The Importance of an RSS Feed

I participate in a couple of blog ad networks that offer the opportunity to add an RSS feed. I've noticed that many don't use this feature meaning their latest post title blurb does not show on the site effectively costing them readers. See have a post title blurb can draw interest in that someone may click the link simply because the topic interests them. So in short these bloggers are losing potential traffic but the reality is at one time I was one of those bloggers. I honestly did not know what an asset an RSS feed could be. Now what is even funnier is each of my blogs have had an RSS feed within a week or two of them going live. I simply didn't use the RSS feed much. I had the link on a couple of my blogs then basically forgot about it. Then I joined a couple of advertising networks that asked for my RSS feed so I added it. Within a short period of time I noticed the occasional visit to my blogs through the RSS feed. Several of the online communities I joined also asked for my RSS feed. I also use twitterfeed.com that used my RSS feeds to post to Twitter each time I make a new blog post. All of these uses of my feeds are generating traffic! What I have come to realize is that getting my RSS feed out there is an easy, pain free method of generating traffic.

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