Hi all!
This blog is a new experience for me, although I work with the Internet now for over 10 years.
Then I began studying to learn a bit 'of techniques for promoting your blog. But the right techniques in this field I like to discover and experience them alone, on my skin.
Then there are web marketing and SEO techniques that are still valid, both for normal and for blog sites.
But blogs have something, but not all sites that have: I'm talking about the RSS feed.
What are these strangers? Well, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and, like WikiPedia says, is "one of the most popular format for distributing web content is based on XML, which has inherited the simplicity, extensibility and flexibility. RSS defines a structure to hold a collection of news, each of which will consist of several fields (author name, title, text, summary, ...). "( visit website )
Instead the feed, according to WikiPedia, "is a unit of information, formatted according to specifications (Genesis XML) determined previously. This is to make content interoperable and interchangeable between different applications or platforms. "( visit website )
So in a nutshell, RSS feeds are nothing more than sources of information written in language feeds, which requires a common and precise information for writing so that they are then used by applications and systems, thanks to this standards can be easily read and integrate information.
To make a comparison less technical, it is as if the news of our site or blogs were rearranged and packaged for shipment anywhere. A bit 'like when she gets a package and you bring it in Mail.
So, if your blog or site has RSS, others can connect to your source of information (feed), for example, automatically import it into their site or application (see the numerous boxes or boxes with automatic news from Ansa or other channels).
But this argument only works if you are a source of "authoritative" as the newspapers or the most famous and popular sites. If you have a small blog, do not think anyone ever will do a boxino with your last post! This only happens to Beppe Grillo, whom I adore, and a few other bloggers!
But if you have an RSS feed and you want to spread a little 'because you think your news interesting, then you can always send the link to your feed to one of the many collectors of sources, and then categorize your blog posts by topic and spread your content to their users.
The problem is that now there are dozens and dozens of pickers feed!
Doing a little research, I came across this page that lists a lot and that really deserves to consult, if you also want to promote your blog:
http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm
Enrolling in one of these sites, have informed me that it was better to put in your pages a meta tag invisible to users but used by several spider (not only by them) that plumb the net hunting for RSS feeds.
Here is the tag to be inserted, do not know if and how it works, but does not affect neither the content nor on the positioning, so it is harmless:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title=" TITLE OF THE BLOG "href="http:// address of your own RSS FEED" />
Obviously, you should be careful to put it inside of <head> and </ head> (like all meta-tags) and replace the bolded text with your information!
When I have to suggest other similar links, I'll add them to this post!
And remember now what the web has more original content and value are well made, but must also disclose, if not ... you just read them!
So if you have a blog or site with RSS and you think your news will interest a wider audience, began immediately to submit your feeds around the web! The link popularity of your site and accesses will be affected beneficially, that's for sure.
