Promoting your website with RSS feeds
RSS feeds can be a great way of promoting your website, providing a list of recent headlines, with or without ‘teasers’ which are short sections of text from the beginnings of the stories.
As a WordPress blog, this blog automatically produces an RSS feed (click here to see it), and now that it is three months old, with quite a few posts, there is enough of it there to be used for promoting my website.
The first place I’ve used to promote my RSS feed is obviously my own website, where I’ve produced a page on RSS feeds as extra features for web design packages. I’ve also collected a set of web related news feeds to keep up to date with.
Next I found a directory on a site that hosts a very useful feature for displaying RSS feeds using Javascript, so I’m submitting the feed URL there (after some puzzling it over I chose the ‘Internet Marketing’ category). They require a reciprocal link for this, so here it is: RSS 2 JAVA - Directory.
When I find more of these, I’ll also post the URLs here.