How to Promote Your Website or Blog Using RSS Feed Plugins Combined With Social Media
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Do you use your RSS feeds to market your website? It’s perplexing that many awesome sites do not use RSS feed. And it’s popular for many sites to drop RSS Feeds all together. How could you NOT want use an RSS feed?
Many marketers are under the assumption that businesses lose customers and traffic by using RSS feeds. Sure you might lose some traffic through RSS feeds and feeds readers, but there’s so much to gain by using this resource, it far outweighs the losses.
RSS Feeds for Readers
Pro’s
RSS feeds can make your content visible to more readers because they can import feeds from all their favorite sites and get content as it’s published.
Con's
On the other hand, RSS feeds are quite limited. And many people get used to getting their information from RSS feeds and rarely visit the blog or website they are getting the information from. This of course, is bad for marketers and business owners trying to sell products and services. Fortunately, there are several plugiins that will help you resolve these issues..
If you have a WordPress blog, you can use numerous plugins. I listed the top choices below:
• RSS Manager — If you want to modify your RSS feeds, add, or remove items from it. This plugin. is perfect. If you find you’re getting outranked for your own content, or would like additional time before dropping your posts in your RSS, this plugin also offers delayed publication.
• Category Specific RSS — Not only can readers subscribe only to the categories they want, but you can use it to see which categories are the favorites and in demand. Also you can use it to create your offers, announcements and content.
• Sexy RSS Footer — Allows you to add backlinks, comment numbers, links to social profiles, and more to RSS entries,
• RSS Post Editor — Add to your feeds and your readers have to subscribe to view your content.
Another exceptional option that gives you more control of over your content is Your Members is a membership plugin. Your Members provides RSS feeding to your readers but it requires a sign up, or even payment to view the content.
As an added benefit, you’ll discover your content will show up in the search results for those who have subscribed to your feed using Google Reader.
Combining Social Media With RSS Feeds
Social media is immensely effective to promote your content on the web but social media management can some times be tedious and time consuming. However, if you have a tool that can feed your content directly to you social profiles it will make this task a breeze. You have two ways of doing this:
• Twitter Tools or AddThis get content directly from your blog .
• FriendFeed, TwitterFeed, or HooteSuite. are social media tools that can accomplish this for you also.
You can use these tools and integrated the some of the Wordpress plugins I mentioned before and it will allow you to feed only specific posts or posts from particular categories. For people who have numerous blogs with many sources of content, Yahoo Pipes is great to combine them into a single feed that you can then integrate with your social profiles.
These tools will make it easy and quick to submit your feeds to forums, shopping, and niche sites.
RSS Distribution
RSS is distribution is another awesome marketing option you can use. It’s similar to an article press release, or white paper distribution, but only available on specific channels. You can select from niche specific distribution lists, and general ones with categories.
Good Luck
Dania
www.homebusinesstalk.biz
www.miamimommyblogger.wordpress.com
www.momsebizblog.blogspot.com
Many marketers are under the assumption that businesses lose customers and traffic by using RSS feeds. Sure you might lose some traffic through RSS feeds and feeds readers, but there’s so much to gain by using this resource, it far outweighs the losses.
RSS Feeds for Readers
Pro’s
RSS feeds can make your content visible to more readers because they can import feeds from all their favorite sites and get content as it’s published.
Con's
On the other hand, RSS feeds are quite limited. And many people get used to getting their information from RSS feeds and rarely visit the blog or website they are getting the information from. This of course, is bad for marketers and business owners trying to sell products and services. Fortunately, there are several plugiins that will help you resolve these issues..
If you have a WordPress blog, you can use numerous plugins. I listed the top choices below:
• RSS Manager — If you want to modify your RSS feeds, add, or remove items from it. This plugin. is perfect. If you find you’re getting outranked for your own content, or would like additional time before dropping your posts in your RSS, this plugin also offers delayed publication.
• Category Specific RSS — Not only can readers subscribe only to the categories they want, but you can use it to see which categories are the favorites and in demand. Also you can use it to create your offers, announcements and content.
• Sexy RSS Footer — Allows you to add backlinks, comment numbers, links to social profiles, and more to RSS entries,
• RSS Post Editor — Add to your feeds and your readers have to subscribe to view your content.
Another exceptional option that gives you more control of over your content is Your Members is a membership plugin. Your Members provides RSS feeding to your readers but it requires a sign up, or even payment to view the content.
As an added benefit, you’ll discover your content will show up in the search results for those who have subscribed to your feed using Google Reader.
Combining Social Media With RSS Feeds
Social media is immensely effective to promote your content on the web but social media management can some times be tedious and time consuming. However, if you have a tool that can feed your content directly to you social profiles it will make this task a breeze. You have two ways of doing this:
• Twitter Tools or AddThis get content directly from your blog .
• FriendFeed, TwitterFeed, or HooteSuite. are social media tools that can accomplish this for you also.
You can use these tools and integrated the some of the Wordpress plugins I mentioned before and it will allow you to feed only specific posts or posts from particular categories. For people who have numerous blogs with many sources of content, Yahoo Pipes is great to combine them into a single feed that you can then integrate with your social profiles.
These tools will make it easy and quick to submit your feeds to forums, shopping, and niche sites.
RSS Distribution
RSS is distribution is another awesome marketing option you can use. It’s similar to an article press release, or white paper distribution, but only available on specific channels. You can select from niche specific distribution lists, and general ones with categories.
Good Luck
Dania
www.homebusinesstalk.biz
www.miamimommyblogger.wordpress.com
www.momsebizblog.blogspot.com