Matia Bryson

Submitting Your RSS Feed to Get Your Site Indexed

10 January 2010 – 10:15 pm

Lesson 3

Okay, now you have an RSS feed on your website. Now you can submit the feed in various places. Here is the minimum of what I do with mine.

1. Google Webmasters Tools – Add site (must add a meta tag to home page) then “add sitemap” using my RSS feed.

2. Adsense for Feeds – Go to your Adsense account and submit feed (Replaces FeedBurner as a feed submission since Google bought them out – don’t expect newbies to know what Feedburner is, but sometimes you still hear about them.)
Go to Adsense Setup > Get Ads > AdSense for Feeds
It kind of doesn’t matter what selections you make on this page.
Just “Burn new feed” then be sure to “save”
Save feed url it creates to submit to Yahoo below also

3. Site Explorer for Yahoo – https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
Be logged in to your Yahoo account, then first submit site, then site feed.
Also submit the Adsense feed url

4. http://www.feedcat.net/login/
Must add a feedcat button to your site

5. http://www.newzalert.com/

6. http://www.5z5.com/Feed-Submission/

7. http://feedyes.com/
paid rss fee service, 1-yr $20?
(I paid it, but not sure I will next year)

8. http://www.jumptags.com/
Be sure to submit as an RSS feed and “make public”

9. http://www.bloglines.com/
A feed reader. Also adds feeds to its index when a user adds a feed to their reader.

10. http://rssmountain.com/submit_anonym.php

11. http://pingomatic.com/
(I don’t know if it works, but it’s quick and easy.)

12. Google Reader
Like bloglines they will add feeds to their index that users subscribe to.

There are many, many, many other places that say they will take your feed submissions. Some people have software to make feed submissions. I have not looked into these. I also have a list of RSS feed directories that claim to take your feed. Last summer I culled my list for various reasons. Some are very strict and only take feeds from “real” blogs. Mostly I tried to find my feed submissions at these sites by browsing the category or using the site search engines. Usually I would wait a week first. I could not find my submissions so I considered them a waste of time.

Directories That Seem to be a Waste of Time:

2rss.com
blogadvance.com
blogbunch.com
Blogdigger
blogexplosion.com received an email that my site not a blog
bloggernity.com – feed listed but does not have live link to my website
bloghub.com – feed listed but does not have live link to my website
blogpulse.com
blogs.com – search function disappeared
blogsearch.com
Bulkfeeds
Feed directory
Feed24
feedbees.com/add.php
feedbomb.com feedplex
feedplex.com/add-url.php
feedsee.com/submit.html
Feedsfarm
Feedshark.brainbliss.com (and directories listed with it)
fybersearch.com
Goldenfeed.com
globeofblogs.com
icerocket.com- perhaps only takes real blogs, there were recent blog posts listed.
leighrss.com/rss-add.html
news-feeds.org
Newsgator discontinued
Newsmob
ngoid.sourceforge.net/ seems to be no way to search or navigate any archive or data
oobdoo.com
ontoplist.com- requires a reciprocal link, has a porn subdomain; so I won’t link to it.
plazoo.com
Postami
readablog.com
redtram.com/pages/addsource/
RSSmicro.com
rssmad.com
syndic8.com
technorati.com/ping
weblogalot.com/Ping/

If anybody knows of any other worthwhile places to add feeds, please chime in.

Next time I may cover some of the real fun of RSS — adding fresh content to your sites.