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Using RSS to stay in contact

Did you know 68 Classifieds allows you to publish an rss feed of your listings? You can use RSS feeds to help your site stay in front of users and help get repeat traffic to your site.

Some of the advantages of RSS are:

• Private - Users do not have to subscribe by email and do not have to worry about receiving spam.
• Instant - As soon as a new listing is added the rss feed is updated. Your users will always see the latest listings.
• Secure - RSS can not carry attachments or viruses.
• Not Blocked - You do not have to worry about getting black listed and you do not have to worry about the listings finding the bulk mail folder.
• Feed Readers - Users can read the rss feed in a number of applications including, Gmail, Flock, My Yahoo, their desktop, and many more places.

Now, lets look at some other simple promotion tips:

• Auto Discovery - By adding one line to your layout file, you can allow browsers to auto-discover your rss feeds. For more information please visit: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/use-links
• Submit to RSS aggregators. - By submiting your rss to aggregator sites your content will be picked up and linked to by other sites.
• Use Pinging - Pinging allows you to submit your rss feed to popular sites like Technorati, Feedster, etc. You can use a service like Ping-o-Matic

For more information on the different settings and how to integrated RSS feeds with 68 Classifieds please refer to the knowledge base.