rss feeds as part of your one-way link building strategy
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A really successful way to build your link popularity is through the use of your blogs RSS feed capability. Real Simple Syndication better know by its acronym of RSS is an effective way to syndicate content all over the web through RSS feeds. It is fairly easy to build RSS feeds into your website that have links to your web pages.
When other websites use your RSS feeds on their site it takes and adds a link back to your website increasing your link popularity in the process. You can use programs like (RSS Builder a freeware program) to add RSS to your website. However this is not necessary on most major blogging platform as they have this feature built in. Both WordPress a very common and popular free blogging script available through most cPanel web host and the popular Blogger.com have this capability built in.
This is one of the greatest ways to syndicate your content to other sites. Building your sites link popularity couldn't be any easier with built in RSS capability on your site. These one-way backlinks from these many different sites help build your websites link popularity, as each is in essence a vote of approval for your site.
Be Careful to Adhere to Strict RSS Validation Standards
WordPress for example also has plug-ins, which make it simple for users to add your RSS feed to their favorite RSS reader. You can find many low cost or free RSS readers and most services like My Yahoo and iGoogle along with My MSN already have this capability built in.
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.
Blog Pinging Service Success Guide
Using a dependable blog pinging service makes these one-way link-building strategies even more effective. Now in no way is this a substitute for solid well written content or fast breaking news but can put your link building into overdrive. If you give your readers value then blog pinging is a simple and easy way to get the word out that your site has been updated.
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.
A side note we find it works better to ping each service individual this sounds difficult but once you generally fill in the form it is just a matter of selecting the feed service you wish to ping each time and click the ping button. Every service has their pros and cons but the time you save and the links you will build are priceless. A word of caution ping each service only once per post or you could get your site listed as a Spammer. In conclusion you should make it part of your posting schedule to ping every post too.
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