RSS Content for your website

Benefits

Taking RSS content feeds from other websites and using them to update your own pages provides two benefits:

• Fresh relevant content for your website visitors
• A higher search engine ranking, due to the changing content (see article by Gecko).

Software Tools

And can be done in a couple of hours using software such as:

• Carp - Caching RSS Parser - free cut down version or $29.97 full version software, used on my sites.
• Express RSS, professionally packaged and promissing ease of use, but costs $67 and does not seem to do anything that Carp does not.
• RSS Equalizer at $97 is another glossy package, that claims in addition to provide built-in keyword tracking.

See below for a syndicated content example on this site, done in 30 minutes using Carp, including having to rename all the index.htm links to index.php.

Note: do NOT use Javascripts for displaying syndicated content, since the search engines will not be able to read that content and so you will lose many of the benefits.

Content Sources

Use the same search engines and their blog based equivalents that you would normally use.

Be sure to only choose high quality feeds that are relevant to your site's target audience and keywords.

General Blog Search Engines

• Google Blog Search

• Blog Search Engine.com

Subject Area Specific

Specific to the field your website addresses, eg for IT development:

• Ttoolbox, see blog below
• Chordata quality-rated RSS & Atom feed directory

Blog News Based

• Feedster
• The Truth Laid Bear, Blogosphere Ecosystem
• Technorati, Currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media, Technorati claims to be the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now.

Articles

• Two simple steps to higher search engine placement
• RSS solves all these common website problems

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