How to Use RSS Feeds to Build Stable and Ever-growing Traffic Streams

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Write summaries of your new articles, and serve them in a RSS feed with links to your articles. Ensure you use different wording, don't copy text snippets from your site to prevent the uniqueness of your content. Do not create full RSS feeds, protect your content instead. It does not help you when you spread your unique text content all over the internet, but it helps others when you thoughtlessly give away your stuff for free.

Validate your RSS feed before you submit it. It helps to provide a well maintained RSS feed, frequent updates do make it more attractive for potential subscribers and editors of RSS resource sites as well.

Go out and search for related web sites which make use of foreign RSS feeds. Email the webmasters and offer your feed. If you've high quality content, they probably will include your feed. Even headline syndication is a great way to build stable and targeted traffic streams.

You should submit your feed to every RSS resource site out there too. Start with this list of RSS feed submit pages, then surf on. Ensure Yahoo! is aware of your RSS feed by adding it to your My Yahoo! home page, also you should make use of Yahoo's add-feed button on your pages.

Then be patient and keep the good content quality of your feed. After a few weeks you'll get the first deep inbound links along with a little traffic. A steadily growing amount of deep inbound links improves your search engine rankings to a great degree. Your content pages, ranking well for lots of two and three word keyword phrases on the SERPs of all major search engines, will bring in more and better targeted traffic than home page links, which many webmasters still prefer.

That's just one of many methods as part of a long term strategy to build diverse and stable traffic streams. Don't rely on this method alone. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.