When is a Splog not a Splog?
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When it’s a link building take advantage of the worlds most prolific rss scraping tools, and just plain fun.
Ohh – It helps when it takes about 10 minutes to set up.
Step one: Install Wordpress. Yes, it’s fun and easy when your host has fantastico.
Step two:Â Set up the ping list – you can get the most current one at the wordpress site.
Step three: Install the feedwordpress plugin that is freely available. Add the feed to scrape from – be smart pick targetted feeds that match the domain we are using in step four.
Step Four: This is the only really technical part. You have to go hack your wp-includes/feed.php file and replace the the get_permalink() value with the domain you want to link to. If your smart your going to have it randomly select from a long list of related sites, interior pages, etc…. Yes you are going to have to get your feet wet with a little PHP coding. Nothing to taxing though I promise.
Step Five: Set up a cron job that runs the feedwordpress plugin on a regular basis.  It can be every hour (not recommended) or 3 times a day, whatever you want.
The benefits here are is that the scrappers are going to be a scrapin – and your gonna be a link building even when you aren’t there….. and your benefiting as many sites as you want.
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Hi there
I use a wordpress blog as my main site, and I want to include the rss feeds just like you said, but what you said is greek to me. Do you have a pdf or something that explains how to do this step by step. Sorry, not technically minded at all!
Louise
Louise,
I’d recommend getting a “php for dummies” book – well not really. Sams and o’reiley both make great low cost php books for beginners.
If your just looking to import feeds to your blogs there are dozens of solutions (both paid and free).
You can also use the “import” feature built right into wordpress to import rss feeds – and that takes zero knowledge. Just look for the option in your admin panel.
Louise,
This isn’t something you want to do on your “main site” – this is a black hat method that isn’t quite kosher. It should be done on throwaway sites only.