Get more traffic to your blog by exposing your RSS feed

Getting your blog read by as many people as you can to generate traffic is the name of the game. One of the most common ways to get your blog read is to have an RSS feed. Here are a few ways to make your RSS feed more visible to search engines and programs.

1. Have a link to your RSS feed on your website. This is common, however, some people forget to put the type="application/rss+xml" attribute in their anchor tag that links to the RSS feed.
2. Other programs, browsers, and spiders also may look for a link meta tag. Put this inside your blog's head tag:
   

3. Get your feed submitted to as many free (or paid if you prefer) RSS feed directories. There are plenty of them out there, just spend a little bit of time searching. The more of these directories you submit to, the more traffic your blog will start getting. Here are a few to start with: free RSS directories submission list, free RSS directories, best blog directory and RSS submission sites
4. Every time you post a new article, ping your blog with autopinger.com. They ping the most popular directories and this will help you get traffic, guaranteed. However, don't abuse the system, only ping when you have new content. If you ping too often you could get banned from the ping services or get punished by search engines for spamming.

Remember, the more you can expose your RSS feed, the more traffic to your blog you will get. My list is by no means comprehensive so explore every way to get more readers for your blog.