How To Use RSS Feeds To Get More Traffic

I want to demonstrate how to use RSS feeds to get more traffic to your websites, blogs,, articlse and other online content. Getting traffic is essential for earning money from adsense. RSS, as you may know stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is technology that compacts your content into a stream of code that can be broadcast over the internet.

These broadcasts, called feeds, are distributed to subscribers and the content is displayed using platforms called feed readers. Webmasters, bloggers, and just about everyone online has access to free feed readers such as the one on Google.com/reader. The readers collect your subscriptions and allow you to pick and choose which content you want to read. Some display just the headline, some include a summary, and others display the full content.

Using Google adsense is a good way to monetize your website, blog, or article. But there is one flaw with relying on on this method, visitors actually have to come to your content. In previous hubs, here and here, I demonstrated how to increase your traffic with proven methods, like publishing online press releases and manually commenting on blogs and writing relevant content to submit to article directories. To adjust for the flaw, you have to bring your content to the viewer.

Methods of getting traffic can be either "push" or "pull." The methods above can generally be called "pull" because you are sending out bits and pieces of information and attempting to "pull" visitors back to your content.

Using RSS feeds to get traffic can be both "push" and "pull." First I'll explain how to use RSS to "pull" traffic. Most websites and blogs can be set up to generate an RSS feed. Here at HubPages.com, each of our hubs has an RSS code generated. You can copy and paste your URL in a an RSS Validator application, and the application will tell give you the URI with the RSS feed. Once you have the feed URI you can post it in one of many free RSS distributors, try feedcat.net because you can register for free and send your feed out to whomever may be watching for it as well as track your feeds with their own tracking statistics.  It is important to place your most important keyword in the headline of your content because most people set their RSS readers to only display headlines. More about keywords here.

 In order to earn revenue from adsense, your viewers must see the ads on your site.  The problem is, now days people are subscribing to feeds from their favorite sources and the content comes them.  There is still a way to get your google ads viewed by people that do not actually come to your site and that is by placing ads directly in your feeds.  Google will do this for you but you need to follow their steps.  Find our here at Google if this method is right for you.

Text Link Ads is a company that has developed a system similar to Googles methods but gives you a lot more flexibility.  They call it Feedvertising.  It allows you to place advertisements, regular links and also affiliate links inside the RSS feed. 

The Feedvertising RSS advertising offered by Text Link Ads allows bloggers to place ads in their own RSS feeds and distribute them. It works by installing some code into your blogging platform, unfortunately only Wordpress 2 users can use this service at the moment but other blogging platforms are to follow.

 One more useful tidbit about RSS feeds.  An RSS feed will transfer your static content into dynamic content.  This means that the RSS feed will constantly update your site with new content.  This is important because when the search engine spiders crawl your site it will pick up on the new content and place you higher in search priorities.

Search for websites or blogs that are relevant to your content and place their RSS feed within your own site.  Here on HubPages you can place the feed in an RSS module like the one below.