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Business Blog Step 11 - Blogs and RSS Feeds

Guest post by: Gary Baker

Article Overview: All blogs should have at least one RSS feed and over time possibly more as you segment both your content and your blog’s readership. The RSS feed will generally be created automatically for you by your Blogging software and so your main task will be to make sure that it can be found.

Business Blog Step 11 - Blogs and RSS Feeds

All blogs should have at least one RSS feed and over time possibly more as you segment both your content and your blog’s readership. The RSS feed will generally be created automatically for you by your Blogging software and so your main task will be to make sure that it can be found.

If you find that you have to create your own RSS feed, then I would recommend that you try Feed for All which is quite straightforward to use. Alternatively, consider moving your Blog to a system which does this automatically as it will give you much more scope in the future and certainly save you time. With your RSS feed set up and in place, you can focus on subscribers and ensuring that they get the best from the RSS Feed.

Make it easy to find your RSS feed

Make sure that the link to your RSS feed is easy to find on your blog, as it is an important way to allow people to subscribe to your information. If you wish to create the individual icons for different readers then this will help to remind people to do so. Feedburner has the facility to help you do so or you might try TwisterMC. If you are using Wordpress, then there is also a plug-in available from the same company.

Sign up to Feedburner

While not essential for your feed to work well, Feedburner does offer a number of useful services around your RSS feed and so it is worth signing up and using their free services. One is to create a special RSS feed address which will allow you to see how many subscribers you have to your feed but there are others which I will mention below.

Email subscription to RSS

For those people still unfamiliar with RSS Readers, you can still give them the opportunity to register for the information in your Feed via email. One of the services which allows this is FeedBlitz which provides you with the necessary code to put the sign-up box on your site and then will deliver the articles from the feed via email to any subscribers.

RSS feeds are an excellent and easy method to help readers to find you and your content so use them wherever you can.

RSS Feed Directories

There are also web directories where you can submit your RSS feed and where the content from the RSS can be searched on both for general subject area and in terms of the content of individual posts as well. Some feed directories that you can start with are: Feedminer, RSS Locator, Desk Feeds, 2 RSS.

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