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4:11 am
January 27, 2012


Matt76Allen

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I see many blogs that have a "blogroll" that contains links to some of their favorite blogs or sites.  I was thinking about starting a new page on my site (not my money blog) that contains feeds via some sort of RSS reader for several of the PF blogs I like.  If I were to do this, should I ask for permission from the blogger to put his feeds up on my site?  Or, is this something that would be encouraged and appreciated without permission?

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4:40 am
January 27, 2012


Jeremy @ Personal Finance Whiz

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If you mean syndicating their content through their RSS feeds, I would definitely ask permission. But if you mean just doing a list of links to others' RSS feeds I don't see why that would be a problem. Though I don't really see that point of that. Why not just link to the site itself?

4:51 am
January 27, 2012


MoneyBeagle

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Yes, if you're going to 'reward' a blogger (which I consider blogroll additions) then a link back to their site is more valuable from a PageRank perspective than a link to their RSS feed, which most likely will end up giving the link juice to Google / Feedburner.

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5:25 am
January 27, 2012


Jason@LiveRealNow

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If you're posting a full feed, then you're a scraper/spammer that we all hate.  :)

 

Excerpts with links back wouldn't be bad.

7:02 am
January 27, 2012


MoneyIsTheRoot

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I had a blogger ask me about this over email the other day…as I understand it, it's just a link to the RSS feed… so my answer to that would be "go for it"…they arent reposting our content in anyway.

 

Though as Money Beagle stated above, I dont know that it gives us any link juice…so unless you have significant traffic that deviates from our core group of readers, I dont know how much help it would be… but its still a nice thing to do, so dont let me talk you out of it.

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11:48 am
January 27, 2012


Dividend Ninja

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Post edited 11:49 am – January 27, 2012 by Dividend Ninja


Backlinks (i.e. blogroll) = good

Duplicate Content (i.e. RSS Scraping – even a snippet) = bad

 

Matt76Allen – Definitely you would want to do backlinks to help your fellow bloggers. In fact if you scraped my feeds I would ban your IP. There is no advantage to scraping feeds since it causes duplicate content, which Google then penalizes both sites for – especially the scraper.

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10:21 pm
January 27, 2012


Andi B.

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What Dividend Ninja said. On my previous blog I had people occasionally let me know they'd added me their blogroll or a page of "Sites I Like," and I always thought it was a lovely compliment, even made me feel guilty that I wasn't set up to do the same. Generally I found out by looking at where my referrals were coming from in google analytics. In short, backlinks are always helpful.

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10:00 am
January 28, 2012


Matt76Allen

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Thanks everybody.  This does give me some clarification.  I guess what I was considering might be considered "scraping," and I don't want to be one of those bad guys.  What I had in mind was a short syndicated RSS reader with maybe a snippet, like the Title and maybe first few lines of a post.  Clicking on the feed would then of course lead to the original blog.  My purpose/intent was going to be mainly to benefit myself, so I could more easily scan through several blogs by looking at one page and click on only the stories that spark my interest.  Obviously, others could benefit from this as well. Not trying to steal content, just trying to create an easy one-page view way to see recent posts by several other bloggers without having to visit each and every blog.  

 

Plan B – maybe I will create the page with an example feed for my blog, then put out an invite through a new forum post for others who would like theirs included.  Not sure when I'll get to this though, as I will be spending a good portion of my weekend working on TurboTax.

 

Thanks again.  Any other suggestions are welcome.  

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10:05 am
January 28, 2012


Matt76Allen

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P.S. I always create links for posts that I read and like and include them in my weekend RoundUp post, so no lost (link) love there!  Just trying to find a better way to filter through and read posts from blogs I don't find myself visiting as much.

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5:40 am
January 29, 2012


ThadP @ thadthoughts.com

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Wow, this one (so far short) post has had excellent response from seasoned bloggers.  RSS scraping = bad, back links = good.  I get the part about the link juice, but this leads me to a different question.

 

How does encouraging people to subscribe to RSS feeds, which I think I understand is desirable, help us if the Googles or Feedburners get the feed juice?  

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5:47 am
January 29, 2012


Smart Wealth

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I agree with everyone's comments above, definitely ask the blogger, it is rewarding and a link back would help your site as well

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10:27 am
January 30, 2012


TightFistedMiser

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ThadP @ thadthoughts.com said:

Wow, this one (so far short) post has had excellent response from seasoned bloggers.  RSS scraping = bad, back links = good.  I get the part about the link juice, but this leads me to a different question.

 

How does encouraging people to subscribe to RSS feeds, which I think I understand is desirable, help us if the Googles or Feedburners get the feed juice?  

Encouraging people to subscribe to your RSS feed doesn't help you directly in regards to link juice.  It does help you retain readers who ideally will visit your actual site sometimes and perhaps even link to a post or two of yours that they like.  If people don't subscribe to your RSS there is a chance that they will forget your blog exists.  I know that I have read good blog posts and then when I wanted to read them again I'd forgotten what blog they were on.


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