Using RSS Feeds for Incoming Links

13. Feb 2007 | 11 Comments

Getting Search Engine Spiders to your most recent content is always a priority for most webmasters. Sometimes even getting the spiders to update your new content at all can take time when you have a new website. Here’s a tip for newer sites that should get the spiders going crazy & eating your content up.

There are a number of sites that aggregate your RSS feed & turn it into a static HTML page. This means you can submit your feed & the spiders will be able to find & follow those links.

Advantages include:

The link has the anchor text of your title
You can have upwards of 10 links on some pages
Title of the page can be chosen, or can be the title of your blog

Here’s an example of what i’m talking about on Feedburner:

Earners Blog Feedburner

Because I show the 30 most recent posts in my feed I get 30 links back to Earners Blog. I’m pretty sure Feedburner redirects now but the spiders still follow.

Here’s a list of other sites that allow you to use a facility like this:

Most of these services will require a backlink to the page with the RSS feeds so they initally get indexed by Google. Usually I open up a del.icio.us account & import all the RSS feeds then ping them from there. You should notice a nice increase in backlinks & spider activity after using this technique. Enjoy.

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11 Comments on "Using RSS Feeds for Incoming Links"

vdd 13. Feb 2007, 10:24 pm

Thanks for site list.

P.S. I’d subscribed to your rss via feedburner and last 3 (may be more) posts was 404. Now it’s ok, but may be your settings/scripts are/were incorrect.

Stuart 13. Feb 2007, 10:33 pm

How long ago was this? I’ve been having some DNS issues…..

vdd 14. Feb 2007, 9:01 pm

It was 2-3 days ago. It was not just server 404 error. Your blog engine said that it can’t find posts.
Now it’s ok.

Koegets Coaching 16. Feb 2007, 4:29 am

What about international sites, most RSS aggregators prefer feeds in English

Stuart 16. Feb 2007, 9:06 am

Since I only speak English it’s hard for me to find non english aggregators that are of use. If you find any decent ones let me know though

Koegets Coaching 16. Feb 2007, 11:48 am

It actually turns out that some of the aggregators have a category for non-English feeds… and the rest seems to accept feed you submit

KortX Kort og Landkort 19. Feb 2007, 10:43 am

But how do you get Google to notice your new del.icio.us account? I must confess that I can’t find a link to the accounts on the del.icio.us frontpage.

Is it necessary to create a link to the account somewhere?
KortX on del.icio.us

cdc 04. Mar 2007, 8:58 pm

I understand how you’re using all these services to get backlinks except bloglines. I haven’t found a way to get bloglines to show the feeds I’m subscribing to unless I’m logged in. What am I missing?

Andrew Howe 29. Apr 2007, 3:08 am

I want to use a blog rss feed to populate my news page on a different website. Is there any way to get the blog feed into the news page without creating a link from the news page back to the blog? I am trying to keep the links one way blog to news page for seo reasons.

Jonathan Franzone 22. May 2007, 7:44 am

I was already using Squidoo and Bloglines in this manner, but I never even imagined all the other sites that I could expand out to. Thanks for the list!