Comments on: Do Your RSS Feeds Link to Your Site or do they Link Somewhere Else? http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/ Online Entrepreneurship Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anna http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/comment-page-1/#comment-6198 Anna Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:34:50 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/#comment-6198 @ Mike - You're welcome. When I first noticed this I realized I wasn't using Feedburner stats either - so there was really no point in keeping those redirects :) @ Mike – You’re welcome. When I first noticed this I realized I wasn’t using Feedburner stats either – so there was really no point in keeping those redirects :)

]]> By: Mike Collins http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/comment-page-1/#comment-6097 Mike Collins Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:53:54 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/#comment-6097 Hey Anna, thanks for the tip! This never occured to me and I honestly don't use feedburners stats anyway. I just did as you suggested and we'll see if I notice an increase in links. Mike .-= Mike Collins´s last blog ..<a href="http://imiseasy.com/how-to-manage-your-aweber-lists-for-maximum-efficiency/" rel="nofollow">How to Manage Your Aweber Lists For Maximum Efficiency</a> =-. Hey Anna, thanks for the tip! This never occured to me and I honestly don’t use feedburners stats anyway. I just did as you suggested and we’ll see if I notice an increase in links.

Mike
Mike Collins´s last blog ..How to Manage Your Aweber Lists For Maximum Efficiency My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: Anna http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/comment-page-1/#comment-5792 Anna Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:21:44 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/#comment-5792 @Stephan - You are welcome, was deserved! @Stephan – You are welcome, was deserved!

]]> By: Stefan http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/comment-page-1/#comment-5791 Stefan Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:32:22 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/#comment-5791 Just noticed that I never thanked you for mentioning and linking to me. Big thanks. :) .-= Stefan´s last blog ..<a href="http://ducedo.com/monthly-roundup-july-2009/" rel="nofollow">Monthly Roundup – July 2009</a> =-. Just noticed that I never thanked you for mentioning and linking to me. Big thanks. :)
Stefan´s last blog ..Monthly Roundup – July 2009 My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: Anna http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/comment-page-1/#comment-5723 Anna Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:43:04 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/#comment-5723 @Joe - yeah, that's right, better not stop reading my blog! Just kidding ... glad I could help! @Joe – yeah, that’s right, better not stop reading my blog!

Just kidding … glad I could help!

]]> By: Personality Marketing http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/comment-page-1/#comment-5718 Personality Marketing Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:10:06 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/#comment-5718 Oh snap! I wondered how to fix that! I'm going over asap to handle it, thanks again Anna! You keep saving me! .-= Personality Marketing´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ImWithJoe/~3/SuBWJ9zOxrI/" rel="nofollow">Jimmy Vee and Travis Miller piss me off!</a> =-. Oh snap! I wondered how to fix that! I’m going over asap to handle it, thanks again Anna! You keep saving me!
Personality Marketing´s last blog ..Jimmy Vee and Travis Miller piss me off! My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: Anna http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/comment-page-1/#comment-5713 Anna Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:25:26 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/#comment-5713 Thanks for your comments Jannie! And welcome to my blog. I hope I will be seeing more of you :) Yes, please do let me know if you have trouble implementing this! It is not very difficult :) but sometimes it helps to have a bit of direction anyway. Thanks for your comments Jannie! And welcome to my blog. I hope I will be seeing more of you :)

Yes, please do let me know if you have trouble implementing this! It is not very difficult :) but sometimes it helps to have a bit of direction anyway.

]]> By: Jannie Funster http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/comment-page-1/#comment-5710 Jannie Funster Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:41:21 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/#comment-5710 More gold here, I do believe? I have wondered about my feed not exactly being my actual site. Let me see if I can make what you write about here work for me too. I might be back if I get stumped, okay? :) And will Google not be happy until it rules ALL THE WORLD?? .-= Jannie Funster´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/janniefunster1/~3/5ABHzz20zFY/" rel="nofollow">Lazy River Sunday (Formerly Titled “Frisky Jim at the Water Park”)</a> =-. More gold here, I do believe? I have wondered about my feed not exactly being my actual site. Let me see if I can make what you write about here work for me too. I might be back if I get stumped, okay? :)

And will Google not be happy until it rules ALL THE WORLD??
Jannie Funster´s last blog ..Lazy River Sunday (Formerly Titled “Frisky Jim at the Water Park”) My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: Anna http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/comment-page-1/#comment-5675 Anna Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:52:12 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/#comment-5675 @Anthony - good question. No one but an authorized Search Engine employee can really tell you for sure what a search engine does and doesn't do, and even they are not permitted to tell you everything. As a general rule of thumb, one can expected that one will be credited for links that do not contain the "nofollow" attribute. Paid advertising links are nofollow as long as the advertiser is following Google's Webmaster guidelines (which they should, if they don't want to be penalized or de-indexed). However there are some exceptions - for example, if the site that is linking to you is irrelevant or is in a bad neighborhood, the link will probably not help you much. Additionally, there are many factors which would effect the importance given to a backlink - such as the Page Rank of the site linking to you, the number of outgoing links on that page, etc. Two rules I try to follow: 1. Have valuable content so that you are always linking to something that people (and search engines) would want to find. 2. Never get backlinks only "for the sake of backlinks." Even if there were no search engines, would you leave that comment and link to your site, so that people who were interested in what you had to say would follow your link? Then, leave the link! On your own sites, don't link another site (particularly without the nofollow) unless you are recommending or vouching for that site. Check that the site has good content before linking to it. Obviously with contextually-based ads such as Adsense, one can't control every link. But these are nofollow links anyway, and the ads are listed as "sponsored" so that you are not "vouching" for those sites. @Anthony – good question. No one but an authorized Search Engine employee can really tell you for sure what a search engine does and doesn’t do, and even they are not permitted to tell you everything.

As a general rule of thumb, one can expected that one will be credited for links that do not contain the “nofollow” attribute. Paid advertising links are nofollow as long as the advertiser is following Google’s Webmaster guidelines (which they should, if they don’t want to be penalized or de-indexed).

However there are some exceptions – for example, if the site that is linking to you is irrelevant or is in a bad neighborhood, the link will probably not help you much. Additionally, there are many factors which would effect the importance given to a backlink – such as the Page Rank of the site linking to you, the number of outgoing links on that page, etc.

Two rules I try to follow:

1. Have valuable content so that you are always linking to something that people (and search engines) would want to find.

2. Never get backlinks only “for the sake of backlinks.” Even if there were no search engines, would you leave that comment and link to your site, so that people who were interested in what you had to say would follow your link? Then, leave the link!

On your own sites, don’t link another site (particularly without the nofollow) unless you are recommending or vouching for that site. Check that the site has good content before linking to it. Obviously with contextually-based ads such as Adsense, one can’t control every link. But these are nofollow links anyway, and the ads are listed as “sponsored” so that you are not “vouching” for those sites.

]]> By: Tracy http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/comment-page-1/#comment-5674 Tracy Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:34:36 +0000 http://buildingfromnothing.com/do-your-rss-feeds-link-to-your-site-or-do-they-link-somewhere-else/#comment-5674 I wondered about this before. Feedburner is useful but it did appear that the links were not coming back to me. I wondered about this before. Feedburner is useful but it did appear that the links were not coming back to me.

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