Before the days of RSS readers, it used to be a pain in the derriere checking your favourite sites to see if there have been updates. But now, most people will use readers such as Google Reader, RSS reader, newsgator and so forth to check on their favorites’ and find out what new posts and content has been added. It offers a very fast and convenient way of getting latest news information and updates. Furthermore it’s pretty simple to sign up and get started. SEO blogger Aaron Wall has a useful video tutorial on how to get started with RSS readers which you should check out:
RSS feeds
On your site you should have an opt in list for people wanting to subscribe to your blog posts, something like feed burner is a good free tool for doing this and notifying people on your list when you’ve made new updates.
Admittedly this is one thing I haven’t got around to doing this yet on this blog, but I will do soon once the traffic picks up a little more. This of course a great way to start list building, something that a lot of internet marketers will harp on about loads. After all big numbers mean a better chance of flogging your info products or business services.