Always start by looking at your website from your potential user’s point of view. Really take a step back and see it from their perspective. Do they know where to go and what to look at when they get to your site? Is your email opt-in form in full view? Take a look at your site from a couple of different computers and browsers to be sure everything looks good.

You should also strive to find ways to feature your content. In other words, make sure the important parts are above the fold. Try installing a slider at the top of your site to showcase several of your blog posts at once.

It is important to have lots of white space in the design of your site. It has been proven that dark letters over a light (preferably white) background are easier to read. People will stay at your website longer if they can read it without eye strain. Internet readers are “scanners”, so add more white space to make it easier to scan over your information.

Don’t go nuts with funky new designs and “testing”. Use what has been proven to work and go the conventional route when it comes to page layout. Trust me, people have tested layouts ad nauseum, so there is no need to go into your marketing lab and test a dozen new layouts.

Always have an easy to find search bar on your site so that readers can search for old blog posts and topics they care about. Not having a search bar can prove to be frustrating for some readers who may leave your site too quickly.

Above all else, keep things simple. Don’t spend your time trying to reinvent the wheel. Instead, focus on quality content and over-delivery. That will work every time.

Having the perfect website design may not be possible, but optimizing it as much as possible doesn’t take that much work. Tweaking your site here and there will continue to improve it over time. You will see a rise in traffic and conversions when you have your site “just right”.

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What does RSS or XML mean to your online marketing?

It could mean market domination and phenomenal success, if you add it to your marketing mix – but do it sooner rather than later!

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) formats such as rdf, rss or xml.

Sounds like a lot of ‘techno geek speak’ doesn’t it?

"More and more surfers have discovered the ease of use and time saving process of surfing and searching by RSS feeds."

Let’s look past the definition and onto the usage of the RSS Feed. I think you’ll see that RSS is the new marketing darling.

Group 1 Site Owners use RSS Feeds to announce news, website updates, and events (or any other newsworthy announcements).

For the Internet Marketer or website owner, RSS Feeds are a way to attract more visitors, obtain higher search engine ranking and provide another venue (vs. email) to stay in touch with subscribers.

Group 2 Site Owners will use RSS Feeds to add constantly changing content to their websites (written by Group 1 site owners) for search engine favor (search engines love to see regularly updated content on websites).

Internet Surfers use RSS Feeds to quickly check current headlines, weather, or new articles on their favorite sites.

This new style of acquiring information from the internet saves the surfer time – in comparison to visiting a search engine, surfing through pages of irrelevant results, or even accessing websites through their browser’s Favorites menu.

Internet Surfers use browser-based RSS services (via a website) or an RSS Reader (software installed on their desktop) to read RSS Feeds. Internet Marketers create an RSS Feed and submit it to feed directories – it’s really that simple…but there are some marketing techniques to ensure success.

Free RSS Document

Grab this awesome free pdf – 28 content rich pages on creating, promoting and marketing with RSS Feeds.

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If a 40 year old chicken farmer living in back woods Ontario could figure it out and use it to double her newsletter sign-ups every month, you can do it too!

Now:

• Even if you’ve read about Blogs and RSS Feeds before,
• Even if you’ve tried them and quit because they were too difficult or time consuming to learn,
• Even if some other marketer told you that RSS was a passing fad…

Understand that:

• Even ifs don’t put subscribers in your auto-responder sequence…
• Even ifs don’t feed your family…
• Even ifs had no idea that RSS Feeds are attracting the best pre-targeted, pre-disposed-to-click readers that a marketer could dream of, no matter what you are selling!

This could make all the difference in the world to your online business…

The report covers:

• All you need to understand as a website owner about Blogs and RSS Feeds. What they are, who uses them, how they access them, and the reasons why Blogs and RSS Feeds are gaining in popularity and simply not going away!
• How having an RSS Feed and Blog can have oodles of high quality new prospects reading your site headlines every hour, every day, or every week – you decide when!
• How to increase, by the busload, the number of visitors to your site just by creating and submitting your RSS Feed in
  the right places and in the right manner. (We’ll show you where and offer all our notes in the password protected area – for your eyes only!)
• Instructions on creating blogs using existing content, and both the content and format to follow to create an RSS Feed. Hey don’t worry if you’re not the page-creating coding type – this is super easy! As a matter of fact we’ll even provide access to the tools we use to effortlessly create feeds on the fly – it’s a simple fill in the blanks and press a button process – all you have to do is provide the content – instant news feed – it’s that easy!
• A separate instruction sheet to pass onto your webmaster showing them exactly how to create and edit RSS Feeds, bringing them up to speed in this fast-evolving field. (This is no more difficult than the most remedial html). You don’t want to give your site designer/editor the entire report – as it could be used to push too many other sites up the ladder!

So whether you are selling your own products or promoting products as an affiliate, you need to download this report and get started today.

Get on the first ship as it sails out to rich seas…let the other marketers go after the high-speed city-slickers who have oodles of time to wait for videos and stick men to load on screen.

You know there’s just as much money to be made from busy people who don’t like wasting time – busy people who just want the facts, not the flashing pictures.

Busy people who would rather click the order button and have their questions answered quickly than to spend all day surfing around, kicking tires, and looking for freebies.

You know who your market is…

You know the person who’ll click the order button and not the X…

…and with a Blog/RSS Feed on your site, you’re bound to attract more of them!

Click the book cover to visit the official site.

The Stampede Secret: How to Get More Targeted, Smart, Affluent, Hungry Traffic Than You Can Imagine Using Blogs and RSS Feeds.

Order now, before all those other marketers finally figure out this best kept traffic secret!

To Your RSS Success!

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