RSS Feeds - How to Create a Search-Engines-Friendly Web Site or Blog Blogs and RSS feeds are great marketing tools! Now, if you're like me, you're probably scratching your head and saying, "Wonderful, but what in the world is a blog, and what the heck does an RSS feed?" Let's make it quick and simple. A blog is basically a journal or diary that is kept online. It changes every day as you add new content. An RSS feed is a little more involved. RSS (usually referred to as Really Simple Syndication) is a means to publish regular updates to web content. The content itself is known as the feed. In other words, RSS feeds are a great way to get information that changes often (for example blogs or even news headlines) out on the web to an amazingly large audience. Using RSS Feeds on your web site. The best, and by far the best reason to use RSS Feeds on your web site is the fact that it makes the chosen content alive. This means you can choose several feeds on any subject you need, choose the amount of articles you want to display on your web site, and it gets automatically updated when someone submits a new article. Different Ways to Implement RSS Feeds. There are a few options available when you want to implement an RSS Feed on your website. It would either be HTML, Java or php. The only correct way to implement it, as far as I know, is with php. With HTML the content can be read by the search engines but since HTML is static it will not be updated automatically. For sure you don't want to do this by hand every single day!! Using Java script would mean that the article content does get updated, the only downside with this would be... The search engines won't be able to read the article content, this wouldn't do you any good would it. So php it has to be, when putting an RSS Feed on your web site with php, it does get updated every time a new article is submitted and it will be read by the search engines. How to use PHP on your web site. 1. Domain Name and Web Host You will need your own domain with a host which does support php. You can check the availability through your control panel provided by your hosting company. Otherwise just ask your hosting provider. 2. Home Page Address Once you've got your web site on a host which supports php you will have a bit of work to do. The page where you want to display the RSS Feeds needs to be changed from for example: "http://www.mydomain.com/index.html" to "http://www.mydomain.com/index.php" 3. Inner Page Linking When you have several pages on your web site and some of them link back to your home page, make sure that from now on you let them link back to the new index.php instead of index.html. 4. Create RSS Feeds The hardest part is done!! Now you need a way to create rss feeds. A perfect web site which will write a piece of code for you is http://www.feeddigest.com. Here, you can just fill in which feed you would like to use and it will be written in php coding within seconds.
5. Copying Code Copy and paste the piece of code created by www.feeddigest.com wherever you want the articles to appear on to your web page. It is better to use a single table just for these articles. If you don't know how to do this, just check the source of my homepage and search for php. You will find it fitted in a table. For more information, you may visit: http://tinyurl.com/klwql5