Best way to promote my rss xml feed?

September 8, 2007 4:22 PM

Promoting my xml rss feed. For free. Online. What's the best way to about doing this?
posted by JaySunSee to computers & internet (4 comments total)

People generally subscribe to feeds because they want the content, so you should really be promoting the content rather than the feed. And how you do that depends very much on what the content is. Promoting a feed of stock prices, for example, will differ significantly from promoting a feed of movie reviews. But if you just want general advice: identify your target audience, tell them about it, find out what more they want, and add it.
posted by scottreynen at 4:58 PM on September 8, 2007

You're absolutely right, scott, but that aside, I'm looking for free online automatic rss submission sites, with a twist of lime, hold the ice.

Any recommendations?
posted by JaySunSee at 5:10 PM on September 8, 2007

The "easiest" trick is to just make sure you ping all the various sites that can be pinged with updates to your feed. There are lists of these all over the place, but an easy alternative is to just ping Ping-o-Matic and they'll ping a whole bunch of other people for you.
posted by wackybrit at 6:36 PM on September 8, 2007

Dude, you just earned yourself a best answer.
posted by JaySunSee at 7:02 PM on September 8, 2007