If you are a blogger having an RSS feed option is a must for lots of good reasons and is known to help search engine optimization as well. Most if not all blogging platforms like WordPress already have RSS feeds built into it which makes it that much easier since you don’t have to set up the feed yourself.

Basically blogs first started out as a subscription style online journal for people to receive via email and later into their RSS feed readers. RSS feed is the format that allows your content to be delivered (and subscribed to) on the Web and an easy way to land your blog post in millions of people’s inboxes, and will possibly end up under bookmarks as well.

What’s really cool about RSS feeds subscriptions is that provides people with a wonderful array of blog posts daily without ever having to actually visit the blog itself. This means that one can grow a virtual subscriber base with one simple niche blog, and profit from the experience every time they make a post. Utilizing the power of blogging and RSS one can make some serious money by keeping people up to date with affiliate products, and services.

Since the RSS feed will deliver the blog to subscriber’s mailboxes, it makes sense to try to make some profit from such an advantageous situation. By offering affiliate products, one can provide their own affiliate link embedded into the blog for readers to click. Just don’t overdo or you might loose your subscribers, make sure there is a value (insight or personal honest review) in your posts as well.

A good example of setting up a blog for maximum RSS exposure is to write a blog post with hyperlinked keywords that are directly linked to your products or services. Make sure that the links are either live, or given actual URL’s in the actual post so that the user can stay within their own e-mail application while reading, and visiting the recommend site that you provide them with.

RSS feeds are a must do for anyone serious about getting online recognition and profiting off of blogs. Setting up the RSS feed is very simple and it is already setup on most blog platforms, which means it takes little or no time to do something that can help you in many ways. It can help your Search Engine Optimization efforts. Google and others spider and index rss feeds so your content gets picked up quickly.

A very popular way is to use free RSS service available from FeedBurner or any other such service. I personally use FeedBurner as it offers so many different options including email subscriptions, podcasts including feeds with video, making sure your feed works in any reader or browser and many more. FeedBurner is owned by Google so now you can also monetize your feed through their AdSense program.

So if you don’t have RSS feed setup on your blog or website, set one up or sign up with FeedBurner or similar service it will make big difference.