Ways to Promote Your Blog's RSS Feed

It is not an exaggeration to say that the most overlooked blog promotion way is RSS propagation over various RSS feed directories.

The RSS feed link on your blogs is mostly placed on least looked place.  Your blog readers are rarely n aware of it. Your first task is to make it more visible on your blog.

Adding a large RSS feed button in a prominent place on you blog home page template is very important step in promoting your blog.

In fact I would advise you to create page on your blog that explains what the RSS feed is and why it can make it easier for them to view your content. There are blogs that I remember wherein they have linked to this page in their blog posts.

Of course the most popular way to promote your RSS feed is to use RSS feed directories that publish the contents of your RSS feed. Having your feed published at an RSS directory site means that the visitors to those feed directories would find your blog posts.

Search Engines and RSS feed directories.

All links to your blog content that are published with the feed will become backlinks to your website, which will encourage search engines to index and rank your blog.

How to find RSS feed directories?

You can find RSS directories by searching using terms such as "RSS directory", "RSS feed directory", "RSS directory list", "publish RSS feeds" etc. There are about 50 to 60 RSS feed directories out there. Searching and compiling them would a marathon task.

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Feed directory for long tail keywords.

I have discovered a fantastic RSS Feed search engine. This is a special one dear. FeedmilRSS search engine that is focusing on retrieving results based on long tail keywords.

Adding your blog feed is quick and painless. No registration, email confirmation etc.
Add you RSS Feed URL at Feedmil.

If you consistently blog with properly placed long tail keywords, Feedmil can do wonders to your blog's promotion.You are aware that RSS feeds are usually sourced from newsfeeds or blogs and also from RSS feed directories.
There cannot be a better technology than RSS to syndicate your blog content and I am also a big user of this technology. My news reader delivers as many 275 feeds daily.

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Submit your blog feed.

FeedSee will accept your site's RSS feed immediately. No questions asked. I mean, no registration is required. Not even your email is asked; just the feed URL only.

But be prepared to use your general knowledge while submitting. Their system will ask you to answer a question. This is in place of the usual 'Captcha'.

You can also search for feeds for a set of keywords.

All bloggers who are blogging about ways to earn online by blogging should immediately submit their blog's RSS feed URL.

The reason:
I just searched their database of feeds for this keyword: "Earn money by blogging"
The result is just one feed URL and it has nothing related to the topic searched.

I searched for 'Blog Promotion'. Again nothing.

They have a database of tags. I found the tag, 'blogging' and it yielded 62 feed URLs.

FeedSee is a human edited RSS feed directory.

Quick submission to RSS Mountain.

A comment on one of my blog posts led me to RSS Mountain. As the name suggests, RSS Mountain is the largest RSS feed directories in the Internet.

It is said to have more than 1 million feeds listed in its database under several categories such as automotive, beauty and fashion, celebrities, business and more.

I just submitted one of my blogs' feed and it was over in less than 30 seconds. Also, there is a gold mine of web content for knowledge seekers. I browse through them usually to get inspiring ideas for my blogs.

Submitting your blog's feed to feed directories is very important for blog promotion and unlike submitting to exclusive blog directories, submission to RSS feed search engines is very easy.

Try it now!

Blog and RSS directories-full list.

A big list of places to submit your blogs.

In my quest to make my blog popular, I have been submitting my blog to various blog directories.

In the process, I have started compiling a list of blog directories and RSS feed directories.
The list got lengthier with the help of few contacts from forums.

I ended up having 4 lists. But I did not devote enough time to remove duplicates and broken links and make a final list.

Keep smiling! I know that it applies to some of you as well.

So what will be our reaction if we get hold of one such complete list? Gratitude-right?

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2RSS
5starblogs
Allheadlinenews
Blizg.com
Blog Announce
Blogarama
blogazoo
Blogcatalog
blogcatalog
Blogcritics.org
Blogdex
Blogdigger
Blogdir
Blogdump
Blogflux
Blogfuse
Bloggeries
Bloggernity
Bloghop
Bloghub
Blog in Space (send your blog into space!)
Blogion
Bloglines
Blogmatcher
Blogmatrix
Blogoriffic
Blogory
Blogpulse
blograma
Blogrankings
Blogrunner
Blogs by Women
Blogs Canada
Blogsearchengine
Blogstreet
Blogsweet
Blogtagstic
Blogtrack
Blogtree
Bloguniverse
Blogvision
Blogwise
blogz
Bloogz
Blurtit
Boogieplay
Boing Boing
Bulkfeeds
bulletize
Chordata
contentsmatter
crayon
Daypop
Del.icio.us
Diarist
Downes
Easyrss
Eatonweb
Esperanto
Everyfeed
Exploreblogs
Fastbuzz
Feed-directory
Feedsfarm
Feedster
Findory
Fybersearch
Geekphilosopher
Genecast
GeoURL
getblogs
Get Linked
Globe of Blogs
guardian
icerocket
libdex
link2blogs
Local Feeds-uses geourl.org for submission
lsblogs
Memigo
My.Msn.
Myst-technology
News is Free
Newstrove
Newzalert´s AuthorCenter
Newzfire.com/suggest.aspx
Ngoid.sourceforge
Objects Search
Pepys
Pingomatic
Popdex
Postami
Pubsub
rateitall
RDF Ticker
Read a Blog
Reader.Rocketinfo
Rootblog
RSS-Clipping
RSS Feeds Directory
rssreader
Sarthak
Scienceport.org
Search4Blogs
Search4RSS
Shas3
Sindic8
Spurl
Technorati
the weblogreview
Theblogresource
The Vital
truthlaidbear
Moreover
Waypath
Weblogalot
Weblogs
Wilsdomain
Yahoo!
Yahoo! News
Yellowbrix
Yenra
Your Weblog Hhere
Zopto


Courtesy with gratitude: Softduit.

Submit your videocast.

Through one of the RSS feeds I have subscribed to, I learnt about a new directory of RSS feed where you can submit your videocast.

You can find a lot of categories in their website.

For novices, who want to know more about videocast:

Also known as vodcast or video podcastn the term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosure.

Subscribers can consume content on-demand and don't need keyboard or mouse interfaces to choose channels and items, much similar to zapping through regular TV stations, and new episodes show up automatically, so the technology is ideal for on-the-go (portable media players and mobile phones) and living room mass media consumption (TV), as demonstrated by the pioneers at vodcast.nl. Apple's Front Row media center application is the first to support this technology.

As per http://vodcast.nl, VODcasts are TV-channels with on-demand titles instead of scheduled shows. Subscribe once, and new episodes are added automatically.


Acknowledgement:wikipedia.org and vodcast.nl