Need assistance (RSS) I'm running in circles.

xDennis · 12-30-2008, 02:31 AM

Hello,
Okay.. I've read several articles on RSS feeds and all that but I think i'm running in circles:

What I understand:

RSS will allow your blog entry to be viewed on other people's websites who host RSS feed as their blog entries. So your Blog entry that is setup as a RSS feed can possibly be listed any many other websites providing Traffic and back links

(Right?)

What I don't get:
I'm running a WordPress blog right now (2.7) and I can't figure out for the life of me how to make my entries RSS , THEN submit them to RSS sites that will link them to other peoples feeds?

What will me Feed URL be? Will it be the Blog entry? Or will it be the entire blog.. www.blog.com ?

I've been trying to figure this out for some time and i'm getting frustrated. I hope someone can help me.

ALSO

I just pinged my blog, when I have a RSS feed, do I have to ping each article? Or just the entire blog?

Thanks!

cedricl · 12-30-2008, 02:36 AM

www.blog.com/feed

Submit that URL to feed aggregators such as feedagg, feedage, ...

indexphp · 12-30-2008, 02:45 AM

Rss Feeds are for subscribing to blogs (or whatever has RSS) so you will be updated of any new posts. This is what my RSS feed reader looks like.

Since you are a publisher and are (hopefully) building a readership to your blog, RSS allows people to subscribe.

For all your other questions, just Google it man.

xDennis · 12-30-2008, 02:48 AM

Ah ha! Thanks! Damn, that took forever to figure out for something so simple.. I event ried to write my own RSS feeds.

Okay, so now that I've submitted my RSS feed to several feed aggregators, now what? Do I just sit back and wait for traffic?

How do I maximize this process for best results?

Thanks

pearsonbrown · 12-30-2008, 03:13 AM

Make sure you add your feed to FeedBurner .

Then look at the tools it gives you to publicize your feed. One obvious way is to have a clear RSS sign showing on your blog. Another is to use Feedburner's ability to set up a mailing list.

Pearson

cedricl · 12-30-2008, 03:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xDennis

Ah ha! Thanks! Damn, that took forever to figure out for something so simple.. I event ried to write my own RSS feeds.

Okay, so now that I've submitted my RSS feed to several feed aggregators, now what? Do I just sit back and wait for traffic?

How do I maximize this process for best results?

Thanks

don't sit back and relax. i never got a lot of traffic from feed aggregators :-)

do some other forms of marketing: articles, social bookmarking, videos, ....

zeppb · 12-30-2008, 05:35 AM

I agree. I don't get very much traffic from feeds but the beauty of them is it's a quick method to build some backlinks.

xDennis · 12-30-2008, 09:13 AM

Trust me, I'm not sitting back and relaxing. I'm trying HARD to get up ot about 100 visitors a day organically.

I submitting a minimum of 1 article per day, I'm commenting on blogs, yahoo answers..anywhere I can. RSS feeds seemed to be the next logical step.

That's why I tried so hard to figure it out last night.

Keith Kogane · 03-21-2009, 01:47 AM

Yeah, submitting the feed URL to aggregators is not about getting traffic. But if you're smart about putting good keyword based links back to your OWN site in your content, it will get picked up by republish sites and voila, instant targeted one-way backlinks, building continuously over time.

Using a plugin like SEO Smart Links can make it easy to manage this task of automatically linking instances of your keywords to whatever you specify. If you combine that with something like RSSDoodle, you don't even need to think about remembering to include your keywords in your content. Just use the same target keywords in both plugins.

Then take the category specific feed for the RSSDoodle output and submit that to aggregators, and voila - instant backlink building machine.

Anyway, hope that makes sense and helps get your where you want to go!

Traffic-Bug · 03-21-2009, 05:26 AM

The link to RSS is visible in most Wordpress themes. If it is not visible in your WP blog main page (not on dashboard) consider installing a different theme. Right click and copy the URL of the feed and submit to RSS directories. My service Traffic-bug dot com has a RSS submissions service for cheap.

Karen Newton · 03-21-2009, 06:49 AM

Keith you pulled up a thread from December?!

xDennis, if you ever come back to read this, just note that you only have to submit your RSS feed urls to the aggregators one time (you don't keep submitting them each time you write a post). They will track whenever your RSS feed contains new content.

Sam Mlambo · 03-21-2009, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keith Kogane

Yeah, submitting the feed URL to aggregators is not about getting traffic. But if you're smart about putting good keyword based links back to your OWN site in your content, it will get picked up by republish sites and voila, instant targeted one-way backlinks, building continuously over time... ..Anyway, hope that makes sense and helps get your where you want to go!

Great response Keith! That is a smart strategy to implement. I didn't see this thread back in december but I'm glad I came across it now. Keep up the good work with building your backlinks Dennis! I'm sure you will succeed at what you're trying to accomplish

Keith Kogane · 03-21-2009, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karen Newton

Keith you pulled up a thread from December?!

Yeah, that was my bad. I was reading a different newer thread which linked to this one as , and I didn't think to check the date before I responded. But I guess someone got something out of it, so not a total flub.

That's what I get for posting so late at night. :P

Eric Lorence · 03-21-2009, 10:13 AM

Well, since the thread is alive again...

Don't forget about the built in Wordpress ping service under settings/writing.

Do some research and add as many ping target url's as you can.

This is far more effective then submitting feeds to a handful of aggregators.

zerivabella · 03-21-2009, 10:27 AM

Wow Eric,
I never realised that you could add to the Wordpress pinger. I will have to check it out. As a newbie I am not too sure what type of links I can add. Could you give me a hint please.

James Schramko · 03-21-2009, 10:30 AM

To submit the RSS feed click on the Orange RSS symbol in the browser, grab the URL that comes up then add that at RSS feed Directory - Feedage.com

This will get you some spiderbot love

Eric Lorence · 03-21-2009, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zerivabella

Wow Eric,
I never realised that you could add to the Wordpress pinger. I will have to check it out. As a newbie I am not too sure what type of links I can add. Could you give me a hint please.

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seoservices@austin · 11-11-2009, 08:49 PM

Hello, I am new to Warrior Forum and atually this is the first thread that i saw. I am glad to see the discussions here it really helps me with my learning process.

SurviveUnemployment · 11-11-2009, 10:14 PM

Don't forget to encourage your readers to subscribe. A lot of them read it in their Google readers. I don't have any way of proving it, but I think Google likes that.

Also set up Hubpages and Squidoo lenses to pull your feeds.

12-30-2008, 02:31 AM	#1
xDennis HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: OH , FL Posts: 382 Thanks: 61 Thanked 36 Times in 13 Posts	Need assistance (RSS) I'm running in circles. Hello, Okay.. I've read several articles on RSS feeds and all that but I think i'm running in circles: What I understand: RSS will allow your blog entry to be viewed on other people's websites who host RSS feed as their blog entries. So your Blog entry that is setup as a RSS feed can possibly be listed any many other websites providing Traffic and back links (Right?) What I don't get: I'm running a WordPress blog right now (2.7) and I can't figure out for the life of me how to make my entries RSS , THEN submit them to RSS sites that will link them to other peoples feeds? What will me Feed URL be? Will it be the Blog entry? Or will it be the entire blog.. www.blog.com ? I've been trying to figure this out for some time and i'm getting frustrated. I hope someone can help me. ALSO I just pinged my blog, when I have a RSS feed, do I have to ping each article? Or just the entire blog? Thanks!

12-30-2008, 02:36 AM	#2
cedricl HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 100 Thanks: 8 Thanked 14 Times in 8 Posts	Re: Need assistance (RSS) I'm running in circles. www.blog.com/feed Submit that URL to feed aggregators such as feedagg, feedage, ...

12-30-2008, 02:45 AM	#3
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12-30-2008, 02:48 AM	#4
xDennis HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: OH , FL Posts: 382 Thanks: 61 Thanked 36 Times in 13 Posts	Re: Need assistance (RSS) I'm running in circles. Ah ha! Thanks! Damn, that took forever to figure out for something so simple.. I event ried to write my own RSS feeds. Okay, so now that I've submitted my RSS feed to several feed aggregators, now what? Do I just sit back and wait for traffic? How do I maximize this process for best results? Thanks

12-30-2008, 03:13 AM	#5
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12-30-2008, 05:35 AM	#7
zeppb HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: United States Posts: 103 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Need assistance (RSS) I'm running in circles. I agree. I don't get very much traffic from feeds but the beauty of them is it's a quick method to build some backlinks.

12-30-2008, 09:13 AM	#8
xDennis HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: OH , FL Posts: 382 Thanks: 61 Thanked 36 Times in 13 Posts	Re: Need assistance (RSS) I'm running in circles. Trust me, I'm not sitting back and relaxing. I'm trying HARD to get up ot about 100 visitors a day organically. I submitting a minimum of 1 article per day, I'm commenting on blogs, yahoo answers..anywhere I can. RSS feeds seemed to be the next logical step. That's why I tried so hard to figure it out last night.

03-21-2009, 01:47 AM	#9
Keith Kogane BadMotherShutYourMouth War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: The South, USA. Posts: 686 Thanks: 75 Thanked 845 Times in 161 Posts	Re: Need assistance (RSS) I'm running in circles. Yeah, submitting the feed URL to aggregators is not about getting traffic. But if you're smart about putting good keyword based links back to your OWN site in your content, it will get picked up by republish sites and voila, instant targeted one-way backlinks, building continuously over time. Using a plugin like SEO Smart Links can make it easy to manage this task of automatically linking instances of your keywords to whatever you specify. If you combine that with something like RSSDoodle, you don't even need to think about remembering to include your keywords in your content. Just use the same target keywords in both plugins. Then take the category specific feed for the RSSDoodle output and submit that to aggregators, and voila - instant backlink building machine. Anyway, hope that makes sense and helps get your where you want to go!
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03-21-2009, 06:49 AM	#11
Karen Newton Mom On A Mission! War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 1,082 Thanks: 57 Thanked 64 Times in 46 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Need assistance (RSS) I'm running in circles. Keith you pulled up a thread from December?! xDennis, if you ever come back to read this, just note that you only have to submit your RSS feed urls to the aggregators one time (you don't keep submitting them each time you write a post). They will track whenever your RSS feed contains new content.
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03-21-2009, 10:27 AM	#15
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