Why You Need to Blog and use RSS Feeds
Copyright © 2005 Craig Desorcy
Effective-Info
Blogs and RSS feeds are a sure-fire way to get
your website off the dirt roads of cyberspace and onto the Internet
superhighway! Think about it. Has your web traffic been slow
and bumpy? Then maybe it's time to try a new route.
Let's imagine for a minute the local department
store you shop in. What would you think if the displays never
changed? Every time you entered you saw the same signs advertising
the same products. Boring, right? After a while you wouldn't
even pay attention to them.
Websites are no different. RSS feeds and blogs
are interesting ways to spruce them up a bit - to keep things
interesting and changing. Believe me, interest is a key element
in drawing people back time and time again.
Dan's website had been around for a while -
several years in fact. Unfortunately, though he tediously watched
for visitors, the website was trickling in a minuscule amount
of sales.
One day, a friend told Dan that his website
was cool, but...er... you might say a little dusty. It just
needed freshened up a bit.
Hey, what are friends for? Dan, began to research
and decided to try blogging and using RSS feeds. He got excited
and began including interactive polls, articles, sales updates,
and even slipped in a few photos.
Within a few days his site was indexed on Yahoo!
and his sales were beginning to flow steadily. Within a month
he was dancing gleefully with his latest bank statement in hand
- much to the amusement of his adolescent children!
Blogs and RSS feeds can indeed make a huge difference
in your web traffic! By adding new content to your site on a
regular basis, you ensure that search engines spider your site
more often.
The consistent updating of your content also
gives you the added advantage of increasing the number of search
terms or keywords that show up in search results.
We all know that marketing is a numbers game.
These tools are the onramp that will merge you into the hubbub
of heavy traffic.
Now, rush hour traffic can be intimidating to
those of us who are used to the slow pace and sparse traffic
of the back roads. Don't sweat it! Just find the vehicle that's
comfortable for you to drive, and you'll be more at ease as
you thread your way toward financial freedom.
RSS feeds are more convenient and versatile
than you might think at first glance. There are a variety of
ways to incorporate feeds into your website. You may want to
use a simple blog, but you may also incorporate articles, ezines,
forums, bulletin boards, or news feeds just to name a few.
Once you've discovered the convenience
and success of blogs and RSS feeds, you'll also learn some hot
tricks to increasing your search engine results even more. Tricks
like sneaking keywords from news headlines into your blogs,
using links from fellow bloggers......
For A Complete Step By Step Guide on How
to Blog and use RSS feeds See
http://www.effective-info.com/blogs3.html
This article is Copyright © Craig Desorcy
About Author: Craig Desorcy is an Internet
enthusiast who Lives and works in Japan, spending most of his
free time on the internet running his blog and websites of interest.
Craig(at)effective-info.com
