5 ways to extend the message of your RSS feed or blog

Internet Articles | January 13, 2010

Suggests some alternate ways to get more subscriptions to your RSS feed.

You could be missing opportunities to enhance the range of your RSS feed or blog.

These optimization pointers can definitely improve your numbers:

1. Burn your feed to FeedBurner.Com. The optimization and analytics options they offer are guaranteed to benefit your outreach.

2. Give your visitors a variety of ways to subscribe to your content. FeedBurner has email subscription options and AddtoAny.Com provides easy ways to add subscription buttons directly on your blog. Make it easy for your visitors and they will appreciate it.

3. Be sure to submit your feed to the tons of feed directories available. Assuming that when a service pings you (notifies you) about one of your posts it means that it also included you inside their directory is a false assumption. Right off the bat, you need to claim your blog at Technorati.Com. Once that is done then you can make use of the toprankblog blog directory list to find more directories to feed.

4. It almost goes without saying that you need to feed your feed to your social networking sites. Facebook certainly permits adding RSS feeds to your profile. It also provides applications for feeding to your Facebook pages. LinkedIn waves you on in with their feed application for your profile. Naturally, the hot new kid Twitter is served up by tools like HootSuite.Com, which lets you add your feed to your Twitter account.

5. Don't forget your lifestream and social pages. Find a lifestreaming service like FriendFeed and a social page account like Squidoo. Be sure to include all your basic data from your other Social Web accounts in these new places. Use a checklist and be consistent.

Put these five pointers in play and you will increase the audience for your RSS feed or blog. Once you got them, keep them and get more by always keeping your blog fresh and up-to-date with relevant and useful information.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Deltina Hay is the principal of Social Media Power, and founder of the new social media Website service, Plumb Social. Ms. Hay's graduate education in computer science, applied mathematics, and psychology led her naturally to social media consulting. Her latest book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization, can be found anywhere books are sold.