One of the things I like the most about WordPress 3.x is its merging of the MU code. I have the henshaw.me domain running on WordPress 3.x with MU enabled, which allows me to easily create new sites with subdomains. For example, this site is using jon.henshaw.me (and I have the root domain redirecting to it). I also have other subdomains setup for family members. The neat thing about being able to easily create subdomains with this type of WordPress install, is that you can get creative.
I thought it would be neat to create a subdomain that aggregates my blog and social media streams – so I did! I created Jon Henshaw’s Web Stream on the subdomain stream.henshaw.me. I then used John Lessnau‘s awesome plugin, RSS Doodle. RSS Doodle aggregates RSS feeds from different sources, and does so in a non-spammy way (which is why I like it).
I aggregated three different streams:
This interlinking may be seen as questionable from an SEO perspective, but it doesn’t really concern me all that much. I’m not going for backlink love, which I wouldn’t really get anyways, because all of my sites are obviously related to each other (IPs, hosting, footprints, etc…). Instead, I’m going for solidifying site relationships with my name. I’m making it painfully obvious to search engines which sites, including social media profiles, belong to me. The only other way I could scream it louder, would be to use XFN attributes – something I might do in the future.