SEO Rules for Blogs & RSS

Hello Everyone,

People had alluded to SEO using Blogs and RSS Feeds from time to time.

I was wondering if anyone has thought about linking strategies for each of
them?

I setup a Blog and RSS Feed at www.usernomics.com/blog/blog.html . My
strategy was to host the Blog on my site vs. Blogger's site and to place
links to my three website landing pages for every article posted. The logic
is to include those links on each RSS article when it gets picked up.

Does this make sense and does anyone have a logical strategy for Blogs and
RSS Feeds?

Thanks,

Bob

Ergobob wrote:

Hello Everyone,

People had alluded to SEO using Blogs and RSS Feeds from time to time.

I was wondering if anyone has thought about linking strategies for each of
them?

I setup a Blog and RSS Feed at www.usernomics.com/blog/blog.html . My
strategy was to host the Blog on my site vs. Blogger's site and to place
links to my three website landing pages for every article posted. The
logic is to include those links on each RSS article when it gets picked
up.

Does this make sense and does anyone have a logical strategy for Blogs and
RSS Feeds?

Thanks,

Bob

What your strategy implies is that many links should depart from your one
blog and reach the same sites, again... and again. I know that you will
need a variety of domains to link to your pages in order for the links to
become valuable.

Roy

--
Roy Schestowitz
http://schestowitz.com

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote

Ergobob wrote:

Hello Everyone,

People had alluded to SEO using Blogs and RSS Feeds from time to time.

I was wondering if anyone has thought about linking strategies for each
of
them?

I setup a Blog and RSS Feed at www.usernomics.com/blog/blog.html . My
strategy was to host the Blog on my site vs. Blogger's site and to place
links to my three website landing pages for every article posted. The
logic is to include those links on each RSS article when it gets picked
up.

Does this make sense and does anyone have a logical strategy for Blogs
and
RSS Feeds?

Thanks,

Bob

What your strategy implies is that many links should depart from your one
blog and reach the same sites, again... and again. I know that you will
need a variety of domains to link to your pages in order for the links to
become valuable.

Roy

--
Roy Schestowitz
http://schestowitz.com

Hello Roy,

I should have mentioned that the title of each article links to the original
source. The links to my website are at the bottom of each post in the form
of "For more information ...... "

So every article does link to someone else. It is the links to my landing
pages for every article that I thought was needed so the links would then
appear with each RSS post. The alternative is to list those links one time
on the right of the Blog. But, the RSS Feed would not pick up the links.

Does that make sense?

Bob

Ergobob wrote:

Hello Everyone,

People had alluded to SEO using Blogs and RSS Feeds from time to time.

I was wondering if anyone has thought about linking strategies for each
of
them?

I setup a Blog and RSS Feed at www.usernomics.com/blog/blog.html . My
strategy was to host the Blog on my site vs. Blogger's site and to
place
links to my three website landing pages for every article posted. The
logic
is to include those links on each RSS article when it gets picked up.

Does this make sense and does anyone have a logical strategy for Blogs
and
RSS Feeds?

Thanks,

Bob

Hi Bob,

IMHO it is by far more important how many incoming links point onto your
site from other sites. Therefore, if YOU create an RSS feed and OTHER
people use it on their sites, you can have an advantage of embedding YOUR
links into their pages, i.e. incoming links to your site.

This, of course, means that you will have to create all that information
that goes into YOUR RSS feed, and it should be interesting enough for
other people to use it. Therefore it is by no means "sit down and watch
your PR go up" type of thing. You really have to work hard to create (tons
of) useful info and only then reap the rewards.

This also implies that an important part of your "SEO via RSS" strategy
should be to get your feed noticed by other people.

Sincerely,
Dmitri
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Ergobob wrote:


Hello Everyone,

People had alluded to SEO using Blogs and RSS Feeds from time to time.

I was wondering if anyone has thought about linking strategies for each
of
them?

I setup a Blog and RSS Feed at www.usernomics.com/blog/blog.html . My
strategy was to host the Blog on my site vs. Blogger's site and to
place
links to my three website landing pages for every article posted. The
logic
is to include those links on each RSS article when it gets picked up.

Does this make sense and does anyone have a logical strategy for Blogs
and
RSS Feeds?

Thanks,

Bob

Hi Bob,

IMHO it is by far more important how many incoming links point onto your
site from other sites. Therefore, if YOU create an RSS feed and OTHER
people use it on their sites, you can have an advantage of embedding YOUR
links into their pages, i.e. incoming links to your site.

This, of course, means that you will have to create all that information
that goes into YOUR RSS feed, and it should be interesting enough for
other people to use it. Therefore it is by no means "sit down and watch
your PR go up" type of thing. You really have to work hard to create (tons
of) useful info and only then reap the rewards.

This also implies that an important part of your "SEO via RSS" strategy
should be to get your feed noticed by other people.

Sincerely,
Dmitri
http://www.1-script.com/1_search/
Get search engine for your site
http://www.1-script.com/install/
Check out my CGI scripts installation offer
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Hi Dmitri,

I completely agree with your points about the need to get the RSS Feed
picked up by others and have the links from their site back to mine.

But given that the feed gets publicized and picked up, do you see value in
having those links back to my landing pages on each article in the feed?

When you look at the feed, the title of each article links back to my blog
and the title on the blog links to an original source. So if someone did
pick up the feed, the link from their page would go to my blog rather than
my primary landing pages. By adding links to the landing pages at the bottom
of each article, the site that does pick up the RSS will have links to my
landing pages as well as my blog.

Does that seem reasonable?

Bob
www.usernomics.com

Ergobob wrote:

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cs8mgc$2ooq$1 (AT) godfrey (DOT) mcc.ac.uk...
Ergobob wrote:

Hello Everyone,

People had alluded to SEO using Blogs and RSS Feeds from time to time.

I was wondering if anyone has thought about linking strategies for each
of
them?

I setup a Blog and RSS Feed at www.usernomics.com/blog/blog.html . My
strategy was to host the Blog on my site vs. Blogger's site and to place
links to my three website landing pages for every article posted. The
logic is to include those links on each RSS article when it gets picked
up.

Does this make sense and does anyone have a logical strategy for Blogs
and
RSS Feeds?

Thanks,

Bob

What your strategy implies is that many links should depart from your one
blog and reach the same sites, again... and again. I know that you will
need a variety of domains to link to your pages in order for the links to
become valuable.

Roy

--
Roy Schestowitz
http://schestowitz.com


Hello Roy,

I should have mentioned that the title of each article links to the
original source.

Yes, but the notion of title is not evaluated more highly, unless the link
is bold, or large in font size... (and often that's not valid HTML).

The links to my website are at the bottom of each post in
the form of "For more information ...... "

Crawlers like Google will just aggregate all of these links and consider
them to be related ones.

So every article does link to someone else. It is the links to my landing
pages for every article that I thought was needed so the links would then
appear with each RSS post. The alternative is to list those links one time
on the right of the Blog. But, the RSS Feed would not pick up the links.

WordPress, for example, integrates the link into a fixed menu in all pages.
Crawlers pick up the links every time a page is scanned. Maybe you should
put effort into finding the right tools which place all the links
automatically.

Does that make sense?

There is no magic trick to gaining PR. If there was, then the millions 'out
there' would have exploited it. As a measure of caution, computer engineers
adapt the ranking system according to wrong-doing and exploitations. If
not, bad results are returned, as in the case of domain spamming, links
farms, etc.


--
Roy Schestowitz
http://schestowitz.com

Ergobob wrote:

Hello Everyone,

People had alluded to SEO using Blogs and RSS Feeds from time to time.

I was wondering if anyone has thought about linking strategies for
each of them?

I setup a Blog and RSS Feed at www.usernomics.com/blog/blog.html . My

^^^^
Ouch.

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/2...ethebword.html

It's old info, but I had the above impression.

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Ergobob wrote:

Hello Everyone,

People had alluded to SEO using Blogs and RSS Feeds from time to time.

I was wondering if anyone has thought about linking strategies for
each of them?

I setup a Blog and RSS Feed at www.usernomics.com/blog/blog.html . My

^^^^
Ouch.

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/2...ethebword.html

It's old info, but I had the above impression.

Hi John,

I am not sure what you are flagging. My blog is just an add-on to my main
website. The blog has a PR=4 and gets one of the top 3 spots on Google for
any keyword + blog added to it. There is good and unique information in the
blog. If Google treats blogs differently than websites, that's OK with me.
The website get good ranking on its own.

Am I missing something here?

Bob

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote

Ergobob wrote:


"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cs8mgc$2ooq$1 (AT) godfrey (DOT) mcc.ac.uk...
Ergobob wrote:

Hello Everyone,

People had alluded to SEO using Blogs and RSS Feeds from time to time.

I was wondering if anyone has thought about linking strategies for each
of
them?

I setup a Blog and RSS Feed at www.usernomics.com/blog/blog.html . My
strategy was to host the Blog on my site vs. Blogger's site and to
place
links to my three website landing pages for every article posted. The
logic is to include those links on each RSS article when it gets picked
up.

Does this make sense and does anyone have a logical strategy for Blogs
and
RSS Feeds?

Thanks,

Bob

What your strategy implies is that many links should depart from your
one
blog and reach the same sites, again... and again. I know that you will
need a variety of domains to link to your pages in order for the links
to
become valuable.

Roy

--
Roy Schestowitz
http://schestowitz.com


Hello Roy,

I should have mentioned that the title of each article links to the
original source.


Yes, but the notion of title is not evaluated more highly, unless the link
is bold, or large in font size... (and often that's not valid HTML).


The links to my website are at the bottom of each post in
the form of "For more information ...... "


Crawlers like Google will just aggregate all of these links and consider
them to be related ones.


So every article does link to someone else. It is the links to my landing
pages for every article that I thought was needed so the links would then
appear with each RSS post. The alternative is to list those links one
time
on the right of the Blog. But, the RSS Feed would not pick up the links.


WordPress, for example, integrates the link into a fixed menu in all
pages.
Crawlers pick up the links every time a page is scanned. Maybe you should
put effort into finding the right tools which place all the links
automatically.


Does that make sense?

There is no magic trick to gaining PR. If there was, then the millions
'out
there' would have exploited it. As a measure of caution, computer
engineers
adapt the ranking system according to wrong-doing and exploitations. If
not, bad results are returned, as in the case of domain spamming, links
farms, etc.


--
Roy Schestowitz
http://schestowitz.com

Hi Roy,

Do you think that adding the link to each article is spam? I wasn't thinking
of it that way.

Do you think that it is equally good for the search engines to have those
links shown one time at the top of the blog?

If I did show them one time, the RSS Feeds would only have links to the blog
rather than any of the website landing pages.

Thanks Roy,

Bob

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> in news:cs8sc6$2qcc$1 (AT) godfrey (DOT) mcc.ac.uk:

Crawlers like Google will just aggregate all of these links and consider
them to be related ones.
^ ^ ^

hmm.. not sure if you refer to google's "related:/Similar Pages", but IME "related:" is perpetually 'alpha' anyway :-)