Cheri

Any ideas?

It really doesn’t stand for really stupid susan. lol

RSS directories are just directories where you submit an RSS feed. Kind of like directories for websites, but they’re for feeds. So, in the same way that you can go to “website directories” and submit your url, you can also go to “feed directories” and submit your feed. They’re both just providing linkback to your site. Here’s a few feed directories, for example…
http://www.blogged.com
http://www.rsshugger.com
http://www.rssbuffet.com/submit.php
http://www.feedage.com
http://www.feednuts.com
http://www.blogbunch.com

If you go to the RSShugger and click “new feeds” you’ll see the more recent additions. When you submit your feed, you’ll have a linkback there, too. Here’s a whole list of RSS Feed directories. Scroll to the bottom of the page, at;
http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/

You can even submit your RSS to Yahoo, at;
http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php

Some people use software to automate submitting their feed url to feed directories. For example;
http://www.rssfeedssubmit.com/
http://www.tucows.com/preview/391374

So, basically, submitting your feed to directories is just another way of getting linkback.

The feed for a self hosted blog is always the blog url followed by /feed — so, yes, yours is
http://menopauseloseweight.com/feed

If you click that link, you’ll notice that the url forwards to your feedburner url. That’s feedsmith at work. So, to #3, yes - installing the plugin is all you need to do.

Now that you have the plugin, here’s the cool thing. You can submit your own domain feed — http://menopauseloseweight.com/feed — to the RSS directories - which then creates linkback to your domain.

If anyone were to actually click the link in a directory, feedsmith will shimmy them over into your feedburner account so you can see stats on anyone reading your feed in their feedreader.

Did that make sense? Don’t hesitate to ask if I was as clear as mud.