The four things you need to know about RSS

1. RSS is a stream of updated information. It comes from a blog or a website or some other content application and allows an RSS Reader to know an update has occurred.

2. When the reader sees an update, it grabs the headline or the headline and some of the content, or the headline and ALL of the content and displays it for you.

3. This means that once you set up a feed (more on that in a bit), you’ve got a direct, permanent, updated connection to a source of content. No more surfing!

4. So, this kills email marketing and it makes it easy for you to have anticipated, personal and relevant communications to (or with) whatever content sources–like companies or people or calendars or databases–you want.

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1. we have about about 25,000 members but at any given time only about a quarter to a fifth of the people visiting the site are members. The rest are ‘guests’ – lurking, surfing in from search engines etc.

2. that over a month on my forum we have 25,000 members but around 200,000 unique visitors. If you ramp this up to being a forum with 100,000 members it could be around a million visitors a month.

With a prominent link from the forum plus members promoting the blog I guess they’re driving a lot of traffic over.

Also keep in mind that this blogger says that they are working in numerous forums – not just the one with 100,000 members.

I can’t really give much more insight than that as I don’t have all the details of this blogger’s experience.

You are saying that every single member of this forum visits your website as well? I don’t believe that at all.

JK.

Just make sure its a forum where the admin is active, because you can’t expect the members to take a forum serious, when a admin doesn’t.

Hundreds of thousands of visitors a month. Really? Why stay anonymous? Your not doing anything wrong. You don’t seem to mind letting others in on your secret. It sure is easy to make claims on the internet that don’t have to be backed up with evidence.

This kind of reminds me of the people who scream about how many subscribers their blog has. They point to the feedburner number they proudly display on their sidebar. It turns out that the number can easily be manipulated, misunderstood, or inflated.

I’m not so fast to jump on the bandwagon. You very well might be good at making contacts in a forum. And you very well might get traffic to your blogs from that effort. But before I believe that you get over 100,000 visitors a month from forums…I’d like to see proof.

Among the tips that was mentioned above, I think the best would be the last one – be generous. Although I think my blog will suffer somehow, I submit some of my useful tips (the whole post) on top forums and this kind of generosity is what readers like.

With all due to respect, I would like to add # 9 – Ask an interesting question and let others express their point of view.

Here is one of my older posts at Sitepoint that lasted for 3 weeks, and has been visited more than 2,800 times – SitePoint forum – Which do you prefer, many subscribers or commentators?

Through this, I was not only able to drive traffic to my blog, but also met fellow bloggers who eventually became my virtual friends.

I just wish I could do this again.

BTW if anyone here can pop through to my blog (click on my name) and give me any advice on how to increase subscriptions, comments, email list sign ups then I’d be very open to feedback. You could email me about it at seamus DOT moose AT gmail DOT com

That said, I have noticed a trend as of late where a lot of forums are clamping down on members promoting blogs or any other sites, either in the sigs or profile. I think a lot of people abuse the means to promote blogs/sites in the sigs and forum administrators are getting sick of it. I’ve seen forum users with sigs three times longer than their average post length.

In a nutshell, be careful if you do go down this route.

This link building is also another one that should be abolished. It pains me to see what people have to go through to earn that insignificant amount of money.

I’ve searched for these and most have a very limited number of forums in their directories.