One thing high on the list of things we neglect to do is to make the  most of our RSS feed submissions. It is one of the easier ways to make sure our pages get indexed fast, and it does not take very long at all to accomplish the task, yet it always seems to be put at the end of the to do list. Here a few reasons why you may want to reorder that list!

First, as I mentioned, having your RSS feed in the RSS aggregators, especially for a new feed, is a slam dunk way to get indexed quickly. The search engines, particularly Google,  spider these aggregators every day, looking to be the first to discover new sites worth taking a look at. having your RSS feed listed just once on these sites ensures that they will be coming around whenever there is new content to be seen. You only need to submit your site or page one time. One of the few one and done propositions on the Web.

Second, you can get some direct traffic from these sites. You’ll often see listing from sites like FeedAgg, FeedAge and others on the first page of search listings. They get clicked on just like any other listing, and the visitors that come from there are just as curious. It’s important therefore, to make sure the titles and descriptions used in your submissions are enticing.

There are around 50 RSS Feed aggregators that matter, and you can create accounts at them and submit manually, or use a tool like RSSBot,  which automates a lot of the process, and once set up will enable you to submit any new feeds you create, like articles, Web 2.0 sites, or video URLs. It’s easy to use and cheap, too! They need love too!

However you do it, make sure it gets done, It’s an easy way to let the search engines know you around and need a looksee!

~Keith