Free Blog Traffic

Its essential for every internet home business to keep finding ways of getting free blog traffic by adding more links and to increasing the distribution of RSS feeds.

One way to do this is to submit your blog to RSS directories. There is nothing new in this advice but most people don’t do it because either it takes far too long or they aren’t prepared to pay others to do the job.

The job of completing the RSS directory submissions is made much simpler by installing a free Firefox Add-on called Submitemnow.

This Add-on makes the job almost painless, by stepping you through a database of RSS directories and for each one, automatically filling in the submission form. All you need to do is fill in the gaps (if any), hit the submit button, then hit “next url” in your browser to go to the next directory in the database.

The database comes with approximately 100 directories. A few of them don’t exist any more and a few weren’t taking submissions. Given the price of the Add-on and the ease of use this is a relatively minor downside.

Using the Add-on is very simple:

• First download and install
• Second “Click Projects” then “New”
• Fill out the details for your blog - these are used to autofill the subscription forms on each directory
• Then hit “next url”. This brings up your first submission.
• Complete the form for the first submission and submit it.
• Then hit “next url”
• Repeat

When encountering a site which doesn’t exist, or has stopped accepting submissions, click the “database” tab, mark that site as skipped then move on. Same goes for sites which charge a fee and you don’t want to submit to.

The database keeps a track of all sites including showing those already submitted and those yet to be done.

If you have multiple blogs you can save the current project and just open a new one. This allows the tracking of submissions for each.

After submitting this blog to all the directories in the Add-on it occurred to me that this may also increase RSS readership numbers, a key metric used by advertisers and blog rating sites.

Thanks to Affiliate Watcher.Com for the heads up.