Use AIM to drive traffic to your site
Does 63,000,000 users sound like a lot to you? It does to me. Want readers to share a link with their friends? Have an RSS feed of user generated content? Put AOL Instant Messenger users to work for you. Please. Take advantage of our large huge user base. Read on to find out how.
AIM Share lets your users and viewers share pages from your site with their buddies. If you have an RSS feed of user content, you will want to know about our Buddy Feed feature (below).
When you use AIM Share to share a site, video, picture or anything, your buddies see it. On my buddy list, I will see an “info” 
icon next to your name when you share something. Go ahead and click one of the links above and see what happens (it is safe!).
Many sites now have buttons and links so their readers can share the site content with their social network like this one of from the WashingtonPost.com:
AIM Share isn’t a part of this one for some reason. It’s too bad because with AIM Share, there is a better chance your friends will actually see these shared items. You can easily put 
on your site. Each time the button is clicked, your articles and content are shared with more than 100 people (on average). Here’s how we do it…we show it on the buddy list.
Moments after you use AIM Share, your buddy will see an info icon next to your name on their buddy list. When they click this icon, they see the article that you shared. It’s pretty cool. Here’s an example:
For Web Sites With User Content…
AIM Share is great for sharing a single item. We’ve have something even better for your site. If your site has user generated content, you can place the AIM Buddy Updates 
button or link in your settings page so their entire feed of content, blog posts, pictures, and so on, is automatically shared with their AIM Buddies. All you need is a public RSS feed for the user generated content and AIM will find updates and share them. This is what the button or link would do:
http://buddyupdates.aim.com/addFeed?feedUrl=url_encoded_url_of_feed&feedTitle=Feed+Title
We handle the AIM authentication and everything. It couldn’t be easier for you.
Keep in mind that this feed should be content the user creates or owns such as their blog or pictures or videos. AIM associates the feed with the person so it needs to be created by them.
If you want to add your own blog, picture, or other feed, just go to the AIM Buddy Update Settings page and you can do that easily.
Can You Say 63,000,000 RSS Feeds?
Every AIM user has a personal RSS feed. Mine is http://buddyupdates.aim.com/alank/rss.xml. Yours is http://buddyupdates.aim.com/YOUR_SCREENNAME/rss.xml
Go ahead and click it to see for yourself. If you would like to see feeds for everyone on your buddy list, look at this.
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March 13, 2007 at 9:00 pm
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July 4, 2008 at 9:45 am
is there any way to get rid of the buddy update box that I see in my profile or get rid of my RSS Feed, i personally dont like when everyone can see when i have updated. here is what happens:
Hi. My buddy updates rss box is appearing in my screen name buddy info box. for example, i click on my screen name on my buddy list, and i click on the little blue “i” next to my name. when that box pops up, my buddy info box, this is a smaller box caled buddy updates that is in there as well, i have copied what the box looks like to this email. is there any way i can NOT have that show up? it just showed up recently after i deleted the information out of my AIM profile, but I dont like how the box saying that i did that appears in my buddy info box when i click the “i” on my screen name.
here is what the box says, is there anything i can do to remove it?
Buddy Updates
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AIM Profiles : Profile Update
gorms12 has updated their profile
1 hour ago from AIM Profiles
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AIM Profiles : Profile Update
gorms12 has updated their profile
1 hour ago from AIM Profiles
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AIM Profiles : Profile Update
gorms12 has updated their profile
1 hour ago from AIM Profiles
Share websites with your buddies using AIM Share. To set up your personal feeds, edit your Buddy Update settings.
July 4, 2008 at 10:31 am
There is a setting to turn them off. Check in the Buddy List settings area.
July 24, 2008 at 3:46 pm
what happened to the status updates which i was able to see since about yesterday..I come on this morning and its gone!! please bring that feature back..ty