (and links) has got me a lot closer to solving my RSS ignorance. Will certainly help me as we go along. GH
Making it easier for visitors to become subscribers is always a good idea and adding the ability to subscribe to your RSS feeds is one way to do that. I’m using Google Reader at the moment to subscribe to several feeds and it is was really easy to set up and use – give it a go if you haven’t already!
Hi Sean,
I agree, RSS is a handy tool to have for Internet Marketing. If an RSS button is on a page it’s easy to bookmark for later use.
I can bookmark and ad the site into Google Reader. This way I can share a page with other readers. There are many buttons to choose from and then it takes a while to include the coding to make the link work. Takes a while to set up but is worth the effort.
G’day Sean,
Thanks for this.
Been subscribed to Google Reader for some time and find it useful as I’m subscribed to your blogs – to read at my own pace.
Been a bit slow on RSS so far, and it’s all a huge learning curve to absorb and act upon.
Question – what are Hub Pages and how do I use them ?
Cheers
Harry
Hubpages is very similar to Squidoo Harry, here’s an article that will give you some more info: http://seanseo.com/internet-marketing/hubpages-for-internet-marketing/