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36 RSS Feed Distributions To Promote Your Site

Many website owners, especially bloggers utilize RSS feeds to distribute their content. For those that use Feedburner, you’ve probably already chosen a few services to further publicize your feeds.

But there are also a number of additional directories available to further promote RSS feeds to help you increase visitor numbers. I found a list of RSS Directories supplied on DotSauce through a post on Money Making Scoop. The original list is a few months old and include a few urls that no longer work. So I poked around and pulled 36 of the 55 RSS Directories which are functional and easiest to submit, including an addition of my own: Blog Burst.

These RSS directories receive visitors and submissions fairly frequently. I highly recommend checking out #36, Blog Burst. Feeds are manually approved and any blog accepted should receive quality traffic through this service, as some of their clients include Reuters and USA Today.

  1. FeedFury
  2. FeedBomb
  3. Plazoo
  4. RSS Micro
  5. 2RSS
  6. FeedsFarm
  7. RSS Feeds
  8. Feeds4all
  9. Postami
  10. Feedest
  11. MySpace RSS
  12. DaytimeNews
  13. RSS Feeds Submission
  14. MillionRSS
  15. Yahoo RSS
  16. More News
  17. Find RSS
  18. Feed Base
  19. RSS Motron
  20. Octora
  21. Blog Digger
  22. Feed 24
  23. Findory
  24. Feed Boy
  25. Chordata
  26. Golden Feed
  27. Read A Blog
  28. Newgie
  29. Jordo Media RSS
  30. RSS Network
  31. Ice Rocket
  32. Blog Pulse
  33. Feeds2Read
  34. Feed Shark
  35. Feed Plex
  36. Blog Burst

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Adding Polls To Your Site

Hosting a poll on a site offers extra incentive for visitors to return. Visitors will participate in polls, review results and also take a look over the content provided on the site.

There are a few easy options to create a poll, like using BuzzDash.com or a wordpress poll plugin. There is also another highly-customizable service called PollDaddy, which allows you to create free polls to place on your site, blog, Friendster, Myspace and share it in many other places.

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PollDaddy stands out from the rest because of its unique options to display a poll using Javascript, a direct link, widget, RSS or Flash. The RSS option is quite unique as it allows you to follow an interesting poll closely by just subscribing to it. BuzzDash has just released a similar option but it only gives you the option to look a random “buzzbites” from iGoogle.

In comparison to other poll services, some of their other features are golden:

  • It’s never too late to edit a poll
  • Multiple choice answers are available
  • The option “Other” allows users to enter their own answer
  • Choice to turn or off the poll on PollDaddy’s site

Customizing the look of PollDaddy to match and blend into your site’s design is very nice. If PollDaddy likes the ways your customized poll looks, they may even approve it for public use.They’ve just recently won a top 10 spot in their publishing category with CNET and now serving over 14,000,000 polls per month.

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30 Social And Bookmarking Communities To Drive Traffic

Using social communities to drive traffic to a site is a known way to drive traffic. The most popular is MySpace, but there are a world of other social communities popping up on the web as other sites prove to be successful, such as Facebook.

Here’s a short list of some of the top social communities:

1. MySpace - Create a community and share photos and interests. Most importantly connect with their growing network and get involved in ‘groups’.
2. Facebook - Facebook is a very popular social service connecting your to friends, past co-workers or people you attended school with in the past.
3. LinkedIn - LinkedIn is an online network of more than 14 million experienced professionals from around the world.
4. MyBlogLog - Connect with readers and other blog authors.
5. Yahoo Answers - A community to ask and answer questions. In the source section, sometimes conveniently add your url as the ’source’ (although, don’t overuse to avoid spam issues).
6. Google Groups - Discuss online. It is fairly easy to ‘drop’ references.
7. Twitter - You can add links with your twitter posts, which can result in traffic to the linked site.
8. Zimbio - Share stories and even add links to other users pages.
9. Blog Catalog - Social directory connecting bloggers.
10. Digg- A very popular news community to vote for stories and leave comments.
11. StumbleUpon - A great service that allows you to submit new sites to the community to receive a thumbs up or down rating.
12. Reddit - Bookmarking source for popular news and stories
13. Diigo - A social bookmarking service that allows adding sticky notes, highlights and easy sharing amongst users.
14. Blogowogo - Add news to be rated by other bloggers. All daily posts are automatically posted to the community by using your RSS.
15. Del.icio.us - Another popular bookmarking service that is currently going through a makeover.
16. BlinkList - Save bookmarks and share with the beta community.
17. Simpy - Bookmarking service allowing you save your favorite websites.
18. Clipmarks - Highlight sections of web pages you enjoy and share with the growing clipmark community.
19. Blue Dot - Share web content with friends and family.
20. Truemors - A Guy Kawasaki site based on posting ‘rumors’
21. Dzone - A free link-sharing community amongst developers.
22. Blog Carnivals - Participate and be a part of organized collection of good posts.
23. Bumpzee - Submit blogs and articles
24. Thoof - Submit articles/postings
25. Sphinn - News, Discussion, Forum

In addition to ‘regular’ social networks. There are social communities that allow you to gain a share of the community revenue that can also be used to drive traffic. You can make money not only from visitors to your site but from the activity on your social networking account itself.

26. MyLot - Thrives on an active community to carry discussions.
27. Gather - Share thoughts and ideas. Ad revenue is shared amongst users.
28. Flixya - Share videos and photos but also have a chance to earn.
29. Xomba - Write postings on their site and get paid through Google Adsense
30. Dada - Social community and earn through Google Adsense by revenue sharing.

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2nd Winner of The 4-Hour Workweek Book Is…

The 2nd winner of the contest is….

InvestingAdventures.com!

Congratulations! He has now won the second free 4-Hour Workweek book and gets the chance to sign the records book that will be featured in Blogging The Movie, which is getting plenty of hype….even by John Chow.

Time to pass the “baton”…I hosted the last contest and now I will be passing along the records book to Jorge from InvestingAdventures.com to be signed. If you weren’t able to enter the first time around, there is still plenty of time since there are 8 spots left. InvestingAdventures.com will now be hosting the 3rd round of the contest in which Cash For Comments will be sponsoring.

Thanks to all who jumped on board for a chance to win a free copy of the 4-Hour Workweek book, permanent link on Blogging The Movie dot com and a small feature in the movie. I have some insider information and from what I heard, there are going to be a few heavy-hitters on board for the movie so I would definitely look forward to the end product of Blogging the Movie…

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