
Sharing content across the web is not easy, particularly when you start to look into the many and varied ways in which you can broadcast yourself. However, RSS is a really simple way to feed your content to others, and here are a couple of simple options that wont take over your life.
FeedBurner.com allows users to subscribe to your content in many different ways, and gives them more freedom in how they receive your content. From simple subscription using a desktop reader to receiving your content to their email inbox FeedBurner.com helps keep the whole process simple, all you need to do is register and submit your RSS feed. As well as written content FeedBurner.com can take the audio from your RSS feed and automatically create a podcast subscription page with added iTunes functionality. In a nut-shell FeedBurner.com helps you build new relationships with you users.
If you are already using Twitter as a social networking tool then using it to promote your website or blog should be the natural next step. Twitterfeed.com tweets your new blog posts or articles via your RSS feed, all you need is an active twitter account, and an RSS feed twitterfeed.com will do the rest. I am currently trialing this system through my own blog and am yet to see any real increase in my own traffic, but as with any web content aggregator it will take time to build momentum.
Now this may not seem like the most obvious place to feed RSS to, but facebook can be a really clever way to drive traffic back to your blog. Particularly as your friends are more likely to take a look at your posts and in turn are then potentially more likely to recommend your content to others that aren’t in your network. There seem to be a few of these facebook apps and each of them has its own issues, however blog RSS reader seems to be the best way of posting your feeds to your facebook profile.
If you are going to try any of these methods, or even if you have already tried these or others I would be interested to hear your feedback. Equally, as I keep twittering I will update with any interesting results that I find.
