Hi all. Like everyone else, we're out every day trying to scrape up links from anywhere and everywhere we can. I've had been talking in another thread about an idea to build an RSS Network with DP members here as a way to quickly get backlinks Here are the specifics. We think this is a new way to syndicate RSS content - but tell me if it's been done before. Problem: Running around to all these RSS directories is time consuming. Solution: Pool together to build an RSS Link Club so that, together, we could get 100 links from diverse / unique IPs with a single RSS registration. How it would work: Building The RSS Network: Each member of the club would be required to build a free hosting account at one of the various sites that give that away. We can call these Nodes. I want to use FTP as the distribution mechanism to the nodes, so we will only focus on those free hosting sites with FTP access (which is most). The member would input the FTP username / password for the free hosting account to a central site (no issue here, it was free after all). Distributing The Links From RSS: After a member has contributed a node to the RSS Network, they would earn the right to register an RSS feed and use the Network for backlinks from these nodes. They would do this at the same central website. After registering their RSS feed, the site would disaggregate the feed into individual entries and send each to a different url in the RSS Network. The idea would be to have a "landing page" at each url for that individual RSS entry. That page would be an SEO-friendly page with the text from their RSS entry on it and only the outbound links found in that RSS entry. We could get fancy with several other features: 1) Cross linking between the RSS Network nodes. 2) Timed delay of individual RSS entry publishing (say 1 per week for 10 weeks) for natural link growth. 3) Return a list of all the specific pages on the nodes where the entries ended up back to the club member so they could do more link-building to those pages. 4) Build some sort of RSS of the pages that were built at the nodes so they could, again, further link-build to their specific pages in the Network. 5) Use Word Press plugins to display links to the pages in the Network.. I could go on and on. I'm sure you can think of other ideas that would make this even more effective. The bottom line here. I have all the technical pieces to make this work. I just don't want to run around and build 100 free hosting sites. But if each person who was interested in joining was willing to spend the 5 minutes it takes to build the hosting site and register it with us, we'd be happy to donate the development time to get this up and running.... Post thoughts / interest. I'd say we need a minimum of 20 to do it. As always, we could run a test in the forum openly so that people see that it does what we claim it should do (which will attract more attention to the Network and more nodes).
Great. I got a few PMs also.... Again - To be clear - All that you'd need to do is register a free site and turn over the credentials. That would be your price for admission to gain back-links from the RSS syndication network. The more I've thought about it, the more I like it. This is NOT a link exchange (which Google frowns upon). This is an alternative RSS syndication strategy. One that takes much less time to get your RSS feed (and therefore your backlinks) to far more places... So, we need 16 more people interested and then we can launch this thing...
Thanks Andrew. I think we've all seen the thread. Great looking site you have there. Too bad about the iFrame problem for the HTML players - kills the link juice. But I agree with you. There's no way around that... This thread is a little different than automaticbacklinks.com. While you're doing a link exchange (of sorts), this is more of a syndication play. I generally stay away from link exchanges because A) Google tells us not to do them B) The just don't work that well for SEO On the other hand, I have seen great results with syndication-based link-building. Why? Because you are getting your great / original / unique content out there. And we all know this is what drives site performance in the rankings.... Cheers...
Awesome. That's 6. 14 more to go.... I'm serious folks. We'll build this. It could be a real nice source for quick backlinks. But we need some initial support to make it fly.
Hey Army! Cool. Great. Will PM with instructions when we get to 20. Ditto. Excellent question. I repeat, this is NOT a link exchange. Google frowns on many things in SEO and we try very hard not to do any of them. This is a cooperative RSS syndication network. If you read the Google Webmaster Blog (googlewebmastercentral dot com) you will see that they recommend that when you syndicate your content you include a link back to the source so they know it was your original content. RSS is built for syndication, and everyone views it as White Hat. In my view, this project is completely white hat because we are using Google approved methods. Think of it as a COOP. We are trying to defer the costs of building the RSS network by having members help build it. Hope that answers your question.
Brilliant! Thanks for joining us. That means we have 10 of the 20 I wanted to get started... 10 more to go... Just so you know how this will go. When we hit 20 people in the RSS network club, I will PM each of you with specific instructions.. You will need to spend 5 minutes (as described above) and register a free hosting site. I will give you directions on where to put that info as well as how to register your RSS feed... If you want to use a fake RSS for testing, that's fine. You can update it later to a new feed. As we test the network, you will get feedback on where your RSS entries went and the links to those pages. We can use this forum for feedback on the testing. Cheers...
I do think this is quite a neat idea, but it suffers from the drawback that however you interpret Google's guidelines, the one overriding principle is that if you do something specifically to 'game' them, they will clobber you. They can do that, you know. Its their search engine. So basically you have to put yourself in Google's shoes. If you were google, would this system make you think 'thats clever, well done boys, have some easy pagerank', or would you think...'you are distorting the pagerank process by subverting the effort required to create a 'popular' site with what is effectively a link swapping exchange. Have a ban. In fact, have two. One for later as well'. just my 2c. It will probably work for a while. edit - why not use xmlrpc instead of ftp? More hosts will be available to you that way.