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• 1 Bruce Mackay // Apr 8, 2009 at 4:12 pm

  Do I have to have a blog to use rss feed to fedage or feedto feedest

• 2 Jackie and Andrea // Apr 8, 2009 at 5:07 pm

  no you can use the rss feed from your lens, your lensmaster RSS feed, or any other rss feed you can find related to your campaign.

  Check for the orange box in your firefox address bar and you will know if there’s an rss feed associated with the page you are on.

  Jackie

• 3 carolyn collins // Apr 14, 2009 at 3:56 pm

  A little clarity on linking, please.
  If my Lens all link to my blog, blog to articles, articles to lens, where do I link to the sales page I am an affiliate for? Surely one doesn’t direct people to more than one place within a writing.

• 4 Jackie and Andrea // Apr 14, 2009 at 4:03 pm

  Your lenses should link to your affiliate product

  Your RSS module within squidoo should have your blog in it. ~ on your blog you can link to your lenses (maybe sidebar) as well as to your affiliate product within posts.

  Your articles should link to your lenses.

  You add your rss feed to your blog at the bottom of the lens just in case they haven’t clicked out on an affiliate link they go to more of your pages where you have the chance to get them to click out to an affiliate product there.

  jackie

• 5 Jackie and Andrea // Apr 14, 2009 at 4:06 pm

  This post is mostly about using your RSS feed from your lenses and you blogs to point people back to all your sites.

  You want to submit ALL your RSS feeds to these directories. Once they are in the directories they give you links back to your stuff, as well as people can find your pages via searching the directories, and sometimes your directory postings will make their way to the search engine results page driving traffic that way.

  Jackie

• 6 carolyn collins // Jun 7, 2009 at 4:55 pm

  Some of the RSS directories want their link on the front page of my blog. I presume this means in the sidebar.
  Is it a good thing to do and if so …how?

• 7 Jackie and Andrea // Jun 7, 2009 at 5:04 pm

  Hi Carolyn -

  It doesn’t hurt anything. Easy to do - wake the code they give you and pop it into a new text widget at the bottom on your navigation.

  Andrea

• 8 Jackie and Andrea // Jun 7, 2009 at 5:05 pm

  That’s take not wake

• 9 Larry Pitman // May 17, 2010 at 8:45 am

  Assume my post title is Cloth Diapers - Quit Buying Those Disposables.

  When I set up my lens RSS module, the post title appears in the module as Cloth Diapers ? Quit Buying Those Disposables.

  The - (dash) becomes a (?) question mark.

  Unfortunately, nearly all of my posts use a keyword followed by a dash, followed by other text….so the RSS module looks a little goofy.

  Any work-arounds for this?

• 10 Jackie and Andrea // May 17, 2010 at 8:53 am

  Hi Larry -

  Hmm - I’d say the best work around is “don’t sweat the small stuff”. Could be a browser incompatibility thing … ?

  Since your keyword is up front - it’s not gonna affect SEO I wouldn’t imagine.

  Andrea

• 11 Gary Materra // May 31, 2010 at 1:54 pm

  Ok, so using Firefox I click on the RSS image in the browser bar and it gives me a choice, subscribe to RSS 2.0 or Atom 0.3. What is that? I figure it’s the RSS one so I select that and again I get a drop down menu of how to subscribe. I can use Live Bookmarks, choose application, bloglines, my yahoo, or google. It also has a place to select to always use Live Bookmarks. If I select Live Bookmarks, it still doesn’t give me a url, just a title. Help!

• 12 Gary Materra // May 31, 2010 at 1:56 pm

  Maybe I’m supposed to be logged into my blog first. But when I do log in, there’s no RSS image in the browser bar.

• 13 Jackie and Andrea // May 31, 2010 at 2:57 pm

  When you click the RSS option ~ choose the google option. When you choose the google option it will ask if you want the reader or your homepage. While on that page look and you’ll see the link for your RSS feed. Here’s what it will look like and where it is: http://screencast.com/t/NWU3MmU2Nm

  Jackie

• 14 Gary Materra // May 31, 2010 at 3:17 pm

  Oh I see. If I select Atom instead of RSS and then Google, it looks like the url offered is the same except with /atom added at the end. Does it basically do the same thing? Thanks!

• 15 Gary Materra // Jun 1, 2010 at 12:44 am

  I have heard that it’s not a good thing for all the backlinks to be the same anchor text. But don’t you want the anchor text to be your exact keyword? If so, how can you vary it? As I’m submitting more articles to various places to market my blog, I’m wondering about this. Maybe it’s ok because the blog has six posts for six different keywords, so that would vary for the blog as a whole. Can you please comment? Thanks!

• 16 Gary Materra // Jun 1, 2010 at 1:41 am

  I went to the list of RSS directories you provided and it seemed like each of them wanted registration. I did this for the first several and then couldn’t find any place on any of them for submitting a feed. I could search for a feed, but not submit. Am I missing something?

• 17 Jackie and Andrea // Jun 1, 2010 at 8:28 am

  Everyone has an opinion about varying or not varying the anchor text. My personal opinion is that unless you are submitting to thousands of directories with the same anchor text it’s not a problem.

  As for the directories, also look for the word “suggest” ~ that’s where I found the submission area for syndic8, it was in the top navigation bar ~ you don’t always have to sign up either. Make sure you can’t add your link before you sign up for all these sites.

  http://screencast.com/t/YjQ1Y2QxMGYt

  Jackie

• 18 Gary Materra // Jun 3, 2010 at 7:08 pm

  Thanks for all your helpful answers! On going through the RSS list, the ones that require logging in, should I be creating a new login/profile for each campaign, especially if I’m using a different pen name each time? Would people really see a name with the RSS feed? I’d appreciate your thoughts…thanks!

• 19 Jackie and Andrea // Jun 3, 2010 at 7:10 pm

  You can use the same account every time. The name of the person who wrote the site doesn’t matter ~

  Jackie

• 20 Ron Endom // Jun 13, 2010 at 6:36 pm

  OK, I posted the RSS feeds to two directories. Getting ready to post to three article directories. Jennifer suggest to use original content. Would articles from my lens be original or do I write brand new stuff? Also linking out using targeted anchor text from articles, do I link articles to squidoo lens and the squidoo will link back to affiliate page?

• 21 Jackie and Andrea // Jun 13, 2010 at 6:40 pm

  Your lens should always link to your affiliate product.

  for articles you’re going to write new content. You do not want to use content from your lens. Have you done the free ad blogs like 3stepads and writersblockunblocked yet? Those are much easier than the articles. You’ll only need a paragraph or two with your link in it.

  Your links from your articles will point back to your lens ~ using the keyword you are targeting on your lens as the anchor text of the link (the words you click on in the link).

• 22 Adrienne Lecky // Nov 10, 2010 at 3:51 pm

  My RSS feed on my squidoo lens seems to be down - over the last 2 days everytime I click on it it says that the internet can not display it

• 23 Adrienne Lecky // Nov 10, 2010 at 3:57 pm

  I have been writing a blog at Hub and I added a link module which has given me the text from one of my squidoo modules - would this be seen as duplicate and should I not use it.? How would I like otherwise? thanks

• 24 Jackie and Andrea // Nov 10, 2010 at 4:08 pm

  What are you trying to use lens rss feed for? Directories? I’m just curious. The RSS feed talked about in this post is the RSS feed from the free blog created ~ you want to add that to your lens and to the directories.

  The lens rss feed is not going to be very helpful to submit places because you won’t be doing much updating to your actual lens ~ which means there won’t be any updates to your rss feed.

  Regarding your hub I would suggest you create a link using html in a text module. So your link uses your targeted keyword in the anchor text and is within related content.

  But to answer your question ~ no that isn’t something you need to worry about regarding duplicate content.

  Jackie

• 25 Adrienne Lecky // Nov 10, 2010 at 4:26 pm

  Oh ok i think i was getting a little mixed up. I thought it would be helpful to add the RSS from my squidoo lens to the hub blog - so i wont bother with that.
  i did do this lesson on RSS feeds ( believe it or not) my retention is very poor - so do i need to worry if my squidoo lens RSS is saying it cant be displayed - does that mean it isnt working?

• 26 Jackie and Andrea // Nov 10, 2010 at 4:41 pm

  I wouldn’t worry about it. Did you click the little RSS icon near the top of your lens? I clicked one of mine and it opened up just like it should. Your lens is published right? AND if you haven’t made any updates to the lens there’s probably nothing to show in the RSS feed. The RSS feed shows each time you update the content and if you haven’t done there’s probably nothing to show up in your feed.

  Jackie

• 27 Adrienne Lecky // Nov 10, 2010 at 4:50 pm

  Yes I have published and yes i am sure i have updated because these were some things i hadnt quite got right so went back with a fresh mind and sorted them later. So should I just leave that and not worry about it? or do i need to make sure it is working and if so how do i do that?

• 28 Jackie and Andrea // Nov 10, 2010 at 4:59 pm

  I wouldn’t worry about it. Your not really going to be doing a bunch of updating, and your traffic will probably be all one off traffic. If you were building something where you’d have people coming back over and over I’d worry about it, but not for this purpose. If you’re really concerned you can ask in the squidoo forum and they might be able to help.

  Jackie

• 29 Adrienne Lecky // Nov 10, 2010 at 5:10 pm

  thanks Jackie - I appreciate your help, it sure is reassuring knowing your are there. :-))