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Relevant backlinks to individual pages
There are a number of online syndication services that will display an RSS feed as a web page. These will typically contain deep-links to pages on to the originating website, which is a valuable source of backlinks.
I originally wrote about this on the Digital Point Forums, and now I've created this Lens based on my research, and I will be updating it to include new information as I discover it.
Recent Updates
Removed BlogLines.com
Added Feedest.com
8 July, 2007
Removed FeedFury.com because it uses nofollow tags.
Removed Squidoo.com because the feed view isn't Search Engines friendly.
Note that Blog-Directory-Submit.com now requires a backlink.
16 April, 2007
Added www.DayTimeNews.com, www.RSSMix.com and feedjumbler.com.
6 Feb 2007
Added www.Feeds2Read.net, www.RSS-Spider.com and www.FeedBoy.com.
Advantages of RSS Syndication
- Each syndicated page is updated automatically, either periodically or on request, so the content is always fresh
- The page title will (usually) match the title of the feed, and therefore contain the same keywords
- Sometimes the URL will also include keywords from the feed title
- RSS feeds contain snippets of text, which get displayed on the syndicated page
- This means that the majority of the content on the page comes directly from the RSS feed
- Each link within the RSS feed will be displayed using the title of the item as the anchor text
- All links are one-way, i.e. better than reciprocal links
What You Need
Before you begin...
The best RSS feed to have is one while is updated automatically whenever you add something to your website. Blogging packages usually provide this functionality, so all you need to do is find it.
If you're looking to syndicate your entire Lensmaster account, and promote all of your Squidoo Lenses, you can get your very own Lensmaster Feed from SquidUtils.com.
Make sure that you don't include the whole post or article in the RSS feed - only put the first 300 or so characters in as the description.
For more information, have a look at the Understanding RSS Lens, by Seth Godin.
Recommended Syndication Services
Turn your RSS feeds in to deep back links
- FeedBurner.com
Requires Registration. Provides many advance features (e.g. stats, link splicing), and automatic support any reader. - HubPages.com
This is a revenue sharing website similar to Squidoo.
All you need to do is create a page with an RSS module. - JordoMedia.com
No registration required. Really high quality feeds may get picked as the Editor's Pick of the Day. - FeedBomb.com
No registration, just submit your feed details for instant inclusion. Once the FeedBomb page is created, it can't be modified, and there's no additional features. - Feeds2Read.net
Doesn't require registration - FeedCat.net
No registration, just submit to Catalog.
Feed will automatically appear on www.topindex.cz too. - FeedBoy.com
No registration required - very quick and easy. - RSSMad.com
Easy submission. - FeedDirectory.us
Basic syndicated RSS directory - easy submissions. - TheRSSNetwork.com
Requires you to create a login, but then you can add all of your feeds. - Blog-Directory-Submit.com
A straight forward directory of RSS feeds with syndication of each.
Backlink required before feed can be accepted. - syndic8.com
Requires registration. Theoretically, none of the feed pages should be parsed by search engines, but I have seen Google count them as backlinks. - RSS-Spider.com
This doesn't give you a dedicated page for your feed, but it will link to every item within your feed. It only crawls homepages, so make sure yours has auto-discovery tags. - DayTimeNews.com
No registration required, just an email address. - RSSMix.com
This one is a bit different - you specify multiple RSS feeds, and it collects the items into a single HTML page. The page you create will be blank to start with, but it will build up over time. No registration required. - FeedJumbler.com
Another service that merges RSS feeds. Provides multiple formats, including Javascript for embedding in other pages. No Registration. - Feedest.com
Requires registration. Once you've submitted your feeds, remember to tag them!
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Services Pending Confirmation
- RSS-Feeds-Submission.com
This is a simple directory of RSS feeds, categorised by subject, and with a full preview of the feed. No registration is required, and submission is simple. - AllFeeds.org
Registration required - RSS-Network.com
Doesn't appear to be cached yet - uses RSS 2 HTML script. - RSS-Info.info
RSS 2 HTML Scripts
There is a service from www.rss2html.com will turn any RSS feed into a webpage. Theoretically, all you need to so is create a link to it, and once it's been spidered you'll have another set of deep back links. Social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and Yahoo My Web are both excellent for this.There are dozens of site that use this script, all of which can be used for this, if you can find them. You can even download the script for your own website from www.feedforall.com.
However, tests I've done so far haven't shown this technique to be effective yet. Search engines just seem to avoid them...
Anything Missing?
If you know of an RSS Syndication service, then please let me know and I will add it to the list. Or, if you have any questions about this, then you can post those here too.
WOW, Thanks - You made something that most make sound difficult, very understandable.
Posted July 23, 2008
This is really good information. Thank you for sharing.
So many people are unfamiliar with using the RSS feed to get traffic to their sites and your lens certainly enlightens.
Posted July 18, 2008
Thank you! I was so excited to get my RSS on my blog -- now all these new ideas! yeah!
Posted July 09, 2008
Thanks for this - a great way to get the word out. It looks like feedbomb is not currently working - broken php scripts. It is probably worth getting registeres with most of these sites, even if you only get a trickle of visits from them, it is a trickle you did not have before and it all adds up..
Posted July 09, 2008
That did really give me a fair enough idea on the subject. Thank you.
Fonte
imaginaryworld
Posted July 08, 2008
I love the info, blessing the lens too. I do have a question though, can you better explain how to use Hubpages for an RSS feed.
thanks,
Jeff
Posted June 28, 2008
This is a great Squidoo lens! Not only was the content helpful the resources provide easy access to getting started with rss feeds.
Posted June 16, 2008
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