RSS, ATOM, and Related Technologies Forum

Looks like you're really confused about this new technology - RSS. Don't worry your not alone... I'll try to help you out on this one...

Coming to your first question, if you want to syndicate content on your website, you should have a RSS feed of your content. An RSS feed is in the XML format.

For example, if you have a section on your website with new articles posted daily, you can create an RSS feed for that particular section.

Whenever you add a new article to that section, all you have to do is add a new item to your RSS feed. This item displays the headline of your article as well as a summary of it... Anyone clicking on the headline leads to your website, where the complete article can be read... It's as simple as that...

It's like hooking the reader with a little content and bringing him to your website for the rest of it... Your RSS feed also has the main link of your website from where your readers can visit you...

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Coming to your second question, article submission is simply about submitting your articles to online directories and websites... Your article is read only when someone visits the articles page and reads your article...

On the other hand, if you publish an RSS feed, people can subscribe to it with an RSS reader. Now, whenever you have new content, all you do is add a new item to your RSS feed, which leads back to your website to the full content. This way people wont have to search for your articles, they will be automatically be notified as soon as you update your feed...

This way you will have regular readers who'll get hooked to your content... And since people visit your website through the RSS feed to read your complete article, it is a direct traffic boost for your website...

Ultimately you will not only have lots of traffic coming in but will also build a loyal base of subscribers... After all in the end, its all about relationships :)

I disagree with that one

The huge advantage of article submission is that when other webmasters pick up your article and post it on their sites you get many one-way back links coming in to your site through the resouce box which contains the link to your site.

After starting to automate my article submission using a software i bought to submit to 150 article directories traffic has shot through the roof to my site..

The effect has saw an increase in newsletter subscribers to my site and higher income through Adsense.

This actually happened to a big site which sells website templates where its affiliates were being given exact duplicates of the main site. The site got banned from google because of the exact copy of html the affiliates were using.