RSS Submission Tools
Mac RSS Submitter - RSS Feed Submission Tools
"Really Simple" Syndication? RSS is far from simple for many new Apple web masters. The notion of RSS and Feed vs. Website URL's and Syndication and RSS Aggregation is a tad bit complex and confusing. Many website owners enjoy successful sites and decent traffic without ever delving into the rather arcane aspects of RSS. But if you blog you _ought_ to have an RSS Feed enabled, and spend some time PROMOTING and SUBMITTING your Feed to some RSS sites to leverage it's potential to help you in your internet marketing efforts.
Simply put - an RSS Feed is a constantly refreshed URL that automatically appends and updates itself with your latest posts as you publish them. Unlike some of your other one-shot link building efforts - if you submit your Feed to a variety of RSS sites - you'll never have to do it again. Just keep posting to your blog and those new posts will get discovered and added to your listing at the RSS sites. One effort, long term payoff - if people searching for your niche or topic come across your entries in a Feed Reader program. At best it'll help drive real human traffic to your site. At the least - it'll help insure your new content get's crawled (and hopefully indexed) by the major search engines. Either way, a Feed works for you 24x7.
Apple webmaster's can leverage Safari or Mac Firefox to do a few RSS submissions themselves using some easy web-based RSS submitter tools - there's no need for standalone RSS submission software for Mac (which I don't think exists anyways.)
The simplest bulk submitter is at : http://tools.950buy.com/rss-submit/ -- You'll need TWO URL's - the actual feed itself, and the URL to your main blog page. BOTH will start with http:// (not feed://) and be sure to VALIDATE your feed URL in the first field to insure you got it right and most feed readers can understand the format. A few errors reported may be normal and nothing to fret about. Also give a title, a description of your blog, an email address and let it submit to about 2 dozen of the most popular feed sites for likely-possible inclusion. No guarantees, but it beats spending hours slogging to dozens of sites and manually registering and verifying an account before you can submit your feed.
For more assured submission, I recommend the free RSS Feed Tool at IMTalk.org. You'll need to register as a forum user first to get access, then go to the IMT TOOLS dropdown menu - IMT RSS SUBMITTER section and SUBMIT NEW FEED. You'll be able to instantly verify your feeds and posts are now live and have been pinged across up to 10 feed sites IMTalk supports.
If you own multiple sites and have a lot of Feeds, also consider outsourcing RSS Feed submission at fiverr.com - Some will let you submit five or more unique Feeds in each gig - and automatically handle the tedium of registering an account and doing the submit for you at 50-100 or more major and minor RSS sites.
