RSS Feeds as Part of Your One-Way Link Building Strategy
KC Kudra
Link Popularity Through the use of RSS Feeds for One-way Link Building
The most effective link building strategies will utilize RSS Feeds to build your link popularity. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is simply an easy way to mass distribute and publish material on the web. You can easily build RSS feeds into your blog that incorporate your links to blog pages.
Every time your feed is shown on another website it counts as another one-way link to your blog. You can use RSS building software to create RSS feed on your blog (RSS Builder is freeware), however many blogging platforms already have RSS feed capability built in. You just have to enable it. Once you have done this, you will be able to submit RSS feeds. Both Blogger.com and one of the most popular blogging scripts WordPress have this capability already no need for extra work.
RSS is a great way to syndicate your content all over the web. With RSS built into most of the popular blogging platforms it couldn't be easier to build your link popularity, as each one of these links is a vote for your site. Just like elections vote count counts, the more votes and the higher the ranking of the linking sites the higher your link popularity value goes and the more traffic that comes with it.
Be Careful When Setting Your RSS or it Might Not Validate
When using the ever-popular WordPress blogging script you will find a multiple amount of plugins that will work with it. Of these one of the more important plugins for our discussion is the ones that make adding your RSS feed to peoples feed readers simple. One of the more popular ones is available from the website AddThis.com they make a plugin for there popular bookmarking and social networking announcement services.
A word about building blog titles though be careful in how you structure your post title. Many of these services have very strict validation criteria. Punctuation such as apostrophes, quotes, and many other non-alpha numeric characters mess with clean validation and these services will end up making adding your blogs RSS feed impossible, My MSN is famous for this while iGoogle and My Yahoo are a little more forgiving.
This can get tricky when you have a title that really screams out for an apostrophe such as "Today's Breaking News" great for human consumption but the validator will hiccup at the apostrophe in the word "today's." You'll want to avoid these kinds of things even if it is a compelling title I would suggest rewording it to say "Hot News Today" and avoid the whole headache entirely.
Secrets of Using a Blog Pinging Service Effectively
These simple one-way link-building strategies are possible by intelligently using a solid blog pinging service. Of course, you will need to write interesting and informative content and update your blog regularly for this strategy to work. However, if you provide good value to readers then blog pinging is a wonderful way to get the word out.
You want to pick a pinging service, which allows you to ping multiple services from one web location. You could go to each service but this is a) unnecessary and b) very time consuming which kind of goes against the nature of blogging. You want to be able to ping dozens of RSS aggregators, search engines and feed directories from one simple to use web form.
Another useful hint is to ping each service separately as they respond at different rates and we find you get a more complete ping of the different services. This really doesn't take that much more time as your information is already in the form so it is fairly easy to work through the list. There are positives and negatives to all the different pinging services but the time saved and the added links will more than make it worth your while. One last note don't think that if pinging once is good that doing it multiple times is better this is a sure way to get your site banned as a Spam site, so don't do it.
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