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Feeder sites are remotely hosted websites, housed by third party service providers who offer a place for people to create webpages, develop blogs, and share their article content. Popular places to build feeder sites are Squidoo, Hubpages, Blogger.com, and WordPress.com. When these feeder sites are built on multi user sites like Squidoo and Hubpages, they are deemed to be authority sites by the search engines so you benefit from the “authority connection” you are given when you submit content that includes a link back to your site.
When I develop a site for the first time–usually it is a blog–after I do the keyword research and select the keywords for which I want to rank, I order my articles. At least one article for each of the keywords is written so that I will have a unique article to use. After I receive the unique article and do my thing to it–I usually end up editing them extensively–I put the article through a spinner so I will end up with enough articles to use on my feeder sites. I also check the articles manually to make sure that they can stand alone as a unique article.
Fortunately, one of my outsourcers is very good at building feeder sites so he gets the task to do so. You should see the spreadsheet that has all of the feeder sites listed. It is huge. For each money site blog, there are six feeder sites. Taking care of all of these sites is like having a ten acre garden just to produce vegetables for your home. Feeding and watering them is quite a task.
Some of these satellite sites are as nice as any blog you could find. The multi-user blog platforms like weebly, zimbio, blinkweb, vox, wetpaint and others have all been upgrading. When you build a blog there now, they have really nice templates and for a nominal yearly fee you can upgrade so that you have a lot of choice as to site design. As a result, your satellite blog looks as good as your money blog.
It is one of my monthly tasks to have someone tend this garden and so the backinks and traffic that they generate continue. A part of this feeder strategy is that you have to social bookmark, submit rss to aggregators, and ping their feeds. For Squidoo and Hubpage, it is a good idea to visit the sites of others and make comments so that they will come and comment on yours. If you do this, their effectiveness increases. The other multi-user blogs have a set up that is similar and you also can visit other sites in your niche and comment. It is also a good idea to do article marketing and put links on them to your feeder sites. There is a whole strategy how to optimize this work.
