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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.bigoven.com/cs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Announcements</title><link>http://www.bigoven.com/cs/forums/7.aspx</link><description>General announcements from the BigOven team, including system and feature upgrades.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960)</generator><item><title>Food Bloggers -- Get Visitors and Exposure from BigOven.com!</title><link>http://www.bigoven.com/cs/forums/thread/8663.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 18:34:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1f1dbe51-adff-4425-92d8-f45f9f65f648:8663</guid><dc:creator>stevemur</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.bigoven.com/cs/forums/thread/8663.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.bigoven.com/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=7&amp;PostID=8663</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Are you a Food Blogger?&amp;nbsp; Want more traffic to your food blog?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;NEW:&amp;nbsp; BigOven now offers automatic Linkbacks, on every recipe and Food Glossary page.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Simply by grabbing a short piece of HTML from BigOven and placing it on your blog, your food-blog post will automatically be reciprocally linked from the appropriate page on BigOven.com, and you’ll gain more traffic.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For instance, if you&amp;#39;re writing about a dish that uses rice, and want your readers to know about rice, visit the &lt;a href="http://www.bigoven.com/whatis.aspx?id=rice"&gt;BigOven Food Glossary entry on Rice&lt;/a&gt;, and grab the linking code, and place it on your post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bigoven.com:80/whatis.aspx?id=rice"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bigoven.com/trackbackimage.aspx?id=rice&amp;amp;type=GLOSSARY&amp;amp;format=medlogo&amp;amp;th=rice.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BigOven will notice it right away, and, once an editor here reviews your blog post and ensures its relevant to the topic at hand, we’ll link back to you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The same holds true for &lt;i&gt;recipes&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;How Might You Use It?&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Let’s say you’ve got a blog on easy, budget cooking, and you’re writing about the start of the grilling season.&amp;nbsp; You want to highlight a couple easy grilled chicken recipes for your readers.&amp;nbsp; If you’ve discovered the “Easy Grilled Chicken Marinade” recipe, you might find that an appropriate one to include in your blog post.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Simply visit that recipe’s page on BigOven, scroll to the “&lt;i&gt;Bloggers, have you written about ‘Easy Grilled Chicken?&lt;/i&gt;” callout (at this writing, you’ll find it about three quarters down the page), and click on the “Add Your Link” section.&amp;nbsp; Then, choose which &lt;b&gt;Linkback Badge&lt;/b&gt; you’d like, and place the HTML on your page.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;That’s it!&amp;nbsp; In a day or so, BigOven will start linking back to your blog, driving traffic to you, and increasing your search engine presence.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;(BigOven serves millions of unique users each month.)&lt;/p&gt;

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