Your WordPress Site Would Look Better With RSS
As of September 2013, there are 69,764,179 WordPress sites online around the world. Did you know that 20% of the top 10 million websites use WordPress? Clearly, WordPress is one of the leading website and blog hosting services out there, so chances are if you are trying to make your business more accessible on the web, you have either a WordPress website or a blog. While that is a good start, you should not stop there.
Using an RSS feed for WordPress sites is easy, and can help you get more traffic, add new content, and also improve SEO.
- SEO and increased traffic.
- Add content to your site.
Did you know that WordPress automatically syndicates your website into XML, and all you need to do is attach the RSS button to your site to allow people to subscribe? If you want, you can further customize and create RSS feed WordPress sites can use on their own site, or which people can subscribe to. Consider making separate feeds for separate categories. By offering WordPress RSS feeds, you give individuals a preferable method for accessing your website, and also allow for RSS discovery, which can increase traffic and drive SEO.
WordPress RSS feeds can be added with some coding, or you can add RSS feed to WordPress sites using a widget. In this way you can promote another website, or just bring in fresh new content. If you have multiple websites, consider connecting them by displaying the RSS feed from one site on the homepage of a second site.
Adding RSS content to your WordPress, or syndicating content from your WordPress is easy, and as you can see it has multiple benefits to increase traffic, SEO, and add exciting content to your site.
Have you used RSS features with your WordPress site? Let us know in the comments.