If you are looking to make money online, you need to have targeted website visitors coming to your site on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. This is the case for any product or service you plan to promote now or in the future. Many people don’t realize that RSS feeds are great for generating the kind of traffic they need to be successful online.
In case you are not familiar with what RSS stands for, it stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a very effective way to promote your blog or website. In this article, I will explain how beneficial this can be and demonstrate why many people use this particular traffic generation technique.
Those who have a Word Press blog do not have to worry about creating an RSS feed, because it is created for them automatically. Every time you post new and updated content to your blog, your RSS feed will automatically update with the title and first few sentences of your most recent post.
Although the RSS feed defaults to displaying your last 10 posts, you can change this through your Word Press admin panel. I normally change my settings to show the last 20 posts in my feed. Every page of your blog should have a “Subscribe to our feed” button, allowing people to easily subscribe whenever they want. Your site visitors can be notified every time you post new content on your blog.
Because this is all done in the background, you don’t have to worry about manually updating your feed or contacting subscribers. As long as the content you post is useful and informative, they will get notified about your new content and keep visiting your blog.
You can notify those who haven’t visited your blog recently about a new feed that they can subscribe to if they wish, and you can also submit your RSS feed to feed directories. If someone wants to stay up to date on what you post on your blog, they can find your feed on these feed directories and subscribe. There is a program called Feed Burner that you can use to build another feed for your existing feed. Since it is owned by Google, your new content will be indexed quickly.
Another thing I would like to point out about this feed is that you can promote it like a website. This will result in more subscribers, which will lead to more targeted visitors to your blog. You can even monetize your RSS feed to earn revenue from it, but that’s the subject of another article.