RSS Footer Links

Publishing an RSS feed from your blog can be very beneficial, both to yourself and your readers.  For you, there is the reassurance that people are more likely to read your content once it has been published.  For your readers there is the ability to keep informed of updates to their favorite websites, without having to remember to visit each and every day.

One problem that comes from publishing a RSS feed is that people will abuse this and republish your content to their own blogs/websites for their own benefit, not crediting you at all.  One of the best ways to combat this is to add links to the footer of the RSS feed so that a link back to your website is included wherever this may be displayed.

Luckily for us users of WordPress there us a great plugin which adds content of your choice to the footer of your RSS feed automatically.  You even have the choice to add HTML content to the content you add and it can be set to be displayed above your feed content rather than above.

Some people may also add paid links to the footer of their feed in order to generate an extra income stream.  With my 13 current subscribers, adding a link will not be of much value – so I’m sticking with the following text at the bottom of my feed for the moment:

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I will see how this turns out with regards to my feed appearing on other websites and the possibility of selling adverts in this area in the future is always open.

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