Copyright © 2004 Tinu AbayomiPaul
Last week, I cheated on my long-time lover Google, with my old
boyfriend Yahoo. And ever since that day, I have considered
becoming a bigamist.
(To full understand what that crazy drivel was about read my
last article about how to get your RSS feed listed at Yahoo
within hours - in 5 simple steps here:
http://www.freetrafficdirectory.com/rssyahoo .)
Today, I decided to go ahead and break the law - Yahoo is my new
other husband.
What am I talking about, and what does this mean for your site?
When I first discovered that you could get into Yahoo’s RSS Feed
directory so quickly, I started making a lot of observations
about their site. The first thing I noticed is that they made
some subtle changes to their search page. That same day, I
noticed that certain sites have more information in their
listings than others.
Try this search at Yahoo for example "Get Your RSS Feed Listed
Within Hours", quotes and all.
Scroll through the results. Notice for search results number 7 -
www.marketingproductreview.com and number 8
www.searchenginejournal.com - the link for a searcher to add
your feed from search results is right on the page.
If you're an RSS user, you get the power of this already.
Just in case you're not, lemme spell it out for ya.... Thanks to
Yahoo, people won't even have to go to your site to add you to
their Yahoo page, if you have the right Meta Tag in your site's
header.
And if they don’t use the My Yahoo page to track their feeds?
They’ve been kind enough to include a link to your XML link as
well.
How do I know this works?
Do another search for need free traffic - without the quotes
this time. Scroll down to search result number four - see the
one with the feed links?
That’s my site.
Not only did this work, apparently it only takes a few days from
submitting your feed. I added this simple code to my site header
on the 6th of July. I noticed another traffic increase to my
site on the 8th, and I couldn’t figure it out, which led me to
check the listings in Yahoo that had sent me the traffic.
How did I do this? I added a simple Meta Tag called RSS Auto
Discovery to my site. It’s very simple to use. Here’s what it
looks like:
< !-- RSS Autodiscovery -- >
< link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
href="http://www.freetrafficdirectory.com/members/backend.php" /
>
<br>Just replace my RSS feed link with your own, and add the tag
to the header of your site.
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Tinu? Normally a forthcoming woman, her free traffic mental
affliction prevented her from telling you the *most* important
thing about the RSS Auto-disovery tag.
http://www.freetrafficdirectory.com/yes2yahoo
