So, I poked around a little bit looking for a Terms of Service/Privacy Policy creation generator of some sort, and I came upon the fabulous blog of Ben Nadal, and he has a very cool tool over there that enables you to whip up some generic TOS and Privacy Policies in a snap. So, if you are looking for a quick, easy, and free tool of this nature, visit Ben’s blog and be sure to thank him with a link back!

Terms of Service/Privacy Policy Tool

There are dozens of RSS directory sites, and I’ve seen a few sites and blogs out there that are offering large lists of directoroes where you can submit your feed. I clicked on a few from one of the posts that I saw that I am not currently using, and half of them were inactive, so I don’t want to recommend that list. The one I am going to provide below is far from complete, but, I do know for a fact that they are all active and usable as of today.

Contrary to what some snake oil salesmen will will tell you, effective SEO takes painstaking, sometimes repetitive, often tedious hard work just like anything else. You have to put in the time to get your site recognized, but the good news is that there is a clear cut path to follow, and RSS feed submission is a part of it. We recommend that you submit your feed to the sites listed below.

Feedage
Feedraider
Feedest
2RSS
FeedMill
RSSmotron
RSSmountain
Technorati
Icerocket
Feedagg
Yahoo Publisher Network

Where Are You?

When you decide to create a blog or website, you need the search engines to know that you are there. You might think that all you have to do is get the site live on the web, but that doesn’t mean that the Google bots will crawl it. Remember, I’m not a techie and I’m not going to try to explain the technology and coding behind the practices that I suggest. I’m just going to explain simple tasks that enable anyone to participate in the exchange of information on the net.

The simplest way to get indexed in Google is to burn a RSS feed at Feedburner.com. Feedburner is owned by Google, but burning a feed there got you indexed even before Google acquired it. You just go to Feedburner and follow the instructions. I could add screen shots, but I don’t think that it’s necessary because it is self explanatory.

Once you have your feed address, you add it to the admin side of your blog. In Blogger, there is a place for it built in: Settings>Site Feeds>Post Feed Redirect URL, add your feed address, and save. In Wordpress, you can just install the FD Feedburner Plugin and add the Feedburner feed URL.

Once your feed is live your posts will be found by the search engines eventually. But, you can speed that along very simply by social bookmarking your first post at Digg.com. There are many other social bookmarking sites, and we will post on social bookmarking as a whole, but it’s good to immediately bookmark your first post because the bots will crawl Digg and find it almost immediately and be exposed to your URL. Clearly the more you do this with additional content the better.

Once you’ve done this, you can search for your content in Google to see if you are indexed, but you can also use this function in the Google search field:

site:http://mysite.com

The search results will be a compendium of all of your posts that are indexed in Google.