Feed Your Search Engine Optimization Campaign With Rss

Just as the right amount of nutrition keeps the human body fit, your search engine optimization campaign too needs the right kind of feed to make an impact. Really Simply Syndication, or RSS, is the feed that can provide the much-needed impetus to your online marketing plans. This syndication helps users to keep a tab on their favourite websites without actually checking them manually.

Also known as Web feeds, RSS is basically used for publishing frequently-updated content on websites. This content is either presented in a summary (taken from an associated site) or as full text. Working in an automated manner, it is primarily used to publish blogs, podcasts and news headlines, etc. Most of these feeds are specified using the XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) format.


The software that helps in feeding RSS content on to a website is known as an 'aggregator' or 'feed reader'. As a user, you can subscribe to a feed by clicking on the RSS icon in your Internet browser. After the subscription is confirmed, you can check subscribed feeds for new content almost every day. In fact, you also have the option of downloading information that interests you.

Search engine optimization, the process of optimizing your website for higher listings on search engine result pages, can be hugely benefited from RSS feeds. A part of the on-page optimization process, these feeds enhance your website's rankings by syndicating your write-ups with other sites and directories.

RSS feeds are created on your own site and can be submitted on free directories meant for this purpose. This facilitates easy crawling on search websites because the content is constantly updated, and thus 'caught' early by search engine spiders. By creating an RSS feed, you don't just present your site in a compact form, but also ensure that its pages get better listings - the basic purpose of your search engine optimization process.

Although various formats of content syndication have been in existence for quite some time, RSS has been the most successful of them all. More and more websites are getting into syndications to boost up their SEO campaigns. According to Internet marketing experts, this trend is here to stay.

By: aisha_danna

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