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

The Traffic Mystic System has been developed to combat the indexing updates that are ongoing within the search engines. These updates are focusing on de-indexing and removing link to site that are classed as not ‘content’ worthy and that do Not provide a fresh host of content on a regular basis.

Links from poor sources are also being used to re-rank your site (lower the rank) and in many cases these links are being severely devalued and removed. This means that in a lot of cases your search position in the search listings will drop dramatically. Lots of people have also found themselves removed from the top 1000 index altogether.

Just think about this for a moment.. you have spent the last 6 – 12 month gaining lots of links from article directories like:

• Ezinearticles.com
• goarticles.com

And with these sites being around PR6, you have gained some solid link backs to your own site and as a consiquence you have had your site rank increased and your search engine position increased and gained a lot of new traffic to your site.

You have also gained some good links from some web 2.0 sites like squidoo from pages you have created and socially bookmarked.

So your linking is building up nicely and your articles are in place via your multiple directory submissions but then you check your site and notice that for the last few days your traffic has dropped off!!!

You go and check your site and find your article submission links have vanished and so has your rank and your search engine top 10 position.

Well this is what is happening to thousands upon thousands of sites and it can also happen to you.

We have tested this system over a 3 month period over a number of different site types. We have tested the strategy with:

• Build a Niche Stores
• PHPBay Stores
• E-commerce stores
• Squeeze pages
• Static pages
• Blogs

In each case we have gained top 10 rankings for our keyword phrases within 4-6 weeks. In 90% of the time we have gained a top 3 ranking within 4 weeks and all of the sites links have been permanent. This includes the article links to our Build a Niche Store / PHPbay and Ecommerce stores, which have been specifically targetted by google and yahoo and had their links removed.

The Traffic Mystic Strategy enabled these links to become permanent and the links will Not be removed due how they have been impemented.

I will cover the strategies that I have used in comming posts so please add our RSS feed and bookmark us for updates.