Why would you
want to do this?
a) offer value to your readers.
b) have fresh content on your site, causing the search engines to
believe that you are updating regularly (a key consideration in
your search engine rank for Google, Yahoo and MSN).
Why wouldn't you want to do this?
We haven't found that integrating another source's feed into a website does much for gaining loyal readers and subscribers. (And we feel it's all about getting them to the site and building your list - so many marketers will tell you the $ is in the list).
You best gameplan remains to maintain and update your feed on a
regular basis, but if you can't or don't want to do that you can
still enjoy higher search engine rankings by incorporating other
feeds into your website's pages.
How to do this?
You can add other RSS Feeds to your website using
JavaScript code, but currently only one Search Engine reads
JavaScript content. If you are considering using other's feeds to
your site for the purpose of higher search engine rank (without
JavaScript code), we suggest RSS
Equalizer (ad free, the software costs $97 - instant download
and ease of use).
NEW
Service - and it's free! (But we can't say how long
it will stay free - donations are accepted on the site...) It
doesn't get any easier than this...This new service handles all
the scripting/coding for you, you simply supply the feed url,
select the format, update times and choose whether you want the
javascript version or the php version. Click the button and an
instant bit of code pops into the box to add to your html file.
Send the javascript or php file to your webmaster (or do it
yourself if you have web design skills).
If you have a great webmaster or know how to do this yourself,
you can buy and install CARP* (currently under $15) on your server,
add a few lines of code to your webpage for similar results to RSS
Equalizer.
If you don't care about a higher search engine ranking (who
doesn't care about a higher search engine ranking?), here's some
cheap or free-to-use javascript enabled products and services - FeedRoll,
Pull RSS
(download and install script) and FeedSplitter
(written in php). *CARP is a very powerful application and
the diverse uses for this type of feed programming are cropping up
everywhere! Just released was a method to dynamically generate
Amazon content into a web page (updating once every 12 hours).
However, CARP usage isn't for everyone - you need to have some
programming knowledge and/or ability to get it working and tweaked
for your own use. |