Blog Traffic Strategies part one
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There are countless methods that you can use to generate fresh traffic to your blogs. Before we begin however, you should understand what RSS means and how important it is when generating traffic to your blog.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a method of delivering content on a regular basis to news sites, online publishers, and other blogs.
Bloggers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed that is made available to anyone interested in becoming a subscriber.
The more subscribers you have, the more people are reading your updates and visiting your website.
The great thing about RSS is that you do not have to create it manually, it’s built into the Wordpress system, and each time you create a blog post it will be added to your RSS feed.
However, In order to offer your visitors the ability to subscribe to your RSS feed, you will want to subscribe to a free service such as http://www.FeedBurner.com
Feedburner, owned and managed by Google.com, is one of the most popular methods of serving up your RSS feeds through visitor subscriptions.
In addition, Feedburner provides additional information including stats relating to your blog. You can just log into your Feedburner account and look at your stats and charts.
If you manage multiple blogs, you can create and track feeds for all of them with FeedBurner.
Feedburner also makes it extremely easy to encourage your visitors to become RSS subscribers by offering you a piece of code that once inserted into your blog, will offer a RSS subscription box, enabling your visitors to instantly subscribe to your feed.
Once you have created your Feedburner account, you will want to locate the code that allows your readers to use your new Feedburner feed.
You can do this by using the Feedburner plugin available to Wordpress users running self hosted blogs.
http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=78483
Or you can add it to your sidebar manually, by copy and pasting your Feedburner code into your blogs sidebar.php page to make it available to everyone who visits your blog.
