Reviews: Share A Post - Blog Post Syndication

Posted by Ditto Rahmat | May 22, 2008 .

Yesterday, I got an invitation for beta testing on a blog post syndication service called Share A Post. The invitation was from Jonathan Leger, one of the top SEO and Internet Marketing Expert, and also the mastermind behind GistWeb - one of my favorite web application for brainstorming content producing.

Share A Post basically lets you do 2 things, here’s a direct quote from Jon’s announcement :

1) You can submit your WordPress blogs and allow other users to
post the content of your posts to their own blogs (while also
linking back to your original blog post).

This is GREAT for getting tons of links to each quality blog post
on your blog. Simply submit your feed and add ShareAPost to
your Ping list in WordPress, and before you know it you’ll have
a swarm of folks linking back to your blog posts.

Now, you KNOW what that will do to the ranking of your posts, right?
Of course you do! They’ll go through the roof!

You get to pick the keywords that the other blogs link back to
you with as well. Simply use Technorati-style tags in your
blog posts and ShareAPost will automatically pick those keywords
up make sure the blogs that republish your posts link back to you.

How does it make sure that those blogs link back to you? Because
ShareAPost DOES THE POSTING! Yes, using WordPress’ built-in
XMLRPC technology, ShareAPost creates the post and submits it to
the other blogs in seconds.

That brings us to point #2:

2) ShareAPost gives you access to a WEALTH of content to post on
your own WordPress blogs, and lets you add that content in SECONDS.

All you do is setup the blogs in your ShareAPost account, and then
browse/search the directory looking for posts that you think are
a good match for your own blog.

Once you’ve found one, you click the Publish link and select which
of your blogs you want to send the post to, and whether or not you
want to post the full text or just a summary. You also have the
option to have the post added to your blog in Draft mode so you can
go in and post-date it, etc.

It only takes a few seconds per post! In one hour you could really
fill up some blogs with great content.

Conclusion

Currently Beta Testers are wanted and it’s free to join - at least for now. So if you want to add some links to your blog or maybe you’re out of content ideas (by the way, the previous post before this one, is actually generated by Share A Post ), now would be the right time to join Share A Post. I really do hope Jon decides to keep it free for good :).

Oh yeah, Andy Beard also reviewed this in his blog and he also put up some nice tips on how to get around the duplicated content problem on most syndication types of services and how to arrange tag to improve your listing on Share A Post.