RSS Feeds to help improve search engine ranking

[redbrad0]

What are your opinions to have RSS Feeds (XML) that will put fresh content on my pages to help get more information on my site that relates to the topic of my site?

Like lets say I have a cell phone company and I had a few RSS feeds for Cell Phones of the latest articles out on the internet? Do you think that would be helpful in any way to Search Engine Optimization?

[bethabernathy]

When is RSS blackhat? Can anyone point out spam penalties related to RSS? See:

http://www.trafficturbocharger.com/

:)

[redbrad0]

No one has any comments about using RSS/XML on sites to get more relative content on the sites?

[JohnQ]

Hey. well I took the rss feeds pretty far on my site, see http://ghostchild.com/news.php and our site has got alot of traffic as a result, so I'd say it's worth the time adding such content to your site.

The best source to integrate rss on a site that I could find is FEED2JS: http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/

That's what I used to make put the feeds on the site, it's php-based, converts rss to javascript.

JohnQ

[Mikkel deMib Svendsen]

The problem with that implementation is that it requires JavaScript. As most engines do not accept JavaScript you end up with results like this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22To+View+the+News,+you+require+Javascri pt+to+be+enabled%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&filter=0

Try and turn off JavaScript in your browser before you click through to any of the URLs in the above search result and you'll see what I mean.

So, I very much doubt that it's the content of your feeds that have improved your search engine visibility - unless your users search for "javascript to be enabled" :)

In order for RSS feeds to be effective in search engines you need to grab and include the feeds server side and then return pure HTML to the browsers and spiders.

You are running Apache and PHP/4.3.4 so there are plenty of easy and ready to use scripts out there that you can use. I am not very good with PHP but do a search and I am sure you'll find something.

For ASP I have had some good experience with http://ASPRSS.com

[Nick W]

Agree with Mikkel, worse than useless to bots ;)

There are plenty of php rss converters out there, if you know a little php its not hard to create one yourself...

I love RSS, both for producing and distributing content and for importing content. Once you get to grips with it, it rocks...

Nick

[redbrad0]

Thanks guys for your reply. The reason why I was asking was I have been working on a script to hopefully improve search engine ranking on my site. Basically the script goes out and gets the layout I specify and the RSS for the page and then it creates a page (html, asp or anytimeyou specify) and uploads it via FTP to my server. This way the script runs every XX amount of time so its fully automated for me and is always changing.

From what you guys have posted it sounds like its worth me completing the script to help in the Search Engine Game.

Any other comments?

[redbrad0]

For ASP I have had some good experience with http://ASPRSS.com

I have tried to goto this site but it appears either its down or a invalid URL. Does the URL work for you?

[Mikkel deMib Svendsen]

I had the same problem wiht asprss.com - try again later. I did actually manage to get in and grab the scripts :)