Displaying RSS RSS offers webmasters a unique opportunity to display fresh content on websites. While publishing an RSS feed is a great way to generate site interest and increase communication, syndicating and displaying feeds from related relevant sources can also generate interest, increase traffic and improve search engine ranking.RSS Radars Webmasters with limited time or capacity can syndicate related content. In a nut shell, webmasters can create RSS radars by combining a mix of content from related sources by grouping similarly-themed feeds. RSS feeds are updated at different intervals, providing an ever-changing collection of related information.
RSS is a form of eXtensible Markup Language or XML. Viewing an RSS feed in a web browser generally produces code that is not easy for website visitors to decipher. As a result, webmasters use tools to display content contained in an RSS feed.
Content contained in RSS feeds can be added to websites a number of different ways. Each method for displaying RSS feed has pros and cons associated with it. Webmasters will need to determine which option will best meet their hosting and technology needs.
Using Javascript to Display RSS Javascript is easiest way to display RSS feeds on a website. There are a number of sites that will allow you to generate code that can be inserted into a website. The javascript will auto-update, showing latest headlines as feed is updated. Each time a visitor visits website javascript pulls data from feed. Often, various scripts can be customized so that look of feed can be made to match a specific websiteeeds with hopes that search engines will devour and spider contents, you will be disappointed. When javascript is used to display RSS feeds, search engines do not actually "see" contents of feed, meaning that search engines will not index contents of feed within website.
Feedroll - Feedroll is a free service for syndicating RSS and ATOM news feeds on your website. Simply select a feed, customize design, then copy and paste code provided onto your page. http://www.feedroll.com
Using PHP to Display RSS PHP is a slightly more complex solution for displaying RSS. Like javascript, as contents of feed updates, web page contents will update as page is refreshed. The benefit of using PHP to display RSS is that contents of feed displayed with webpage can be spidered and indexed by search engines. The result is a feed that always displays most current information from RSS feed and web page content is considered search engine spider and robot-friendly.
rss2html.php - The rss2html.php script allows users to create web pages that will always display most current information from RSS feed, and because resulting page is pure HTML, it will be in a format friendly to search engine robots. Using rss2html.php, webmasters can customize format and look of web page created from feed. The RSS feed's contents can easily be integrated into an existing website's theme. The rss2html.php script parses RSS file, extracts pertinent information, formats it, and serves it up as regular HTML. http://www.feedforall.com/free-php-script.htm
FeedRoll Pro - FeedRollPro was really designed to enable publishers to syndicate their own content on other sites. But it can be used to syndicate news feeds from other sites on your own pages. http://www.feedrollpro.com