Reason #3: Get visitors to click through to your site whenever you update

If you haven?t used a feed reader before, you might be confused about the connection between the feed and your site and why it can result in an increase in traffic. I?ll attempt to explain this to you in words, but I suggest downloading a news aggregator (also known as a feed reader), and looking at the results of your favorite site?s feed through a reader after you read this for the full effect..

You can use my main feed here if you don?t have one to view:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeTrafficTips

If you don?t want to have another application up while you?re surfing, you can try Pluck , a free application you can use for more than just feeds that integrates with Internet Explorer - get it at

http://freetrafficdirectory.com/pluck - it will take you right to the downloads page.

You can also do this from My Yahoo!, by changing your page to include their RSS Headlines console, still in Beta testing at http://my.yahoo.com.

To summarize, a visitor sees the headlines they want to read, view the summary, and click through to your site to read the rest of the news, either in a new window, or without having to leave the application they are in.

And when you update again, the reader will notify them that you have new headlines, and/or populate the list of items you have available. This can keep your audience coming back.

If you had trouble following that, come to this page for a one minute tutorial:

http://www.freetrafficdirectory.com/members/postt95.html

Reason #4: Recycle old content.

If you have a list of your older articles, some older product reviews, site suggestions, or archived newsletters, you can use those to build content to populate your feed with information. As long as this news is still relevant, you can recycle this content to attract new visitors

Reason #5: Its so easy it?s crazy not to do it.

Before the last few months, there weren?t as many free tools online that made the process of starting and publicizing a feed so effective and user-friendly.

The bottom line is, now that you can get all those benefits from filling out a form, saving the file, uploading to your server, promoting it once, and updating it from time to time, it?s insane not to do so.

You already have to update your site from time to time. You might as well get all the benefits of having a news feed too.

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Tinu? Currently wanted by Secret Hoarders of America for spilling free traffic tips: http://www.freetrafficdirectory.com/blog