Building Website Traffic with RSS Feeds

While discussing building traffic last month, I put RSS Feeds at #14, dead last as I didn’t do much and let Wordpress and Feedburner do their jobs.  However, to my surprise, the third or fourth popular way readers found the Rich Sage was through RSS Feeds.

I’ll now discuss what I did to setup that traffic.  In my free lessons, via a membership, I’ll discuss the little details and how I did it.

• Wordpress Plugin –Google Sitemap XML
• Feedburner
• Google Webmaster Tools, Google Reader

The image to the right is the Wordpress ADMIN where, I’ve setup the sitemap, and as you may note it’s updated to ASK and Google.  Today, it ddn’t update to Yahoo, but I think that’s just a glitch at that time.  When I put this post, it will update again to all the sites. 

The pluggin also takes care of the frequency of updates as it connects to each site to let that system know that the XML file was updated.  This is I think a great tool and it does the job nicely. It’s a Rich Sage 5 STAR award winner!

 

BEST WAY to SETUP RSS FEEDS:
The next tool is Feedburner, which you can learn about here.  I am not in the habit of reading RSS feeds, however, I was surprised to find out that many do and they have subscribed to the Rich Sage feed, which helps make money online. 

The Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are broadcasting the information using Wordpress and the Feedburner pluggin.  The process works automatically.  I just make sure the software is running.

The benefit of using Feedburner, which is owned by Google is that it immediately ‘broadcasts’ the feed (posting information) over the Google reader and various other RSS readers to subscribers.  I haven’t checked how many are subscribers, but from just readers coming to the site, I see a lot.  This is essential stuff to build a making money online website and business. Once again, this is a Rich Sage 5-star award winner.
 

BEST WAY to TELL THE WORLD about YOUR SITE: Google Webmaster Tools
The last item for review are the Google Webmaster Tools, a suite of tools that help you spread the message about what you’re doing online.  One of the tools is the sitemap reader, which collects the XML file, reads it and uses it to tell searchers about what the Rich Sage does daily.

If I write something here, within hours it’s found on Google and that’s the magic of using this process –it creates an ‘open door’ that lets in the search engines to catalog each word and send the visitors.  Nothing more to say.

So, Rich Sage, how do you setup all this?  That is what I do with my free lessons. Help you setup tools and services such as this. My lessons are getting a major upgrade and will re-launch on the 12th of November 2007.

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