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RSS for better SEO

Figure 7: Feeds Module

RSS will enhance your SEO efforts by helping you build more backlinks. As you know, the more

backlinks you have to your site, the more Google and the other search engines will trust it and push it up

in the search ranking results. The simplest way to use RSS for SEO purposes is to use Joomla’s

syndication feeds module to set up RSS feeds for your content and post the feed links on your website

and social media channels (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.), as well as on some of the various content

aggregator sites that exist on the web, like feedage.com, etc. You can also share your RSS links with

partners and other non-competing sites – as long as you constantly provide relevant and fresh content,

many organizations might be willing to subscribe to and display your feed on their website, thus helping

you build more backlinks.

IN CONCLUSION

Using all of the features highlighted above will provide a fast and easy way for you to establish and

maintain the right SEO practices for your website. However, result-driven SEO is not just about titles

and images. It starts before you even begin to build your site and is an on-going project that needs to be

managed regularly and measured for success. Here are a few great resources that I would like to

recommend. They will help you learn everything that you need to know to become your very own free

and effecive SEO consultant:

This is a very useful 8-part training series on keywords

by wordtracker.com, which is free. It

introduces you to the concept of keywords and explains why SEO starts with deﬁning your main,

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