Blogging RSS - Shorten Your Learning and Submission Curve

A blog is a frequent, online publication of comments, web links, and news. It is an online "E-zine" of sorts, a "web log" which became simply became shortened to "blog". People published blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with automated publishing systems. Blogger.com is the most notable, as many people use services such as Blogger alone.

If you haven’t done so already, start your blog now and be ahead of the crowd. After you set up your blog go to "FeedBurner" and follow the instructions to "burn" your feed. Then publicize your feed by inserting the MSN and Yahoo! chicklets to your blog.

Sounds complicated? Not if you can follow simple instructions like "cut and paste". It should only take you a few minutes. One note of caution is that you must be familiar with HTML. One mistake is all it will take to keep your blog from going up, so don’t be afraid to ask a geek friend for some help. If you are familiar with computers and the Internet there shouldn’t be a problem. It may take a "newbie" a bit longer to implement.

Once the chicklets are installed for your blog, login to them using your MSN and Yahoo! IDs and add them to your my MSN and My Yahoo! templates. From then on, when you make an entry to your blog it'll automatically log itself onto MSN and Yahoo! and broadcast itself to the entire world wide web in addition to your RSS feeds. Once this is done go to "PingOMatic" and "ping" your blog to be indexed within days - not weeks or months.

Do NOT ignore Blog advertising. Remember the good "old" days when all search engines were free, and simply submitting your web sites got you listed quickly? Those days went the way of the horse and buggy. Then it was "FFA" pages, which brought in a ton of free traffic, built links to your site, and added to your mailing list like crazy. Tried one lately? Ugh! "Safelists" were an online goldmine for a while... until bottomless email accounts were introduced.

Website submissions now can take from 2 weeks to 2 months to be indexed. While blogs and RSS feeds can be indexed anywhere from 2-8 days. If you want to get up and going fast, it’s easy to see which is better for you.

Blogs are the new trend and you can be part of this wave that is still breaking through. A few months or even years from now you'll be glad you got a jump on the rest of the pack that will stampeding to catch up.