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RSS feeds have yet to hit the mainstream, but they are
beginning to appear on prominent web sites including CNN, MSNBC,
Yahoo, and even Google. While many sites are now publishing
their own RSS feed, they fail to pursue the vital step of
promoting it.

RSS feeds have been growing steadily in popularity right through
the year. They have begun appearing on nearly every news related
source, and now even corporate web pages. While more businesses
start to cater to the opportunity of making an RSS feed, many
do not fully know their exact usage. It is as if
publishing an RSS feed will magically make traffic and pull
constant visitors to their site. Maybe they believe the web
search engine robots will pull and distribute the feeds.
But, the truth is that most major search engines today do
not yet incorporate RSS feeds into their main search engine
results. They may completely skip over the RSS feed link when
spidering a site. But, there is a world available that these
new RSS users are not yet aware of. It is the world of RSS
search engines.

As the major search engines take up again collecting standard web
pages and try their best to keep updated with the new content,
the RSS search engines are quietly churning away on pings,
feeds, and new content by the second. They have a different way
of collecting feeds than the major search engines and their
users have a different way of sifting through the content.

Most RSS search engines require you to submit your RSS feed
frankly to them. They will then start spidering your content,
making it available for searches, and refreshing your feed as it
is updated. Users are flocking to the RSS search engines for new
content. With their RSS reader software tuned to specific
keywords in the search engines, they can now pour through much
more content than they previously could with a web browser. This
opens tremendous opportunities for your harvest and thoughts to be
heard. RSS feed publishers should become fully aware of the
importance of RSS search engines in order to maximize the
results of their feed.

There are over 100 RSS search engines available and the number
grows each month. Submitting your RSS feed to each one is a
necessary task. From small search engines to large ones, each
one can provide you with potential RSS visitors and they
certainly add up. Promoting an RSS feed should be considered no
different than promoting a web site.

You may have produced and in print an RSS feed, but that doesn’t
mean people are really reading it. Submit your feed to the RSS
search engines and watch your readers grow. Your web site
traffic is sure to follow.

About the Author: ksoft is a software company specializing in
Internet harvest, including RSS Submit http://www.dum
mysoftware.com/rsssubmit.html, software for submitting RSS
feeds, podcasts, and pinging blogs to over 65 RSS directories.

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Resources: 1. Automated software for submitting RSS feeds,
podcasts, and blogs, http://www.dum
mysoftware.com/rsssubmit.html 2. Complete listing of RSS
submission sites, http:
//www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm 3. Software
to make, edit, and publish RSS feeds, http://www.feedforall.com