Posts Tagged ‘Traffic’

Posted on December 5, 2008 - by Kelly Verge

Comprehensive List of the Top RSS Directories - Submit Your Feeds For Links and Traffic

One way to put your blog content in front of a lot of eyes is to submit your blog’s RSS feed to RSS directories. Every time you submit your feed, you increase the chance that it will be picked up by someone who’s looking for content - and you’ll get backlinks and traffic in exchange. Also note that you can do the same thing for any site with a feed, such as a lens, hub, Blogger blog, etc.

Below is a fairly comprehensive list of RSS directories to which you can submit your feed for maximum exposure. This list should be current, and I’ve tried to trim away any niche-specific or paid directories. While there are some automated solutions for submitting your feeds to a handful of directories, I will post a follow-up to this article tomorrow detailing how you can add every new feed-enabled website you create to all of these sites with very little effort and zero cost.

List of RSS Directories:

2Rss
4guysfromrolla
9rules.com
Allheadlinenews
Blogcensus
Blogdigger
Blo.gs
Bulkfeeds
Chordata
Crayon
Daytimenews
Devasp
Feed24
Feedage
Feedagg
Feedbase
Feedbees
Feed Burner
Feedboy
Feedcat
Feedfury
Feedplex
Feeds4all
Feedmailer
Feedooyoo
FeedsFarm
Feedsee
Feedshark
Feeds2read
Feedza
Findrss
Free-rss
Gabbr
Goldenfeed
Itsmynews
Jordomedia
Millionrss
Mobispine
News-feeds
NewsGator
Newsknowledge
Newsnow
NGOID News Network
Octora
Plazoo
Pressradar
Purerss
RDFTicker
ReadAblog
Readburner
Redtram
RocketInfo
Rssbuffet
Rssfeeds
Rsshugger
Rssmicro
Rssmountain
Rssmotron
Search4Rss
Solarwarp
Strategic Board
Swoogle
Syndic8
Tailrank
Technorati
Topix
Twingly
Weblogalot
Wingee
YahooRss
Xmeta
Zimbo

If you know of a generic non-niche-specific RSS directory that’s not on this list, please leave it in a comment and I’ll make an addition to the list.

Posted on October 5, 2008 - by Kent Verge

How to Get Fifty Times More Visitors to Your Blog Overnight

Using posts on social media sites to get traffic to your blog isn’t anything new. However, most who try it never get the thousands of visitors they hope for when they make their posts. To hit traffic paydirt from sites like Digg or Stumble Upon, you need both great content and a compelling headline.

John Wesley did a case study over on Pick the Brain where he tested a new headline on an existing article to find out if he could increase the traffic to the post. His original headline, “The Two Types of Cognition,” got 100 visitors from the social sites. When he changed the title to “Learn to Understand Your Own Intelligence“ and reposted it to the social sites, he received almost 5,000 visitors. This was almost fifty times more visitors to the same article!

John gives credit for the idea to a couple sites, but you can see more examples of compelling changes to headlines on the post he mentions from Brian Clark’s Copyblogger. Here Brian shows a before and after of five different headlines and explains why he changed them. You can really see the difference a few changes make in some real examples.

Although you really need great content to increase the social ratings of your post, your content just won’t get read without a compelling headline. With both, you can get lots of visitors to your site in a matter of hours.