UPDATE: I now have a different opinion on the Blog Engage premium membership service. I’m no longer part of the service. I explain my opinion in detail in this post:

Blog Engage: Why I Cancelled My Premium RSS Syndication

You’re free to try this service, just that I’m not endorsing it any more.

This post is not deleted to respect the comments.

Content syndication - Hope you know about it. If not let me explain very briefly:

Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary or update of the website’s recently added content (for example, the latest news or forum posts).

I am sure that content syndication is picking up momentum recently and it is one of the most popular methods to promote your blog. Before I introduce you to something amazing let me quickly to a recap of the benefits of content syndication:

1. First of all you get your content out there to more eyeballs. Just apart from the people who visit your blog, you make your content available at many places. This means that you softly attack (well not literally) people from various places so that they can’t miss you!

2. Since content syndication works with feeds, you are working with something automated and something which is (almost) instantaneous.

3. Content syndication produces positive effects on search engine rankings by building backlinks.

4. Your search engine visibility is marvellous. Since the content syndication sites are popular, well ranked and well indexed sites by the search engines, your syndicated content gets on to search engine results within minutes and gives you a great exposure.

5. The RSS channel is secure so that there is no chance for spammers to come through.

Now, content syndication can be done the hard way and the easier way. Indeed all bloggers do a bit of mix of both ways.

The hard ways of content syndication:

These are nothing but manual ways of doing it - creating accounts in web 2.0 properties, and syndication directories and then manually submitting your content over there for syndication. Well do not under estimate the power of manual submission. It has both pros and cons of its own. In the context of what we are discussing now, I will point out one pro and one con of this method.

Pro:

Manual submissions are more “real” and lively. This aspect surely misses in automated submissions. Even with Twitter, there is a lot of difference when we manually write a tweet with our link and when our link is posted via an automated tool. So you get a feel!

Con:

Time consuming! Ya, if you have a handful of places to syndicate your content, even that is time consuming given you have other blogging activities to take care of.

The easy ways of content syndication:

OK I admit that these are automated methods. They do have the con discussed above, that it misses the reality “feel”. But still it is a time saver and you don’t have to bother about “remembering” to do it. I think “remembering” is the most challenging part rather than making time for it

So I here is where I am going to tell you a way to do it automatically AND with the reality feel! Interested?

Syndicate your Blog at Blog Engage

Blog engage is a social media and/or content syndication site for bloggers. I really can’t tell you if it is either a social media site or a content syndication site because it has the features of both and it really depends upon how you use the site.

Let me tell you a couple of things:

1. The site has chat, group chat, voting, commenting, and all kinds of nifty stuff, which pretty much makes it a social media site.

2. The site also publishes content from your blog (note that this is not content duplication. People either submit content manually or they pay for syndication membership).

You now know why I call it social media and/or content syndication site.

Automatic with reality touch

When you become a RSS syndication member, depending upon your membership, your site is crawled at regular intervals and your posts are submitted/syndicated to Blog Engage. It is open for people to vote and if you get more votes, you get on to page 1. That is the math.

Your content can be submitted to specific categories, and the number of categories allowed depends upon your membership. The details of membership can be found here.

The secret is with Blog Engage’s RSS syndication, your content gets automatically submitted to Blog Engage site under your account. So your content appears to be actually submitted by you, but you haven’t made even a click to do that!

The benefits in a nutshell are:

1. Build backlinks - because your content is automatically submitted to Blog Serp, Top Blogged, RSS Leak, Blogger Ink, Tag Serp, and Blogger Tag.

2. Earn money - Blog Engage shares Google Adsense revenue.

3. Promotion on Facebook and Twitter - Get automatically tweeted to 2500+ followers and shared with 450+ friends.

Isn’t that super cool? Now what are you waiting for? Go for it and save time; you could get more sleep too!