Link Exchange and Yahoo Pipes

Link exchange and Yahoo pipes have a really great potential to be combined. And I am going to prove it in this post.

What are Yahoo Pipes?

According to the quote from Yahoo web site pipe is 'interactive feed aggregator and manipulator; using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.' But behind this shy definition stands new potential.

Imagine that now you can gather RSS feeds from different web sites and make then searchable under different parameters in a very simple visible form. With the help of visual constructor you can create your simple (but not primitive) search engines that will be focused to the feeds that you choose. And you don't need having big programming talents to make it work. You save it as your own Yahoo pipe and now every visitor of this pipe can submit necessary data and get result from the feeds of this pipe.

How Can this Help My Link Exchange?

Keep in your mind that Yahoo pipe is kind of search engine that searches the feeds that you need. Now this is real case example of how you can get extra boost to your link exchange directories with new Yahoo technology.

• Grab all RSS feeds URLs of your link exchange directories. If your directories don't have RSS feeds, than you are still in the 20th century. Today it is almost a must to have it, and there are many link exchange scripts and tools (even free link exchange scripts) that have RSS feed which is automatically updated with every new link in the directory.
  
• Now - take all these feed URLs into your Yahoo pipe. This means you created your own searchable base, base of your link exchange directories.
  
• Then using specific Yahoo Pipes modules create rules for searching the base. People can search by topic of links, or title and description, etc.
  

That's it. You have your own Yahoo pipe. This innovation is being nicely promoted by Yahoo, so it's not your problem to attract people to Yahoo pipe. And when they are there - they will use your pipe form to find good partners. If you fit their demand, it means you got new link partners.

In the next post I will show you how this can be possible in real action, step by step, so make sure to have your Yahoo pipe account registered by that time to follow me.