If you have a “static” website that doesn’t dynamically update with RSS feeds, then you could be missing out on some traffic benefits. In this post, Jeet from Get Links Pro goes over how to make your content RSS feed accessible so you can use CommentLuv to promote your pages.
RSS was one of the most hailed technology 2 years ago. It promised to change how we read news, and how search engines determine new content and of course it completely changed how newsletters work.
The folks at CommentLuv used this powerful technique and made an amazing plugin that facilitates rewarding blog readers and commentators in a whole new way. Before this, blog commenting was not as exciting and an attempt to get a keyword rich backlinks to your site using blog comments was considered SPAM. Backlinks to internal pages on the blog was a distant dream.
However, CommentLuv changed that. It inserts commentators latest blog post with title in comment and thus rewards loyal readers and commentators. It uses an RSS feed on the blog to find the latest blog post.
But, what if you don’t have a blog, but a manually updated (static) website? Blogs get an extra link whenever they leave a comment because they have an RSS feed setup already. I will share a trick here that can be used to get an extra link for any site on CommentLuv enabled blog even if you don’t have a blog so to speak. I am using this trick for my directory list, and it works fine when CommentLuv is around.
Creating the XML file
The first step is to make a RSS feed file called feed.xml (or whatever you want. Just make sure the file extension is .XML) using the template given below. Choose a good title for your page that you want to show up in comments, it need not be same as the actual page title.
You should keep minimum 3 items for CommentLuv to recognize your RSS feed. You may choose to add more RSS tags like author, publish date, website title/URL etc.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <item> <title>Free Directory List</title> <link>http://www.directoryroll.com/new_directories</link> <pubDate>Sun, 7 March 2009 04:44:37 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Title 2</title> <link>http://yourdomain.tld/another-internal-page</link> </item> <item> <title>Title 3</title> <link>http://yourdomain.tld/third-page</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
Once you have made this file and have uploaded it to your server, you need feed auto-discovery process to recognize your feed. Assuming you uploaded the file at www.domain.tld/feed.xml you need following code in your homepage header.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Your Title" href="http://www.domain.tld/feed.xml" />
You may choose a different location or file name for the RSS feed we just prepared and should be substituting the RSS URL in following code accordingly.
Upload this change and you are now ready to get more than one link when you comment on CommentLuv blog. You can get links to any internal page you like. If you know a little bit of programming, you could randomize the link that will appear on the RSS feed.
If you have a blog on a separate domain or in a sub directory, you can also use the auto-discovery code on your main site to enable RSS discovery.
You could also register at CommentLuv and choose the feed to show for your comments. But nothing will give you as much control as this.
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I decided to add RSS to my site and get a popular rated feed back to my site when i first set it up. i would say it is a great idea and worth employing
I am still finding information of CommentLuv as I plan to install it on my blog.
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