| The advantages of using other people's feeds are obvious, but what about supplying your own? There are at least eight reasons to do so: -
It increases traffic to your site. -
It builds brand awareness for your site. -
It can help with search engine rankings. -
It helps cement relationships within a community of sites. -
It improves the site/ user relationship. -
With additional technologies, it allows others to give additional features to your service update-notification via instant messaging, for example. -
It makes the Internet an altogether richer place, pushing semantic technology along. -
It gives you a good excuse to play with some cool stuff. There you are: social, spiritual, and mercenary reasons to provide an RSS feed for your site. |