Ok, I’ve been told that in order to get my website noticed, I have to submit my feed to RSS engines. So, the first thing I did was go out and find listings. Wow, there are tons of listings. But, from what I’ve found, a lot of them are not correct. Some work, some don’t, some are not free, don’t exist, or are sites designed for you to click around so someone can make PPC money from you. So, below is a list of the real sites available to submit your feeds to. If one doesn’t work, please let me know. I’ll keep it updated as I go!
Name: Millionrss Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: HotVsNot Submit here Description: Free?: Yes, if you put in
Name: Solar Warp Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Postami Submit here Description: Free?: No 24.99
Name: 2rss.com Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Ping-o-matic Submit here Description: Pings your feeds. You have to bookmark your page and come back and ping again every once in a while Free?: Yes
Name: Feedsee Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: 4 Guys from Rolla Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Feedcat.net Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Feedage.com Submit here Description: Had issues getting to the site. Free?: Yes
Name: Plazoo.com Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: RSS Mountain Submit here Description: Had to register Free?: Yes
There are tons of sites out there that claim to work. I joined YouSayToo (free) just to get more visibile links to my site. The other day, I launched a local affiliate marketing program to see if I could get free haircuts. Yes, free haircuts, I thought it would be neat to try. Essentially, for every 2 people I sent to Rooster’s, I would get a free haircut. So, I set up a blog based on a couple of keywords and let it run.
One thing I did do was submit the RSS feed to YouSayToo. Guess what, the very next day, a link to my site was on page 1 with the company name. So, do I recommend them, uhh. yes.
If you’re sending out a campaign, and you need to add an image with an image map, you can do it.
Hopefully, you’re familiar with HTML. If not, don’t worry. The main things to remember when creating this email are as follows:
Place your image on the internet somewhere. You’ll have to reference it in the HTML of your email. You don’t want to try and put the image in the actual email. So, the src will look something like this: src=”http://www.parttimewebmaster.com”
Within the <img /> tag you will have to place the usemap attribute. For example, usemap=”mymap”
You’ll of course have to create the map. If you’re doing this by hand, you may want to get out a piece of paper. Do a fake drawing of your image and start drawing out where the areas will be. Otherwise, it is a little hard to do when writing the HTML.
So, what do I do. I’d recommend creating an html/web page on your desktop of the email. Add the image map, image and all of the text of your email. Construct the page, then test it in a browser.
If possible, I’d use some type of web page creation software that will make all of this easier. Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc. It will save you a lot of time.
Here’s an example:
If you had a square image with a width an height of 400, here’s a simple example of what the html code will look like divided into 4 squares:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<!– HERE’S MY MAP –>
<map name=”mymap”>
<area shape=”rect” coords=”0,0,200,200″ alt=”top left” href=”http://dotnetprogramming.blospot.com/” />
<area shape=”rect” coords=”200,0,400,200″ alt=”top right
href=”http://bvcommerce.blogspot.com/” />
<area shape=”rect” coords=”0,200,200,400″ alt=”bottom left”
href=”http://roostersatlantacoupon.blogspot.com/” />
<area shape=”rect” coords=”200,200,400,400″ alt=”bottom right”
href=”http://www.parttimewebmaster.com/” />
</map>
<img src=”http://www.parttimewebmaster.com/logo.gif” usemap=”mymap” border=”0″/>
</body>
</html>
Ok, it’s brand new and it’s pretty bare, but it’s the place to go to discuss time management. Hold discussions, ask questions on how to better your time management.
Found this site this evening. It allows me to post my blog information here. Once posted, it will pull my blog entries to their site. It will share the revenue it makes with the clicks on the ads from their site. We’ll see how that goes.
Essentially, my main goal here is to gain some more visibility on the internet. The more links you have to your website, the better off you are.
After submitting my site to yousaytoo, I was listed pretty quickly. After checking the Google Analytics statistics, I’ve seen at least 1 or 2 refrences from here. Hey, it’s free, why not. Plus, I added my Google Adsense code. So, if someone goes to my RSS feed on YouSayToo, I receive a percentage of the click revenue!
