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