I've realised that there is another advantage to using this technique: Relevance. Each of the examples listed show links and snippets from the same feed, and often have important keywords in the Title and URL. So from the point of view of the search engine bot, here's a page which is about a single topic, and had a large number of links to your website. These should therefore be highly valuable backlinks. I have found some more sites that provide deep links: www.Technorati.com (example - PS ?/10) Create an account, and "claim" your blog. Each blog gets a rating, based on how many references it has. You can't hack your own URL without submitting it though. www.Syndic8.com (example - PS 5.5/10) Create an account, and "suggest" your rss feed. Takes a week or two to "poll" you feed for new headlines, and some longer time to have it approved. Your feed will be listed under your chosen category without needing to be approved. RSS-Network.com (example - PS 1.5/10) Submit your feed to the appropriate category, no personal details required. You can actually display any RSS feed without submitting, just append URL to: http://www.rss-network.com/rss2html.php?XMLFILE=. TopicExchange.com (example - PS 4/10) Requires no registration. This one's a little different, as you have to manually post each individual item - it doesn't extract them automatically from your feed (unless you have WordPress). The system is full of spam, so finding the right place to post yours can be hard. Cheers, Cryo.
This post just keeps growing - I think I'm going to have to build a webpage out of this, for everyone to see. Anyway, I've got a one last resource for you which provide deep links to your individual posts... and this could be a goldmine! rss-feeds-submission.com (example - PS ?/10) This is a simple directory of RSS feeds, categorised by subject, and with a full preview of the feed. No registration is required, and submission is simple. The thing that I've only just realised is that this is a script, and it can be found all over the internet. All you have to do is enter the query "inurl:RSS/l_op=showrss" into your favourite search engine (e.g. Google) and you'll find a ton of other sites running the same script. It'll certainly be keeping me busy from now on... Edit: Quick tip - add you primary keyword or desired category to that search query above to narrow down the results. Finally, www.rss2html.com will turn any RSS feed into a webpage (example - PS 2/10). Create a link to it, and once it's been spidered you'll have another set of deep back links (del.icio.us and Yahoo My Web are both good for this). I'm sure that some careful research on the internet will reveal some others... let me know if you find any! Cheers, Cryo.
Yes, create links from a seperate website so that they appear to be one-way links and not reciprocal - Squidoo is ideal for this: display your RSS feed, and then add additional links that point to other syndications of that same feed. I also think that del.icio.us and My Web (as well as spaces.live.com) are ideal systems for creating temporary links to www.rss2html.com, as they will get crawled relatively quickly by the bots. (I'm in the middle of testing this hypothesis at the momement). Here are a couple more RSS viewers, that don't require submissions (though both of them do accept them): http://www.rss-info.info/showrssbypath.php?path= (possibly not indexed) http://www.googleplexblog.com/rss_view.php?feed[]= (indexed ok) Cryo.
how long does it take for me to see those link? I submit everything 2 week ago and so far i only see link from feedcat
I am a bit confused with nofollow For example, if I take this page (one of your examples Cryogenius) http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=483906 There are nofollow that instruct SE not to consider the links Such a page has very limited traffic (you have people like me coming from DP forum) This page is presumed inefficient for backlink Sometimes, such pages are not even indexed What are the benefits ? Anyhow, THANKS for this GREAT thread Note: Squiddo pages ARE indexed, have no nofollow and are said to have great value
When "nofollow" is specified in the Meta Robots tag (as done by syndic8.com), this instructs the bots not to crawl any new links that it finds on that page. Existing links that the bot already knows about (i.e. linked from elsewhere) will continue to be crawled. The links on that page to your website will be counted as backlinks (see the thread "nofollow question"). The bigger problem is the "noindex" tag, which means that search engine bots won't index that page at all. If the page is not indexed, then it can't contain any backlinks - so you are right in that there is no benefit from syndic8.com. Pitty. The technorati.com example I gave has the robot meta tags "index, nofollow". This page should get crawled by bots, and should count as backlinks. No sign of it in the Google cache yet though, but other pages do appear in Google. So it looks like there may be a benefit from technorati.com after all. Thanks for pointing this out to me, aramyus, I clearly need to double-check my resources. As you say, some are better than others. I will be writing full reviews of each site I've listed at some point... Cryo.
For me, there is no doubt that Google (and others) do crawl nofollow links. What is questionable is what they do with the result. 1) Most likely, the link behind a nofollow is indexed (and cached) as long as there is an other 'legal' link to it. In theory, one could also submit a crawl request to google and get it indexed. So the nofollow should not prevent a page to be indexed. 2) It is likely that the link behind a nofollow has a zero value in term of contribution to ranking. I doubt there is any ranking penalty to be behind a nofollow. I have no proof for it, but we should remember that nofollow was invented to reduce the temptation of blog comment spam and social bookmarking spam. If someone discovers that Google continues to take spam links in consideration for ranking, the benefit of nofollow would disappear... In my opinion, the fact that a page is indexed in Google does not imply that the links will be counted for ranking. I am more and more convinced that only high quality links do contribute to ranking 3) Just curiosity: do you get any (human) visitors coming from pages such as http://www.technorati.com/blogs/http://www.cryosphere.f2s.com/articles/photos/ or http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=483906 or more generally, social bookmarking sites I don't
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