Comments on: How to Enhance your Blog's SEO and Attract Relevant Traffic in One Easy Step

By: The Best of 2007

The Best of 2007 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:20:03 +0000

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By: Greg May

Greg May — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:03:42 +0000

RSS widgets are now working. Weird.

By: Greg May

Greg May — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:15:37 +0000

Aaron,

The WordPress RSS widget doesn;t seem to accept the RSS URLS generated by either the Google Blawg Search or the Technorati search. The widget displays an error message. I know the widget works because it works fine if I use a blog’s feed URL. Are you aware of this or do you know how I can get around it?

By: Roma

Roma — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:38:09 +0000

One of the best way to find relevant posts for me is using Blogpulse or Icerocket, if find it gives me fare better and targeted results than google blog search

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:49:27 +0000

as someone trying to get more traffic, I really appreciate you writing this blog posting. I have read through it twice now and i will apply some of your tactics. Thanks

By: Rusty

Rusty — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:37:50 +0000

And don’t forget to do your Article Marketing too.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:40:58 +0000

Thanks for sharing this cool little trick I will give it a go because my tech blog http://www.britec.co.uk/techblog/ is very new and needs traffic.

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By: Fran6

Fran6 — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:03:58 +0000

Good idea Aaron ! I think it is a good opportunity for bloggers interested in your topic to stay longer on your website via that RSS widget. I mean, they know where to get infos on the market…Until they get the feed too !! ;-) But that is interesting for backlinks, for sure !!!

By: infonote

infonote — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:47:05 +0000

You can use Google news alerts to achieve the same thing.

By: Darren McLaughlin

Darren McLaughlin — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:07:45 +0000

Nice idea. Simple and easy to implement (I used Magpie). Thanks.

By: rejewvenator

rejewvenator — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:46:10 +0000

This is a great idea for my niche blog. Aside from the SEO benefits, a tight keyword search on Google Blog search is actually a value-added piece of content for my readers! Thanks again!

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:06:57 +0000

I'm not overly familiar with MT. A quick search might provide some answers. You could always use Feedburner to burn the feed you want, but that might be frowned on since it's not yours. However, then Feedburner has widgets to display the feeds on a website. There's also services which you can submit a feed to and it will give you javascript to kick it out in HTML. Feedroll is on e. To be clear though, I'm not advocating any of these solutions. I'm merely pointing out options.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:11:37 +0000

Aaron, you mentioned that this is a possibility within MT as well. Any ideas on how one would go about this or examples of plugins that may be available.

By: engtech

engtech — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:05:06 +0000

It’s also not spamming because if you’re using an RSS widget you don’t send out trackbacks when linking.

They have to see it in a google inbound search or a technorati search.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:06:39 +0000

Yeah I’m thinking of turning off trackback listings

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:04:48 +0000

And of course the very first comment you get was a thieving content scraper. Figures.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:24:10 +0000

It’s a reflex, Phillip. I understand. ;)

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:23:23 +0000

And it’s not like it’s a new concept. Mainstream Media has been doing it forever on their websites, showing “elsewheres”, etc.

By: Philip JÃ¤genstedt

Philip JÃ¤genstedt — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:22:57 +0000

I agree that this might be useful for niche blogs with a clear topic. I call it spam because it is automated and by the description only serves the purpose of increasing google ranking and traffic. Both of those are things I want too, so calling it spam might have been a bit nasty, hehe.

By: Jim Turner

Jim Turner — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:12:10 +0000

Philip,

It is also a great tool to offer your readers to read about industry news or information that they otherwise might not have found otherwise. You probably are using a feed reader yourself, but for many blog readers, they have no idea what is being offered out there related to feed readers and on topic posts. For niche bloggers this is even more valuable.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:04:31 +0000

Philip, I don’t see this as spamming incoming links because it’s relevant. It’s related to SEO because of the weight given to relevant outbound links.

By: Philip JÃ¤genstedt

Philip JÃ¤genstedt — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:02:16 +0000

This trick may work, but I don’t see how it’s related to search engine optimization. I am however hesitant about using it, it’s basically spamming people’s incoming links and hoping to catch a few peoples attention.

By: Jim Turner

Jim Turner — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:57:42 +0000

I’d love to have this plugin for clients Jonic!

By: Jonic

Jonic — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:47:40 +0000

Nice idea… Just spotted it at the top right there…

Perhaps a plugin is in order? Man, I find myself saying that a little too often… I haven’t made a new plugin in months!