Website promoting the use of feed

One way to promote your website is to provide fresh content on a regular basis and announce it by using a feed. Feed is a very useful way to distribute new content to your visitors and attract their attention when new items are added. They consist of a file (or more) where you put the summary of the latest content on your website, using a special format (the most used are RSS and Atom), which allows you to add more information such as icons, on the addition, summary, URL , etc. All this information can be read by feed readers, who will warn their users when content has been updated.

Using a Feed

Using the feed will have some side effects that will affect incoming traffic from your website. In addition to getting the visitors back when your content is updated, the feed will enaable your website to be listed in hundreds of feed directories. While the regular directory listing only one link per site, the feed will display a link directory for every item in your feed (usually from 10 to 15 items in all).

Another good side of the feed is that many people, even when they do not use the reader the client side, you can still access the feed and receive the last update of your website by adding them to online readers (aggregators) like in the personalization of Google's home page, iGoogle.com.

Which format is better?

Among the most popular formats you will find Atom and RSS. You may be asking yourself: "By choosing one format that I will reach a larger audience? Am I going to get more users if I use all three of them". The answer to both questions is no. Any modern reader and / or aggregator is able to read the two formats, and speak a directory, only about 2% of them are only accepted format RSS.

So, now you must choose one to use in your website ... Which will it be? In my opinion, the best choice is Atom. RSS is a format that is born of the older standard (Resource Description Framework) RDF. Been updated several times and presented incompatibility issues important in each update. Even the name has changed several times (as well as those who maintained it): Rich Site Summary for version 0.91, RDF Site Summary for version 0.9, and 1.0 and Really Simple Syndication for version 2.0 (note that this version is not straight participate). All this talk about the fact that very conflict standard.

On the other hand, Atom was born with one purpose: to end the conflict over the years, the difficulties and inadequacies in a feed format (RSS primer). For this reason (and many others who came as a result of this) I believe the Atom to be the most appropriate standard for feeds.

Create feed using a feed generator

Feed has another good side: they do not have a bad side! Efforts to create a feed can be easily replaced by using the feed generator. Better yet, you can find many FREE online generator feed and produce your feed with just a few clicks. For example, Feedity.com ,feedburner.com offers a free service of the generation that can create a feed to your feed in a few minutes.

Send the feed to the directory

Once your feed is ready, one can not ignore the thing is to send it to feed directories. Submission process is pretty much like the submission to another directory.

Create a directory listing

Search in your favorite search engine for terms such as "feed" directory. Among the results, you'll find several pages with a list of feed directories that you can extract and add to your personal list. Once you think you have enough directory on your list, you are ready to take the next step.

Prepare some information

Each different directory is different is the person who built them, but speaking generally, they will ask for more or less the same information. Once this is mind, there is a set of data that you can prepare in a text file to make things easier at the time of delivery:

• URL of the feed.

• The title (and accurate).

• Explanation of its contents.

• A set of related keywords.

• Your contact information (name and e-mail).Other information related to your web site (not to a particular feed) such as URL, description, title, etc.

Submission process

After you gather all the necessary information and use the list of directories that you have collected, you can begin to send one directory at a time. Once you enter a directory you should find a way to access the submit form to fill it with the information they requested.

Feed is another method to your website Advertising . Even if they do not take you straight to the top, they will surely move you move forward in that direction.