When it comes to RSS feeds most people mis-understand the usefulness of what they do and how they can benefit your site.

most blogging platforms like word press have RSS built in and other platforms that do not can use a number of free utilities to generate an rss feed for the site, either via an online feed service or a generates feed ‘xml’ file that the site owner upload to the site root.

But how does a rss feed benefit you?

First off, when you submit your rss feed to the rss directories it get syndicated to 100’s of other sites which in turn generates more traffic to your own site and backlinks. This also get your site quick indexed in the search engines.

But how can we maximize our RSS feeds?

Step 1) If you have a niche specific niche keyword phrase and your running ‘wordpress’ as your blogging platform then install the ‘feedburner’ plug in to enable your RSS feed to contain your ‘main’ keyword phrase.

ie. instead of the default feed being: http://yourdomain/feed
it becomes http://yourdomain/my-keyword-phrase-here

This will help to rank your RSS feed as well as well your site, so a double bonus.

step 2) Submit your feed to at least the following directories:
- feedagg
- feedage
- syndic8
- yahoo feeds
- icerocket

step 3) ping your feed at ‘pingoat.com’ and re-ping ‘Everytime’ you create a new post

step 4) If you dont have a RSS feed on your site, you have 2 options here. Either use a service like html2rss and create the feed and upload it to your site. You can also use a service like ‘dapper.com’ to create a feed of your posts or articles but I prefer to use ‘icerocket’ as its very simple to use and very effective.

goto http://rss.icerocket.com and signup for a free account.

Once you have confirmed your account, login and ‘create a new channel’. Give your base domain name and add a keyword rich title and description. Now go and make a list (in a text editor) of all your different page urls and save them in your text editor.

Next take each page url and add a ‘new item’ to your rss channel on ice rocket for each url. Once you have completed this, click the publish link and this will create a RSS Feed link for you to promote.

Now take the rss feed and submit to the sites above. When ever you add a new page to your site, add a new item to your rss channel and re-publish then ping the RSS channel.

Step 5) if you already rss feed on your blog you can still create a ice rocket feed and add your urls in.

Also for any other site you create take the RSS from the site (ie. ezine articles) and submit to the above rss directories.

For every other site you are creating links on, add those links to a New RSS channel and submit then ping the channel every time you add a new item to it.

These are the simply steps I carry out using rss and the traffic and hits I get from this are testimonial on how well this works.

So get your RSS cranked up and blasted out and you can benefit from these feeds as well..

until next time..

Steve

I was sitting down watching tv this week when I thought ‘why not do a detailed killer traffic strategy’ for attracting thousands of visitors to your website on a regular basis week in and week out…

I went off and noted the seven main areas to include:

-    High-Profile Article Marketing
-    Forum Marketing
-    Ebook Syndication
-    Video Marketing
-    Viral Pushes
-    Ad Swaps
-    Paid Advertising

Wether you want to build a list of promiote your site i’ll out line the strategies do follow to enable you to do this. SO lets go and out line what you need to do.

** High-Profile Article Marketing

Within the internet Marketing arena we all know that article marketing is one of the best ways to drive highly-targeted traffic to your website. However, if you re-focus your efforts towards high-profile article marketing can generate 10x as much traffic as standard article marketing.

Don’t waste your time submitting your articles to bulk standard article directories when you can submit to the more specific targetted top websites and blogs in your target market.

If you have a blog about sports then we need to be submitting our articles to sites such as http://bleacherreport.com/ which is one of the most popular sports websites online today. What if your website is all about weddings and wedding related servcies then you should be submitting articles to sites such as http://www.favorideas.com/submit-wedding-articles/

How about if your niche web site is all about parenting, you could submit articles to http://www.momsnetwork.com/submit-articles.shtml

How about if your niche web site is all about about finance, you could submit articles to  http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/submitarticle.html

Do you see a pattern emerging here? We need to be submitting your articles to a targetted audience of readers to gain massive amounts of traffic for your articles. So use the very popular websites for submitting articles to gain this massive traffic.

Here’s a list of very popular websites that I personally submit articles to. The list below is a gold mine for building a list of thousands of subscribers. If you published just ONE really good article every day to the following websites, and had a good call to action in your resource box that sent people to your squeeze page, then you would have a highly responsive list of AT LEAST 1,000 subscribers by the end of the month.

http://sitefling.com/blog/steal-our-traffic-be-a-guest-poster-today/

http://www.associateprograms.com/authors/register

http://www.site-reference.com/submit.php

http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-looking-for-guest-bloggers.html (This site ranks #2 for “make money online” and they are looking for guest bloggers!

http://www.tutorialized.com (Submit your articles in the Marketing or SEO sections. This site will send traffic directly to your blog or website. So you will need to have a website set up to submit your articles here. But they can drive hundreds of visitors to your site.)

http://mashable.com/writers/

http://www.searchengineguide.com

http://www.evancarmichael.com/Author/partnerLeads.php

http://www.isedb.com/db/pages/Contribute-Articles-to-ISEdb.com

http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/become-an-npt-guest-blogger/

http://www.imnewswatch.com

http://www.carlocab.com/get-featured-for-free/

http://www.bloggingtips.com/write-for-us/

http://www.sitepoint.com/about/writeforus

http://www.zeromillion.com/involve/

http://www.promotionworld.com/submit/submitcontent.html

http://www.lifehack.org/about/contribute

http://www.copyblogger.com (a very popular IM blog that accepts guest bloggers.)

The following is a list of sites where you can syndicate your articles.

http://www.instablogs.com/write_article.php

http://blogcarnival.com/bc/ (Submit all of your articles to blog carnivals for extra traffic.)

http://www.gather.com/

http://www.nowpublic.com/

http://www.scribd.com/

** Forum Marketing

Forum marketing is another excellent strategy for building a list of subscribers and sending tons of traffic to your website.

Forum marketing is a highly underrated, but extremely effective strategy for building a list of subscribers, driving highly-targeted traffic, and establishing yourself as an authority in your particular market.

Forums put you directly in front of your target market, making it a goldmine for driving thousands of highly targeted visitors to your website.

But keep in mind here that the key to successful forum marketing is to become an active participant in the community. Your first priority is to deliver lots of value. And that means posting highly valuable content in the forums and helping people with their questions.

Once you’ve become a trusted member and delivered some great value in your posts, people will naturally want to learn more about what you have to offer.

This is where your signature link comes in…

You’ll want to use your signature link to send people to your squeeze page where you can build your list of subscribers.

Here’s an example of a good signature line:

“Find out how to get front-page Google Rankings in 24 hours with my FREE Google Mystic 2.0 Video series… http://www.yoursqueezepagehere.com ”

The key here is to entice them with some sort of benefit to get them tocome to your website. Keep your signature file short and to the point.You should only be promoting one page in your signature file. Don’t confuse people with multiple options.

Also keep in mind that it’s the value of your post that drives people to look at your signature. If you provide people with extraordinary value, then they will naturally want to check out more of your content.

So focus on providing value. One extremely valuable post is worth 10x more than 20 average posts.

Here’s a list of the top Internet Marketing Forums:

http://www.warriorforum.com/

http://forums.digitalpoint.com

http://www.ewealth.com/

http://www.v7n.com/forums/

http://www.internetmarketingforums.net/

http://www.clickbanksuccessforum.com/forum/

http://forum.abestweb.com

http://ablakeforum.com/index.php

http://www.namepros.com/

http://www.webmaster-talk.com

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/

http://www.whydowork.com/forums/

http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com/forum/

http://www.promojunkie.com/forum/

http://www.netaffiliatetalk.com/

http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/

http://www.dnforum.com/

http://talk.iwebtool.com/

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/

http://www.forumforwebmasters.com

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/

http://www.conqueryourniche.com/forum/

http://forums.seochat.com/

http://forum.affiliatebot.com/

http://www.siteownersforums.com

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum25.html

You can also use the Warrior Forum to quickly build a large list of subscribers by posting free WSO’s. http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/

You can also build your list by posting free offers on the Digital Point Forums as well (in the Buy, Sell, and Trade section.)

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24

Another great place to post your offer and build your list is http://marketplace.sitepoint.com

You can create free reports to give away on these forums simply by combining a collection of your article into a free PDF report. By re-purposing your articles, you will be able to generate even more traffic and subscribers.

*** Always be looking for ways to re-purpose your content. There are a TON of ways to get extra mileage out of any type of content you create online.

See you in part 2 of the killer strategy guide.

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Our ezine articles have now been published with our links.. these have also been socially bookmarked tonight with our list of primary sites and we should see some response within 2/3 days.

Still waiting for our goarticles to be bookmarked so we can do them naturally.. We will bookmark them tomorrow and do an update our our traffic to the site and our positioning….

Looking at the stats though we are getting some good increases in naturally organic traffic to our sites, which I am very pleased at. Google and yahoo seem to like the strategy so far.

The strategy we have used with goarticles is to create one article that targets our top level site and the 2nd article to deep link our target site. and have both of the articles targeting our keyword set that we optimizing the articles for.

I will detail the keyword set strategy in the future and maybe do this using a video to enable me to show a better diagrammatic over view of the the system I’m experimenting with.