A popular idea circulating SEO circles is that you can boost your site’s rank in Google by submitting your RSS feed url to various RSS Submission Directories.
But does it actually work?
Yes, it may help a little but I don’t think it’s worth your time.
I explain more in this video:
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Thanks for sharing the video Nick. I used to submit my RSS feed to those directories but after reading this, it doesn’t seem to be worthy.
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Rss feeds might help you get a new site or post indexed faster, but I am not so sure that they will help much in terms of ranking. A backlink is a backlink and rss feeds tend to be dofollow, however I don’t think they provide much link juice in the long run. I might submit a few if you have nothing better to do, but I wouldn’t spend a lot of time with them.
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I really appreciate this strategy on how to promote your own site by sharing your RSS feed URL, but the problem I have encountered lately using this, some directories don’t accept RSS URL , what can be the cause of this?
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Uhh…my advice was that this was a waste of time.
Talking about me I believe in this and so do it also and thus it works also. So the point is each and every single thing concern to anything done is not an WASTE, it will give results no matter sometimes more or sometimes less but results is FINAL.
Anyway thanks a lot for this.
I don’t it helps much either. I do less things on RSS and focus on something else like blog commenting.
Every little bit counts!!
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I still submit my RSS feeds to different places and I because of that my traffic has increased quite a bit. I think it all depends on what niche you are in.
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Where do you submit to? Maybe you could do a guest post about it.
Thanks for sharing the video Nick.
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Seems to me that you would use RSS feeds to increase your reach rather than for link building? If more people know about your content, then you should get more traffic.
It’s an interesting point – is they grey hat? Are you submitting to RSS feed directories for the purposes of the search engine or would you do it anyway? It’s a difficult one isn’t it, you’re using the RSS feed as advertising, so I guess it would be okay. What did you think in terms of whether this is grey or black hat?
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It’s grey hat imo.
Rss is a magic way to rank your website. You can send your ss link to rss directories. Also you can feed twiter, facebook and some of other social media accounts by using your rss. So this social pages not only send you extra traffic but also google determines them as backlinks.
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I agree, Nick. I don’t see much good coming from RSS directories these days. I think time can be invested with better dividends elsewhere. I will still do a bit of this, but not waste a large chunk of time.
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I never spent too much time on RSS directories. I had not heard that submitting our RSS feeds may help in ranking. Seems to me, after viewing what you said in the video, that it is probably a waste of time. Thanks for going over this with us Nick.
- Robert
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