Another Sneaky Linking Method

In my “Blog Syndication Made Easy” post I told you about a simple method you  can use to automatically syndicate new posts to your blog to a whole host of Web 2.0 sites. In this post I’d like to expand on that and give you another sneaky method that you can use to automatically generate backlinks.

The basic idea of the method in my previous post involved using a combination of TwitterFeed and Ping.fm to get your posts syndicated. When you add a new post to your blog it will be picked up by TwitterFeed, sent off Ping.fm and then blasted all over the place - all on autopilot.

For this method, grab yourself a domain name and install a copy of PHPDug on it. In case you haven’t heard of it, PHPDug is a free script that lets you create a Digg-style social bookmarking site where users can submit stories as well as rate and comment on stories posted by others. Behind the scenes, however, it has one very powerful feature which we’ll be making good use of.

So what is this feature? Well, inside the PHPDug admin area you can add RSS feeds that stories are automatically imported from. So if you add your blog’s RSS feed then every time you post to your blog it’ll automatically be bookmarked on your PHPDug site giving you an extra link back to your site.

It doesn’t stop there though. You can take this further by taking advantage of the fact that PHPDug itself produces a RSS feed of all the latest posts. This means you have submit it to RSS directories and if you’re feeling especially sneaky you can syndicate it using the TwitterFeed and Ping.fm method for even more link juice.