How to use RSS Feeds to break up Writers Topic…

I’ve written a lot lately about rss feeds, however this topic is more about getting over writer’s block, & speed blogging.

It’s a fact that more content = more search engine rankings / directory listings, and more visitors. Of course quality matters too — but I’m going to show you a quick way to write high quality articles fast.

First, I recommend google reader, as it’s my feed reader of choice. I’m currently signed up to all of the major blogs that interest me, a good site to see a list of blogs ranked by # of RSS subscribers is RatingBurner.

I recommend signing up for about 20+ blogs, the more the merrier. Then you will open your reader and just browse headlines that intrigue you, when you see one you like, click on the little star next to it, this will flag it. I generally do this about 3-4 times a day, sometimes more…

I generally pick 1-2 days a week where I speed-blog and write a majority of my posts, my goal is to write 3 blogs per day, of course with my busy schedule it’s hard to always hit that, but it’s something to shoot for.

Now, in your reader click on the ‘Starred Items’ link on the top left. It will show you all the posts you checked as your favorites. Now look for the headline that you think would be the funnest to write about. I subscriber to gizmodo, techcrunch, ars technica, and other tech blogs, and a lot of the time you will have posts that are almost identical. This is actually good – it means its a hot topic.

What I do is I pick the best keyword for that article, and search for it in the search form at the top of the reader, an example would be a post I found on all of the tech blogs about a PC Synching Elmo that after a battery change, started saying ‘Kill James’, James, being the 2 year old owner of the psychotic doll. Then you’ll notice, I linked to the posts it came from – this will build links back to your site, and increase your traffic, especially for blogs that remove no-follow.

If you’re not using your feed reader to help your blogging efforts you’re missing out on a lot of quality blog posts, and if you’re not writing at least one post per day it will take you a very long time to catch up with the likes of Darren Rowse and John Chow.

Another tip is to be sure if you’re writing late at night to set your post timestamp to the next morning, after 6am EST, I find this will net you the largest amount of traffic, as that’s when the world is most active, especially the english speaking world(no offense to Australians or Brits, )….

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