Feedburner & RSS Feed - Part 2

In my previou post of Feedburner & RSS Feed - Part 1,
i explained what is Feeds, Feedburners & RSS.
Today i will share with you the simple method of how to put the RSS Feed into your website or blog. These can be achieved by the following steps.

First of all, you need to apply an account on the feedburner site. If you are the blogger in google blogspot, you can also log into google account and look for googlefeedburner as icon shown.

Once log in to feedburner.com website, we look for a box that has stated
Burn a feed right this instant. Type your blog or feed address here:
then burn it in feedburner by putting your blog url in the box provided and click NEXT.
In this page, choose feed source eg RSS form and click NEXT.
Key in your feed title and feed address, then click NEXT.
Congrats you successfully burn your feed using feedburner.
We finished first half of the task by successfully burn the feed into feedburner.

Next we would want to place RSS Feed icon into website or blog.
In your feedburner account site, look for My Feed tab and click it. You shall see a title feed table, choose your title feed in the table and click it.
Inside your title feed widnow, click on the Publicize Tab and click the Chicklet Chooser tab in the right sidebar of the page.
Choose the yellow RSS icon in the first choice of the page and scroll down.
You will see the corresponding html code of the RSS icon and paste it to you blogger widget, save it and its done.
If you want to put a subsciption via email box to your blog, Choose the Email Subsription Tab and repeat the above process.
If you like to show off the number of feed readers you have, at the sidebar again look for Feed Count Tab, click it.
In this page, you can customize the color of ther counter and scroll down.
Copy the code and paste to your blogger widget, save and its done.
With the above instruction provided, you should be easy to place the RSS feed into your website or blog. If you want your RSS feed look special in your site, i recommend you read this article of
How I Created My RSS Subscription Box (Video). Is interesting, cheers !

Feedburner & RSS Feed - Part 1

In my previous post of Make money by increasing blog traffice, i had listed many methods that will help you to increasing blog traffic. There is still one important method that i am going to discuss with you more detail today. This is Feedburner and RSS Feed. Many newbie may heard about feeds or see the universal feed icon or these "chicklets" from the websits or blogs.
These icons above usually represent content in any format - test, audio or video - the purpose is for you to subscribe and read/watch/listen using a feed reader.

So what is feedburner ? It is a technology program that controls XML, ATOM and RSS Feed quality control checker, as well as a professional distribution and tracking assistant, simplifying your web publisher work while extending your reach online.

I summaries the advantages of Feedburner as follows:

a. Traffic analysis / analytics for your feed - feed subscriber and usage statistics / metrics; you can even use Feedburner to track visitors to your blog or site, not just your feed, and get some useful info on most popular / top pages. etc
b. User-friendliness through browser-friendliness and reader-friendliness
c. Providing email subscriptions to your blog - which are also included in your statistics
d. Publicising your blog
e. Feedflare to enhance your feed and blog both
f. Making money through ads in your Feedburner feeds.

What are feeds ? Feeds are a way for websites large and small to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically via a web portal, news reader, or in some cases good old email. Feeds also make it possible for site content to be packaged into "widgets," "gadgets," mobile devices, and other bite-sized technologies that make it possible to display blogs, podcasts, and major news/sports/weather/whatever headlines just about anywhere. Usually feeds has the format know as RSS or Atom. For RSS which stands for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary or Rockdale. RSS is based on XML which is widely used standard for textual information exchange between applications on the internet. You can treat RSS feeds as plain text files and its designed for PC to PC communication.

By knowing the concept of feedburner and feeds, you will understand how the consumer can any time subscribing to feeds makes it possible to review a large amount of online content in short time possible. Whereas at the publisher end who make use of feeds permit instant distribution of content and the ability to make it "subscribable". Good things for feeds that helps to prevent spam filters, delayed distribution or search engine rankings problem.

Feed Reader, this is the feed reading applications known as "news aggregators" (Mostly text) or "podcatchers". There is also choice of reader working for mobile devices.

Alternative, we can also use online web-based service to track and manage feeds. The advantage is able to access your feed updates anywhere you can find a web browser. FeedBurner's services allow publishers who already have a feed to improve their understanding of and relationship with their audience. Once you have a working feed, run it through FeedBurner and realize a whole new set of benefits. In addition some social photo-sharing service eg Flickr also offer feeds of content you produce that others can retrieve.

Now you have idea of what feeds is and their function. And if you know how to apply it right for your blog or website, it will help you to drive in more traffic as you had never expected before.

My next post will be sharing with you how to put a common feed on your website or blog as to provide convenience for your audience to subscribe your content on line.

Make money by increasing blog traffic

As we all know we can put ad on blog to earn revenue. Question is how much can u earn ?
These all depends on how are you going to attract visitors or reader to your blog. I sort out some simple but yet important tips that help drive traffic into your blog.

(a) Write quality contents and post frequently
You should write things that you are interested for. Keep writing and posting. Say something more meaningful as to attract the reader. With this method, the audience will always look forward to reading your blog.

(b) Post title optimized with the relevant keywords
Do you know that the content you are going to write and the post title if you can optimized with the current high vol keywords in the search engine (eg : google search engine) is important. However pls do not overload your post with too many relevant keywords eventhough it helps to increase the pagerank in the search engine. Otherwise the search engine might think that you are creating blog spamming and at the end your blog being removed from the search engine.

(c) The important of the Search Engines
Submit your full blog's URL to a few popular search engines such as google, yahoo, technorati, live (formely msn) or AOL. This "Big Engine" will help you to drive in heavy traffic after they accept your address. Make sure you have min 15 to 20 web pages or post before send. Once your blog gets several months of age in the search engine, they will bring you high vol of traffic.
(d) Submit your web page/blog to Web Directories
Submit your web page / bog to the Web Directories is one of the way to promote your website.
No doubt about 80% of website traffic are usually come from search engine, but do not ignore that the rest of the 20% shares that web directories can be contributed.
If you have made some study, the search engine treat link popularity as one of the imporatant key factor in the ranking algorithm. In another words web directories help to create more links that point directly to your site / blog and increase your ranking in the search engine. Higher rankings meant more traffic to your site.
Make sure that the link connect back to your site from web directoies must include keywords in the hyperlinks. For eg your site is How to earn % online, then your hyperlink keyword shall associate with this title of earn $ online.
The web directories that you submit your articles for must at least listed in some of the main search engines.
Always submit your articles to the web directories that have a similar theme to your website / blog.
(e) Blog Comment
Any good or bad comments on your article from the readers shall treat as a source of regular traffic contact. Keep relationship with these auidance who contribute comments. In return you can also visit their blog as a guest blogger, give them your very constructive opinion on their blog. Make clear to the blog owner that you require a very brief byline at the end of the post, with a link back to your blog. It is a win-win situation. By doing this, you are able to attract his readers back to our site.
Do not be shy when visit other relevant blog and post them your comments or ask questions. Networking them base on long term relationship. This is the most effective way to attract traffic.

(f) Invite Guest Bloggers
Look around for the well known bloggers in your field and invite them whether they can contribute a post to your blog. This can help to gain quality readers.
You can also invite bloggers to contribute post to your blog that they have their unique view related to your field. Perhaps may be you can allow one link back to their site as a one to one exchange basic. So in return they shall also link to your site from time to time.

(g) From someone you know
As a beginner, we can start to invite relative or friends to read your blog and it shall be grateful if they give good comments about your post. This will help too though not very fantastic.

(h) Advertise
If you are an agressive blogger, try pay money & buy advertising space on other side. eg pay per click.

Hope the above tips is helpful to you of make $ on line.

Cheers !