"How To Do It" Tips
How
to Display RSS Feeds on Your Website
RSS, Really Simple Syndication, is an excellent way to add content to
your website. More relevant content on your website means a
higher search engine ranking and a benefit to your visitors.
Here’s how to add RSS to your website.
Step 1 Find a reader to subscribe to. There are many
available online. A quick Google Search will provide you with
many to choose from. Look for ones that offer PHP scripts
rather than JavaScript. JavaScript isn’t read by
search engine spiders and the content will not help your search engine
ranking.
Step 2 Register. Generally all you need to provide is an
email address and your website URL. A confirmation will be
sent to your email along with a password and logon.
Step 3 Confirm via email and logon with your assigned password and
logon ID.
Step 4 Customize your content. Choose the topics you want to
cover. For example Google News, Yahoo Finance, or Reuters
Health. You can choose several. Make certain to
choose topics that are relevant to your website subject. You
wouldn’t want to choose finance if your site offers health
information.
Step 5 Choose keywords. You can customize your feeds by
choosing specific keywords. For example, if you have a
website dedicated to fitness you can add the keyword
“fitness” to your code.
Step 6 Choose appearance. You can customize the shape and
size of your content block. Whether there are pictures
included, the author, the title of the article and so on.
This is usually a check the box type menu.
Step 7 Choose formatting. Here you can choose the
font you want, size of font, and the general formatting of your feed.
Step 8 Generate the code and follow the directions to get it onto your
website. Generally the code is given to you in PHP or
JavaScript. PHP is recommended because JavaScript is not read
by search engine spiders. If you’re using RSS to
add content to your site, you’ll want to use the PHP script
offered. PHP isn’t automatically added to HTML so
if you have an HTML based site, you’ll need to add a bit of
code to it to have it recognize the PHP. No worries, the RSS
feed you use will offer you instructions on how to do that.
RSS is a technology that is fairly easy to use and it can add
significant content and value to your website. All it takes
is a few simple steps and you’re done. Quality
content with the click of a button.
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