?Displaying RSS - What is Best Way?

Guest

I wish to display other people's RSS feeds on my web site what is the best way to do this so I get points in the search engines for the messages in the feed.

Thenk you for your help

Guest

mohammed,
We have been in a beta testers group for a new service that i believe will be live in a week or so. It allows you to take any rss or atom feed and customize it for your your site. It is set up so that you will have the search engines coming back to your site frequently (use the PHP Code) since javascript does not do this. It also offer java script. it also has reporting tools which is kind of nice.

I think they have some screen shots on the site, i do know that the service keeps changing (for the better) every time we use it.

www.feedsyndicator.com

good luck
Vincent

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:22 pm

Hi Mohammed,

Mohammed wrote:

I wish to display other people's RSS feeds on my web site what is the best way to do this so I get points in the search engines for the messages in the feed.

It really depends on what you want to accomplish if your goal is search engine optimization it is best to display using html or an ASP or PHP script that will dynamically update the content but allow the search engine to see the contents of the feed.

If you use javascript the search engines will not be able to index or spider the contents of the feed.

We have a new PHP script option details are available at: http://www.feedforall.com/free-php-script.htm details about this will be announced shortly but you can certainly download the script now.

FeedRoll Pro also has a PHP script option available the details are available at: http://www.feedrollpro.com/ they have a number of flexible options available.

Another alternative is to export your RSS feed to html or even an html table each time it is updated. You will need to use a server side include with the html table but the content will be static, which many consider is preferable to search engines.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Webmaster
FeedForAll - http://www.feedforall.com

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:24 pm

Vincent,

Vincent wrote:

I think they have some screen shots on the site, i do know that the service keeps changing (for the better) every time we use it.

www.feedsyndicator.com

I would love to speak to them about working together once they officially release their service.

Best,
Webmaster
FeedForAll - http://www.feedforall.com

Guest

What resource would you suggest for using javascript to display RSS?

I'm more concerned about visitors seeing new content than involving the complexity of a script. To me simple is good :-)

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:52 am

M. Graham wrote:

What resource would you suggest for using javascript to display RSS?

I'm more concerned about visitors seeing new content than involving the complexity of a script. To me simple is good :-)

Please check out our partner, FeedRoll Pro as they have a java script option available http://www.feedrollpro.com

Best,
Webmaster
FeedForAll - http://www.feedforall.com

Guest

Hi All. My first post here.
I am creating a feed that will mainly be viewed on webites who register for it. No problem with any other site showing it, but 99% of sites will be by request.

What would be the best way for me to set this up? Is there a simple code script i can give them to add to their page? If so, as different site run in different formats, php, asp, html etc, will i need a different code for each type?

Thanks in advance.
Paul

Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1300

Probably, the easiest way would be to supply them with the syntax for a server-side inclusion, that would display your feed inside a table, within their webpage.

Take a look at the rss2html.php topic in this forum. You should get your solution from there. If not, please post back here (or there) and we will be more than happy to help you work out the kinks.

Guest

Hi

Thanks for your reply. Just to clarify before i go off testing;

1. I upload the feed file to my server. Does it matter where?
2. I upload rss2html.php to my server. Does it matter where?
3. I edit "template used to generate an HTML table, for including inside existing webpage" so that it points to my feed?
4. I give the above edited template to sites where my feed will be displayed
5. After adding this file, the contents of my feed will be displayed as a table on the web page?

Writting this has just prompted a thought.
Could the above template (or something similar) be used to show 1 of my webpages, as a table within another page?

Paul

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:51 pm

Hi Again

Please ignore my last post, i've sorted it.

Thanks for your help.

Paul