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RSS is one of those technologies that are extremely simple yet extremely powerful to implement. Currently, RSS is the industry standard for blog syndication, and both individuals and corporations alike use it; especially, in blogs. Since a large percentage of these blogs run on WordPress, I would like to share with you an excellent article I found on the subject. The blog  Smashing Magazine has published a comprehensive article on the subject, and you should take a look at what they have put together. I’m going to apply some of their hacks on this and other blogs I own. The author Jean-Batiste Jung has done an excellent job at presenting useful and relatively unknown RSS tricks and hacks that will help you use RSS in a more effective way — and without unnecessary and chunky WordPress plug-ins.

There are many plublished articles on RSS and WordPress hacks but Jean-Baptiste Jung has narrowed the list down to what I consider to be the 10 most useful, yet rather unknown RSS-tricks for WordPress. Jean states “Each section of the article presents a problem, suggests a solution and provides you with an explanation of the solution, so that you can not just solve some of your RSS-related problems but also understand what you are actually doing. Therefore, you can make sure your WordPress theme remains under your control and is not bloated with some obscure source code.”

I hope you find that article to be useful, and if you have any troubles understanding or applying his hacks just drop me an email, and I’ll try my best to help you.

Again the article URL is: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/02/10-useful-rss-hacks-for-wordpress/

By the way, are you using RSS to syndicate your articles?

Look, if you have a site, and you want to rank on Google’s front page, then you need to get as many backlinks as you can. I personally use Social Bookmarking, Twitter, RSS Bookmarking, Article Publishing, Blog Commenting, and Web 2.0 properties to get as many backlinks as I can for the articles I post on my sites.

Granted, doing all this takes time, especially if you are doing it all manually. And when I started I use to do all this process manually, and let me tell you, it can take a toll on your motivation. Hell it did me under for about a month, until I discovered that I could automate the entire process with a few applications. Therefore; just in case you are interested in what I use, the following is the list of tools I currently use to automate my backlinking tasks:

1. Every time I post a new article, I automatically bookmark it on the top ranked Social Bookmarking sites. I use the Bookmarking Demon tool for this.

2. RSS syndication gets you truckloads of baklinks especially from high ranking RSS Aggregator sites. So every time I post a new article I post it on the top Aggregator autonatically with Web Traffic Genius.

3. Article Marketing is not for everyone, since most people find it difficult to get inspired to writing different articles to publish. But if you give it a try, you may be surprised at how easy it is to do this. I wrote a post on the subject, take a look at my  Article Writing post, and see just how easy it is to do this with the right automation tool.

4. Now the next think you are going to need is a tool to automate the publishing of your article throughout the many top ranking Article directories. My tool of choice for this is Article Post Robot.

5. By now you have probably heard that Twitter is out-passing Google as a “real-time” search engine. So why not take advantage of this free search engine. I use what is perhaps the best Twitter tool to manage my tweets. My tool of choice is FeedMyTweetsPro. Check out their videos and see for yourself the power of this tool.

6. To get thousands of backlinks from tweeter as well as interested readers you need a tool that not only allows you to grow and manage your followers, but one that allows you to let twitter users now about you even if they are not following you. My tool of choice is TweetAttacks. Right now, as we “speak” this tools is searching all the tweets posted in twitter and if someone has mentioned that they want more backlinks or are asking questions regarding RSS or how to hack WordPress, this tool automatically tells them about this article.

7. Getting backlinks from the top ranked blogs related to you niche is perhaps one of the most successful backlink creation strategies around. Although I use a tool that helps me automate the identification of such highly ranked blogs, I prefer not to automatically post a spinned comment. Instead, I use my tool to find the blogs and after reading the post I give a contributing comment; something that adds value to what the author has published.

Take this article as an example; Jean-Baptiste Jung has done a wonderful job in his post regarding RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPres. So I made a comment on how I also use RSS and while doing so told him I had published this article where I mentioned his work. This is good karma, and Google loves it.So my tool of choice is Comment Hut.

8. Have you heard of Linkwheels? They work great, but you have to know how to create them or Google will just ignore your efforts, and worst yet; de-link your site and sand-box your domain – OUCH!!

Here’s what I do; after creating my 50 or 100 original articles with the help of my Article Writter I use WebLinkBot to automate the creation of backlinks from top ranked Web 2.0 sites. However; this tool doesn’t just create any kind of LinkWheel, it randomly recreates the link wheel for me thereby making my linkwheels look like they have been created by a human.

One question I get a lot is how often do I do all these tasks. Well the answer is that for every new site I launch I perform these task for one whole month. I like building my backlinks slowly, so for the first week of a brand new site I only build 5 to 10 backlinks. My choice here is to use Article Marketing with Twitter first, then I add a Linkwheel during the second week. Then in the third week I do my RSS and Social Bookmarking. By the fourth week, my site is on Google’s front page and have received about 2000 human visits, and within 90 days I’m getting about 10,000 human visits per month.

What you need to know is that you only have to work on your new site for about 3 to 4 weeks. After that your site will be on Google’s front page and will gradually rise in position and settle within the first 3 spots and stay there for the life of the site. You don’t have to do any additional work.

There is one important insider tip I just have to share with you. Do not use any pinging plugin from within your site. Google likes to discover your site by finding links to your site from other sites. Get it???

Tags: wordpress-rss-hacks, backlinks

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Hi, this is Néstor Pabón I'm just a regular "Joe" who discovered internet marketing back in 2004, and by 2005 had replaced my day time job pay check, and doubled it by mid 2006. If you liked this article and would like me to share with you how I make my living online subscribe to my Newsletter for more tips and "insider" strategies.