It’s not money that makes the on-line world go round…it’s backlinks.
We all want more.
That is sort of true…to be more precise…
We all want more quality backlinks.
Why?
Because the more quality backlinks we have the…
…More Google loves our sites
…The higher our sites appear in the search engines.
Some methods of getting back links take a lot of work like guest posting, article directories and Hub Pages.
Don’t get me wrong I do all of these methods myself and recommend you do…they just take a little longer than this one…
RSS Directories and RSS Footer
This method is another one-off action…like yesterdays Little Blogging Cracker on Pinging.
I have mentioned this before but many people may have missed it the first (and second / third) time around…hence mentioning it again.
Install the RSS Footer Plugin
The RSS Footer plugin allows you to add an extra line of content to blog posts in your RSS feed, defaulting to “Post from: ” and then a link back to your blog, with your targeted keyword phrase as it’s anchor text.
Here’s an image of my RSS feed:
See the red arrows? They point to my backlink using the phrase ‘Blogging Guide’.
BUT>>>
Did you see I’ve been greedy and added a second link as well?
I also use the title of the blog post as a backlink.
Now why would you want to install the RSS Footer plugin?
There are 2 reasons:
1. Let’s say someone takes a copy of your blog post via RSS and copies it on their blog, you automatically have a backlink.
You may not want them to take a copy of your blog post but if they did, you do get a backlink.
2. If you complete the second action below of adding your blog feed to the RSS Directories, you automatically have another backlink.
Action number 1: Install and set-up the RSS Footer plugin
Submit Your Blog Feed to the RSS Directories
RSS Directories hold millions of links to websites and blogs and are some of the most visited websites on the internet.
By adding your blog’s RSS feed to the RSS Directories, every future blog post you add to your blog, will automatically be added to the RSS Directory. And that means it could potentially be seen by thousands of visitors and your blog will receive a powerful backlink from the RSS Directory.
You only have to add your blog’s RSS feed to the RSS directory once and everything is set up to work automatically.
If you have completed action point number 1, you get more backlinks due to the set-up of the RSS Footer plugin.
I’ve submitted my blog feed to approximately 30 RSS Directories so each time I publish a blog post, I get something like 90 backlinks…all on auto pilot.
Action number 2: Submit your feed to the RSS Directories
Read this post for a step-by-step method of adding your blog post to one of the most powerful RSS Directories:
Summary
Completing the above 2 actions should take you less than 30 minutes and it is worth doing. It is a one-off job and you get automatic backlinks each time you publish a blog post.
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Andrew is a website builder and helps small businesses with their on-line presence…so they can grow their customer list and increase sales. That’s it! That’s what we do each and every day.
RSS Footer is a must have plugin and I use it myself, not only for the backlink but it is important for declaring copyright and branding for auto pilot blogs that just read in RSS feeds based on keyword matches.
Justin
The copywriting idea is a good one – thanks for sharing.
Andrew
Hi Andrew
Thanks for the reminder of the importance of the RSS directories. I’m subscribed to a few. Will have to review that over the holiday break.
Patricia Perth australia
Patricia
That is exactly the purpose of these little blogging crackers…reminders to take some small action steps.
Andrew
Awesome and solid advice. The RSS footer is new to me and I am certainly going to make use of it in all my websites. Really neat and considering its on “autopilot” mode, the minutes required to get it up and running is certainly worth while. As far as RSS directories is concern, yeah, that’s a great way to build backlinks to as there are many directories and aggregators that do this for free. Just did not have that extra touch on it. Thanks!
DiTesco,
You are welcome – I’m glad you found it worthwhile.
Andrew
I installed a great plugin on my sites that takes the first 100 characters including ads and links and uses that for the rss feed.
Steve
So what is the plugin?
Andrew
this is great to use the mentioned tips,,, i didnt worked on one thing,, that look a bit weired to me is “RRS footer”, how should be it????
Alexandra
Have you added the RSS Footer plugin?
Andrew
Andrew,
This is incredible, how can i miss this plugin!
I am glad i read this post, otherwise i would still have my feed without my copyright.
However feed spreading is not bad though, the exact copy of content is the problem.
Thanks, and happy holidays.
Kimi
Kimi,
We all find new plugins each day / week / month.
I like it when I find one that someone recommends.
Andrew
i agreed with you all guys .. this guide really a time savour
Man, okay, this is my next work on my blog. RSS feeds and Blog Directories. Going to work. Thank you!
Anasha
You are welcome – I’m glad you liked it!
Andrew
This is perhaps one of the simplest ideas, but it makes so much sense!
Thanks, Daniel.
Andrew
You raise a question I’ve had, but keep forgetting to ask.
What about email? Specifically Aweber emails….do links from there count as back links?
Dennis,
Great question and I don’t know the answer!
I would expect not as the emails don’t end up in the search engines.
Andrew
Feeds do??
Andrew,
Just installed, activated and set up the plugin.
Thanks for the tip.
And Happy New Year – I hope 2011 is a healthy and prosperous year for you!
Rob,
Great.
I hope your 2011 is simply brilliant.
Andrew
I haven’t heard of this plugin but it sure looks interesting. I am going to check out how it looks on you RSS (and while at it, I better subscribe) and try to make it work for me.
Thanks for the idea and the tip, I hope it won’t be hard to set it up.
Brankica
It’s not hard to set up but if you have any problems please contact me:
https://www.webuildyourblog.com/contact-2/
…and I’ll do my best to help.
Andrew
Hey thanks, I think it worked 🙂
I hope it will bring some results. Thanks for sharing this tip!
SWEET! Just installed the plugin, and it looks like it’s working great. When I took a look at my rss feed, I noticed another issue – maybe you guys have run across this too, or maybe it’s normal. My posts are getting cut short when I’m looking at the feed in my browser. Is that a big deal? They can still click over for the full article, so maybe it’s not such a bad thing – kind of like a teaser. What are your thoughts?
TJ,
My feed also shows a summary. It’s down to personal preference, I think.
Andrew
Another great post! I was checking out the rss footer plugin, and while it’s still supposed to work, the author recommends trying out his new seo plugin which does this and more.
Along with being a general purpose seo plugin, it gives you 2 links back to your site, one to homepage, and one to a post. But it’s still in beta testing, and being a newbie I’m a little scared to try it.
How long does testing usually last? And if I start submitting my rss feeds today, then add the plugin later, will it update it and automatically add in the extra links for me?
Here’s the url http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
Thanks again man!
Mike
Mike,
Yoast’s new seo plugin is huge and covers many aspects of SEO.
As you say it is still fairly new. I will end up using it but not yet. I want a few more bugs ironed out.
When you/we add the new plugin, future links will be created…meaning it won’t be retrospective.
Andrew
Once again you’re a great eye-opener and I want to thank you for your free/good-quality posts.
I’m news at this and I found this topic (and many others) very helpful!
I am glad i read this post.Thanks for the reminder of the importance of the RSS directories.Thanks for sharing this post.