How To Turn A Rss Feed Into Backlinks

What is an rss field?

Blogs most often use rss fields because they get updated regularly. OutRankSmart (ORS) blog rss field is: http://www.outranksmart.com/blog/atom.xml

An rss field (click the link above to see) contains usually the blog posts titles and a small part of the actual blog post…

A list of the blog’s blog posts… and whenever new blog posts are added the list is automatically updated. So if you bookmark that rss field and I add new blog posts you get to see them on that page as well.

But Karl, is it useful to get backlinks?

Of course, there are Rss directories where you can submit your rss feed. And they list your rss feed into their directory. This in turn displays in their directory your recent blog posts, and gets automatically updated.

That gives you one way links from rss directories!

There are plenty of rss directories and basically to get backlinks that is the most common method to use.

Rss Field Submitter is the software I recommend you use to submit the rss field to rss directories. There is a free trial, (but it only submits to a handful of directories).

Allow also your blog visitors to bookmark your rss field. This will give you links possible from social sites like delicious.com

So YES! you can turn your rss field into backlinks.

There are other places where you can submit your RSS field to get the backlinks. (Pretty much any website that asks you for your rss field).

Here is a small list:

Submitting to Google and Yahoo does not really mean you get one way links. These may be blocking the certain pages using robots.txt

But I still submit to them.

#1: iGoogle (get a free account at www.google.com/ig and login. Then click on Add stuff, then click on Add feed or gadget).

#2: Yahoo (Go to My.yahoo.com and click login, and click on Sign up if you do not have a free account. Then login and click on Add content, then click on Add RSS feed).

#3: Squidoo (Go to www.squidoo.com and click on Join the community, then login. Click on My lenses and then click on Create a lens now! Follow step by step instructions until it is created. Then go to Dashboard, click on My Lenses and click on the lens name. Then on the right side click on Edit this page.

Search for the option called: RSS: Add Your Own Feed: and click Edit.

#4: Orkut (Use the same Google account you have with iGoogle and login at www.orkut.com On the left menu under the heading Apps click on Edit applications. If there is a tab called My feeds click on it to submit your feed. If you do not see it, click on Add More Apps and use the search box to search for the feed application)

Not very long ago I create a new blog post which contains more ways to get one way links from these type of sites… more sites. It’s called:
High page rank one way links for you!

So remember next time you are going to signup anywhere (could be a forum, a social site, etc) look out for the option to submit your rss feed.

Even when filling up profile pages (of forums, social sites, practically anywhere), if it asks you for your website url, make sure you put it down. Some profile pages get indexed and you do get the backlink!

Take for example Squidoo. You can edit your profile and you can fill in your:

*blog
*twitter page
*facebook page

I do all that because it helps to index my twitter profile page and facebook profile page – In those profile pages I have submitted my website url as well, so getting the profile page indexed is worth it.

Check out my Linkedin profile page for example.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/karlsultana

I added my website there as well. Then linked to my linkedin profile page from one blog I have. So the profile page gets indexed and I get the backlink.

So watch out as well when creating profiles for the option to submit your website, blog or rss field.

Please leave your comments.

Talk to you soon,

How To Turn A Rss Feed Into Backlinks

Tags: Link Building

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