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5 Reasons Why Your Site Needs to Publish a News Feed by: Tinu Abayomi-Paul It seems like everyone is talking about RSS Feeds. They've been around for years but the buzz is up about them as the technology continues to go mainstream. Some people are reportedly abandoning their browsers and viewing the web through their readers - but they hardly represent the general public yet. So does your site need one? This question is somewhat like asking if your site needs a newsletter. Sure, the sky won't fall tomorrow if you don't get one today, but once you realize the benefits of having a news feed for your site, and try it for yourself, you may become an addict like the rest of us. Reason #1: More free traffic to your site I'm not exaggerating when I say that a frequently updated feed can bring you massive amounts of traffic in a short time period. This won't be true forever. Here's a snapshot in PDF format, of just the feed-originating traffic to a new page of my site for the first 24 hours it opened. http://www.freetrafficdirectory.com/2-rss-marketing/screenshot.pdf Not exactly a stampede, but here's the good part. On the fourth day, the feed traffic doubled, and all other traffic continued to rise at the same rate. That's my fifth active feed of the twenty I have spread out over four sites, and I get similar results each time. In thirty days, that would be at least '5
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