Theres a cheeky post on Digitalpoint that states by using identi.ca and its sister sites you can automate the re-posting of 100s of links back to your blogs from all over the world.
Aside from generating new links to new blog posts which is all good and well, the post also splits the target sites by country and if you’re into multilingual link dveelopment then this is sure to be a quick win!
Of course, the only ballache is signing up for all of the accounts.
Good Post!
What is your view on syndicating blog content to other sites? Does it create duplicate content issues that would weaken the originating sites or is it all good so long a the links point back to the main site?
Also, can I get your advice on the no follow / do follow issue at the moment. Is it best practice to no follow outbound, non-reciprocal links? What’s best for the almighty juice flow?!
Thanks dude :)
Syndicating content is fine as long as its not 100% syndication, in many cases Google will recognise the originator of the content and attribute juice there penalising the copiers.
The case for no follow is all but gone. Google doesn’t use no follow to allow you to hoard juice, instead it evaporates, so my advice is to kick it into touch and if intended for internal link manipulation I wouldn’t bother. To keep pages out of the index use the meta tag “noindex, follow” (check the other post on this site about it). If your concern is outbound links then simply moderate them and don’t let spammers drop links into comments etc – edit them out if you’re unsure. Reciprocal links are fine, just make sure you’re on the receiving end of the juice and getting more than you give – check the sources inbound links to make sure they’re pagerank isn’t self generated but is collected through links they receive i.e. they’ve got a lot of links from high juice sites. It might also be better to use MozRank as a metric as pagerank is being fudged more and more.
That’s great, thanks very much for your advice. You are a legend and I always enjoy keeping up with your blog. Good work bud.