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Newbie question on RSS Feeds

by Premafx
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Hi Guys,

I have this program that submits RSS feeds to multiple sites. I was wondering what the dangers were of doing such a thing. Since the descriptions and titles are essentially the same for the feeds submitted to those sites, isn't that duplicate content for those links?

One other question, assuming you just created a brand new website, how long would you wait before sending out those feeds to those sites if you had such a service? Thanks guys, appreciate it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
    No it is not duplicate content. Duplicate content is when you have the same content in more than one page on your website.

    It is never too early to begin promoting your site. Start right now. Some of your links will get picked up by the search engines and counted and some will not. And some of the RSS directories will take months to approve your submissions and some never will. And some will never acknowledge whether they do or not.
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    • Profile picture of the author Premafx
      Originally Posted by JMichaelZ View Post

      No it is not duplicate content. Duplicate content is when you have the same content in more than one page on your website.

      It is never too early to begin promoting your site. Start right now. Some of your links will get picked up by the search engines and counted and some will not. And some of the RSS directories will take months to approve your submissions and some never will. And some will never acknowledge whether they do or not.
      Thanks for the help. If i may ask another question. Should you start building links immediately after your new website goes up or would you wait a while before starting. I've read some people advising two weeks to a month before shooting off links. Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        People have lots of differing opinions on this idea of building links too fast. it has been my experience thta I have never built links too fast for my sites to get ranked well or indexed quickly.

        I suspect there is some kind of limit on how fast these could be done, but I have no idea what it would be. Unless you are running multiple instances of something like scrapebox or senuke or something, it is virtually impossible for you to build links super fast anyway.

        If you stick to regular linkbuilding ideas, articles, blog comments, posts on your own blog for a couple of months and then change your strategies after that, you will more than likely be OK.

        And in some instances, you may never need anything more than a well syndicated article or two.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeseocool
    I see no danger in submitting your RSS feeds to a lot of RSS aggregators using the same titles and descriptions. It will benefit a new site by helping Google index all your pages and at the same time avoiding a penalty by getting links to your feed and not to the site itself.

    I suggest you burn the feed using feedburner and submit the feedburner url to the RSS sites. You can also mix your feed with other related feeds using yahoo pipes and submit the newly created feeds as well. There are a lot of things to play around with when it comes to RSS feeds.
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