MyFeedList Traffic Tutorial

You finally got your own feedlist, putted a counter on it and waited for the first visitor. But that stinky visitor never came. You counter is already displaying zero for 2 days. Your counter isn't broke, visitors don't (yet *) come automatically to your feedlist. You will have to push visitors (traffic) to your feedlist.

There are many different ways to get traffic to your feedlist. A couple:

• If you own a couple sites/blogs (who doesn't?) then you can place a link on your sites that point to your feedlist. Or maybe a homemade button/banner. Visitors of your sites will see the link to your feedlist and click it. And you have your first visitors on your feedlist.
• After a couple days a robot from a search engine like google will visit your blog. It will see that you have added a link to your feedlist. The robot will visit the feedlist and look at it's content, then he will index your feedlist and give it (depending on your content, popularity and many other factors) a position in the search results. Now you will starting to receive visitors from the search engines.
• Why not ask your fellow bloggers if they want to place a link to your feedlist? They will hardly resist cause you will give them a separate feed box in return with at least 5 links. And of course your great quality traffic.
• Monitor the usual boards/forums, when someone requests a link trade post a url to your feedlist and try to get a link exchange. If the link trade is a blog, lists his rss feed. You of course don't have to give it a top position, but when it is a blog with a lot traffic you might give it a top position. The choice is yours.
• You can also request a link trade on boards/forums, be sure to explain what link trading with a feedlist means (i list your rss feed, you place a link to my feedlist), cause the term feedlist isn't familair to most people yet.
• Post/dump your feedlist where ever you can, but don't go spamming.

To be short: you can use any kind of promotion to get traffic to your feedlist. Most promotion techniques that apply to sites and blogs will apply to feedlists.

* I'll be making a public feedlist directory soon. This directory will list all the submitted feedlist and will likely get a lot visitors cause all feedlist that are listed will need to place a link to the feedlist directory. Yet another traffic source for your feedlist!