RSS Feeds Tips - Use RSS Feeds to get more traffic

Getting traffic is essential for a website. Even it is more important, if you are using Google Ad sense. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS compacts your web content with codes which can be broadcast throughout the web world. These broadcasts are called feeds. These feeds are distributed to feed readers who subscribe for RSS Feed.

Using RSS feeds to get traffic can be both "push" and "pull." First I'll explain how to use RSS to "pull" traffic. Most websites and blogs can be set up to generate an RSS feed. Feed burner is a good option to set up RSS Feed for your blog or website. Feed burner is a syndicating service. Most blogging platforms come with something called an RSS or an ATOM feed. This allows for people to be able to view posts from your blog without actually having to go to it.

This feed can be put on Feed burner in order to

* Get a better feed that offers its readers a choice of feed readers, bookmarking options, etc..

* Lets you see how many people are subscribed to your blog and how often they find your posts interesting enough to actually go to your blog

* Lets you add ad sense ads at the end of your posts directly from the feed

* Allows you to syndicate , and therefore advertise, your blog post summaries on other websites such as myspace.

Google Places Guidelines

Google Places is a free marketing tool for local businesses. The benefits of these listings include showing up in web search results and mobile search results. Updating these listings is free and available to the business 24×7x365. Not something you can easily do with the traditional yellow pages. Definitely something you need to consider beyond Google and tap into multiple local listing websites and search engines.

Here are a few guidelines and information to know about when using Google Places. Many of these guidelines apply to other local listing websites as well. Many of these points are pretty self-explanatory. Violating these guidelines and your listing can be suspended. The basic premise is that you need to present your business in the local listings as you would in the traditional world.

1. Only the business owner(s) or authorized representatives may claim the local listing(s).
2. Don’t pack your listing with keywords like in your business name.
3. Along the same concept, do not include phone numbers or URLs in the business name.
4. You cannot use PO Boxes, it has to be physical address.
5. Do not provide phone numbers or web addresses that redirect consumers to other landing pages or phone numbers other than those of the actual business.