Opinions About Syndicating Blog Feed

I am wondering if there are any worthwhile benefits to having my blog feed syndicated on other high ranking sites.

Will syndication on other sites produce deep or significant back-links? Or increase in traffic?

Thanks

 

The will for the most they will bring traffic. The more traffic they get the more traffic you could possibly get too.

 

Turbowarp, I think you'll get traffic but there's also the risk of duplicated content for which Google will penalize your PR.

Which sites are you thinking of syndicating with?

 

They can increase traffic, and I suppose it depends what's your site all about. For example, my gaming blog receives decent traffic from www.qatfish.com for example.

 

I don't subscribe to the theory that duplicate content and syndication are looked at the same by google. If they were every news site would be penalized for posting news off the wire and article sites would be penalized as well.

I don't, yet, have any sites in mind that I want to syndicate my blog.

It would be nice to increase traffic, but I would mainly like to get some deep backlinks.

Thanks

 

Well, not sure if they are the best option for that... you could consider writing some articles that people want to link to...

 

That would include their own Google News site which is 100% syndicated feeds.

I personally prefer to use aggregators that only use snippets from posts and providing a link back that isn't nofollow.

 

Personally, I submit my feed to everyone that will take it. I don't subscribe to the notion of feeds being penalized for duplicate content either.
The more people that see it, and click it the better.

Traffic through readers, return visitors, and subscribers is more important to me, than anything.
If I get some PR, great, I can sell some ads, if I don't, Oh well, I have traffic.

 

At the end of it all that's exactly what it comes to down to....traffic.

 

Good point, you have to play the numbers game. The more the numbers of visitors the better your odds of conversion.

 

Point taken about syndication v. duplication. But if traffic is the goal, aren't excerpt (cormac hinted at this) feeds better than full feeds at driving people to your site? Especially when you consider that many syndication sites only have the option to subscribe to their version of your feed, just a wrapper.

Plus, the content probably won't be considered as duplicate.

 

Syndicating blog feed will bring some targeted traffic that converts better.

 

If I may, I was also wondering in the same subject matter, (Hope you don't mind me asking in your thread) how do feeds show up on your stats?
Do feed visitors that pick you up through a 3rd party service show as visitors, Uniques, or simply feed readers?
And do subscribers that read, or click through only show up on the feed stats?

 

i am a big fan of any and all types of backlinks

 

You would go through a service such as feedburner which gives back information on people visiting your reads, what they are reading etc.

Normal stat counters don't provide much info on feeds. Your lucky if you get the number of feed visits and what reader was used.

 

Well almost true,

I can send 100 women or 10,000 women to a male oriented car repair website and my chances of converting are 0.

So the more visitors you have, does not equal more conversions, it simply equals more visitors.

You can look in your stats referal log and see if your feed URL is represented there as a source of traffic.

No third party software needed ;->

 

Bah Good point and I left it out.

 

Hum? Well is it a good thing or a bad thing to syndicate ones website or blog or whatever.

How do you get someone to syndicate your feed? Also, are there any websites (like directories) that will run my feed?