RSS feeds

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Groovystar, Aug 11, 2010.

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    do they help with SEO? if so how?
     
    Groovystar, Aug 11, 2010 IP
  2. lakelandprinting

    lakelandprinting Peon

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    they will if you have good enough content where people will install your RSS feed on their blog..or if you have a bunch of sites you can mildly link them together via widgets. The non seo benefits are great too, like automating Twitter and facebook via Google Feedburner and RSS Graffiti
     
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  3. Groovystar

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    I've made some feeds involving my posts and topics and stuff on the forum to get some of those more indexed up there, since I saw one pop up for a search some time back. So I made some more.
     
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    do you get back links by using rss feeds? I'm a bit confuse on this.
     
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  5. Groovystar

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    You do, they're not high quality backlinks but they'd be quite relevant. Google seems to pick up RSS feeds rather easily. What I'm trying to do is get more of my backpages out there and indexed because a lot of them are boards for various other topics that might appeal to a wider variety of people.
     
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  6. seoviviti

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    if their are lots of rss site which accept free rss submission. it impact on seo. you get good backlink from such sites. the one dropdown is most of the rss site facing server problem. some of the top site always get error while submit link on it. otherwise it help you to increase your backlinks.
     
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  7. Groovystar

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    I have an account on FeedYes I use. is that good?
     
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  8. sousen

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    My sense is that an RSS feed does not help the SEO value of your webpages. If you think about it in a business sense, what search engines want is to provide their users with the most relevant answers, and the most legitimate webpage results, to their queries. So, their primary goal is to identify websites that try to buck the system, and sneak into the top listings. I believe that Google, and perhaps other SEs, use common sense to figure this out. It wouldn't be very hard for Google to realize that your content is duplicated on a webpage and an RSS file.

    Instead of trying to come up with a new gimmick to get into the top listings, I think you're safer in the long run to focus on publishing quality content, and using tools like RSS feeds for ethical purposes, mainly to let your loyal users keep track of new content through their favorite feed readers. You could, in theory, republish a webpage into an RSS file, but most publishers don't use RSS files in this way. If you're going to spend your energy into publishing an RSS feed, do it in the way it benefits your users, as opposed to trying to find a way to add SEO value.
     
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  9. seo4me

    seo4me Well-Known Member

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    I agree with you.
    Thanks for the detailed explanation
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    seo4me, Aug 12, 2010 IP