How to make an RSS Feed
This post is about submitting your RSS feed to RSS Directories to get traffic to your blog or website.
I’m not going to get bogged down in trying to explain exactly what RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is and how it works…
What you need to know is that it is another way in which your blog (or website) content can be delivered to people interested in reading it, either directly to their desktop “RSS reader” or online, without them having to visit your blog itself, although they will often end up doing so providing they are interested in your content.
Simply put, the more ways you give people of finding and reading your content, the more people you are going to be able to reach, and RSS is one more easy & effective way of doing exactly this.
It also has the advantage that submitting your “RSS Feed” to RSS sites will once again get you more backlinks, and help your search engine results.
So let’s move on to how you do it…
1. Find Your RSS Feed URL
The first thing you need to do is find your RSS feed URL.
Most WP themes will have a orange RSS image to make the link easier to find, you can see the one for this blog at the top of the “sidebar” to the right of the page. The icon usually looks something like this: -
Have a watch of the video I show you the easiest way to create RSS feeds
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Here is a link to the RSS Software if you want to use it, and under neath the video is the list if you want to do it manually.
2. Submit Your RSS Feed
Second you need to submit your RSS Feed to the best RSS directories to get things going.
I’ve listed 30 of the best directories below for you to use.
You don’t need to submit your feed to all of them in one go, in fact I recommend only submitting to 6 or 7 each week, until you’ve got through them all, but the first 5 listed are the most important to get done.
here’s the list of top 30 RSS directories to submit to: -
- FeedAge.com [Registration Required]
- FeedAgg.com
- FriendFeed.com [Registration Required]
- FeedBite.com [Registration Required]
- RSSMountain.com [Registration Required]
- ABCFeeds.com
- BestBlogs.org
- BlogDire.com
- BlogHints.com
- BestToRead.com
- BlogBunch.com
- Eatonweb.com
- FeedListing.com
- FeedPass.com
- FeedPlex.com
- FeedSee.com
- Invesp.com/Blog-Rank
- MetaFeeder.com
- NewsToWatch.com Submit Feed link at bottom of page
- OnTopList.com
- Plazoo.com
- Ribix.com
- Regator.com
- RSS-One.com
- RSSFeedDirectory.org
- RSSMotron.com
- RSSTop10.com
- Twingly.com
- XMeta.net
- XFruits.com [Registration Required]
So there it is, not too hard, make sure if you are going to do this manually that you bookmark or Favorite each site and put them all in the one folder so it is easier to do.
Don’t forget the software also Pings your site or blog post out for as well so it makes getting your amazing info out into Cyber land even easier. You can read about Pinging Your Site on another Blog post I have already done.
Hope this is all helpful to you all.
Have fun RSS ‘ing and here is the link to the RSS software and remember it is NOT a plugin but it is software.
Here is the video on using the Software.
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Setting up an RSS Feed for each of your sites is very easy now you know how, so go forth and create some Feeds and then use the RSS Feed Software to get your message out.
Great content !! thanks Gail
Makes RSS pretty darn simple. Another very useful tool. Thanks Gail
Hi Gail- great video and you make it look really simple compared to the manual process which takes absolutely ages to complete (I know as I have done it manually!!) There is just one question – you say to go “here” is that the “view source” from the actual website?.
Many thanks I know that this piece of software is a must to save time AND get the accuracy!!
Alex
Looks like a great time saving piece of software. Thanks for sharing.
HI Alex, thanks for comment excellant, I am not sure where or what part of video you are referring to, so send me an email and I will take a look.
Gail
Thanks for sharing Gail, it certainly looks so easy when you do it, save a lot of time.
I wondered what that was – good video and info thanks jan
Finally! Now I get it. Thank you so much for this article, it finally makes sense now, for whatever reason I always struggled to get my head around RSS feeds. Thank you so much this makes it so clear to follow. I will be sorting this out tonight as soon as I get home from work. Cheers – thanks alot!
Hi Gail, many thanks for your email full of the info I will need very shortly, I never really knew what RRS feeds were exactly, but you have made this very clear, and its not as scary as I thought. Im just finding my way with placing and autoresponder and optin box in on my blog, and its looks like RRS feeds will be ther very next thing. Thankyou so much Gail really appreciate this today.:-)
so,..you’re not going to answer my ?
or are you on vacation.
-steve
I am sorry what was the question?
Gail
oh, this is interesting………..
the ? i had was if i had to enter my blog post every time into
the software ?
or once configured it would automatically accept my feed?
-steve
Love it. I equate this to the same thing as cookie based advertising.
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