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Blogging & RSS InformationHow To Get Your BLOGS "Site Feed" Listed In Yahoo! a
by:
Cory Threlfall
BLOGS... they seem to be the talk of the Net
marketing
world these days, and for nice reason.
Not only do the Search Engines love them for there Content
Rich pages, you likewise have the ability to plug your Blogs
"Site Feed" into an RSS feed and then have it syndicated to
thousands of websites and directories giving your content
more exposure to your target audience.
RSS(Real Simple Syndication) is a really Powerful technology
that has been about for quite several time and once
used
correctly, can build an audience overnight.
If you want a crash course on what RSS is, in much depth,
since the nature of this article is to show you how to get
your Blogs "Site Feed" listed in Yahoo! and MSN, I've
provided a link to a page full of articles on RSS related
issues. http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-articles.htm
Now, depending on wherever
your Journal
is hosted, whether its
through a free service like Blogger.com --
http://www.blogger.com or hosted on your websites server
you should have a "Site Feed URL" that has the .XML
extension.
This is your "Site Feed URL".
You'll ordinarily locate it inside
your Settings area of Blog
control center.
Here's what mine looks like as an example:
http://theiwe.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This URL is intended for a RSS News Reader, so disregard
its appearance.
Once you find your "Site Feed URL", copy and paste it into
Notepad because you'll need it for the next steps coming
ahead.
Now, what you need to do is go and set-up an My Yahoo! and
My MSN account.
I've provided the links for you below.
- My Yahoo! ==> http://my.yahoo.com
- My MSN ==> http://msn.com
It should only take you simply about 15-20 minutes at the most.
If you already have accounts with My Yahoo! and My MSN,
read on.
This is presumptuous
you already have your accounts set-up, so
your next step is to Login to your My Yahoo! account.
When you login, you'll be taken to your Yahoo! page
immediately.
What you want to do next is go look under the Yahoo! search
box to the left and click on the "Add Content" link.
This wish bring you to a new page.
From there, over to the right by the "Find" button you'll
see an "Add RSS by URL" link, click on it.
A new window wish open with a "Web Form". Just copy and
paste your "Site Feed URL" from Tablet
into the web form
and click on the "Add" button.
Now, you should see your Blogs name infront of you. Simply
click on the yellow "Add To My Yahoo!" button and your feed
will be added.
The next thing you should see is your "Site Feed" with your
"Headlines".
Click on one of them, it should take you to your Blog, to
the desired Headline you chose.
Your My Yahoo! page should Now have your Blogs "Site Feed"
Headlines listed at the bottom.
Scroll down to check. If you don't see them, it sometimes
takes up to 24-48 hours for them to appear, so simply check
back later.
Now that thats done, everytime you update your Journal
with
NEW content, it'll "Automatically" update on your My Yahoo!
page and everybody else's pages who have subscribe to your
feed, plus, inside
24-48 hours your feed wish get Spidered
and Indexed by Yahoo!.
Talk simply about effort the word out in a HURRY with really little
effort on your part.
This is "Viral Marketing" at its Better in my mind.
And... it's so simple to implement.
Okay.
Now it's time to do the same to your My MSN account as what
you did above to your My Yahoo! page.
Here's the link to go login(click on Sign In from main
page): http://www.msn.com
Once your login to your My MSN account you should see an
"Add Content" link under the MSN logotype to your left. Click
on it.
A pop-up should now be displaying. Just copy and paste
your "Site Feed URL" from your Tablet
into the web form
provided and click the Search button(the green button with
the arrow).
You should now be looking at Check Box with your Blogs name
beside it. Check off your "Site Feed URL" and then press
the OK button at the bottom.
PRESTO! Like magic... your Blogs site feed has now been
added to your My MSN page which wish then be spidered in
the next 24-48 hours and Indexed by MSN.
That's the Power of BLOGS(Web-Logs) and RSS(Really Simple
Syndication)combined with two Net
giants.
The only thing you have to bring to the table IS, fresh,
quality content that your audience WANTS, and do it on a
regular basis.
I post my articles that I write on a weekly basis, making
my Journal
called... The Net
Wonders Journal
-
http://theiwe.blogspot.com - a search engine Magnet!
You can do the same because I simply showed you HOW.
In conclusion, creating BLOGS and victimisation RSS as a vehicle to
syndicate your Blogs content is a Sure-Fire way to get your
content spidered much oft-times by search engines and the
exposure it deserves, which in turn, wish build you a
large audience of purchasing customers that TRUST you.
Just simply about THE AUTHOR
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