Posts Tagged ‘Feeds’

A Beginners Guide to RSS Feeds

One of the first things you will notice if you are starting out in the online industry is that you have a constant and always expanding need for fresh content on your websites. The more sites you own, the more content you need. While many people think about “videos” and “pics” when they hear the word content, search engines value text and links with much more weight than any images.

One way you can maximize your content is by syndicating some of it to your other sites. The concept is very similar to the days when newspapers dominated before the internet existed – when one good writer would sell an article to many publishers, who would each reprint it in many different newspapers all over the country. Syndication allows you to write less new content and to reuse some of your best content on more than one website.

There are major negative implications of using duplicate text and links on many sites involving search engine traffic, but the algorithms do allow for “snippets” of content to appear in multiple places without harm, so long as the overall content of each site remains substantially different from any other website. It’s very important to point out that original content is absolutely, without a doubt, always far better than syndicated content when you have a choice of using one or the other.

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Syndicate RSS Feeds on your Website for Extra Content

RSS feeds are a great way for you to keep up to date on your favorite websites. But they can be an even greater tool for a webmaster. You can syndicate RSS feeds on your own site, adding continuously updating content without any work of your own.

Use PHP to Parse an XML File and Syndicate the Feed

In order to syndicate an RSS feed on your site, you’ll need to read the XML file somehow. PHP is great for this.

Previously, you would have had to write your own XML parser to do this. This is possible – but it takes some time and it can get fairly complicated.

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Display RSS Feeds in Your WordPress Pages and Posts, Not Just The Sidebar

The sidebar isn’t the only place you want to display RSS feeds, right?  Have you been searching and searching for a way to display your RSS Feeds on a page or post in your WordPress blog? The answers have all been unacceptable, either suggesting a sidebar plugin or installation of some complicated programming code. What about pages? What about posts?

I want you to know there is a way you can attractively display your RSS news feeds in summary or detailed form, right within your choice of WordPress page or post.

Lots of Feeds, One Sidebar
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