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Sunday, February 20, 2011

How To Promote Your Blogger Blog Site Feed

Thousands of blogs are sprouting up every single day. Some people use the blog as an online journal and others use it to share thoughts and valuable information to the public. Some even use their blog as a revenue source through paid ads and links on the site. Well, whatever is the reason for your blog; your success will really be dependent on the amount of traffic you can get on a daily basis. Blog and website value are based on hits. For instance, do you ever wonder how Facebook, which is really just a website, came to be valued at over 6 billion dollars? It is the traffic and user base. With that logic, your blog can be of greater value if you have enough consistent traffic. Now, the traffic you will need for your blog is the return hits. This means people that check out your blog every single day. The people that love your quick wit and writing style so much that they make it a point to check your blog for new posts on a daily basis. Well, this is the reason why Blogger has made it a point to make return traffic a heck of a lot easier to come by, enter the site feed. Blogger’s site feed allows a reader or visitor to subscribe to your blog’s feed allowing them to get updates about your blog even if they are not on your blog. Today, you will learn how to use this site feed feature to promote your blog.

* Configure your blog. Sign into your blogger account. Fix up your settings and enable the site feed option. Basically, you will look for the option that will allow you to publish and offer site feeds for your blog. Once that is done, pick an icon for your feed and position it on your blog, in a place where your readers can easily see it, click, and subscribe to it. Normally, the sidebar or top part of the pages is the perfect place for the site feed.
* Optimize your feed. Once your site feed is aptly located and enabled, it is time to go into the details of your feed. Start with the title of the channel and its description. At this point, you will want to be a little creative in order to capture the attention of your audience.
* Now, whenever you post feeds, you might want to ensure that it will be indexed by search engines for additional exposure. You can do this by really working on the descriptions of your feeds and by making sure that your content is well written. Incorrect grammar will only hurt your efforts. That said; make sure that you have high quality feeds and content.
* Finally, you can promote the site feed of your blog to feed directories. This will allow you to promote the feed without having to do so much. For a list of these directories, check this article out.


There you have it, the effective ways to promote and market your blog through site feeds. This will ensure that readers will know what is new with your blog, allowing them to visit it with just a single click.

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