There are several ways of submitting your RSS news feeds to the directories. You can manually submit to the directories. You can get a list of the directories, go through each website, and add your feed – copy and paste style.
Since there are many RSS directories, it may take awhile before you can go through everything. To save on time, you can automate the process in two ways – the first is RSS Submit, an automatic submission program. You only have to open it, enter the URL for your RSS feed, and RSS Submit instantly sends out the feed information to around 40 directories.
The second automated method is through RSS Directory Submission Service, which is the same as RSS Submit, the only difference is the price: RSS Submit costs $44.95 for a license while RSS Directory Submission Service costs $8.95 per feed submission.
A lot of website owners like to have fresh content for the benefit of their visitors. Embedding an RSS feed is thus the easiest way to do this kind of promotion.
By submitting to the RSS directories, webmasters looking for content can easily find you, and you can get free promotion. Websites that submit to the directories are immediately benefited with link popularity. This is because RSS directories are pretty much like the other types of directories – you get a one-way link back to your website if you are listed. Best of all, they are free.
Most of the RSS directories have a Page Rank (PR) of 5 or higher. If you submit to 50 directories, there are many quality links to your site, which can only mean an increase in popularity and in the number of visitors.
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Most Internet users simply visit an RSS directory and subscribe to the blogs on their most favorite subjects. With this type of behavior, even the best of the blogs cannot survive the readership competition if they are not found on the RSS directories.
Simply put, an RSS directory submission allows the content of your blogs or website to be duplicated and linked to another website. One major benefit of RSS syndication is that a website gets to widen its reach through updates in its content. A website owner can simply publish a write-up and have the excerpts placed on other websites, literally numbering hundreds, with links going back to the original content found on the website.
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Figures at Technorati shows that there were over 15 million blogs in July 2005, and that within the period of time, 80,000 blogs were created each day. The figure is yet to be updated, but it does tell you the amount of competition on the Internet today – from blogs to websites.
If you own a blog or you have a blog that complements your website, and you want to stay ahead of the competition (take note this presupposes that you do not just write for yourself), there is a way to stay ahead of the competition: RSS directory submission or submitting news feeds to news directories. It is simple yet effective, and presents a very real opportunity for website owners to update Internet users of the latest on their business through the RSS news feeds.
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There are free directories and there are paid directories. Some charge as low as $15 annually while some charge almost $300 for the same benefit. It is up to website owner whether to go for paid directories; the decision should always stem from a cost benefit analysis. But of course, it will pay to submit to free directories.
Submitting your website’s URL to the directories is simply a way for you to get started on your link building efforts. It s easy and you can be sure you can the favored one-way links to your site.
They also have editorial guidelines too. So when you are writing descriptions, do not read like spam. The editor might not be inclined to put you on the list. It is always good practice to write different titles and descriptions for different directories that you will submit to.
Do not overwork your brain though. You can just write a set of five different titles and descriptions that you can alternately submit to the directories.
You can submit to the directories in an automated fashion or you can submit them manually.
If you are submitting many websites to hundreds of relevant categories, there is the automated submission software available to help you submit to those directories. The submission software, however, can never take the place of humans since most directories now use captcha or letters set as graphic images to verify the submissions are made by humans.
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Writing a description on your website for the directories is pretty much like writing news – to the point and detached. No adjectives and superlatives there and certainly no sales pitches. So if you’re selling software, you do no write “best software in the world”, instead you say “software that allows you to get in touch with the world’s top experts”.
The point of submitting to directories is to generate one way links to your website. There can never be enough of one-way links, and they are, actually one of the keys to your ranking well in the search engines. Unlike the search engines, however, the directories have real people that go through each and every submission.
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Before you submit to a directory, especially if it is the Open Directory Project, you should check whether the website is even appropriate for submission. These are some of the things to watch out for:
* Do not submit mirror sites or sites that contain duplicate content, but have different URLs. Your sites may be deleted from the submitted list.
* Do not submit disguise submissions and submit the same URL twice. An example is when you submit http://www.dmoz.org and http://www.dmoz.org/index.html
* Do not submit site that just redirect to another website address.
* Do not submit websites that have illegal content. Examples of illegal content are content on child pornography, and libel. Materials advocating, soliciting or promoting illegal activity like theft, fraud, and violence are not allowed in the directories.
* Pornographic websites should be properly placed under adult category.
For branding purposes, however, it is better to submit just one URL to the directories. The reason why directories are so particular about content is because they are offering a service. If they are known to be good at listing, they get traffic and if they are not, they do not get traffic. Directories always need relevant listings. This is why many website owners will find it difficult to get their sites listed if their sites are not relevant to the niche of the directory they are submitting to.
You should only submit to the directories if your website is already complete and is ready for viewing. Some quarters will advise that you should do it once your domain is already registered. Take note, however, that the directories have human editors – if the website is not ready then there is nothing to review.
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Most of the directories today have human editors who severely dislike multiple submissions. So take note, do not submit more than once, unless if you have a big website with multiple categories, then you can place your sub domains in other sections of the directory.
For example, your web site has a category on programming software and another category on networking hardware. If you have both categories on different sub-domains, you can submit the sub domain on software and the sub domain on hardware under their relevant categories in the directory. Directories will not consider it spam since the two URLs are for two different topics.
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