The goodies
Using feeds will have several side effects that will affect the incoming traffic of your website. Besides getting the visitors back when your content is
updated, feeds will enaable your website to be listed in hundreds of feeds
directories. While regular directories list only one link per website, feeds
directories will display one link for each item in your feed (usually from 10 to
15 items in all).
Another good side of feeds is that many people, even when they don’t use client side readers, may still access your feeds and receive the last updates of
your website by adding them to online readers (aggregators) like the one in the
Google’s personalized home page, iGoogle.
Which format is better?
Among the most popular formats you will find Atom and RSS. You may be asking yourself: “By picking one of these formats will I reach a bigger audience? Will
I get more users if I use the three of them?”. The answer to both questions is
no. Every modern reader andor aggregator is able to read the two formats, and
speaking of directories asics gel kayano 20 comprar , only about a 2% of them is only accepting the RSS format.
So now you have to pick one to use in your website… which one will it be? In my opinion, the best option is Atom. RSS is an older format that was born from
the RDF (Resource Description Framework) standard. It’s been updated several
times and presented important incompatibility issues in each update. Even its
name has been changed many times (as well as the people who maintained it): Rich
Site Summary for version 0.91, RDF Site Summary for versions 0.9 and 1.0, and
Really Simple Syndication for version 2.0 (take note that the versions are not
consecutive). All these facts speak of a very conflictive standard.
On the other hand, Atom was born with one objective: to put an end to years of conflicts, dificulties and inadecuacies in the feeds formats (primary RSS).
For this reason (and many others that come as a result of this) I believe Atom
to be the most appropriate standard for feeds.
Creating feeds using feeds generators
Feeds have another good side: they don’t have a bad side! The effort of creating a feed can be conveniently replaced by the use of feeds generators.
Better yet, you can find many FREE feeds generators online and generate your
feeds with just a few clicks. For example, Feedity offers a free service of
feeds generation that can create your feed in a couple of minutes.
Submitting your feeds to directories
Once your feed is up and ready, one thing you can’t overlook is to submit it to the feeds directories. The submission process is pretty much like the
submission to other directories.
Create a list of directories
Search in your favorite search engine for terms like “feeds directories”. Among the results, you will find some pages with lists of feeds directories
which you can extract and add to your own personal list. Once you think you have
enough directories in your list, you’re ready to take the next step.
Prepare some information
Every directory is different as different are the persons who built them, but speaking in general, they will ask for more or less the same information. Having
this is mind asics gel lyte v hombre , there is a set of data you can prepare in a text file to make things easier at the submission time:
The URL of the feed. Its title (brief and accurate). A description of its content. A set of related keywords. Your contact information (name and e-mail).
Other information related to your website (not to the specific feed) like URL,
title, description, etc. The submission process
Once you gathered all the necessary information and using the list of directories you have collected, you can start submitting one directory at a
time. Once you enter a directory you will have to find how to access the submit
form to fill it out with the information it requests.
Feeds are another method to promote your website. Even if they don’t take you directly to the top, they will certainly move you a step forward into that
direction.
Diego Ponce de Leon writing for the web directories network WWDirectories.net
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