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You may know that there are a lot of benefits of using RSS feed.   If you do not, please read the entire post and you may learn some tricks and gain some benefits from reading this post.  People are using it in different ways to serve their purpose such as boosting traffic to their sites.  Below, I am  going to describe what the real benefits of using RSS feed.

Link Juice: RSS feeds will give you some link juice. This can happen after you submit your RSS feeds to RSS feed directories.   People who subscribe to the directories would find your feed interesting and would come and check your site more often.  RSS feeds seems to be overlooked from many website owners as they are very beneficial for SEO (search engine optimization).

SEO: Search engine likes updated fresh content or new things. The RSS is the one which ping the update to search engine as well as it also helps user find the new updates on the web.

Reader convenience: it can expose your site more if you have a great  content that provides a lot of benefits to the public.  People would subscribe your RSS feed without going to your site.  They can read your content remotely.  So it is a must have a RSS feed subscription on your site so that people would be able to read your posts after they find your great content and want to learn more what you are going to write in the future.  I believe if they know your style of writing and the subject area that you have been writing.  RSS is a great way to keep your readers updated with all the latest happenings on your blog.  So have a RSS feed ready for them to subscribe is a way to expand your reader to another level.

Boost Traffic: It can boost traffic to your site  when one of your guests subscribes to your RSS feed.

I love to hear your comments and thoughts.  Please leave it below if you have any.

I understand how you felt about getting traffic to your new blog.  I went through the same path as you did.  I felt the same way as you did, too.  I thought nobody would care enough to read my beautiful written article that is full of content ( you must have a great content on your blog before doing anything else).  And I wondered how to get the visitors/readers to come to my blog.  But you and I might have forgotten that there are many people who are starting blogs at any given moment as you and I did.  Anyway, if you seek, you will find techniques that some gurus or professional bloggers used to drive the traffic to their blogs.  Alternatively, if you ask, you will receive.  I will talk about this in a minute.

If I have left anything out or you know of any other way to boost traffic quickly, then please share with the audience/readers by leaving a comment below.

The Golden Rule to start with

If you are a newbie to blog and need a little traffic boost to your blog, here are my suggestions:

1- Google the keyword that is related to your blog, go to some of those blogs, and leave a comment with your blog’s URL in the website field and your email address.

2- Be sure to subscribe to those blogs’ RSS feeds.

3- Join a couple of forums that related to your niche or interest.  For example, if you are interested in the Internet Marketing, join the Self Starters Weekly tips.  Ask them questions; then some body there would be glad to give you a few tips.  This is what I talked about asking, then you will receive.  Similarly to a quote from a bible, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” (Matt. 7:7).

One great benefit of joining forums is that your Signature links from reputable forums will help new websites to be indexed by search engines and you can exchange your link with other members.

Here is a list of 26 forums that help you make money online

I highly recommend checking out Digital Point, Wicked Fire , Earners Forum and ABest Web ( if you don’t have time to visit all of the forums on the list, but you only have time to join one forum, try the Digital Point.

1. Digital Point

2. V7N Forum

3. Sitepoint

4. WebmasterWorld

5. SEO Chat

6. Earners Forum

7. High Rankings.com

8. Self Starters Weekly Tips

9. Wicked Fire

10. Warrior Forum

11. ABest Web

12. 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums

13. Affiliate Programs Forum

14. Ewealth

15. Affiliates4U

16. Get Paid Forum

17. Dream Team Money

18. Whydowork.com

19. Goldage

20. Work at Home Forum

21. WAHM.com

22. Talk Freelance

23. NamePros

24. DN Forum

25. Scam.com

26. Blogger Forum

The above “Golden Rule” is not guaranteed you a huge traffic, but at least a little traffic.  It depends upon your effort, not to mention your belief.

What do you think?

Anyway, I am glad you dropped by my blog and hope your learned a few tips on how to drive traffic to your blog. I love to hear your thoughts. Please leave your comment below.

As you know that there are two kinds of traffic that you can have to generate back links to your blogs.  They are natural organic traffic or you may call it free traffic and the paid traffic.  For the free traffic one, you can use the social media networking such as tweeter to have visitors to come to your blog/site. You can also write your article contained a keyword-riched content and submit it to the article directories to boost traffic.  There are other methods to drive traffic too.

However, there one dirty paid traffic that some people use to drive the traffic to their article and increase their back links.  They use the “DonkeyMails” service to do the trick.  As you can see the screen shot titled “Super Special Packages with up to 50% Discount!!!” below.  The first line you see the special ads that they can get 10cents per click for 5,000 clicks and pay just $9.99.  With that service, they can drive the traffic to their article that they submitted to Ezinearticles.  Even though it is aware of this activity, those people can go around with it by setting two domains and PHP script to strip out location where it is coming from.  Doing that way, the Ezinearticles would consider that is legit because they do not know the traffic is coming from the same source.

Some people consider that activity as a grey area, not black area where it is unethical for some group of people.  You are the judge and jury to this issue.   I just want to let you be aware what is out there.

What Do You Think?

I love to hear your thoughts about this blog post.  So please leave your comment below before you click away.

Before I talk about the Yahoo Answers, if I have left anything out or you know of any other way to get more traffic, then please share with the audience/readers by leaving a comment below.

What is Yahoo Answers?

Yahoo Answers is a community where you can submit any questions or answers to those questions asked by other members.  You will earn 2 points for answering each question, and 10 points if your answer is chosen to be the best answer by multiple votes.  However, it will cost you 5 points per question that you ask.  Anyway, it is a way to share of knowledge, help others, and earn points based on quality of your answer.

How Does it Drive Traffic to Your Blog?

If you answer to a question at the Yahoo Answers and you leave the URL link to your website, the person who asks the question would go to your website and finds the answer(s) or tips to the question.  However, if your answer is the best one, there are going to be more than one person goes to your site.  This happens when other searchers who had the same question as the person who posted the question at Yahoo Answers, googled the same keyword related to your answered.  There will be a lot of people would go to your site.  The more people go to your site, the more traffic you are going to get, not to mention the back links.

What Do You Have to Do to Get Traffic from Yahoo Answers?

1. Open a Yahoo Answers account if you do not have a Yahoo email account.  Pay close attention to your profile.  Fill out as much information as you can.  Include your best photo so that your profile looks like real people.
2. Next, click “Answer”, go to category section under “all categories” and click the category that is related to your keyword niche or your blog.  Or you can go to the advanced search of Yahoo Answers, enter your keywords into the keyword field.  Select  “Questions” under search keyword match in.  Select category.  Then select “Open questions—best answer has not chosen” and click “Search” button.
3. Lastly, answer them and leave your URL link back to your website for more detail.  Sooner or later, you will see more traffic coming from the Yahoo Answers if you keep answering to the questions related to your keyword niche of your blog every day.

Tips:

1. When you answer those questions, give a brief explanation and convince the person who asked the question that he would get more detail by clicking the link to your website.
2. Put your effort to provide the great answer so that you have a chance to be selected as the best answer.  And when your content makes to the top of all the answers, you will get a continue traffic from that question.
3. When you give the link, make sure it is going to blog post that answers to the related question, not to the index/main page.  If the person got the answer, he surely would  probe around to see what is your site about.

Note: Do not leave a link to your sales page because it may consider as a span and you can have your account suspended.  It is a good way to use this site and stay within their terms and policies while continuing to build your reputation as an expert in your particular field.

So, is it Worth Your Time?

In my opinion, it is worth it even though it takes a lot of time, but you gain more than the traffic to your site.  You lean what is the hot topic that people are talking about.  Moreover, you can add another blog post about that hot topic and you can continue to get more traffic to your blog.

What Do You Think?

I love to hear your thoughts about this blog post.  So please leave your comment below.