If you’re interested only in learning how and where to submit your RSS feed, just read on. If you want to know more about what RSS is and how to set up your feed, please refer to my previous articles:
RSS - Setting Up Your RSS Feed
If you’re using WordPress as your blogging platform, you already know that your feed URL is all set up for you. You don’t need any other software program to do the job for you, as you would if you had a standard website. Remember that the purpose of RSS is to automatically deliver content to your subscribers whenever you add new content to your site.
But people (individuals or other websites) will only be able to subscribe to your ‘RSS feed’ if they are aware that it exists. Think about it in terms of a print publication - newspaper or magazine - that you subscribe to. Between you and the folks who have developed the content is a go-between service - a distributor with whom you arrange your subscription.
In the world of RSS, there are RSS services, known as aggregators, that serve the same purpose. You let them know that you’re out there, and they’ll distribute your feed (as in ‘feeding’ your new content) to those who are interested in receiving it (your subscribers).
As mentioned in my previous article, you can either submit the URL of your feed to these RSS aggregators manually, or you can automate it by using RSS submission software. I use a nifty little software application called RSSBot, which is so new that as of this writing, it is not yet available to the public at large. But there are others I will tell you about in my next article.
There are many RSS aggregator services, or directories, to which you can submit your feed. Most are free; some require that you set up an account with them (also free) before submitting your feed URL.
Here is a list that includes many of the more popular RSS directories:
- RSSMountain.com
- Feedest.com
- Blogoculars.com
- 2RSS.com
- FeedsFarm.com
- RssFeeds.com
- RSSaround.com
- Feedbees.com
- FeedsHoster.com
- Plazoo.com
- Page2go2.com
- Feedooyoo.com
- RSSmicro.com
- FeedFury.com
- Octora.com
- FindRSS.net
- FeedBase.net
- RSSmotron.com
- MoreNews.be
- DayTimeNews.com
- Rss-Feeds-Submission.com
- MillionRSS.com
- Yahoo RSS Guide
- ReadABlog.com
- GoldenFeed.com
- BlogDigger.com
- RSSFeeds.com
- feed24.com
- 88tem.com
- WeBlogAlot.com
- FeedBoy.com
- Chordata.info
- BlogPulse.com
- DayPop.com
- IceRocket.com
- RSS-Network.com
- Jordomedia.com
- Feeds2read.net
- Feedcycle.com
- FeedShark.BrainBliss.com
- FeedPlex.com
The following RSS directories require registration:
When I launched RSSBot for the first time, I configured the software with my feed URLs (http://www.newbietrail.com/feed was one of several I submitted) , and with the login credentials for those sites that required registration. Click on submit, and the software ran flawlessly, submitting five of my feeds to 30 aggregators in about 15 minutes. There are several directories that require input from a ‘captcha’ code to prevent directory spamming. For these sites, the software simply paused, presented me with the captcha code for me to input, click OK, and the process continued on. Simple as pie.
RSS is a fabulous way to generate traffic to your website or blog, and the beauty of it is that you only have to submit your feed once to each service. Once you’re in their database, you’re in it. It’s easy and fast, and the software is cheap.
In my next post on RSS, I will tell you about other RSS submission software and additional RSS resources.
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