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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.

You may know that you have to do keyword research before you pick a domain name for your site.  You also do have to use a keyword to write articles about your affiliate product.  These two are not related, but you use keyword after you did research for the keyword that people are looking for the product.  Here are the pros and cons of doing keyword research.

Easy getting Traffic: If you know that you did the keyword research and know what people are searching for on the internet, and you have a domain that has the keyword in it, you will definitely will get a lot of traffic to your site.  That is the organic traffic that I am talking about.  You and I would know that it would be like icing on the cake if you do a little bit more of search engine optimization (SEO) by writing articles and submit it to the article directories, such as Ezinearticles.

Unavailable domain names: The problem is now a day almost all keyword top level domain names that are in your niche are already taken, especially the three-word or less domain names.  What you have to do is to add another word, such as blog, to that domain name to make it happen.

O.K. That is fine, but when it comes to Google keyword ranking, you would have a hard time to compete with other sites for traffic If those sites are page ranking higher than 5.  It means they have been in the niche for a long time.  Their domain age is probably more than five years old.  You may have a hard time to compete with them.  But I see that you can do your best with seo by generating fresh content so that Google would see your site benefits and hopefully it will give you more page ranking.

What happens if you did not do the keyword research for your domain name?

Well, tough luck! You have to work harder than if you do have a keyword in your domain name.  You might have to buy traffic to your site, otherwise you do not have much traffic at all.  You have to do SEO.  You have to write articles and submit them to article directories.  You have convert them to video and audio format and submit them to Tubemogul and other directories.  You have to use social network websites and social bookmarking sites to expose your site.  As I mentioned, you have to work very harder than if you have a domain name with keyword in it.

Similarly, it is like you know the demand is out there and you just have to provide the supplies to satisfy the demand.  That is going to be an easy sale if you are selling a product.  However, if you do not do research about the market and you make a product that there is no demand for it.  You will NOT make any sales and you will definitely lose money.

In summary, do not just take the keyword lightly when it comes to name your domain name in a particular niche.  If you do not, you will be sorry and be surprised that there are not a lot of traffic to your site.

What do you think?

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Picture is worth a thousand words.  Picture(image, photo) would add a beauty to your blog post and provides an attraction to your particular audience.  Without it, it is like you are missing something and it is not complete.  If you are talking about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), you need to have some pictures on your site or blog because that is what Google loves  And you have to please it in order to have your blog index higher and gain more traffic.

I know that looking for nice and free pictures always been a big issue if you don’t know where to get those FREE pictures when you are building a website or merely creating Power Point presentation or writing a blog post,  then you will need to purchase them and some are real costly.  To eliminate that problem, I set up a list of sites where you can find free pictures.

Where you can FREE Pictures/Photos/Images

http://www.morguefile.com (my favorite Free Image website)

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.sxc.hu/ – Highly Recommended!

http://www.freebieimages.com/ It is a plugin for WP

http://acobox.com/

http://amygdela.com/stock/

http://energy.star29.net/store/

http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm

http://imagebase.davidniblack.com/

http://openphoto.net/

http://stock.diwiesign.com/

http://tofz.org/

http://visipix.dynalias.com/index_hidden.htm

http://woophy.com/

http://www.abstractinfluence.com/forums/gallery/album.php?album_id=2

http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/main.php

http://co-photo.com/

http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/

http://www.designpacks.com/Image_Catalog/

http://www.everystockphoto.com/

http://www.freedesignphoto.com/

http://www.freefoto.com/

http://www.freeimages.co.uk

http://www.freejpg.com.ar/

http://www.freephotosbank.com/

http://www.freepixels.com/

http://www.freerangestock.com/

http://www.free-stockphotos.com/

http://www.historicalstockphotos.com/

http://www.imageafter.com/

http://www.highresolutiontextures.com/

http://www.kavewall.com/

http://www.loremipsumblvd.com/

http://www.lostandtaken.com

http://www.morguefile.com/

http://www.nationsillustrated.com/

WWW.PhotoXpress.Com

http://www.photoeverywhere.com

http://www.photogen.com/

http://www.photorack.net/index.php

http://www.photorogue.com/

http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/

http://www.public-domain-photos.com/

http://www.stockvault.net/

http://www.studio25.ro/index.php?option=com_ponygallery&Itemid=27&lang=en

http://www.studio7designs.com/stock-photography/

http://www.wallpaperstop.com

http://www.webphotomart.com/

http://www.unices.org/photo2/

Now you have a stock pile to sites where you can go to and get some FREE images.

What do you think?

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