Saturday, July 19, 2008

SEO Tools -- Submit’em Now & RSS Feed Creator

Every blog comes with RSS feeds. This is a way for your readers to get updated every time you update your blog. For SEO purposes, RSS feeds are amazing.

The tool called Submit’em Now is an RSS feed submission tool that you can get for FREE at their site. It is a Firefox browser plugin and is very easy to install, the browser basically does it for you. It comes loaded with 113 RSS directories that you can submit your feed to. This results in great backlinks for your blog.

The first thing you do is set up your project. Then you simply click the next button to begin the submission process. Some sites take longer than others, but I’ve been able to complete a submission in 30 – 40 minutes. Remember that RSS feeds are on ALL blogs. This includes Myspace,Wordpress, and Blogger. There are a few sites that you may not think of that have RSS feeds, as well. Squidoo and Social Bookmarking sites have RSS feeds for you. This will increase the backlinks to your sites and the power of the links that point to you from them. These simple things will separate you from the competition. You should have an RSS feed for your regular website. I recommend an article feed, it works well. You can go two these two sites to make one for free. RSS Feed Creator and RSS Creator.

Social Bookmarking Tools - Onlywire & Socializer

Social Bookmarking is basically saving a website to your favorites, but posting it to the internet instead. Many of these sites us a “no-follow” attribute for links, but not all of them. It will help with traffic and SEO by using the tools above.

Onlywire is an automated social bookmarking tool. It has 18 sites built into it. You take a bookmarklet and add it to your toolbar in Internet Explorer or Firefox. You click on the bookmarklet and it takes you to Onlywire. Onlywire takes the URL and the title information from the page. Feel free to modify the title, as that will be the anchor text linking to your site. You then choose tags that describe the page you are bookmarking. Onlywire has you separate tags by a space, so you need to cover all your bases when it comes to phrases. I normally create one word with no spaces (affiliatemarketing) and separate with a hyphen (affiliate-marketing) to ensure proper coverage. Each tag has its own page. That page will contain a link back to your site! I recommend using 10 – 20 tags per bookmark. You need to include a description of the link in the comments box. Your description should include any valid keywords you can include, while continuing to make sense. Click on the submit button and you just created over 100 backlinks! The Socializer is a website that helps you bookmark over 50 sites. Be sure to look at each site individually to make sure you separate your tags properly. Some use commas, while others use spaces. Make sure you don’t double bookmark your sites. I keep a small post-it with the sites onOnlywire to make sure I don’t waste any time double bookmarking sites.