Boosting Web Traffic Through RSS

Have a website or weblog? Having an RSS feed can get you extra traffic from unexpected sources.

Webpreneurs are increasingly using feeds to add constantly updated content to their websites.

Who knows… they might pick up your feed to highlight and send you some extra hits for free thanks to their marketing efforts?

Products like Adrian Ling’s Power RSS allow webmasters with relatively basic programming skills to tap into the world of RSS to provide fresh content to their sites while keeping the Search Engine’s happy.

As you may be aware, search engines like Google are increasingly “dropping” sites with pages generated that are essentially directories pieced together from search engine results and which have relatively little of value for human readers.

RSS updated texts are different and you may wish to include them in your website in the future.

Here’s an example of how one site picked up my feed and sends me traffic almost daily.

Work At Home Secrets Feed providing content for another site.

The simplest way to obtain an RSS feed is to start a free blog at blogger.com, but some hosting packages like SiteBuildIt now automatically generate and rss feed whenever you update the site.