Comments on: Getting More Traffic from Your RSS Feed http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/rss-traffic Marketing Help Editor, Laura Childs, brings you the latest buzz on Web 2.0, site promotion, online marketing and more. Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:25:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Smartzville http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/rss-traffic/comment-page-1#comment-781 Smartzville Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:38:00 +0000 http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/?p=125#comment-781 Now that the personal visiting is over, a new question has come via email: Dear Laura Childs, This is the third time I am writing to you for your help. Previously you have given me some remarkable tips on RSS feeds and I thank you very much for that. A few months before I had asked you about attracting traffic with RSS feeds and how frequently I should update the feed. You had given me following procedure and also posted my question on your blog for other blog readers. 1) go to yahoo 2) click on search button without any keyword. 3) go to advanced search 4) search for desired keyword by selecting only RSS/XML format. Then you had suggested to check what the top 10 websites are doing. If the top 10 websites update their feed every week I shoud update my feed twice a week and so on.... My question is, Is there any way to find out how often do my competition update their RSS feed?(so that i can catch up with them.) I have come up with following answers. 1) keep an eye on the serch resilts for one week and see the SERP's 2) Visit their XML file and look for XML tag. But all feeds don't have this tag in them. SO how can I find out how often do they update. It would be a great help if you could answer this... Looking forward to your reply... ---------- My reply: Great to hear from you again! What I usually do is add my competition's feed to my RSS Reader and keep an eye on their feed. Everytime they add an item, so do I, and then I'll add another new item the next day. If you don't have a feed reader try FeedDemon. You can download a trial version here: http://www.stampedesecret.com/zipped/feeddemon-trial.zip Laura Childs www.smartzville.com Now that the personal visiting is over, a new question has come via email:

Dear Laura Childs,

This is the third time I am writing to you for your help. Previously you have given me some remarkable tips on RSS feeds and I thank you very much for that.

A few months before I had asked you about attracting traffic with RSS feeds and how frequently I should update the feed. You had given me following procedure and also posted my question on your blog for other blog readers.

1) go to yahoo
2) click on search button without any keyword.
3) go to advanced search
4) search for desired keyword by selecting only RSS/XML format.

Then you had suggested to check what the top 10 websites are doing. If the top 10 websites update their feed every week I shoud update my feed twice a week and so on….

My question is, Is there any way to find out how often do my competition update their RSS feed?(so that i can catch up with them.)

I have come up with following answers.

1) keep an eye on the serch resilts for one week and see the SERP’s

2) Visit their XML file and look for XML tag. But all feeds don’t have this tag in them. SO how can I find out how often do they update.

It would be a great help if you could answer this…

Looking forward to your reply…

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My reply:

Great to hear from you again!

What I usually do is add my competition’s feed to my RSS Reader and keep an eye on their feed.

Everytime they add an item, so do I, and then I’ll add another new item the next day.

If you don’t have a feed reader try FeedDemon. You can download a trial version here:

http://www.stampedesecret.com/zipped/feeddemon-trial.zip

Laura Childs
http://www.smartzville.com

]]> By: Smartzville http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/rss-traffic/comment-page-1#comment-636 Smartzville Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:34:14 +0000 http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/?p=125#comment-636 John, what a great joy to see your name here! It was 1990 when I saw you last (not quite 20 years ago). You pulled up to Toronto's City Hall on your Harley and took me out to lunch. It had been about 8 years since I'd seen you the last time! Remember when we met and were both 15? I always knew we'd be friends forever - lost at times, but would always find each other again. The internet makes that so easy... I sent you an email. If you don't get it, drop me back a note here. It's really good to hear from you my friend. Merry Christmas, Laura Childs John, what a great joy to see your name here!

It was 1990 when I saw you last (not quite 20 years ago). You pulled up to Toronto’s City Hall on your Harley and took me out to lunch. It had been about 8 years since I’d seen you the last time!

Remember when we met and were both 15? I always knew we’d be friends forever – lost at times, but would always find each other again. The internet makes that so easy…

I sent you an email. If you don’t get it, drop me back a note here.

It’s really good to hear from you my friend.

Merry Christmas,

Laura Childs

]]> By: John Emerson http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/rss-traffic/comment-page-1#comment-635 John Emerson Thu, 29 Dec 2005 04:16:49 +0000 http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/?p=125#comment-635 Hi Laura, it is nice to see your doing well. Congratulations! Beautiful daughter too! E-mail me if you would like to catch up. I live in Virginia. Hope to hear if you get this. I think it's been what? twenty years! Hi Laura, it is nice to see your doing well. Congratulations! Beautiful daughter too! E-mail me if you would like to catch up. I live in Virginia. Hope to hear if you get this. I think it’s been what? twenty years!

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