Hello Everyone,

I came across "RSS Feed Reader" that offers to bring RSS Feeds to Your Web
Pages - http://www.rssfeedreader.com/ .

They do this with a PHP insert and claim that it is good for SEO. You can
get titles of articles and/or descriptions as well.

The idea is to keep fresh content with relevant keywords on your pages.

Do you think that the addition of an RSS Feed like this on web pages will
help from an SEO viewpoint?

Thanks,

Bob

ergobob wrote:

> The idea is to keep fresh content with relevant keywords on your pages.
>
> Do you think that the addition of an RSS Feed like this on web pages will
> help from an SEO viewpoint?

It helps the feeder much more than the feedee if the content is
worthwhile. I don't know how much benefit there is in using syndicated
content.

RFM

Fritz M wrote:

> ergobob wrote:
>
>> The idea is to keep fresh content with relevant keywords on your
>> pages.
>>
>> Do you think that the addition of an RSS Feed like this on web pages
>> will help from an SEO viewpoint?
>
> It helps the feeder much more than the feedee if the content is
> worthwhile. I don't know how much benefit there is in using syndicated
> content.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%...filetype%3Arss

But even if it had 0 SEO value, SEO is about getting more relevant visitors
to your site, and a feed can help to get more returning visitors, and I
think returning vistors are quite relevant in many cases.

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John Bokma wrote:

> But even if it had 0 SEO value, SEO is about getting more relevant visitors
> to your site, and a feed can help to get more returning visitors, and I
> think returning vistors are quite relevant in many cases.

True, that's the purpose of syndicated content. Most feeds seem to be
things like daily news, some blog feeds, weather forecast, or
word-of-the-day things. I set my homepage to a portal like My Yahoo and
I get all of those things already.

There's some added value in having a feed. If you have the screen real
estate it certainly doesn't hurt. The question is how much added value
your visitors see in the additional content.

RFM

Fritz M wrote:

> John Bokma wrote:
>
>> But even if it had 0 SEO value, SEO is about getting more relevant
>> visitors to your site, and a feed can help to get more returning
>> visitors, and I think returning vistors are quite relevant in many
>> cases.
>
> True, that's the purpose of syndicated content. Most feeds seem to be
> things like daily news, some blog feeds, weather forecast, or
> word-of-the-day things. I set my homepage to a portal like My Yahoo
> and I get all of those things already.
>
> There's some added value in having a feed. If you have the screen real
> estate it certainly doesn't hurt.

Screen real estate? You can specify that you have a feed in the head
section of your HTML page and it uses zero screen real estate. Yet some
visitors will get the clue :-D. I expect IE 7 to get this clue as well :-)

Otherwise, a small [RSS] icon is enough for many people. I do the former,
yet I have quite a lot of feed subscribers (last time I counted a few
hundred, but maybe I made a (big) mistake).

> The question is how much added value
> your visitors see in the additional content.

If it makes 1% return it might be worth it.

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"Fritz M" <nospam@masoner.net> wrote in message
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> ergobob wrote:
>
>> The idea is to keep fresh content with relevant keywords on your pages.
>>
>> Do you think that the addition of an RSS Feed like this on web pages will
>> help from an SEO viewpoint?
>
> It helps the feeder much more than the feedee if the content is
> worthwhile. I don't know how much benefit there is in using syndicated
> content.
>
> RFM


But suppose you have a news blog (vertical topic) linked to your main pages
and have RSS signup on the main pages. Now, if you also bring some of your
news items back to your main pages, you add additional keyword content to
those main pages.

Does that make sense?

Or, you could bring in totally new content from other feeds to the main
pages and accomplish the same thing.

Do you think that would help SEO?

Bob