You've heard of RSS, Really Simple Syndication, and know that RSS feeds allow you to keep current on the latest content on your favorite site.
But did you know that it's possible for you to have your own RSS feed without doing anything technical?
How?
Well hopefully you write articles and submit them to article directories. I mean, writing articles and submitting them to directories is 1 of the best ways to get free traffic so surely you're already doing that.
And if you're already writing those articles then you're already doing the hard part of getting your own RSS feed.
You see, many article directories like EzineArticles.com provides their article submitters with their own RSS feed. That's right, they provide a feed to your articles so people can get them with their favorite feed reader.
And there's more to RSS feeds than just making them available so people can automatically be informed when you've provided a new article. You can also use that RSS feed to get some new traffic and here's how.
Join EzineArticles.com if you're not already a member. I recommend this directory since it's 1 of the oldest and does provide a free RSS feed to its authors.
Submit a few articles if you haven't already.
After your articles have been accepted go back to the directory and do a search for your name (The name you used as the author.)
When the page with your articles comes up, click the Expert Author link.
Find the RSS feed icon on your Expert Author page. It's orange and a yellow feed information box will popup when you hover over it.
Click on the orange XML icon at the top of the yellow popup box. The URL it goes to is your feed.
Copy and past your feed (the url you went to when you clicked the XML icon). It will look like:
http://ezinearticles.com/members/rss/Susan-Carroll.xmlGo to your favorite pinging service and enter your name and put your RSS feed into both the "Blog URL" and "XML Feed" boxes. Then click the ping button. I usually use Pingoat.com.
Now in case you're not a blogger or one who doesn't know about pinging, pinging sends a notification to several news syndication services that you've updated content on your blog or your website. Savvy bloggers always ping after they've posted new content because they know that the “blog and ping” strategy increases your Google Page Rank (this correlates to a higher search engine ranking), increased traffic and more exposure to your content.
What most people don't know is that pinging is not restricted to blogs and other types of social networking sites. You can ping any source that provides an RSS feed.
You can ping your own article RSS feed!
So the next time you post to your blog or submit an article to an article directory that provides RSS feeds, take an extra minute and go ping it.
To Your Success,
Susan
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