Hi, all,

I've been trying to come up with a way to provide fresh content without having to spend a lot of time writing articles and such. I'm not being lazy, I just don't have the time to spend right now. Anyway, here are the points that I was hoping to get some feedback on...

1. I'm thinking of using both news feeds and article feeds. Will this benefit me with the search engines, or will it just be viewed as duplicate content and hurt my rankings?

2. I'm optimizing for a new site to market my web design services in a new locality. So, should I use local business news feeds or web industry related news feeds? I'm leaning toward the industry news for the simple factor of impressing upon potential customers that I am legitimate and know my business. But, on the other hand, local news would help with location keywords. A little bit of a Catch 22, but I know that once you get the traffic, your site needs to sell itself, too. So, I'm not sure which would be more beneficial at this point and was hoping for some objective feedback.


3. Most RSS feeds just link to an external site for the full article, so I wouldn't be getting the benefit of a whole article. Does anyone know of a way to tie this content more directly into my site? Does this possibility even exist?

4. In your experience, how beneficial is it to use such feeds for keeping fresh content on your site in terms of improving your presence in Google and Yahoo?

Any other thoughts and comments are greatly appreciated. I appreciate anyone who can share their experiences with RSS feeds as I have limited experience with them.

Thanks!

Sherry

I was hoping to get some objective feedback from others who have more experience with using RSS feeds. Anyone?

Shery a little while I came across a thread on another forum asking similar questions about rss and whether or not having a feed to others on your site would improve. I can't seem to find the bookmark, but I'll let you know if I come across it again.

The person who started the thread seemed to think that having rss feeds on his home page brought the spiders back more often and that he believed he was getting a ranking boost.

There was never anything conlusive in the thread, but the best explanation was that other sites found all those rss links valuable and consequently linked to the page more hence the ranking boost.

I think that's really the best way to look at it. If you fo add the rss as content and ensure there are some quality feeds there then your visitors will find it valuable and so will other sites and you'll be increasing the chance that you get more backlinks for those pages.

I don't think though that the feeds themselves will make a difference with the search engines.

Hi, Vangogh

Thanks for the reply. I did a search on this forum for "rss feeds" and read what I could find. I'm leaning toward including some news and possibly some article feeds.

Thanks again!