RSS Feeds vs Hand Written Blogs
 

I've been wondering about this since last week. I've done some research on some boards and I know some blogs will only do link trades with the ones that are hand written. However I did notice that people with rss feeds of course update their blogs more often. Are there any real benefits to rss feeds other then automated updates?

The biggest advantage in a one-person operation is scale; you can create an auto-updated network of blogs that grow on autopilot. The right combination of software and you can change text and input link codes automatically. Essentially it's a time saver. Do auto-updated blogs rank well in SERPS? Yep. You just gotta choose the right niche, right keywords, right feeds and do a little on and off-site seo.

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If I'm going to use a wordpress blog to target a hard to rank for niche then I opt for hand-written posts. Why? Because there's more of a need to taylor your content to the niche.

That's a pretty good response thanks Kristian

In my opinion you should go for both ways, especially when an auto-blog can be setup in few hours or less if you have all ingredients. As far as I know there are many out there combining quality with quantity, they might have 1-2-10 blogs hand written, updated regularly and probably few/tens/hundrends/thousands of auto blogs (depending on each webmaster). Also there are many mixing auto posting with hand writing.
There are benefits having quantity that’s still a fact, but with so many going on auto mode, it’s probably getting harder for everyone.
Choosing feeds that are not oversaturated, doing some smart optimization to it, adding some custom text to the post title and body … might help to get a good position on SE even with auto blogs. The benefits are obvious – more time for promoting – hundreds/thousands of pages indexed by SE – a source to push up your main blogs – using them for ABC linking and so on.

It’s just my opinion nothing more. Cheers, Johnny

Sorry Chef86, I've seen Kristian reply just after I hit the post reply button...

you if decide to do hand-written blogs then go mainstream, adult is FUCKED and isn't going to get any better

hand written anyday

absolutely correct

Great post. Thanks, Kristian.