Review of RSS Feed Submitting Tools
This
review compares RSS Submit and RSS Feed Submit:
In terms of
generating traffic, what good is an RSS feed if no one can find it,
right? Part
of promoting your feeds and using them to generate traffic is of
course
submitting the feeds to appropriate search engines and directories,
quite a tedious process if you’re doing it by hand, given the
large
number of directories and engines out there.
While the guys
behind RSS Submit have been doing a great job
updating their software, they now have a new competitor, RSS Feed
Submit. Yeah, difficult to differentiate between the two,
given their almost identical names.
Anyway,
both solutions are actually quite simillar, with only small
differences
between them…
a] Both tools are desktop
software
b]
RSS Submit will submit your feeds to 78 engines and
directories, while RSS Feed Submit covers 75. Not much difference
here,
although it seems that RSS Submit might be doing a better job at
keeping their tool updated (I've been using them since April and
already received many updates that made the software easier to use and
added new engines and directories).
c]
Certain search engines and directories require more
information than can be provided through a fully automatical
submission
process. RSS Submit tackles this problem by first asking you to
fill-in
a longer form and then automatically taking you to each of the manual
submission sites, where it already pre-fills the forms and only asks
you to confirm manually. RSS Feed Submit makes this even easier, first
requesting that same information, but then doing all the work
automatically. The only question in my mind is the quality of
submissions and how they compare to eachother.
d]
Ease of use is a strong factor, and RSS Submit takes the
game here by allowing you to submit multiple feeds at the same time,
save them in the management interface and track how many times you
submitted each of them. RSS Feed Submit allows you to do one at a
time.
e]
As far as expanding the basic functionality of the tool,
RSS Feed Submit is the clear winner, as it allows you to add new
search
engines and directories by yourself, even easily tackling those that
would otherwise require a manual submission. A great user interface
for
adding new sites.
f] The final differentiating factor is
the price, with RSS
Submit starting at $44.95 for the Personal Edition, and RSS Feed
Submit
selling for $29.95.
And they both
provide a free trial version…
