RSS Submission Tips - Is RSS Distribution Worth the Effort?

Okay, so maybe you have heard about submitting your RSS feed to RSS submission sites; but thought, "What's the point?" Well, I hope to discuss some of the issues surrounding this topic and hopefully provide a few answers.

First of all, your RSS feed is updated automatically, every time your website is updated. This article is not about how to set up an RSS feed, so hopefully you have that already done for your site. The fact that it is automatically updated is the key to everything. So, essentially when you get your feed listed on another site, this site provides a backlink to each of your articles posted!

If you Google, "list of RSS Submission sites" or something similar, you should be able to find a nice list of sites that will allow you to submit your feed to. Once you have gone through and done this once, you should never have to do it again. So, there are lots of paid services out there that will submit your site automatically to dozens of RSS sites; it may not be worth it. If you take the time to do it for yourself once; these feeds will be updated automatically every time you update your own site.

What I like to do to provide some extra value to these submissions is to socially bookmark the feeds as well. So, lets say you submit your feed to feedest.com. The link where your feed is listed will be something like feedest.com/yourfeed. You will take this URL feedest.com/yourfeed and submit it to as many social bookmarking sites as you can. This will ensure that your feed submissions are indexed by Google and will provide higher link value to your site.

These will indeed provide some SEO value to your site. Will it bring hoards of traffic? Probably not. But it will create an environment that is more likely to get your site indexed, linked to, and more likely to do better in the search engines.

So, RSS submissions are not a fix all wonder for SEO; it does provide some value, so is worth spending the time doing.

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