Are you creating contextual one-way back links to your RSS feed? If you’re a webmaster already using RSS feeds to help promote your website, you may still be missing out on one of the most powerful RSS feeds out there. Many people are happy to see their post title appear as a link on different sites that display and aggregate various RSS feeds and this is a nice advantage of RSS feeds and atom site alike. However, there is another way that you can get a lot more out of every new post you make on your site and get more links for absolutely free.
The information I am going to share with you here is usually hidden in some $100.00 program or something you can find in an app for sale that will do it for you. Rather than try to separate you and your money, I plan to show you how easy it is to automatically create back links using your existing RSS feed. This simple, yet effective RSS tip has changed the way many people think about link building and how they market each and every website they own.
If you decide to implement this powerful RSS hack on your own websites, you’ll be sure to see the benefit very quickly if you’re syndicating your feed to many sites. To maximize your efforts, you should submit your feed to as many RSS feed aggregators as possible. The more places that see and distribute your RSS feed, the more free links your site or blog will receive.
Chances are, each site will see different results depending on the information you’re sharing on your site. If you’re sharing about topics that are very popular and get a lot of searches, you’ll see a lot more results than if you’re sharing about something that doesn’t have a lot of play. Many times it is best to do some keyword research before choosing a topic or title for your content. By choosing good keywords in your title, you’ll ensure you get a lot more exposure, the title tags are automatically broadcast in your RSS feed too!
5 Steps to Automate Link Building Using RSS
- Make sure your RSS feed is valid by using an RSS feed validator.
- Choose keyword phrases that are valid for your website.
- Link directly to deep pages, this is more helpful SEO-wise, than just linking to your home page, but you can link to it as well.
- Place these links in the first line of your blog posts.
- Distribute your RSS feed far and wide!
OK Sounds pretty simple right?
Of course you do, it’s simple. There’s nothing magical about this RSS technique, other than the fact that most people don’t do it. In effect, what you are doing is making sure that your extra (free backlink) is in a section of your post that will be guaranteed to get syndicated no matter what site or service your feed picks up.
There are some websites and RSS services that will syndicate your full post and content, if your feed is set up to syndicate the full post. However, most RSS syndication services will only display the first few lines or so many characters of your post. Adding the link of your choice early on will ensure that it gets published to whatever site is using or displaying your feed. Since many of the most popular RSS sites have high page rank, Google will love these links.
If you need help figuring out how to submit your feed to many RSS feed sites, you can always visit us at RSS 3.0 for some free RSS tips and advice on doing just that.