Increase Your Articles’ Distribution With TwitterFeed and RSS

By Steve Shaw

Have you ever wondered if there is anything that you can do after your articles’ distribution to contribute to your articles’ popularity?

Social media tools like Twitter and Facebook lend themselves very well to publicizing your articles. This resource will teach you how to easily update your Twitter account with a link to your latest content.

The service we’re looking at is called TwitterFeed. This is a free service that uses a RSS feed to update a Twitter or Facebook account. A RSS feed is a means by which you can syndicate content (in this case, your articles). The result is that when a new article of yours is distributed, your Twitter of Facebook is automatically updated with a link to your most recent content.

This is a most convenient way to bring attention to your articles. You can configure things one time and then let it go on auto-pilot.

The first thing that you need is a RSS feed for your articles. Most likely the article directory that you are submitting your articles to will provide you with this type of RSS feed. The RSS feed comes in the form of a URL–it looks like a website address.

1. Go to TwitterFeed.com and set up a free account. You will need to give your name and email to create an account.

2. After creating your TwitterFeed account, the next step is to create a Feed Name and insert your RSS feed URL.

Your Feed Name is a name that you make up that will easily identify the feed to you. After inserting your RSS feed URL into the form, you can click a button that will test your feed to ensure that it’s working. On this same page you can also configure some advanced options, such as specifying some prefix text for a new article update. So, you might make your prefix text say “My latest article:” or something like that.

3. Once you finish setting up your feed, it’s time to authenticate your Twitter account. Basically, Twitter wants to be sure that you are the one requesting to have these updates automatically published on your Twitter account.

When you click the “Authenticate Twitter” button on Step 2 of TwitterFeed, you are taken to Twitter.com, where you are asked to insert your Username and password to give permission to TwitterFeed to access your Twitter account.

After that, you’re all set up! TwitterFeed will monitor your article RSS feed, and when you publish a new article, your Twitter account automatically gets updated.

It’s extremely simple to use and saves bunches of time. The set up process at TwitterFeed is just a few simple steps, and everything is clearly spelled out. Just sign up for a free account and follow the instructions. You can feel good that you’re using your Twitter account to benefit your website and bring more attention to your articles.

Would you like to bring even more exposure to your articles so that they are published again and again across the internet?

Steve Shaw is an article marketing expert, and founder of the popular article distribution service, SubmitYOURArticle.com, used by thousands of business owners. Discover how to use the power of article marketing to reach tens of thousands of potential prospects for your website — download a powerful free report on successful article marketing from http://www.submityourarticle.com/report.