Automated Backlinks With RSS (braindump and Q and A)

I’m writing this as sort of a braindump here, and will probably need to edit it a thousand times before I gain/create some sort of clarity and/or plan on what to do with all this RSS stuff for creating backlinks.

• RSS link dumps
• Mashups
• RSS Submitters
• Automation
• Indexation or backlinks purposes
  

RSS link dumps – create list of urls you want indexed, put them in an RSS feed and submit them.  This RSS feed can be self-hosted as a file on your site, or mashed up.

Why create one?

For backlinking purposes the “rss link dump” will contain a list of items you want links to for indexing and/or backlinking purposes.  In my opinion these rss link dumps are best used for getting things indexed, not providing valuable backlinks even if submitted to DoFollow RSS directories.

RSS Mashups - Where you can merge several different RSS feeds into one master RSS feed. This is an added tier to RSS backlinking and it’s where many people myself included will start to get a braincramp.

So think about this for a second…

• You create backlinks
• You get a list of URLs backlinking to you
• You make an RSS feed FILE contain all those urls
• you submit that feed to directories
• If you make lets say a dozen of these RSS link dumps feeds you can mash them up, aka merge them into a Master/Merged/Mash-ed up feed that basically links to the feeds contained with in it.
• Can submit merged feeds elsewhere, too
• Can include the mashups inside new RSS links dumps to get backlinks and indexation for your mashup feeds

Mindblowing and confusing eh?  I agree

Once again though why would you want to do this?

Because pinging is a JOKE now, Pinging doesn’t do anything beyond getting items spidered, then crawled… which gets them found by the search engines which in turns gets whatever was ping-ed, indexed.  The reason I saw that pinging is  a joke now is because it seems that nowadays, it’s getting a bit harder to keep stuff indexed.

Anything that can get indexed, can also get DE-indexed, especially if you created backlinks on mega sites like the big major article directories, big social bookmarking sites, your BIE sites, your LFE sites, etc…

To get stuff SOLIDLY indexed, you need to create backlinks to them, and not be reliant upon pings, so you either need to create content that links to these urls or perhaps do the rss link dumps method, or both.

NOTE: some gurus are saying you should let your links be found naturally, and not backlink to them at all, and I disagree with this big-time, because once again..what gets found naturally and indexed naturally cna also naturally get de-indexed, too.

You gotta understand that many of the sites you’re creating backlinks on, whether they be article directories, forums (profiles), or social bookmarking sites, they don’t necessarily have everything on their site being spidered since they’re so big, and/or just have poor on site optimization.

Recommend that you give the self-generated links at least 2 weeks to be found naturally, and after that point working on getting them linked t0 for indexation purposes.  I don’t care what anyone tells you and it’s really not up for debate here because it’s common sense that what get indexed naturally can get de-indexed naturally and if you’re not spending time on being more effective (creating more INDEXED backlinks) then you’re sort of wasting some of your time there.

I know I’m preaching to the choir here for those of you that already know this, but it needed to be “said” for those who have been mis-informed by being advised that your links should be found naturally.

One point that I would like to make though, is that , ROI-wise, it’s cheaper to generate more backlinks than it is to work on getting current existing ones indexed, but that’s the point of this post, to see how we can use RSS technology to help make this a less labor-intensive proposition.

So, automation with RSS and how to do it….

Article directories, syndicated content

Scraping, pulling content from auto updating RSS feeds

Author accounts at article directories have RSS feeds for most part, AMR, UAW, EZA.  when you get additional articles published here under these author names, the rss feed for the author gets updated, and displays links to authors’ articles (author rss feed)

Add Author RSS feed to a mashup perhaps So when new article is posted to an author account somewhere, it auto updates the author profile and author rss feed, or just scrape the author feeds form your indexing tools like BIE sites or BLE clusters.

Find all your author feeds, aggregate them, merge them add to a mashup, and/or link to them via other means.

NOTE: This isn’t exclusive to article directories, either.  If you’re syndicating to wordpress blogs, try to find your author names on the net and try to scrape just YOUR articles from author posts there (not sure if it can be done on individual author basis if author names/accounts profiles don’t get their own rss feed)

Web 2.0 accounts and profiles have RSS feeds, and sometimes allow you to add other RSS feeds into the hubs, lenses, etc.. you create.

If you have a hubpages.com hub that also lists items form a few rss feeds you add to it, then you can take the hub feed url or just link out to rss mashups form web 2.0 entities to mashups, or link dumps or whatever.

So far none of this really sounds automated, at least right away, but think of this…

If you create 10 web entities and they link to rss mashups then you’re creating virtual real estate that gets indexed pretty easily and solidly and it links to rss mashups or rss link dumps, making them solidly indexed too, which in turn gives the list of urls inside the mashups or link dumps a better chance of getting indexed.

By the way some of all this is theory, and I admit that freely since I’ve never really been able to get clarity on what the most effective method is for using RSS for backlinking purposes.  the goal here is for me to do a braindump here to get my thoughts written down, and maybe get some pointers from the knowledgeable folks who read this blog from time to time.

Points of consideration:

How many urls can be put inside an RSS link dump feed?

Err, what I meant to ask is…

Will 2k urls inside an RSS feed link dump get indexed, or is that too much?

1k, 500, 250, 100?

Steve from Backlinks Energizer and myself are testing this now, and I’ll update this post once we find out, since it’s an important thing to know, and is an important factor to take into consideration whem making link dumps like this.

Daisy chaining link dumps…

Make one RSS feed link dump containing XXX # of urls inside of it

Add the url of RSS feed link dump #1 to top of list of urls in RSS feed link dump #2

Could make 15 rss link dumps and link to the other 14 from other link dumps urls.

again, not automated, but providing serious indexing power here

Can this be automated?

Some stuff can and some stuff cannot.  After all, you/we will always need to find, harvest the lists of urls we want inserted into link dumps, and there’s no way around that.

Other tools that can help make an RSS linking monster

Google alerts plugin that makes blog content from Google alerts.  Let G alerts find your articles, semi-real-time and get them to linking to your articles syndicated.  You’ll need to know what author names or titles to search for, and alerts doesn’t find everything, but it helps.

http://www.blogseye.com/2010/09/rss2post-plugin/

http://www.suite101.com/content/wp-rss-plugin-for-posts-pages-a182458

 

UAW – capitalize on this service by finding all your UAW author accounts and pen names, and getting the rss feeds for your author accounts scraped, pulled, linked to and indexed.  when you submit an article to UAW in future, AFTER already assembling a list of uaw author feeds, you wont need to do much to get your articles found nor indexed. so might be good idea to gather together a list of UAW author feeds and scrape them and link to them from indexing networks/tool/utilities like BIE sites or BLE clusters.

AMR- They give you the list of urls where your articles are published, and I assume they also give you an RSS feed for all author accounts, so might be good idea to gather together a list of AMR author feed and scrape them and link to them from indexing networks/tool/utilities like BIE sites or BLE clusters.

Trackbacks, Google alerts – You can make an RSS feed for trackbacks that autoupdates  itself, tehn scrape this feed from BIE sites, or BLE clusters to link thme up on autopilot.

Google alerts, get an email notifying you that something you wanted notification of got noted or posted somewhere, so turn around and use a plugin that turns Alerts emails into blog posts, and put these on your indexing entities (BIE sites, BLE clsuters, etc…).

You would want to set up alerts for author names, pen names, unique article titles, (spun), or even blocks of text like spun resource boxes, then when G Alerts finds these and notifies you of it/them, you auto-link to those referring sites and urls with the Alerts plugin.

Also, Google alerts creates rss feed for your alerts as well, so some RSS autoposter plugins could take care of this for you, too