For those of you out there wanting to learn more about RSS, Yahoo! has a really great RSS resource guide on their site called Yahoo! Publisher’s Guide to RSS. The guide offers info on RSS tips for success, how to submit an RSS feed to Yahoo! and promoting your feed on Yahoo! This is the best RSS resource I have found so far.

If you are wanting to drive traffic to your blog, Submit Your Feed to the Yahoo! RSS Browse-by-Topic Directory, for inclusion in the browseable Yahoo! RSS Directory. You can also Submit Your Feed to Yahoo!’s RSS Database.

The fourth article in the search engine optimization series on SEO Profile is Title Tag and Meta Tags. This is an article for beginner SEO’s and people wanting to learn more about search engine optimization. Here is a small excerpt from the article.

There are three tags in the head of a web page you should be concerned about when optimizing the page, the title tag, the description meta tag and the keyword meta tag. The head of a page does two things, provides search engine spiders information about the page and contains functional information for the page.

Is MySpace.com Really That Popular? on ABCnews.com questions whether or not MySpace is really worth high price tag that was paid when it was bought out recently. The article quotes an analyst from Jupiter Research who says that the number of active users is seriously inflated compared to the number of members.

The article is a pretty interesting read. Do I think MySpace is popular right now? Yes. Is it overrated and overexposed? Definitely. Will this hurt its success? Time will tell.

If you are interested, Google has an FAQ on Googlebot, Google’s Web Crawler, in the Information for Webmasters section on their site.

Find out everything you ever wanted to know about Googlebot including:

• What is Feedfetcher?
• How often will Googlebot access my web pages?
• How do I request that Google not crawl parts or all of my site?
• Why isn’t Googlebot obeying my robots.txt file?
• How do I tell Googlebot not to crawl a single outgoing link on a page?
• How do I add my feed to the search results for Google’s personalized homepage and Google Reader?

The third article in the search engine optimization series on SEO Profile is Choosing Keywords for SEO. This is an article for beginner SEO’s and people wanting to learn more about search engine optimization. Here is a small excerpt from the article.

If you are planning on creating a web site and are thinking about search engine optimization, you should decide which keywords you would like to target before you create the pages. That way every page that is created will be built around the keywords you select. When creating your initial keyword list, think about the intended audience. Knowing your audience will help you determine your keywords.

TopRank Monster RSS and Blog Directory List is a list of RSS and blog directories that you can submit your blog or RSS feed to. I was looking for places to submit blogs and RSS feeds and came across it in my bookmarks. I looked it over, and it appears to be a great list. I haven’t found anything like it yet. I am recommending this list from TopRank and linking to it from this blog and my blogroll!

The second article in the search engine optimization series on SEO Profile is How Search Engines Work. This is an article for beginner SEO’s and people wanting to learn more about search engine optimization. Here is a small excerpt from the article.

Once the user performs the search, the search engine returns a results page showing all the pages in its index that it considers a match for the search terms. The search engine will rank the results by relevancy, providing the most relevant results at the top of the list. The search engine will find all the documents containing the words the user searched for and return them in a list to the user. The search engine determines which documents are the most relevant by counting the number of times the words appear together within the document. Additional factors considered include the placement of the keywords within the document.

Improving your site’s indexing and ranking from the Inside Google Sitemaps blog gives great advice on things can you do to increase your site’s indexing and ranking in Google. Here is the list.

1. Make sure your site is full of unique, high-quality content.
2. Does your site follow the webmaster guidelines?
3. Does your site use hidden text?
4. Does your site use keyword stuffing?
5. Does your site buy links from other sites or participate in link exchange programs that don’t add value for visitors?
6. Do you use search engine optimization?

I think the key thing to learn here is your site should add value for your visitors. If you make it a point to do all of these things, you should have no problem attracting people to your site. You may also find that more traffic can mean more links and potentially increased search engine visibility!

First up in the search engine optimization article series on SEO Profile is Anatomy of a Web Page. This is an article for beginner SEO’s and people wanting to learn more about search engine optimization. Here is a small excerpt from the article.

Understanding how web pages are composed is essential to begin a discussion of search engine optimization. This article is designed to help you understand the codes behind a web page so that you can better understand how SEO works.

Basically, this post is just to announce that SEO Profile is finally live! I pushed it live this past weekend, but I have been hard at work on it for a month and half. What does it have to offer? Well, lots of information on search engines and search engine optimization.

SEO Profile has a blog, as well as a few articles on search engine optimization and an SEO FAQ. I have more articles on the way and lots to blog about so stay tuned and be sure to find the links in the sidebar to add this site to del.icio.us or subscribe to the feeds.