Optimizing Your Blog For Syndication

[mandy]

What follows are some basic steps to optimize your content for syndication, as well as some more advanced techniques.

Basic Optimization

1. Offer full feeds - I am not going to argue about how this is good for subscribers. That argument has been debated almost to death. However if you want reputable sites to pick up your content, you need to give them an easy way to do it. Obviously they are not looking for excerpts. Meme Trackers that work on feeds rather than scraping content from your site will also attribute relevance better if you provide more content.

2. Image Alignment - lots of themes provide CSS for image alignment. It is useless as soon as your content is being read elsewhere. It doesn't take much code to align an image left or right and wrap text around it wherever your content is being read...

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