Do you want to attract more traffic to your blog? You can easily do it with a bit of RSS traffic magic, where you offer a special reward (such as a downloadable ebook or report) to people who subscribe to your RSS feed.

Actually, you'll also enjoy another benefit aside from the higher web traffic, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Now let's have a look at the step-by-step guide to getting more visitors to your site with the help of your blog's RSS feed...

1. Prepare Your Reward. This can be in the form of a short PDF report, which will be made available (or visible) only to people who subscribe to your blog's RSS feed.

2. Use the WP-RSS-Sticky plugin. This plugin allows you to add a special text that will appear only in your RSS feed. Go ahead and download the WP RSS Sticky plugin.

3. Create a Page in WordPress. But don't publish it. That way it remains hidden. When you configure the settings of your WP RSS Sticky plugin, you will be asked which Page will be displayed in either the top or bottom of your RSS feed.

And that's where the saved (but not published) Page comes into play.

And here's the other benefit I mentioned earlier: Get more exposure and backlinks to your site, even if your content is scraped. This way, you protect yourself from problogging extinction.

I got inspired by ChrisG.com's Benefiting From Blog Scrapers, where he uses the plugin to add at the bottom of his RSS feed links that point back to his site. While not all scrapers will leave the links intact, some will.

Now there's another twist to this RSS Traffic Tactic, which you will discover when you Subscribe to the ManuelViloria.com RSS Feed. Try it and watch your traffic grow! :-)

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"RSS Traffic Magic"
First Posted: May 24, 2008 | Filed in: Web Traffic

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