Comments on: Move Your Genealogy Blog Into the 21st Century With Site Feeds http://www.cameraontheroad.com/family/move-your-genealogy-blog-into-the-21st-century-with-site-feeds/ VanFossen, West, Anderson, Farlin, Knapp, Elwell, Disbrow and More Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:30:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lorelle VanFossen http://www.cameraontheroad.com/family/move-your-genealogy-blog-into-the-21st-century-with-site-feeds/#comment-1881 Lorelle VanFossen Tue, 08 May 2007 23:12:00 +0000 http://www.cameraontheroad.com/family/move-your-genealogy-blog-into-the-21st-century-with-site-feeds/#comment-1881 I don't understand. Where can you find feeds to help find things to write about or how to promote your feed to others? Using a search engine, you can find tons of genealogy sites and information, and some of these have feeds you can add to your feed reader to track their information. To promote your feed, make it clear on your site and test it to make sure it works. Recommend it to everyone you talk to and on your blog. Google and other search engines and directories will find your feed without you doing any work. It's not like the old days where you have to "promote" and "submit" your site or feed anywhere. Pings and other services do the job for you behind the scenes, if you are using blogging software enabled to do such things. I don’t understand. Where can you find feeds to help find things to write about or how to promote your feed to others?

Using a search engine, you can find tons of genealogy sites and information, and some of these have feeds you can add to your feed reader to track their information.

To promote your feed, make it clear on your site and test it to make sure it works. Recommend it to everyone you talk to and on your blog. Google and other search engines and directories will find your feed without you doing any work. It’s not like the old days where you have to “promote” and “submit” your site or feed anywhere. Pings and other services do the job for you behind the scenes, if you are using blogging software enabled to do such things.

]]> By: Dave http://www.cameraontheroad.com/family/move-your-genealogy-blog-into-the-21st-century-with-site-feeds/#comment-1877 Dave Sun, 06 May 2007 23:57:59 +0000 http://www.cameraontheroad.com/family/move-your-genealogy-blog-into-the-21st-century-with-site-feeds/#comment-1877 Where are the best places/sites/directories to get your feeds available to the target audience of those interested in genealogy? Thanks for the helpful article--just started my new blog about how to start or run a family association, http://familypulse.blogspot.com, and this will be great. Where are the best places/sites/directories to get your feeds available to the target audience of those interested in genealogy? Thanks for the helpful article–just started my new blog about how to start or run a family association, http://familypulse.blogspot.com, and this will be great.

]]> By: Bill Ives http://www.cameraontheroad.com/family/move-your-genealogy-blog-into-the-21st-century-with-site-feeds/#comment-1805 Bill Ives Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:38:55 +0000 http://www.cameraontheroad.com/family/move-your-genealogy-blog-into-the-21st-century-with-site-feeds/#comment-1805 Thanks for this helpful post. I use Feedburner as my feed provider. The basic service is free and it gives you some excellent statistics on your subscribers. I then use BlogBridge as my RSS reader. It is also free and allows you to divide your feed subscriptions into "guides" which are groupings around a common topic. This helps organize your subscriptions. I am surprised that some of the well known sites you mention still do not have RSS. Bill Ives Thanks for this helpful post. I use Feedburner as my feed provider. The basic service is free and it gives you some excellent statistics on your subscribers. I then use BlogBridge as my RSS reader. It is also free and allows you to divide your feed subscriptions into “guides” which are groupings around a common topic. This helps organize your subscriptions. I am surprised that some of the well known sites you mention still do not have RSS. Bill Ives

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