Setting up a self hosted WordPress Blog is about the quickest and easiest way to get a site up and running. Next comes the generating the traffic you need to get visitors t your blog so they can subscribe to your list or buy what you’re recommending. One of the most effective ways of getting your site to the top of the search engine results pages is by getting a lot of backlinks to your blog.

A creative guy named Andy Fletcher has created a new plug-in that makes it easy to start building backlinks for every post you make called WP Syndicator. What it does is make it push button simple to get the content from your blog to up to 15 Web 2.0 properties including WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, Vox, LiveJournal, Tumblr, Mulitply, Plurk, FriendFeed, Xanga, Identica, Blellow and Bright Kite.  It will also send a tweet about your latest blog post at the same time.

What the WP Syndicator plug-in does is syndicate an excerpt from your blog post onto up to 15 Web 2.0 properties all in one easy click. What gets posted to the Web 2.0 sites is an excerpt from your post and you can set the length to whatever you want.  By default, it will grab the first 500 characters which will usually average about 100 words.  With that excerpt, will be a link back to your blog that will be “Read more…” or you can set it to the keyword anchor text you want.  With the micro-blogging sites, such as Twitter, instead of the anchor text, it will have a shortened bit.ly link.

Now, you do have to take a bit of time in the initial set up of your plug-in.  You need to create accounts at each of the sites, of course.  You can do this right through the WP Syndicator interface as the menu will take you through to all the places that you need to sign up for the various sites.  If you get stuck at all, there are some very handy videos that will guide you through the less obvious spots.  This will take you from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on how fast you type and how fast you can get through it all.

Once the initial set up is completed, it’s push button simple to syndicate your latest post. And one of the best features is that you can choose which sites to syndicate to with each post.  For example, Identical and Blellow only take certain kinds of content so you wouldn’t want to syndicate a post that will be seen as spam to those sites.  You can easily turn those two sites off before you have WP Syndicator do its thing.

So what does this mean?  More traffic from those who read your material on the Web 2.0 sites and wish to read the rest of your article.  They’ll gladly click through to your blog to see what else you have to say.  More subscribers, because once they’re there, you will make sure they see your opt-in form, right?  And of course, more backlinks that show the search engines how popular your blog is. Higher rankings in the search engines and more free traffic. Click here for more links and traffic with WP Syndicator…