Your Most Pressing Question on Blogs and RSS
 

What is Your Most Pressing Question on Blogs and RSS?

Post your questions here, and I will answer them in my 1st Web Cast on Blogs and RSS

REGISTER for the upcoming WebCast on April 3rd

Brandon Hong
www.marketing-rampage-with-blogs-and-rss.com

www.marketing-rampage-with-blogs-and-rss.com
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Brandon is author of video e-book, "Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS", that teaches online businesses strategies of getting more free targeted traffic and more sales without additional advertising costs, as well as increasing search engine rankings and obtaining free listings in Google, Yahoo and MSN, by using Blogs and RSS.
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- posted by BrandonHong @ 6:50 AM 0 comments  

 
How can you use blogs to incease traffic?
 

I am conducting my 1st webcast and asked my subscribers list what is their most pressing question they have about blogs and rss?

Here's one of the questions I have:

How can you use blogs to incease traffic?

Blogs can increase traffic through the following:

1. If your blog has valuable content, this will attract readers to your blog who will visit again

Most people who perform searches using search engines are actually looking for information, for solutions. The more helpful and relevant content you have, the easier it is for you to attract visitors and also to turn them into loyal readers and subscribers.

2. With a Blog, you can submit to the many Blog directories that exist online.

By submitting to the many blog directories in the proper category, you can expand your reach to targeted subscribers or readers who wants to read your posting on your area of specialisation.

3. Blogs promote relationship building and trust with your readers, as it allows you to interact with them. Your readers can refer a friend and imagine the traffic power that can be generated if each one of your reader make a referral.

For example, if you have 500 readers and each one makes a referral, that will be an additional 500 new subscribers, giving you a total of 1,000 subscribers/readers.

4. By attracting search engine 'bot's to visit the site more often

All search engines have a program known as a 'search engine bot' which basically 'spiders' or searches web sites and bring back the results they have to the search engines.

And 'search engine bots' love content, especially pages with related keywords.

The more frequent you update your pages, the more frequent that search engines

A Blog is actually a content management system. If that sounds too technical, a Blog is a push-button publishing system.

There is no uploading of pages to web host accounts, unlike web pages

For example, with Blogger, you just set up a free account, write what you want, and press "publish".

Your Blog posting will be instantly published and is automatically hosted for you. The hosting is also free by the way.

5. Blogs can be easily turned into an RSS Feed, for syndication.

With RSS Feeds, your Blog contents can be published by other websites that pulls RSS Feeds based on targeted keywords or content automatically.

By turning your Blog into an RSS Feed, you can also submit to the many RSS directories out there, again expanding your reach you otherwise will not have with a normal web site

6. You can add "podcasts" or "videocasts" to your Blog, and reach out to even more people, Audio learners especially "Ipodders", people who own Apple Ipod and likes to download audio from the Internet and listen; as well as Visual learners.

Brandon
brandon(at)brandon-hong.com

www.marketing-rampage-with-blogs-and-rss.com

Get your own Free Rebrandable "Marketing With Blogs and RSS" Special Report for Massive Viral Profits.
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Brandon is the author of the "Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS" Videos. He'll show you businesses strategies to getting more highly responsive visitors and more sales to your website without additional advertising costs, as well as increasing search engine rankings and obtaining quick listings in Google, Yahoo and MSN, by using Blogs and RSS.
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- posted by BrandonHong @ 5:20 AM 0 comments  

 
Unleashing Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS
 

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brandon is the author of the "Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS" Videos. He'll show you businesses strategies to getting more highly responsive visitors and more sales to your website without additional advertising costs, as well as increasing search engine rankings and obtaining quick listings in Google, Yahoo and MSN, by using Blogs and RSS.
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- posted by BrandonHong @ 6:22 PM 0 comments  

 
Put Keywords and Search Terms in Title of RSS Feeds
 

One tip for improving the search engine ranking through the use of RSS Feeds would be to put important keywords and search terms in the title of the RSS Feed itself.

For example, if your RSS Feed is related to say sleeping well, then the title of your RSS Feed should contain the relevant search terms centered around sleeeping.

This will be more effective than putting irrelevant keywords in the title of your RSS Feed.

Brandon Hong

Get your own Free Rebrandable "Marketing With Blogs and RSS" Special Report for Massive Viral Profits.

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- posted by BrandonHong @ 4:54 AM 0 comments  

 
Creating & Marketing With RSS Feeds Using Tristana Writer
 

Creating & Marketing With RSS Feeds Using Tristana Writer

All Rights Reserved. Copyright Brandon Hong 2005

In my multimedia e-book "Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS" I recommended the free newsreader Tristana by Charlwood Marketing.

well, it ain't free anymore, because they have started charging for the software. Then again, it's priced very reasonably and really affordable at US$25.

Besides an RSS aggregator, the company has also developed a software to create RSS feeds called Tristana Writer.

I downloaded the software and tested it, and liked it a lot.

I compared Tristana Writer with FeedForAll, and this is what I found:

1. FeedForAll only lets you create RSS feeds of your existing websites. It doesn't allow you to create RSS feeds from scratch.

FeedForAll basically prompts you through a 4 step wizard and creates the RSS feed for you

Simple enough, but what if you want to create a separate RSS channel, one which is not based on any web site content but from scratch?

It can't solve the problem. This is where Tristana Writer comes in.

2. Tristana Writer, on the other hand, allows you to create RSS feeds from

a) your existing web site contents
b) a totally new, separate rss channel with your own specific category and information
c) has a interface for editing (e.g. bolding, adding hyperlinks etc)

If you are not using a Content Management System like PHP Nuke, or a blogging management system like Moveable Type and Typepad, then this way of creating separate feeds might be another alternative.

However, if you have lots of products, information or data you would like to turn into channels, then in the long term, investing in a proper content management system might be a wise idea

But for now, for the small business owner, Tristana Writer does the job well, and is recommended.

Brandon Hong

www.marketing-rampage-with-blogs-and-rss.com

Author of Multimedia E-book, "Marketing Rampage With Blogs and RSS". Learn How You Can Get More Free Targeted Traffic, Leads and Subscribers. List in Google and Yahoo for Free and save $299. Dominate Niche Markets with RSS Feeds.

- posted by BrandonHong @ 7:26 AM 1 comments