Jul 18 2011

RSS SEO Course: Get Traffic and Index Your Backlinks with RSS Feeds

In case you’re not familiar, RSS stands for Really-Simple-Syndication.  Basically, it is a way for people to share and connect with content very quickly to stay up-to-date with the newest headlines of their favorite blogs and web 2.0 sites.  RSS feeds are a great way for people to stay updated with your site and also share your content.  We often get very concentrated on getting a lot of traffic ONCE – RSS feeds help you get returning visitors which is the key to big numbers in your site stats and bank account.  I’m sure you probably already have an RSS feed, but you may not know what to do with it.  Here’s a few ways you can use your RSS feed and RSS feeds in general to get more traffic and backlinks.

You may have heard about getting backlinks from RSS feeds, these links come from RSS aggregators and directories.  You submit your blog or RSS feed and it is published with its own page there, producing a link to your site.  The only problem with these links is that they are pretty weak.  You won’t rank well simply with RSS backlinks.  However, they are still good for getting traffic, and recurring traffic at that.  Submitting to RSS directories is easy and it’s worthwhile to put your blog in all the blog directories you can.  However, for SEO purposes, the biggest strength perhaps in RSS is its use for indexing backlinks.  RSS feeds in aggregators and directories get crawled very well.  You can tap into this crawling action by getting your backlinks into RSS feeds.  Here’s how you do it:

1)      Gather up a list of 20-30 backlinks (can be more, but these numbers are for best effects).

2)      Go to html2rss.com.  At this site, you can create an RSS feed even for sites that don’t already have one.  More importantly, you can create an RSS feed entirely out of URLs of any sort.

3)      Create an RSS feed with your backlinks

4)      Submit your RSS feed to the directories/aggregators

Your RSS feed will get crawled and with it, all of the backlinks it is composed of.  Now this is already a solid strategy, but you can take things one step further.  You can increase the chances and thoroughness of the crawling for your RSS feeds themselves as well.  Here’s what you do:

1)      Gather a list of your submitted RSS feeds

2)      Go to html2rss.com and create a new RSS feed that is entirely made up of URLs to your other RSS feeds

3)      Submit this RSS feed to the directories/aggregators

This creates a tiered RSS submission and a great level of indexation for your backlinks.

[Master RSS Feed] -> [RSS Feeds] -> [Backlinks] -> [Your Site]

Here’s a list of 10 popular RSS feed directories you can use to submit to:

RSS feeds don’t provide powerful backlinks, so they won’t get you the top rankings you’re looking for.  However, when you use them in the right way, they can be an excellent source of recurring traffic and means for indexing your other backlinks.

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10 Responses to “RSS SEO Course: Get Traffic and Index Your Backlinks with RSS Feeds”

  1. Cathy says:
    July 18, 2011 at 7:32 pm

    Helpful article on RSS feeds and backlinks. Thanks!

  2. Thomas says:
    July 18, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    Great idea. But If I am building articles at reputable places, won’t these links be indexed anyhow?

  3. Online games says:
    July 19, 2011 at 9:52 am

    I have used this idea And It really worked well for me. Thanks for great post. It helps to get index our back links soon.

  4. neil says:
    July 19, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    This is really helpful to me as i do get alot of backlinks that never seem to get indexed by the major search engines i have tried and failed to create an rss feed before but is more like really hard syndication to me.

  5. Nishadha says:
    July 26, 2011 at 4:44 am

    I submit to RSS feeds all the time and although they don’t bring in much traffic they help in search engine rankings. One way to expand on this method is to do this for every new post you create with 8-9 important posts you want to rank for. That way you are creating back links for your current post and continually increasing back links to posts you want to rank for.

  6. Hotel En Kuala Lumpur says:
    July 27, 2011 at 9:33 am

    The first time i used it reading your article and it worked amazing for me. Thanks for the very nice suggestion.

  7. Mike says:
    August 17, 2011 at 10:17 pm

    Great post. Just what I was looking for. I never heard of making a new rss feed from your other feeds. What are your thoughts on rss submission software? will they bet you banned from the aggregator sites.

  8. Mark says:
    September 6, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    Great post I was thinking all the time how to use RSS in SEO to generate more traffic and get more backlings

  9. Probiotix says:
    October 24, 2011 at 1:29 pm

    This is a great idea and thanks for sharing. Speeding up indexation is extremely important in retail sites with lots of new products. Because the content of product pages is often scraped from the manufacturer’s site, the site that indexes the product page first will be very likely to remain first as will be seen by Google as the original author.

  10. Frankie says:
    November 9, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    Thanks for the explanation it really helped me understand. I was a bit confused on how to do this but you really helped thanks.