What is the effect of adding RSS feeds to your web pages

Hi,
I have started using RSS feeds on some of my pages as advised by somebody to improve my rankings. It was added as PHP and I have seen some improvements in my ranking since. The logic is that since RSS feeds change daily teh page becomes more dynamic. Is it right, please share you experience about the same.
R.Anand

 

are these generated server side or client side?
Server side, it sends the text to client and the
search engines can read it. Client side, and it's
probably javascript, which will not get you points
for content or changing content.

 

It doesn't matter whether they are server side or client side - they are not going to improve your rankings. They may provide some additional "spider bait" which will assist in getting your pages crawled more frequently but that won't automatically do anything for your rankings, especially if the duplicate content filter kicks in.

 

I personally believed on this one. I myself didn't want to try to include rss feeds especially on the content of our site. But if you're distributing news then its a must try.

 

I'm not saying that adding RSS feeds is necessarily a bad idea. It depends on the site. But don't add them hoping your rankings will magically increase because they won't.

 

Ain't you automatically adding lots of outgoing links on each page where you put the RSS code?

 

i will have to try this out.. maybe improve my traffic

 

It just adds fresh content to your site but my suggestion is to only do a couple of lines of text in the feed to lessen the chances of the dup content penalty.

I also use the rss feeds (php readable by spiders) from my blog to my main page, keeps the main page fresh and gives a direct link to blog entries - but it's mine so no dup problem - still only a few lines so I hope that works)

 

thanks for the good tip sigma.. I will try that

 

How do you find out if you have duplicate content penalty?

 

Search for a sentence from the content that is duplicated. If a few sites come up and your site isn't listed then you are probably being filtered.

 

Yeah, I have added only 3 feed lines or so which of course change daily + I am having my own RSS feed from the website. About duplicate content I do not get the point how u can be penalized in this case. Also it has to be php or it not show in the text cache of google(the rss feed lines) while it does in php. We have all been saying that dynamic pages are given more weightage so why not in this case.
R.Anand

 

Duplicate content isn't "penalized" per se - just filtered - meaning you don't get credit for it.

 

In my experience, RSS feeds get spidered, and thats a good thing, as your site urls 'get out there'.

 

i'm going to try put a RSS feed on an FAQ section of our site. the questions and answers will be updated daily and provide knowledge about a certain subject field for our customers. would this be a good idea or not?

 

But RSS feeds do help in increasing traffic, i strongly believe.

 

yes i also believe it does coz it did for my last site...
havent added for my recent blog though